A big thanks to my husband for making my blog look so pretty. I’m so happy with it! I’ve got a few things to add or fix up, so let me know if it’s looking a big buggy on your browser.

I’ve been in a ridiculously good mood for days. It feels so good to get things done I’ve been meaning to for ages! I also recommend exercise in winter for helping keep away the blues, as well as awesome friends to gym with.

A follow up to this post..

Lovely Ginny was kind enough to let me make a little display in the side window at her marvelous shop Swonderful (which has a newly opened online store that you should absolutely check out). Swonderful being my very favourite store in Wellington, I’m as pleased as punch at having the opportunity.

Jason took the photos, I love the last two.

They were all delicious, it’s hard to pick a favourite but I think the channa masala was the winner. I’m meant to be saving the leftovers for tomorrow’s dinner and it’s taking all my will power to not finish it off this minute.

I’ve also been rejoicing in quick spicy tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich. The cheating way I make it is adapted from a Madhur Jaffrey recipe: chop up or smash one clove of garlic and one or two bits of jalapeno from a jar, fry them a couple minutes in a tiny bit of olive oil, add a great big dollop of tomato juice, salt and pepper, and bring to the boil, pour it into a bowl and mop it up with your toastie. I don’t much like tomato soup and tomato juice is pretty ‘sgusting so I cannot believe how good it is.

I’ve just finished a little project today involving these little houses I’ve been making. I’ll show you more soon when I’ve taken some photos of the finished product.

Jason made me vampire pudding a little while ago – chocolate pudding & sauce with blood orange syrup. Delicious & pretty.

Hi! I made a zine, called housebear. It’s a very little book of drawings of things that I love or inspire me. Like kittens, pink houses and teacups. Yes, it’s ridiculously twee. And if you’d like a copy, I’d love to send you one to say thanks for reading my blog. Email me at kate@lovelornunicorn.com, let me know your name and address and I’ll send you one in the next few days. Open to anyone anywhere in the world. I hope you get in touch!

EDIT: Hey guys, I’m afraid the giveaway has closed. I got way more requests than I expected! Thanks for being interested in my zine and I’ll let you know if I make any more!

Ingredients to make 3 huge (by NZ standards) breakfast burritos:
5 or 6 small corn tortillas, 3 large flour tortillas, peanut oil, 1/2 an onion, 1/2 a green capsicum, 4 large eggs, 2 or 3 tomatoes, heaps of grated cheese, sour cream, hot sauce.

Start by chopping up the corn tortillas into little squares while your oil is heating, then fry it until it’s crispy. It smells so good!

Take the corn tortilla bits out and put them in a bowl, fry your onion & capsicum for about 5 minutes, until the onion is becoming transparent.

Put the corn tortilla bits back in the pan to combine, and make sure the pan is on a very low heat.

Pour in the whisked eggs.

Add a handful of cheese and gently scramble the eggs. Stir constantly, making sure to scrape the cooking egg of the bottom of the pan as you go. Keep it cooking super slowly. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Take the eggs off the heat when they’re almost cooked, so still a bit gooey, as they always keep cooking after you take them out of the pan and rubbery eggs are GROSS. I spent years thinking I hated scrambled eggs because I’d always been served the overcooked version. Remember, if your eggs are cooked in the pan they’ll be overcooked on the plate.

If you’re not making your own flour tortillas then heat one up for 20 seconds in the microwave, then layer up the migas, chopped tomatoes (I love cooked tomatoes so we fried ours separately from the migas to keep them from getting too soggy) , more cheese & sour cream and hot sauce if you so desire. Ours were too big to wrap up properly so are super messy but they tasted amazing.

Now I’m hungry again!

Part 1 is just a few pics before it all started cos I wanted to get something up. Um, there’s a lot of parts.

School starts today and I’m sorta excited, I’m taking a paper on zines, and my first textiles class. Better go get ready!

P.S. My Mum is amazing and made all the bunting. I love you Mum!

I also throw them into hot air vents and giggle when they dance.

I haven’t been around much because I’ve been spending a lot of time drawing things. It’s been fun.

You know what else is great? Lists. Today some friends and I sat around listing things we dislike. It was actually really fun since I spend so much time talking about nice, lovely, positive things! A rant every now and then can be enjoyable. My favourite list was thus:

Things I don’t care for that are meant to be fun and other people are nuts about: board games, card games, fireworks, magic, comedy, children (except babies), gig, going to the beach, watermelon, drugs, icecream, monkeys, banana cake. This list basically makes me seem like a horrible person. I’m going to try to like scrabble though! Maybe it will be a gateway game.

1. At Tokyo DisneySea, 2. Wearing more fruits of Tokyo Disney, 3. Silly 4am animals, 4. Bear mask, 5. Bear hat, 6. Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore & Unicorn