Recap on 2011

Top 5 Popular Posts for 2011:

5 The Slackers, The Assholes and The Vent -  Massive vent about money and life
4 When 10 years still only feels like a day - The hardest blog I've ever had to write
3 Tattoo Sunday - BJ and I got matching tattoos
2 Pretty Damn Proud - A blog about my struggle with weight loss
1 We Love Colors Review - I reviewed some awesome tights


Top 5 Popular Fork This episodes for 2011:

5 Ikea - 5,744 downloads

Fork This 26 - Ikea. from BJ Carter on Vimeo.

4 Forken Homeowners - 6,306 downloads

Fork This 25 - Forken Homeowners from BJ Carter on Vimeo.

3 A Midweek Purchase - 6,824 downloads

Fork This 22 - A Midweek Purchase from BJ Carter on Vimeo.

2 A Halloween Nightmare - 7,022 downloads

Fork This 23 - A Halloween Nightmare from BJ Carter on Vimeo.

1 Beggers - 7,807 downloads

Fork This 24 - Beggars from BJ Carter on Vimeo.

My Personal Highlights of 2011:

- BJ and I celebrated 6 years together
- I finally managed to loss weight
- We bought a house
- Say goodbye to all that was wrong in 2011
- Embracing how awesome 2012 is going to be

5 Favourite Instagram Photos for 2011:

(Not best as it's too hard, I post so many. But these are some I really love)

Goals for 2012:

- Continue to loss weight and be healthy
- Enjoy the changes in my life
- Build a lovely home together with BJ
- Grow more in my work
- Build new friendships
- Spend more time with others
- Set myself craft tasks regularly
- Re-build my love of cooking
- Not get tied down with money, worries, stresses
- Smile and love life


xx
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Homemade Christmas Hampers

Because BJ and I have just purchased a house we did Christmas on the cheap side and decided to make all our siblings homemade hampers with lot's of tasty treats inside.

We decided to make lollipops (Which we didn't burn this time), coloured popcorn, coconut balls (With coloured coconut), gingerbread (Snails, squirrels, hedgehogs - You know, the usual thing) and candy cane meringues... plus we included an invited to dinner at our house and a heap of chocolates.

Coloured Coconut

Mustache Lollipops

Coloured Popcorn

As a lot of the stuff we decided to make doesn't really have a long shelf live we were literally cooking our arses off Christmas Eve to get it all finished... AND then i still had to put the hampers together and make them all look pretty.

I had this little cardboard boxes in amongst my craft supplies which i used, lined them with some of the brown packing paper we used to wrap our other presents, stamped them to look all pretty and then filled the box with the goodies.

Of course we did post a Fork This episode about this which you can watch here.

Here are some close up photos of the finished hampers

 xx
Smorgy

PS: I love this photo

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Homemade Wrapping

This year BJ and I decided to save money we'd make a lot of our own gifts (Blog about that coming soon) and we made our own wrapping paper and gift tags also.

I had a roll of brown packing paper and an idea. I carved some awesome stamps of Christmas trees and holly and BJ designed some beautiful gift tags with a very 50's feel to them.

We stamped the hell out of the paper, tied them up with some twine and attached the tag. They looked fantastic. I'm soo happy with how they all turned out and I will continue to use this style of wrapping, Making different tags and stamps to suit the theme of the gift.

Here are some photos of the gifts.. Let me know what you think

xx
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Wild Bore Xmas

Soon after BJ and I start our podcast Fork This BJ and our mates Pat and Speds started an audio podcast called Wild Bore. (I recommend you all listen to it as it's very entertaining.)

Not longer after they started the podcast BJ and I went garage saling and I found a chocolate mold of bore heads.... That's right!!

I decided right then that i would spend the 50cents and buy that chocolate mold and make the members of Wild Bore a christmas present they'll never forget.

Now i know i've already blogged a little bit about this as we did a Fork This episode of us creating these presents but i thought i'd show you some more photos of the finished products and also the faces of the recipients.

If you missed the episode of Fork This here it is ...And this is the final product

 

Speds

Pat

BJ

 
I didn't noticed till just now that none of them look happy about their gift in their photos hahaha.

I'm soo happy with how these turned out. A couple of issues i had were that the mold was difficult to release the chocolate without it breaking (I had a chocolate bore graveyard by the end of the day.) I was also planning to 'mount' the bore head to a cookie but had a few issues making that work. I think the shield with the Wild Bore logo turned out awesome.
Also, they were a BITCH to wrap.

I plan to make lot's of bore heads in the future. Think i'll try and do a resin bore for something.

xx
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Fork This - Episode 32

Cheesy clip show to wrap up 2011

Fork This 32 - 2011: Some Extras from BJ Carter on Vimeo.

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70 “New-To-Me” Movies 2011

Last year i set myself a realistic goal of 50 'New-To-Me' movies. This year i increased my number to 70 and i made it.

