Summer Ice Lollies!

There is nothing better on a hot summers day than digging into a scrumptious ice lolly! Although nipping down to the shops may seem easy to get your ice lolly fix, there are benefits from making your own. They will be cheaper, as it just requires fruit and a couple of other ingredients you probably have at home!

Here's a simple and easy recipe for strawberry ice lollies, they took about 15 minutes to make and then just needed to set in the freezer!

All you need is: 250g of strawberries, 100ml natural yogurt and 1 teaspoon of honey.

Simply:

1. Whizz up 250g of strawberries with a food processor, 

(i used a hand blender which worked just as well)

 2. Mix in the natural yogurt and honey

3. Divide the mixture between your lolly moulds

4. Leave to set in the freezer for at least 4 hours and enjoy with your picnic or BBQ!

What you may not know about Wimbledon!

Whether you are a tennis fan or not, Wimbledon is no doubt a big event in the British sporting calendar. Originally starting in 1877 this historic tennis tournament has been a staple in our summer calendar for years. With Murray coming back to the courts this year after claiming the title in 2013, this tournament is bound to be one filled with energy and suspense.

Here are a few fun facts about the tournament you may not have known, like there are nearly 55,000 tennis balls used in the two week long championships!

Enjoy watching the tournament! 

Ellie Ellie Wears: Wimbledon Style

Wimbledon is in full swing, with top seeds taking the court in their first matches of the tournament. This week, Ellie Ellie Wears is all about dressing to impress at Wimbledon! This dress from Joules is perfect for the tennis season, paired with these purple clogs for a summery look, which is perfect for the pastel trend that is everywhere on the highstreet and in woman's style this summer, this denim jacket from Fat Face is perfect for a day at the tennis. It will keep you warm if there is a chill in the air but is light if the sun is out!

Finish off the outfit with our Personalised Map Charm Cluster Pendant, which can be personalised with a special location that means something to you!

White dress: Joules

Purple clogs: Swedish Hasbeens

Denim Jacket: Fat Face 

Personalised Map Cluster Pendant: Ellie Ellie

World Cup 2014!

The World Cup in Brazil kicked off to a great start on the 12th of June, with around 30 games already played, there is still a lot more action to come from all football teams around the globe. England have played two of their matches, with one more to go on Tuesday against Costa Rica!

We hope you are enjoying watching all the matches, our chocolate footballs sweet jar is the perfect companion for watching the football with friends and family, full of scrumptious milk chocolate footballs!

Here is a few interesting facts you may not have known about the World Cup! 

We complete our 71 mile walk!

Last Friday all the team at Ellie Ellie completed the Midnight Walk in Brighton to raise money for the Martlets Hospice! The Martlets Hospice is absolutely brilliant, helping people live life fully and taking care of people across the whole of the local community. We were absolutely thrilled to be taking part in such a great fundraising event, and reached our target well before the event! Thank you to every body who donated to this special cause!

The first six miles of the walk went by pretty easily, and although 13 miles doesn't seem that far when walking, the last few miles of the walk were more challenging. It started pouring with rain for the last few miles which left us soaked through! But we did it and it felt great at the end of the walk to know that we had all challenged ourselves.

Here are some snaps from the night:

A few snaps while we were out walking:

Finally, soaked through, here is the team once we had finished the walk (and it was 5am and we were ready for bed)

If you would still like to donate, find our just giving page here!

Celebrate National Picnic Week!

This week is National Picnic Week which is the perfect opportunity to get outside with your family and friends with a picnic. Whether you go to the beach, to the local park on stay in your garden there is something so lovely about setting up a picnic and tucking into sandwiches, cakes and nibbles. What is your picnic food essential?

We got into the kitchen last week to make some homemade lemonade for our summer garden party photoshoot and it is the perfect companion to a picnic and really simple to make too!

All you need is three simple ingredients for your lemonade:
- 1 3/4 cups of white sugar
- 8 cups of water
- 1 1/2 cups of lemon juice

The simple recipe:

- In a small saucepan, combine the sugar and 1 cup of water
- Bring to the boil and stir to dissolve the sugar, allow to cool and then pop into the fridge to chill

- Juice your lemons to make 1 1/2 cups, you can leave in the pulp but remove any seeds that may be in there
- Place your lemon juice into the fridge to cool as well

- Together with the chilled sugar mixture, mix the lemon juice and your remaining 7 cups of water
- If you feel like it needs more water, just add it in
- Add slices of lemon and ice to serve chilled

The perfect picnic drink, which is great served in a dispenser so people can just help themselves! This dispenser is coming soon to Ellie Ellie!

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Recycle Week is here!

We shared these great facts last year on recycling and as it's recycle week this week, we thought we would have a recap on the benefits of recycling. During recycle week see how much of your household waste and cardboard, plastic and glass you can recycle, once you start it will become second nature to do your recycling every week!

At Ellie Ellie, we fly the flag for redesign, recycle and relove, making sure all our products promote a responsible and sentimental lifestyle. We insure all our products fit within our ethos, with our recycled jumbo bags, lunch box bags and rugs being our top recycled products. Our jumbo bags and lunch box bags are made from recycled plastic bottles and our rugs are made from recycled wool.

A lot of people wonder what their recycled plastics and glass gets turned into, here is an interesting table showing exactly how your recycling is used!

Happy Recycle Week!