At last! An indepth blogsite about Auto-Immune protocol Paleo Lifestyle!!!

A wealth of information that I have not found elsewhere! Thank you to the author! xx

Update! My ‘Go West Quest’ SORTED!

Hurrah! After more than a year on Homeswapper.co.uk and a lot of different viewings, I have found the perfect flatswap! A nice lady called Francessca and her cute two year old little boy wanted to find a two bed flat, as their one bed Notting Hill garden pad is not big enough for them.

They just so happen to LOVE the huge two bed flat which I have resided in for the last two and a half years! So I am indeed in the midsts of preparing to move! The Notting Hill garden flat is perfect for me, five minutes from the Westborne grove. I have designed the new look of my new abode, to be white, clean, airy and contemporary. I need to put a new modern bathroom in, and I am designing some built in storage units. 

I simply can’t stand ‘clutter’ being on display, not even DVD boxes or CD’s, it is a home, not a branch of HMV! -Besides, who needs that stuff cluttering up the home when you have iTunes! Even books have to be closed away in a unit. Bits and peaces on display is not my thing. So thus, I am not into shelves having things on them!!  I love units that you can close things away in!  

I like fixtures and fittings to be modern and contemporary too, mixer taps are an absolute MUST!! Not just because of my disability, but also because they are so much more streamlined and neat. Why would anyone want two separate taps to fiddle with and nearly burn their fingers, when they could have just one tap, that mixed the hot and cold water together for the perfect temperature!  I dont understand when someone puts in a new bathroom and buy old fashioned taps, when for the same price, nice mixer taps could be used!  A small contemporary sink….Electric shower is also a Fions MUST have!! A bathroom is a place of warm relaxation, restoration and cleansing!!  Another weird bathroom thing I noticed, people put in the basics, bath, sink, toilet, but where are people supposed to store the cosmetics??!! Again, a clutter no-no! Storage units are vital, for hygene, and making things easier to clean! 

I realised just how much I couldn’t be happy without access to a garden/roof garden! I have a private garden all to myself! It needs to be cleared, full of old twigs and stuff!! Some decking will be great, plants too! There are two palm trees there! 

I have started to big sort out for packing!! Such a huge amount of stuff for charity…Threw away loads of old things….Have a huge collection of newspapers, they are great for packing plates and mugs! I have written lists to assign each item and peace of furniture to a room/location in the new flat! I like to be organised! 

 

My Tropical wild garden, as it is today before it’s future makeover! x

 

 

New Year’s Revolutions! Not Resolutions! 2013

Hey folks! Guess what! The Fiona New Year Revolution ( a revolution rather than a resolution) is in order:

NYR#1: Get a prov Licence and learn to drive!

NYR#2: Develop my SINGING!! Do something with my VOICE! Record it! When I have been brave enough to sing, people have always said I have a beautiful voice!

I have found a nice musician to work with on this, he sounds really great! Samuel Nicholl.

Its always been there, yet I guess I never felt encouraged enough to develop creating with it! I have enjoyed when I have worked with singing before! hen I played a character in a modern opera at Almeida Theatre Islington, I really enjoyed it, yet when it was over, it just ended, with nobody to help me take the next step or advise me as to what I should to to be able to take the next step….

Photos from the Almeida Theatre Islington! I was a tea-lady character (in which people found funny thanks to Julie Walters in Victoria Wood’s ’Acorn Antiques‘ making tea-ladies funny)! I also played a Victorian suffragette in a ghostly dream sequence!

I also have much more limited mobility now too, don’t think I will be doing my mermaid in the shell cabaret act again, but you never know!…Even though my mobility is limited in terms of performance, I can sing instead! I shouldn’t be so shy..I think because to some people, it feels so much like a precious sensitive thing.

My feet and hands will take time to get flexible again I guess, very painful though, I just do what I can………Which is why NYR#1: learn to drive is VERY important, so I can get about without so much pain, and do MORE things! Your probably thinking now, what on earth is wrong with my feet, hands, joints..? Having a sensitive body, it did not take too kindly to my re-introduction of eggs and cheese (even goats)…I have controlled an auto-immune disability with diet and herbal medicine before..Being gentle, no alcohol, no sugar, listen to the body, etc…Now some people can randomly get over any food sensitivities when they grow up…So I thought I would try! I was on such a protein kick and loved the affects, thus thought I would see what eggs and dairy would be like, eggs being an excellent protein source! But no! My body can’t have eggs or dairy!! An immune reaction made some inflammation in my joints and ligaments. I am now making sure my alkaline balance is good and taking various herbs! Reiki helps with pain much more than any pills too. Lymphatic drainage massage is great too!

