Well I am back from the last University Ballroom and Latin Dance Competition of the year and have had a brilliant day. Even though we only took less than half of our competitors (still 30 ish people) we had a lovely bunch of people and it was a brilliant way to end a very successful season. I personally didn’t get… Read more »
Credits: Orange, Banana, Strawberries, Kiwi Fruit, Grapefruit, Orange Juice. This smoothie I make the night before and then keep in the fridge overnight so that I can have in instant smoothie in the morning. I’m not enough of a morning person to make them in the morning as I go… If I feel it needs it I thin it out with Orange Juice when pouring it… Read more »
The last few days have been quite busy. I ahve been working to get some literature ready for an exhibition which was going on today and Nikki and I have been preparing for another competition which is happening tomorrow. We are meeting at University at 8:15 tomorrow morning to head to Bristol for their Uni Competition. It will be nice… Read more »
Hey there, Well I’ve probably been mentioned on this blog a few times by my sister already. I’m the other half of ‘Beads and Barnacles’. Since I’m fairly new to blogging, and pretty busy currently with university and my dissertation, I don’t have much time to craft at the moment unfortunately. But I thought instead I could do some posts… Read more »
Credits: Orange, Banana, Pineapple, Honey, Ice Pop, Orange Juice. I put all of this into my blender and gave it a whoosh.I then split half the mixture into a pint glass and the rest into a storage jar for next time. I topped my glass up with orange juice to make it less gloopy and enjoyed a mid afternoon pick me up on the miserable grey day that… Read more »
Edit: Unfortunately the images in this post have decided to disappear completely and I can’t find them anywhere. Sorry. Well today I decided that I would finally make a top out of the lace I have had sitting in my stash for a while now. This took me an hour from deciding I was going to make it to the… Read more »
Well this weekend has been a bit of an unusual one. I went to a friends from dancing’s house on Friday evening for Chinese with a couple of other people from Dancing. Stayed in for a while before going to the Bridge Bar at Uni for a Salsa evening which happens each Friday after the salsa lesson has ended. We did manage to hijack… Read more »
Southampton University Ballroom and Latin Dance Society have a large number of dresses so that when it comes to the team match, where the dress code is unrestricted, all of the dancers can wear a ‘proper’ dress. Team photo from Southampton Friendly at the beginning of the University Year. All of the turquoise dresses are team dresses bar two. This… Read more »
A short and sweet post today, my new shoes finally arrived yesterday, and they fit! It is a good day. I realise this post makes me sound really girly but these are my new dance shoes that I had wanted to arrive before IVDA but didn’t arrive till the day we left 🙁 so I had to get them re… Read more »
After a mad dash to get prepared in time we finally got in to the venue which itself is a good enough reason to go there: The dancing was split up into two halls other wise we would have been there all weekend. The Empress ballroom was the main venue: and the Spanish Hall contained the Beginners and Ex-Students: The… Read more »
