Kelly's Daily Blog

Hey everyone

Today I decided to bake some Banana Bread, and I am very happy with the outcome considering its the first time I have made it.

It is very simple and quick to bake. The ingredients are;

• 3 very ripe bananas
• A half a cup of unsalted butter at room temperature
• 3/4 cup of granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs slightly beaten
• 1 and a half cups of all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup of walnuts
• 1/2 cup of raisins

I didn’t use the walnuts and raisins though.

The recipe is;

• Beat the sugar and butter together
• Flatten the bananas in a separate bowl using a fork.
• Add the bananas to the sugar and butter
• Add the eggs
• Beat well
• Add the flour, salt and baking soda to a separate bowl and mix them together
• Add the flour, salt and baking soda to the rest of the mixture and beat well
• Add the vanilla essence
• Beat well
• Add the raisins and walnuts and beat well
• Bake in the oven for 1 hour at 180 degrees

Hi everyone

I hope you have all had a very relaxing Saturday.

I have decided to make a blog about my top 10 favourite things, so here it goes;

• Favourite song – Bad by Lennon Stella
• Favourite book – All of the books in the Seven Sisters Sequel
• Favourite movie – Burlesque
• Favourite series – Greys Anatomy
• Favourite singer – Adele
• Favourite actor/actress – Dylan O’Brien
• Favourite food – Spaghetti Bolognese
• Favourite quote – “Do something today that your future self will thank you for”
• Favourite thing to do – Dancing
• Favourite place – Umhlanga Sands

What are your top 10 favourite things ?

Hey everyone

The best way to start your day off is by making a delicious creamy coffee, here is the recipe for you.

Ingredients for creating whipped coffee is;

• Instant coffee
• Sugar
• Hot water
• Milk (or plant-based milk alternative)

Ingredients using cream or milk

• Instant coffee
• Sugar
• Cream
• Hot milk

Instructions

Step 1– Add 2 tbsp instant coffee, 5 tbsp sugar, 2 US tbsp hot water to your mixing bowl.

Step 2– Use a whisk to whip the coffee until it turns creamy. The coffee mix should turn foamy within the first minute of mixing. Continue to whisk the mixture until it turns frothy and then creamy. It should look like mousse when it is ready to be mixed into the milk.

Step 3– Add ice to a glass and fill half the glass with milk. Place a few cubes in the bottom of your glass. Then you must pour the milk over the ice, depending on the size of your glass. If you want a warm drink then use hot milk instead of cold.

Step 4– Spoon the coffee cream over your glass of milk. Scoop out a dollop of whipped cream and place it into the glass. Add as much coffee as you like to the milk. It is easier to fill half your glass with milk and half with coffee cream. If you prefer stronger coffee, add more milk than coffee cream.

Step 5- Stir the coffee into your milk to combine them. Use your spoon to gently stir the coffee cream into the milk blend them together. Taste your whipped coffee to see if you like it.

Instructions to making creamy coffee using cream and milk

Step 1– Take a spoon of instant coffee and add it in a mug.

Step 2– Add sugar to taste

Step 3– Add a little cream

Step 4– Mix it for 2 – 3 minutes

Step 5– Add less than 1 tsp of cream

Step 6– Mix for 3 minutes

Step 7– Add hot milk

Step 8– Drink your delicious creamy coffee.

Hey everybody

I wanted to share a quiz with you that I did earlier on, it is a “Would you rather” quiz.