So a nice Kia Picanto would do me fine! ( One with back doors so people dont have to clamber in)!

There might be a NYR#3 as yet, not sure what it is yet though!

What has been going on!!?

Well! What has been going on then?! A lot?..Well, sort of and sort of not!

Getting ready for a big Christmas Yuletide party at my current London flat…I have plans to relocate to Notting Hill in 2013. I spend most time in west London, I know a lot of people in west London, I enjoy spending most of my time in west London, even my parents used to live and work in Kensington! Its funny how I feel close to them when I am in High Street Kensington. In the 1960′s my mother used to work in a department store called Derry & Tom’s where the Kensington Roof Gardens are! She used to go have her lunch up in the garden with the Flamingo’s ! That roof garden is now a club owned by Virgin. One of my many aunty’s used to work at BIBA in the 60′s, while another aunty of mine got fired from a tights factory for setting the machine to create a three-legged pair of tights for a joke one afternoon (everyone except the boss found it very funny)! Meanwhile, my father met many legends of the 60′s, including Diana Dors (coorrr blimey), Dusty Springfield, and knew Mick Jagger’s father Joe Jagger, whom was a P.E teacher!

I spent a little time living near Whiteley’s Bayswater years ago. one of the ONLY shopping malls I love! I really dislike shopping malls with there fake light, and monotonous duplication of all the same bland chain stores, and plastic sanitised mall atmosphere, but Whiteleys is different! Beautiful, ornate, lots of real sky light from the Titanic style dome glass ceilings! The Victorians designed things of beauty! I hardly ever go to the Westfield Centre’s….I like shopping in Camden Town too, unique indie shops, much better value than high street!

 

 

So yes, I need to go west! Most Londoner’s feel there is a right hang out, an area they just feel right in and enjoy spending most of their time…Even though I adore shopping in Camden for unusual things, I am a west London girl at heart!  In my current location, I am not far from Kentish Town.

 

NEW Choccies! Batch 2 is a success!

Hey folks!

Last night I created a second batch of choccies! What a success in terms of flavour and texture! I made bigger bars, 45 grams each…

Fiona Fey WellBEing Artisan Low-Carb Chocolates! – “food with purpose”!

 

Saffron & 24k Gold,

Rose & Strawberry,

Real Vanilla,

Lime Burst….

I used NOW foods brand Stevia. A non bitter Stevia without any additives or fillers, binders… Stevia is great, as it has ZERO carbs and NO G.I, yet is sweet!

These 45 gram bigger bars would retail at £4 each. Standard price for the vegan raw choc bar, but mine sure taste MUCH BETTER than those dusty textured, dry bitter, horrible bars that fill the shelves at Planet Organic and Wholefoods market! Honestly, I had a “raw vegan” “superfood” chocolate bar the other day from Planet Organic, I wanted to try it as it contained a gold extract. But the taste and texture was a dreadful dusty ol cardboard waste of time, yuck! Like dusty old coffee beans! Seriously!?…

Anyway, I will probably start with an Etsy website to sell from, and of course there is the buyer at Wholefoods who’s contact details I have! I may try some market stalls too for fun to see what that is like!

I now must design the labels and do the maths for the nutrition information. So remember folks, what sets these choccies apart from the raw vegan chocs in the shops right now is, LOWER CARBS, no sugar, no syrups (which are high carbs), suitable for Paleo diet, Atkins diet, Vegan diet, no artificial sweeteners which are toxic!

NOBODY makes any low-carb sweet treats that are not filled with toxic rubbish!

Earlier choc blog: Artisan WellBEing Chocolates Link!

I am going to get one of these dehydrator gadgets for christmas too! Lakeland do one for £50 ! Wow! 

 

 

How Do You Define Your Personal Style?!

I was pondering last night upon the subject of personal style…How do you define your own personal style, how do I define and describe mine!?

What sort of things, icons, people, era’s or decade’s do you feel an affinity with? After going through different phases of styles throughout the years, have you now settled into a style that you seem to feel is very you now!? Maybe you tried a style or trend that you eventually realised didn’t really suit you, thus had a perspective epiphany!

Style is not only the clothes you chose or how you wear them, but the overall look. Including hair, accessories, shoes, maybe the tactility of the textiles you chose..?

Perhaps you used to have a style that you gave up, tucked that style away in the closet to experiment with new looks, yet yearn to dress up in those outfits again one day?!!

