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Melbourne Snapshots- Sepia!

by VioletLeBeaux | Sep 1, 2012 | Life

Let’s call this edition of snapshots “Why Did Anyone Show Violet How To Use Sepia Mode?” ^_^

I love sepia mode, everything looks good in sepia. With sepia mode I can pretend I’m actually good at taking photos XD

See how good James looks??

And how pretty is the sky? It looks like fairy floss (or cotton candy for overseas readers)!

Even our stupid faces look less stupid!

And everything looks like Autumn all the time!

I didn’t think this puppy could get any cuter but it did! Look at those eyebrows!

Yeah even James’ horrible cake from Starbucks is fancy now 😉 On the subject, carrot cake has the be the worst thing ever invented, who would think of putting vegetables in cake?? It’s against nature!

Apparently I was very bored waiting for James at Starbucks because I took so many photos XD

Straw sharing fail! I think we’re extremely uncoordinated at doing romantic couple things, I bet if we ever tried the Lady and the Tramp spaghetti thing it would snap, hit one of us in the eye and blind us. >_<

Pretty city at night! It’s like living in the 1920’s 😉 but you know…with a digital camera.

The only thing I can think when I see this next one is “DO UP YOUR SHOE LACE JAMES!”…

My Dad visited and we had bagels.

Bagels were so good they totally deserve to be in colour…

Actually the shop deserves to be in colour too, it’s so adorable!

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This was pretty cute too:

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I think all of the best places in Melbourne are down alley ways. At least a lot of the best food is, so many tiny places here are hard to find but they’re worth searching for!

While my Dad was here he took me to visit the Chanel store, soooo many pretty things in there *_*

I was too scared to touch anything though in case I had one of those typical moments where I knock one thing over and it dominos until the entire store is engulfed in a huge explosion haha!

I bet sepia mode would have made that look extremely cool though…

How have you guys been this week?

Kimchi Pancake Recipe

by VioletLeBeaux | Aug 31, 2012 | Baking, Cooking-Tutorials, Tutorial

One of my favorite Korean restaurants, Gami Chicken, has the most delicious kimchi pancakes. They are quite expensive though so one day during a massive craving, James decided to try and make some at home.

They turned out quite delicious! This recipe is a combination of some he found online and some from the Korean cooking books we had.You need:

1 cup kimchi
1/2 an onion
Pinch of salt
Pinch of sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/3 cup water

We found kimchi at the local Asian grocery store for $4 a jar. I wasn’t really planning to use it for anything else so it was fairly cost effective. Celeste is always telling me to try making my own though which I really should some time! One of my favorite TV shows at the moment is a Korean show called “We Got Married” and on the show quite a few of the couples have tried making kimchi. Their results are usually quite hilarious so for now I think I’ll stick to the $4 tubs XD.

So step one was cut up the kimchi so it was quite fine.

I don’t like spicy things so James drains the juice out of the kimchi so that this version is extra mild. If you like spicy things you can add more juice. If you add juice make sure to add less water.

Next the onion was finely chopped.

Salt and sugar in too.

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And flour and water.

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Mix it all up until it forms a thick batter.

Put some oil in a pan on a high heat and pour the batter in.

Smoosh it all out so it forms a flat pancake. The batter is quite sticky, so this can be a little difficult.

Let it cook in the oil until the sides crispy up. Take a peak at the bottom to make sure it doesn’t burn!

Flip it over and it should be golden. Flipping can be pretty hard, and if you are doing the one, two, three cartoon pancake flipping method then make sure that all the oil has been absorbed by the pancake 😉 You don’t want that sucker to splash hot oil everywhere when it lands back in the pan!

Cook the other side until it matches and it’s ready to serve!

This made a pretty huge pancake so I ate half and saved the rest for later. You could probably make two with the amount of batter we made, but it’s easier to cook it all in one go.

So delicious, crispy, really quick and easy to make for lunch! Yum!

What do you guys normally do for lunch? I feel like I’m always rushing because I work while I eat most of the time so I don’t cook as much as I’d like to >_<

Outfit Of The Day- Minnie Mouse Style

by VioletLeBeaux | Aug 30, 2012 | Outfit Of The Day

I’m going to change up the outfit posts a bit now 😀 Instead of doing several per post I’m going to do one but get more into detail about what makes up the outfit and details of what inspired it. I hope you guys enjoy it!

Dress- Made by me
Bow- Made by me
Shirt- SES

Every time I wear this dress I get Minnie Mouse comments XD I didn’t intend it when I made it and I honestly didn’t even make the connection until people started pointing it out. Totally oblivious haha! So for this outfit I decided just to run with it and wear the gigantic bow too.

The dress was made in around 2 hours when I wanted something new to wear Christmas 6 years ago. I had a Christmas lunch planned with family and got up early with an idea in my head. I didn’t have a zip at the time so I attached some jump rings to the back and used them as lace up ties. Around a year later I added in the zipper and because it was a little short for my tastes I repurposed a skirt and added the white part to the bottom.

The bow was made a few years ago for a tutorial on how to make basic hair bows. It’s got tiny little crystals all over it 😀

I really love the combination of black, white and red. I’ve been wearing a lot more black lately because most of my light coloured stockings seem to be missing.

This was the only photo I managed to get of my make up, stolen from my own Instagram haha. I tried a heavier look with bright purple on the bottom as eyeliner.

It was done with the new Lancome palette which I am completely in love with. The purple is just drool worthy!

And because change can be scary, here are some bonus pictures that I took while trying on my new Bergamot shirt! I’ll be doing a full review soon too so look forward to that ^_^