Here are my answers

1. Go to space or jump off a plane – Go to space
2. Ride a dragon or breathe under water – Breathe under water
3. Eat bugs covered with your favourite sauce or eat your favourite food until you choke to death – Eat bugs covered with your favourite sauce
4. Delete all your selfies or never take a selfie again – Delete all your selfies
5. Live on the awfully cold North Pole or live in Australia with giant poisonous spiders all around – Live on the awfully cold North Pole
6. Use Internet Explorer or have no Internet at all – Use Internet Explorer
7. Be able to sing like an angel or be able to paint like Picasso – Be able to paint like Picasso
8. Witness the apocalypse or witness a murder – Witness the apocalypse
9. Have no children or Have 9 siblings – Have 9 siblings
10. Laugh awkwardly loud or sneeze really loudly – Laugh awkwardly loud
11. Go to work in your pyjamas or go to the supermarket barefoot – Go to work in your pyjamas
12. Shake hands with Pikachu and get electrocuted or give a hug to Human Torch and get burnt – Give a hug to Human Torch and get burnt
13. Win a lottery but lose a ticket or win a lottery but get robbed – Win a lottery but lose a ticket
14. Fight an alligator with your barehands or fight with a sword against a gun – Fight with a sword against a gun
15. Speak in front of thousands of people or become a worlds most embarrassing meme – Speak in front of thousands of people
16. Get stuck in the most boring day of your life for eternity or listen only to music you hate – Listen to music only you hate
17. Charge your phone every 2 hours or sleep 1 hour a day – Charge your phone every 2 hours
18. Not be able to read or not be able to write – Not be able write
19. Be the last person in the world or be born as a mosquito – Be the last person in the world
20. Fall in love with a slimy green alien with big eyes or be a slimy green alien with big eyes – Be a slimy green alien with big eyes
21. Shower with sweat instead of water or use a shower that smells like vomit – Shower with sweat instead of water
22. Oversleep your own prom night or oversleep your own wedding night – Oversleep your own prom
23. Fail all the exams or fall off a train at full speed – Fail all the exams
24. Be bald or have long hair such as Rapunzel’s – Have hair such as Rapunzel’s
25. Die in a western- like dual or slip on an ice cube, fall off stairs and break both legs – Slip on an ice cube, fall off stairs and break both legs
26. Talk to your favourite celebrity or 1 minute or be best friends with a random celebrity – Be best friends with a random celebrity
27. Have a never ending cigarette or have an unlimited amount of ice cream – Have an unlimited amount of ice cream
28. Travel back in time or go to the future – Travel back in time
29. Live with a cheating partner or live with a partner but cheating on him/her – Live with a cheating partner
30. Survive a lightning strike or survive a car accident – Survive a car accident
31. Run all the time without stopping or move like the floor is lava all the time – Run all the time without stopping
32. Have your own castle in the sky or move to another planet – Have your own castle in the sky
33. Have fairly legs or have hairy arms – Have hairy arms
34. Stop blinking or always walk on your hands – Stop blinking

Here is the link to the quiz so that you guys can give it a try

https://myrealpersonality.com/en/tests/would-you-rather-game-35-questions

Hey everybody

I hope all of the moms had a wonderful Mothers Day and got spoilt by your family.

Today I decided to share 5 things you didn’t know about me.

1. For most of my life I had wanted to become a professional tennis player, I competed in SATA tournaments and even went to a tennis academy for about 6 months. When I got out of the academy I took a bit of a break from tennis, during this break I had started doing ballroom and latin dancing and then that ended up being my new ultimate passion. I still play a bit of tennis, just not as much as I used to.
2. A couple of years ago when my family and I went to go visit my family on the South Coast, my Aunty introduced me to Reiki. Ever since then, I have taken a big interest in studying Reiki. I stopped it for a while because I got busy with other things, but now I am studying it again and I absolutely love it. She also introduced me to Numerology, I don’t read about it as much as the Reiki, but I still find it very fascinating.
3. Ever since I was at Lonehill academy, I had always taken an interest in writing, I would like to thank my English teacher for that, he was probably my favourite teacher. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of my icon Shonda Rhymes and publish a screenplay, but I never really acted on it, I normally just like to write for myself and then blog for all of you.
4. Since I was a little girl, my worst fear has been heights, I think I got that trait from my dad because he also hates heights. I remember when I was at Brescia House and we went on camp once and we had to do fufu sliding, I told my teacher I was too afraid to and so we made a deal that if I didn’t do that, I had to do abseiling and bless my soul, I thought it had something to do with water, little did I know it was climbing off the edge of a rock, that was probably the scariest thing I have ever done in my life.
5. Last but not least, I like to do arty things in my free time, such as, painting, doing mosaics, and working on my diamond paintings (it is basically like paint by numbers, but you use gems instead of paint).

