What can I write about?

Ideally, I would be writing about the Great British Bake Off right now, and I would of taken many, many pics, and things would be great. In reality, I cannot get to the TV, because a certain someone is watching it! Heaven help me. All I want to do is blog about the Bake Off. Or even try and bake! That would be a great achievement for me. But, no. The kitchen is very un-spacious right now. So, what can I do???

Blog. Obviously. But what about? Hmm... well, although I know very little about baking, I want to blog about that. Maybe... I could get other people's input in this blog, seeing as in my last two I got NO comments!

My question to you guys is... What is the easiest thing to start out with when baking? Is it cake? Biscuits? Bread? What is it?!?

If I do get any answers to this, I'd be ever so grateful. Please please please tell me what you think. I want to know more about baking. It's a wonderful new world to me. And the Bake Off has certainly got me interested in it.

Bye for now, Ss1. x

Supersizer1 draws... a model.

So, another sleepless night (I only got 2 hours sleep), and another drawing. This time of a model in Glamour magazine. The October edition. Why it's October 2011, when we're only September, I really don't understand. It had Britney Spears on the cover, and an interview inside (which I haven't read yet).

This model was particularly beautiful. And the more beautiful the subject, the better the drawing, right?

Judge for yourself...

This drawing even impressed me, and usually I see lots of faults in my drawings. Like the head's the wrong shape, or the teeth aren't big enough, or something. But this was almost spot on! Please tell me you like it. Obviously, if you thought it was rubbish I totally understand. But I don't THINK it is.

Leave a comment telling me what you thought of it. Or tweet me @Supersizer1. But I'd much prefer a comment on here, because I hardly have any!

Thanks for reading, and I hope you liked my drawing.

Ss1! xxx

Giles Coren in I've Never Seen Star Wars.

Ok, so on Twitter I've been saying I'm busy. Well, I am. But this had to come first! I mean it's to do with Giles Coren for god's sake! And he is one of my idols, so it's very important to me.

He was on the radio yesterday (the 26th), on Radio 4 Extra, which is Radio 4's extra radio station, which repeats shows that have been on Radio 4 before. I do listen to it occasionally, because some of it is comedy, which I like. Like the 99p Challenge for example (which has Sue Perkins in it). And yesterday, Giles Coren was on it in the morning, but I didn't know, so I listened to the repeat, which was on at around 11pm. And it was (please excuse my language) bloody good! I haven't laughed that much in ages! And I clapped along with the audience when I listened to the show as well! (I'm a avid fan, so, duh!)

He tried lots of things that he doesn't usually do. Like reading Harry Potter, and he ended up liking it! I don't like Harry Potter (the books) because I've only read like the first paragraph of the first book, and I hated it! P.S. It was someone I knew at the time who let me read some of the book. I do however like the films. Well, up until about number 4/5, then I got fed up. It's just so repetative. Same thing always happens - Harry faces a baddy, wins, then Hermione, Ron and him are bezzie mates again, because somewhere in the film they always fall out. Typical H.P. story.

Giles also admitted that he doesn't like dancing in public, like at parties. Neither do I! I used to when I was a kid at school discos. But not any more. I don't go to parties, and have very few friends, like Giles.

He also became a vegan for a week, which was hilarious! His comments about the food were very funny! Most were negative, and I don't blame him. I wouldn't want to be vegan either!

And finally, he listened to the charts. You know, modern music. And what he said was very truthful, and I agreed with pretty much all of it. Wiz Khalifa (if that's how you spell it) was rubbish. And he is. Black and Yellow - blergh..... Jessie J. was ok. I agree. Lady Gaga (who Giles pronounced Ga... ga, instead of Gar... gar) he didn't mind, but didn't really like her sort of shouting, or maybe it was rapping, I can't remember. J.Lo was rubbish. On The Floor - nah. But Dr. Dre and Eminem, yeah! I like their song I Need A Doctor too, just like Giles did.