Here is my list of movies I watched in 2011 and my ratings. Looking at the list there are only a couple of ratings that i now regret and would change but have left at my original rating.

January:

Greenberg – 1.5/5

Black Swan – 5/5

February:

127 Hours – 4/5

March:

Just Buried – 1.5/5

Because I said so – 2/5

The Last Kiss – 2/5

Hairspray (1988) – 2.5/5

Youth and Revolt – 2.5/5

Waiting for Guffman – 3.5/5

No Reservations – 3/5

Dinner for Schmucks – 2/5

Cyrus – 3/5

The Runaways – 2/5

Get Him To The Greek – 4/5

April:

How to eat fried worms – 3/5

Hot Rod – 2/5

Thor – 3.5/5 – By the hammer of THOOORRRR!!!!

May:

Paperman – 4/5

Blood into Wine – 4/5

The Hangover 2 – 4/5

June:

The Green Hornet – 3/5

Drive Angry – 3/5

American: The Bill Hicks Story – 4/5

Year One – 1/5

Super 8 – 4/5

DIG! – 3/5

Stranger than fiction – 3/5

Couple’s Retreat – 2.5/5

We own the night – 2/5

Rango – 3/5

July:

District 9 – 3.5/5

You Again – 3/5

Mama Mia – 2/5

Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows Pt 2 – 4/5

Bride Wars – 2/5

Jesus Camp – 3/5

Suckerpunch – 2/5

Bridesmaids – 4/5

Accepted – 3/5

Despicable me – 2.5/5

August:

Sunshine – 3/5

Captain America – 4/5

The Losers – 3/5

Raising Arizona 4/5

Hesher – 4/5

The music never stopped – 4/5

Man with the screaming brain – 2/5

Sourcecode – 2/5

Bad Teacher – 2/5

The Best and the Brightest – 3/5

September:

Everything Must Go – 3/5

The Beaver – 3/5

Burlesque – 2/5

Horrible Bosses – 3/5

Intolerable Cruelty – 3/5

October:

Red State – 4.5/5

November:

Let’s go to Prison – 2/5

Marley and Me – 2/5

Exit through the gift shop – 4.5/5

Tucker and Dale vs Evil – 2.5/5

Welcome to the Dollhouse – 1/5

The Benchwarmers – 3/5

December:

50/50 – 4.5/5

The Help – 4.5/5

The Myth of the American Sleepover – 3/5

The Invention of Lying – 3/5

Contagion – 3.5/5

Our idiot brother – 3/5

Cherrybomb – 1/5

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – 4/5

Project Nim – 5/5

7 Up – 3/5

7 Plus 7 – 3/5

Submarine – 5/5

Total: 74

Good Effort if i do say so myself. Next year I will probably increase it more. With BJ and I moving in together we will have a lot more time to watch movies (AND TV shows).

I should really do a blog like this for TV shows but it's a hard one because there are soo many series we started this year as well as one's we've continued from past years. There is soo much GREAT TV out there at the moment so i might just mention some of my favourites currently.

Great Shows:

Breaking Bad - fantastic show. I wasn't the happiest person with regards to the ending of season 4 but i fucken love that show. Boardwalk Empire - Just amazing. Everything about it is perfect. The acting the sets the costumes. Louie - HILARIOUS!!! Don't need to say anything else. For Animation I'm in love with Bob's Burgers and Archer. I still love How I Met Your Mother. My new favourite sitcom is New Girl. Perfect in every way. Game Of Thrones - Mother fucken Game of THRONES!!!! The Killing is the most depressing show i've watched and actually had to stop for a while because i couldn't handle it but it's such an amazing edge-of-your-seat show. The Walking Dead always gets your heart racing and the season of nothing happening was worth sitting through for the last 10 minutes of the season final. Mike and Molly, Raising Hope and Melissa and Joey are all worth watching, feel good shows. The nerd in me feels enough people don't know about Eureka and should.

Not So Great Shows:

I'm proud to say i've finally quit True Blood. Talk about a shit show. It made me soo angry but i'm not one to finish mid season so i toughed it out. Also, I'm pretty disappointed with how this years season of Dexter went. It turned really soapie and lame. I still can't tell if Colin Hanks was acting really well or REALLY BADLY. Season ending was a twist which HOPEFULLY will improve next season. Entourage's ending was what BJ described as and i quote 'A pile of shit'. Glee has been stinkin' pretty bad since the end of season 1. This season of Chuck has been a bit lagging which makes me sad.

So there is a little insight to SOME of the TV I've watched this year. (I watch a fuckload of TV). 

BJ are I are trying to decide weather to watch a TV show or movies to bring us into 2012.  So i may have to add to this later on.

Hope everyone has a safe and happy new year.
2012 is going to be the best!!

xx

Smorgy

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