Is confidence involved in being able to feel you can define your style? Have you gently evolved into a style that fits your social scene or career?

I have tried many different styles over the years. I now feel I can say what works on me and what just did not feel like ‘me’!

‘Know Thyself’ is a very good ethos to experience when it comes to fashion and style, as what looks interesting and great on somebody else, may not be suitable for you!

In many retrospects, I have, like many experienced most of these peculiars!

My personal style of current, is what I have become very comfortable with the last few years. I feel I’m not trying to be a certain way or trying to look a certain way, due to feeling in touch with an inner being-ness.

I am enjoying having my hair mixed highlighted blondes and relaxed. Sometimes a 60′s boho feel to the hair styling, in a sort of Brigitte Bardot, Jean Shrimpton, Marianne Faithfull way,  and sometimes bright and kooky clothes. I do like the 60s look very much. It fits with how I like to do things too. I remember when I experimented with the 40′s look, it just was so difficult!! Not only do I happen to have the most poker straight silky hair in the world, but the amount of time it takes to do those styles, I really don’t know how women in those days got out the house!! Maybe they washed their hair once every two weeks and it was set like stone with an electric permanent wave machine?! Trying to look so prim and proper all the time, thats just not fun in my books! Where as 60s Bardot blonde bed hair rocks it for me! Not having to dye my hair all the time too is wonderful for me! I used to have my hair red for a while, again, my hair grows fast and the colour red comes out easily no matter how professional the make of dye is! No matter what hair colour I tried, none of them felt as enjoyable as what I have now! So you see how a style has to fit into how you enjoy your life too!

(from top left: Jean Shrimpton, Brigitte Bardot, and bottom, Marianne Faithfull).

Developing hair! From dark to reds! Some of these images are from acting by the way!

My hair now! The 60s feel works well for me.

I like to mix it up a bit with my wardrobe staples such as skinny jeans. I have a pair in every colour, like how I have a cardigan in every colour! I love my Converse too, footwear that was simply made for the streets of London! I love shorts and sequin hotpants too!

Limited edition Converse!

I adore this shop in Carnaby Street London!! Irregular Choice! I love their shoes!! Works of art!

I am a big fan of the Melissa Vivianne Westwood jelly shoes too!! So comfortable, they are soft and of course- as we are in the UK- rain proof!!!

My Artisan WellBEing Chocolates!

I have created some more! My artisan speciality chocolates! I also worked out all the costs and amounts it takes to produce them! Remember, they are Low-Carb, No sugar, no agave, no cashews, no dairy, no artificial sweeteners, Paleo and Vegan safe!

The flavours I created this week are;

Saffron & Lucuma with 24c real edible Gold Leaf.

Lime Burst Slim with 200mg of L-Carnitine per chocolate.

Rose & Strawberry.

Vanilla & Lucuma.

Acai Berry.

The L-Carnitine in the Lime Burst Slim, I thought I would see if it was possible to achieve, and it worked perfectly! L-Carnitine helps the body burn stored fat cells, and help cardiovascular stamina. At 200mg that is much more you would get from a sports drink! The flavour is pure fizzy lime with a zingy lime fondant filling! Really hard to believe this is LOW-CARB, no sugar!! I can also make Lime Burst without the L-carnitine, so I can sell them for £1 each too. Such a great zesty flavour!

Saffron, the bliss herb, has real 24c gold leaf used with it! A real extravagant buzz!

Rose & Strawberry, Lime Burst Slim, and Saffron & Gold.

Lime Burst Slim and Saffron & Gold would both sell at £2 per chocolate, due to the specialist artisan ingredients. These are the sort of chocolates I could sell in Harrods, Selfridges, and Harvey Nichols, as well as Wholefoods Market! A made-to-order service would be available too, particularly for such luxury chocolates.

The regular flavours such as Rose & Strawberry, Acai Berry, Passionfruit and Vanilla & Lucuma would sell at £1 each.

I found this great little chocolate melter machine!!

The collection is called ‘Fiona Fey’s WellBEing- Food With Purpose.’ I am going to design the logo and labels.

I will create the Lime Burst Slim so that the fondant is inside the choc, rather than sandwiched like in this photo!

I also made some Paleo/Vegan ‘brownies’!

Experimenting with No-grain baking!

I used Chia Seeds, Arrowroot, Pecan’s and Quinoa (Not a grain but a seed in fact, a seed from the spinach family of plants).

I made an Acai Berry frosting on top (the front three bars) and a Lucuma frosting (last two)! What a wonderful combination of flavours and goodness!