So, overall, a great show. Funny, and it made me find stuff out about Giles, that I never knew. My score: 10/10! Loved it all! xxx

Ss1.

Supersizer1 draws... Holly!

So, tonight, I drew Holly from the Great British Bake Off. It's not identical to her, but it is my second attempt, and believe me when I say, the second one is a lot better than the first.

Here's... Holly!

Do you like it (Holly)?

Check the background and underneath Holly very carefully. The background repeats #GBBO, and underneath Holly it says 'For @HollyBellMummy! By @Supersizer1!'.

I am so pleased to have drawn one of the Bake Off people, and especially for it to come out well!

Next I plan to draw Urvashi, who was the person I mentioned a while back, who made that amazing honeycomb on the Bake Off.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you liked my drawing! Please feel free to leave a comment telling me what you thought.

Ss1! x

Supersizer1 draws... Lady Gaga.

Damn my creative mind, damn it for making me so over excited and enthusiastic about things, and damn it for making me not be able to sleep.

I have this problem occasionally. Sometimes I can't sleep, and usually it's because I have something on my mind. Tonight, or rather this morning, it was blogging. I got three great ideas spring themselves at me overnight, and one of them was this: do a blog post about drawing.

Last night/early this morning I drew Lady Gaga, another person, like Giles, Mel and Sue, who I like. And because I had nothing else to do, and I found a fab pic of Lady Gaga, I thought, why not draw her? So I did. And here it is (below):

Lady Gaga in a pink hood, which I drew using a black biro pen.

This is not the first time I've drawn her, but as you may have guessed already, especially if you follow my tweets, is that I haven't drawn in a while. Other things have been my priority, and so I haven't felt like drawing lately. But, because this one came out so well, for me, I just had to show it to you.

My other little idea that I've had, aside from my other two ideas which I haven't told you yet, is that I'd really like to draw the contestants from the Great British Bake Off, that would be awesome!

If you are a contestant on the show (like Jo or Holly, for example) then please let me know if you would like me to draw you, because it would give me something creative to do with my time.

Thanks for reading, and please tell me what you thought of my drawing.

Ss1... x

The Great British Bake Off - the (all girl) quarter final!

Three words spring to mind when I think of tonight's Great British Bake Off: tough, emotional, and tense. This was probably the toughest set of challenges ever on the show, and the pressure to do well really got to Holly and Yasmin, who both broke down at different points throughout the episode, and the build up to who would go home was bigger than ever, as it was very close - between Holly and Yasmin. It was so close infact, that Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry had to look back over the entire 6 weeks, at who was the worst overall at the technical challenges, to decide who would go home. Holly just made it through, which I was thrilled about, as she is one of my favourites in the competition.

Also, focusing now on the positives of the episode, Mel and Sue were their usual funny-selves, and made me laugh, as always. Also, Jo was crowned the Star Baker of the week, because of her great achievements in the first two rounds (which were the baked cheesecake, and the chocolate roulade) and also because the judges loved the taste of her croquembouche.

May I just say, the word croquembouche, to say out loud, is quite funny, and just like the word roulade, I'd never heard of it before tonight. I also thought that a chocolate roulade was just a fancy word for a swiss roll, but later on Mel said that it was made slightly differently to a swiss roll. And to quickly go back to a negative aspect of the episode, no-one's roulade turned out perfectly, as they all had cracks in them. Janet's turned out the worst, as she did a practise-roll, which made it crack more when she rolled it the second time. Mary Berry said that "That was a major mistake to roll it up first", which I would agree with, even though I knew nothing about it, before watching the show.

Now, because my memory is failing me at the moment, I shall now include some pictures which I took of the episode, to jog my memory, as to what the contestants made, and because I like to include pictures, although last week I never got round to taking any.

To start off with, here is Mel and Sue. They seem to have swapped jackets, as Mel usually wears the lighter coloured one, and Sue wears the darker coloured one. But, as you can see, Mel's in the navy-blue one, and Sue's in the grey one. It was a nice change to the norm.

