weekend wanderings #31

(images from tasty-yummies.com, mysteriousuniverse.org and sunnysweetpea.com)

• I discovered Ed Spence's art this week on Supersonic Electronic which used to be one of my favourite tumblrs when I was a regular user. I love the level of intricacy in his work, and his use of holographic material, which is just so amazing looking.
• The blackberry recipes are still coming in thick and fast, I'm afraid. The two I'm currently lusting over are these blackberry crumb bars and these blackberry cupcakes. I also shared my own recipe for blackberry yoghurt cake this week!
• I love anything Greek or Roman related, there is a reason I took classics at college, and I was fascinated by this article. It's kind of long, but anything titled "The Mystery of the Ancient Roman tunnel to Hell" will so catch my eye.
• Currently, I'm having a bit of a love affair with Nicki Minaj, I'm not sure why, she's been around a while but I'm recently just really into her songs. Awkwardly, I keep finding myself singing Anaconda at work. I really loved this photoshoot for Dazed & Confused - in particular, that brown knitted Marc Jacobs outfit.
• I'm not normally a huge fan of fashion bloggers, but I really loved these photographs of Ankor Wat from Lily's trip to Cambodia. I have a friend who lives in Cambodia and she was telling me the other day about how there is a massive influx of gap year backpackers at certain times of year and invade the Phnom Pen.
• These photographs of a ruined church that Jenny found are really beautiful - I can't believe that giant oak growing through the middle; it reminds me of The Secret Garden.
• I've still got cinnamon buns on my mind, and these dark chocolate + fig ones are taking the main spotlight this week, especially with that icing, oh man..
• 12 really pretty free fonts, found and paired up by the lovely SF Girl by Bay, very useful.
• Beds in corners over on Apartment Therapy is a surprisingly good thing to read - I have a day bed, which is in the corner of my room, and it can make my room look a little strange, but these people are making it work.
• You guys know my love affair with coffee, so learning how to make the perfect hot coffee is next on my agenda, for the winter. Here is a great article for using with cafetiere's.
• Since watching the bake-off, when they made those funny individual pear pie things, I've been craving pears poached in red-wine. My mum use to make them when I was younger and I never really appreciated them, being a kid, you don't, but now I reallyyy want some - this is the recipe that I think I'm going to try out, the twist on the whipped cream looks so good.
• My favourite blog this week is Creative Countryside, it's exactly the right mix of lovely photos, seasonal recipes, and, basically, the countryside.