Hey everyone

This past month has been a whirlwind of emotions, some happy, some sad.

A lot of people are getting really agitated while waiting for the lockdown to be lifted, so this is just something to help you get through this.

When you are worried that the lockdown will never get lifted, just think about the first thing you are going to do when it does get lifted properly, and just hold onto it. For me, the very first thing I am going to do is go straight to the dancing studio and dance my heart out.

Whenever you are feeling negative, replace your thoughts with something positive and I guarantee you will feel so much better. If you don’t, then comment on this post and I will reply to you.

Hey everyone

At the beginning of lockdown I was going crazy because I was so bored and I had cabin fever. At the end of the second week, I tried to think of things to do, but I couldn’t think of anything, and so I went onto social media to get ideas.

When I looked on social media, I got a lot of good ideas. I saw people were making TikTok videos, they do different challenges, they exercise in their gardens and online, basically just making the most of their time at home.

So I looked at all of those things and decided I would try some of them. I made a TikTok video, I have been painting and drawing, I made up my own challenges on my blog, I am doing dancing online and yoga online, I have also been baking a lot of biscuits. My mom, dad and I made a little tennis court in the driveway and used a table as a net.

Today we went for a bit of a walk around the estate and there were so many people walking their dogs in the 3 hours that we had been given.

Let me know what you guys think.

Hey everyone

The last and final movie I have chosen is call Always Be My Maybe. It is a very romantic movie about 2 childhood friends Sasha and Marcus, who have not seen each other since their very brief fling when they were teenagers ended badly. When Sasha returns to San Francisco to open up a restaurant, they realise that their romantic chemistry is still there. Their new relationship has had challenges because of Marcus’s fears and Sasha’s fame and demanding job as a chef.

This movie is very beautiful and is highly recommended.

The last and final series I have chosen is called Stranger Things. This series is about a 12 year old boy named Will who goes missing. When Wills mother Joyce realises that he is missing, she starts an investigation with local authorities to try and find him. As they search for him, they come across some extraordinary surprises involving government experiments, super natural forces and a very strange yet interestingly helpful little girl.

This movie is a sci-fi horror that has a lot of surprises and secrets.

Hey everyone

The sixth movie I have chosen is called Mama Mia. This is a fun and loving musical about a young bride who is trying to find herself before her wedding, there is no better way to do that than finding your father. After reading her mothers diary, she decides to invite all 3 of her possible dad’s to her wedding without her mother and fiancé knowing.

This is a movie starring the extremely talented Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Dame Julie Walters, Christine Baranski and last but not least Amanda Seyfried.

The sixth series I have chosen is called Orphan Black. This is a thriller with a bit of drama and it is about a women named Sarah who takes the identity of a lady who commits suicide at a train station who looks exactly like her. Sarah is an orphan who is not very wealthy. She thinks that if she takes over the identity of somebody who is richer than her and spend all of the money she has in her account then everything will be solved and her and her daughter can live a safer life.

Little did Sarah know, her problems start to multiply, and so does she.

Hey everyone

The fifth movie I have chosen is called To All The Boys I Loved Before. This is a movie about a young introvert named Lara Jean. Lara Jean never admits her feelings for a boy, so she decides to do is write love letters to all of the boys that she has had a crush on, and keeps them in a box for safe keeping.

Lara Jean wrote 5 Love letters, one of the letters was written about her sisters boyfriend Josh. After her letters get mailed without her knowing, Lara Jean has to pretend that she is dating somebody else so that Josh doesn’t think that she likes him anymore. This movie is very good, but at some points in the movie, you have those moments where you want to throw the remote at the TV because of the romance drama. I definitely recommend this movie to all of the romance lovers.

The fifth series I have chosen is called Pretty Little Liars. This series is more for teens who love a murder mystery with a bit of romance. It is about 4 high school girls who had a fallout when their leader Alison disappeared during a slumber party that they had. A couple years later, the girls are forced to reunite when attending Alison’s funeral.

When the girls start to receive messages from an anonymous person called “A”, whose number one goal is to expose all of their secrets. The girls must now stick together and try to stop “A” before all of their secrets come out and start to ruin all of their personal relationships.