The five remaining contestants

From left to right: Yasmin, Jo and Janet.

Mary-Anne and Holly.

Jo and Holly's cheesecakes

This is Jo's rum and raisin baked cheesecake, which looks pretty perfect to me.

And this is Holly's Father Christmas' baked cheesecake, which looks rather yummy!

Jo and Holly's chocolate roulades

This is Jo's chocolate roulade, which I think looks nice, and I really like the added chocolate sprinkles on the top.

And this is Holly's chocolate roulade, which doesn't look too bad, it just has a few cracks in it, but it looks well made.

Jo and Holly's croquembouches

Here is Jo's Limoncello and White Chocolate Croquembouche, which apart from the fact that it's leaning to the left, it looks very yummy!

Unfortunately, I couldn't get a full length pic of Holly's lovely dark chocolate tower, so instead, here are two pics of her little Hansel and Gretel house, underneath her croquembouche tower.

I absolutely love the little house, and trees that Holly has made. I think it's very creative and looks amazing!

Emotional moments in the episode

This is Holly crying. I hated seeing her get so upset, but it's understandable, as it was a very tough week.



And here is Yasmin getting upset (because she burnt her fingers on her boiling caramel), and Sue comforting her.

And here is Mel wiping Holly's tears away with a tea towel. I thought that that's a very sweet thing to do. Bless Mel and Sue for being so nice to Yasmin and Holly.

Some people would choose not to include emotional pics, but to me that's one of the things that stood out in that episode, and so I felt I had to include it.

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed looking at the pics I took. Please comment below, letting me know what you thought.

Ss1. x

The Great British Bake Off - pies!!!

First thing is first - what a great episode! That was probably the most fun one to watch (so far) out of all the episodes so far. Mel and Sue were very funny (as they always are) and the competition got even harder as the contestants experimented making all different sorts of pies. They made meringues, they made pork pies (which I actually like eating), and other pies (which at the moment I am struggling to remember what they were). This is not in the correct order of how they made them though - the other pies were first, then it was the pork pies, and then finally the meringues. They all looked very tricky to make, especially the meringues, as a lot of them had pastry that was coming off at the sides.

It was horrible seeing who was voted off this week. They were both people who I thought were very good, throughout the entire competition, but sadly didn't do as well this week. And that was Rob and Jason - the only two boys left. Overall, I'd say that Jason was the better of the two, only because Rob struggled with his time keeping more than Jason did. Also, as far as I can remember, Rob was never crowned star baker, but Jason was. But they both had lovely personalities, and it was sad to see them go.

Although, on the plus side, Holly and Jo stayed (thank god!), and I was very pleased about that, as they are my favourites. At one point it did look like Jo might go, but I think her last bake saved her. Holly did ok, but wasn't as good as she has been in other weeks. Hopefully both of them will not only do better next week, but also make it through next week, as well. We shall see.

And, as a nice development, it's going to be an all girls quarter final - so that means that no man will win it this time. That to me sounds pretty fair, as it gives one of the girls in this year's competition a chance to win it. You all know who I'm routing for, but I'd be happy if any of them won it, as long as they were the best at baking overall.

Also, Janet got crowned star baker this week, which I think was well deserved. And Yasmin made it through, although she was in the bottom three. I think they are both lovely people, and both deserve to still be in the competition.

Also, as you may already know, like (almost) every other week, I have included pics from the show, which I took myself last week, and the other weeks I used someone else's. This week, I plan to do the same, but I've decided I'd like to do it in a seperate blog post, as I don't feel up to including them (or taking them) to put in the blog just yet. Hopefully, in the next few days I will do another blog post with more writing, and pics included.

Until then, I shall say goodbye for now. And I really hope you liked my blog post. And please leave a comment below telling me what you thought of it.

Ss1. x