outfit challenge: inspired by ice cream

While I was lying in bed the other night, unable to sleep under the sound of the rain on my (slightly leaky) roof, my mind started wandering, as it is prone to do, and after a while finally settled on ice cream. I guess that now it's getting cooler people don't eat ice cream as much, but I can think of nothing better than snuggling up under a blanket with a bowl of ice cream and a nice cup of tea - lovely!

It's no secret that a nice mint choc chip ice cream makes me a very happy girl indeed. Jms prefers it just mint with no chocolate bits (apart from maybe a swirl of sauce) but I prefer it with nice big chocolatey chunks: mmm, perfect!

If I were asked to list them, my second favourite flavour would be raspberry ripple, which is a bit of a peculiar choice since it always tastes so artificial. There's just something so innocent about it, I love me a bit of cheapo raspberry ripple - I have cravings for the stuff more than a little regularly.

I don't think I would consider my third favourite to be tutti frutti (even though it is quite obviously awesome), but I am rather saddened by fact that it no longer seems to exist - I've not seen it on sale anywhere since I was about 11. Is that just me? Has anyone else seen it around? I'd be intrigued to try it again. If not, I suppose I could always make my own...

Anyway - all that evening-dreaming about ice cream got me wondering if I could get away with dressing as ice cream flavours without being questioned about it at work. I do like to set myself little costume challenges, and the more Clarissa-based, the better in my opinion.

Without further ado, let me present:

{raspberry ripple}

{mint choc chip}

{tutti frutti}

Are there any particular ice cream flavours you would like to dress as???

happy national ice cream day!

OK, so I'm sure we all know that July is National Ice Cream Month, right? But did you know that today, being the third Sunday in July, is National Ice Cream Day? Yay!

Technically it's national to the US, but hey, I'm up for joining in the celebrations!

And what better way to celebrate than with these goodies:

free downloadable ice cream tags by Amy Moss

ice cream coupon from write.click.scrapbook

all terrain ice cream transport by Louis K.

man, I wish I had one of these!

I long for Arctic adventures

Hello I Love You by Julia Pott

I love you too, Mr Polar Bear.

I was thinking just the other day that I wanted to write a post about polar bears and how awesome they are, so I spent
hours
a little while looking at pretty pictures of them. Then I decided I wanted to write a post about ice cream, and how awesome it is...

...and then I found this splendid illustration:

The Polar Bear by Laura Manfre

...an utterly wonderful combination of two of my favourite things!

You can see more of Laura's lovely illustrations in her shop and her blog.

You can see more of Julia's lovely illustrations in her shop and her blog.

No doubt there will be more polar bears and ice cream to come in the future, I just couldn't resist sharing these!