Chocolate House

My sister and I made this chocolate house for a Christmas in June/July thing I went to last night... So much fun and soo much sugar! xx

Late June Newsletter

Greetings Poetry Buffs,

I hope you are all keeping warm in this quite chilly weather. Currently, I can not feel my feet due to my slippers inability to keep them warm, but that's another story.

This is just a post saying "hello!", and that although university examinations have come close to wiping every trace of creativity out of me, I am still alive, and still writing poetry. Over the next month I'll be involved with some new exciting projects and I can't wait to let you know about them! Although still under development, watch this space for a children's poetry project and upcoming events!

A couple of my favourite-artist-friends are having exhibitions soon, and i thought you'd like to hear about them too! They have 'supplied' boundless inspiration and creativity to me, so i'd love if you could check them out! The first is Meredith Woolnough who is having a combined exhibition called "Thread, Paper, Fibre, Clay" @ Depot II Gallery, Waterloo from the 26th June- 7th July. Check out her website for more info!
The second is Cade Turner who has become a part of the Pittwater Artist's trail and has an open studio every Saturday morning! For more info check out his website. :)


Other exciting news is that you can now purchase "Almost" as an ebook for your ipad/iphone! Check out blurb to find out more!


Anyhow, for the latest news make sure you check out www.emilymcintyre.com.au :).

Stay warm & drink lots of tea!

    From Emily McIntyre :) xx

Extract from "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

"Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect. For instance, when you have grasped that the earth and the other planets all go round the sun, you would naturally expect that all the planets were made to match- all at equal distances from each other, say, or distances that regularly increased, or all the same size, or else getting bigger or smaller as you go further from the sun. In fact, you find no rhyme or reason (that we can see) about either the sizes or the distances; and some of them have one moon, on has four, one has two, some have non, and one has a ring.

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys' philosophies- these over-simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either."


Extract from "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis, First Published 1952, this extract from C.S. Lewis Signature Classics Edition, published 2002, pp.41-42

One of Those Days

Source: http://themetapicture.com/life-would-be-so-much-better/

 

 

 

 

Thoughts for Everywoman: When was the Last TIme You Had A Great Fail?

Thoughts for Everywoman:  WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HAD
 A GREAT FAIL? 

Fantastic inspiration x

Where's Wally?

I could never find Wally as a kid.. but can you now, my fellow wally watchers?

x

Pokeball Cake

I made this Pokeball cake for my step-brother Rory!

Happy 13th! xx

Matt Corby - Untitled

Wow!

I just discovered that my book "Almost" is at Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga Campus Library, the National Library of Australia and University of Queensland Library! woo! Check it out!  

  

Almost.

By Emily McIntyre

Chang's Chocolate Spiders

This is one of my favourite childhood recipes - a great choice for tonight's procrastibake! :). I remember when I was in primary school a friend's Mum put red raspberry lollies on them and called them redback spiders!



Ingredients

100g (1 packet) of Chang's Fried Noodles
200g of Milk or Dark Cooking Chocolate
2 tablespoons of Crunchy Peanut Butter





Method

1. Break up the chocolate and put in a microwave safe bowl with the Peanut Butter.
2. Microwave on high for approximately 1 minute, stir and then repeat every 15 seconds (it's different for every chocolate/microwave, so trust what you know!)
3. When the chocolate has become a smooth consistency (there will be little bits in it from the peanut butter!) stir in the packet of Chang's Fried Noodles.
4. Make sure all the noodles are covered!
5. Place clumps of the mixture on a tray or in patty cakes.
6. Place in the fridge to set ! (Waiting is the hardest part!)
7. Enjoy!

xx

Actual Update

Well, I hope you have been enjoying my almost daily musical updates.. It's not that i've had nothing to write about, it's merely not having the time to write about it.
Today was the last day of semester! Hooray! But alas it means exams will be just around the corner.. in under a week... I think university just keeps getting more and more intense as you progress. At my uni we need to do two subjects outside our main area so we leave as 'more rounded' students. So this semester, i did astrobiology. (FYI- the search for life on other planets, yep, I went there....!). A couple of days ago i finished an assessment on planning a mission to one of Jupiter's moons (Europa- which i did not know existed until about 2 months ago!).. and this was from an english major. o.0
In other news, my wisdom teeth have decided that they would like to be known again, which means i've just literally got to bite the bullet and get them removed.. This july, look out for my pufferfish face. x

I Will Follow You into the Dark (video) album version audio

Winter- Matt Corby

This is one of my favourite songs.. it's so beautiful :)