Sunday, 5 April 2015

Easter Sunday

As I haven't posted much on my blog recently, and I was spending the day out with my family, I thought it was the perfect excuse to take my camera out, snap a few photographs and make some content for my blog!
Today is Easter Sunday. My family decided it would be a good idea to go out somewhere and get some fresh air, making the most of the Easter weekend. So we took a little trip down to Thetford Forest. Here are some moments I captured with my camera that sum up the day:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
           
 
 
 
 
Outfit of the day:
 
Hat - River Island
Coat - Primark
Top - River Island
Leggings - Topshop
Boots - Topshop

 
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Saturday, 7 February 2015

Relaxation

First of all, I would like to apologise for abandoning my blog over Winter, I don't have any excuses, I was just procrastinating a lot. But now I'm back, and hopefully shall upload more often!
 
Today, to get back into the swing of things, I thought I would just write an easy-read, blog post about relaxing, something I do best! As a teenage girl who is no longer in education, I tend to have many existential crisis' about what to do with my life and how to get there, which normally results in massive headaches, confusion, and wanting to just curl up into a ball and sleep in my bed for the rest of time. One thing that helps me chillax, and makes me extremely happy is spending time on YouTube, whether that be creating my own videos, or watching other peoples, but I'll talk about that more in another blog post some time.
 
Today, I'm focussing on bath time. I love baths, I understand they're not every bodies cup of tea, but I love a good, relaxing bath, with some bath soak, or a Lush bath bomb! If you know anything about me, you will probably already know about my obsession with Lush Cosmetics. I love testing out all their different bath bombs/melts. I love the ones that totally change the colour of your bath water and make pretty patterns with all the different colours (I'm still a kid at heart). Bubbles are important too. I don't know what it is about bubbles, but you cant have a good bath without them!
 
Some of my favourite Lush bath products to use are:
The Comforter; this is a bath melt that smells like Ribenna or Vimpto, possibly one of my favourite scents from Lush.
Dragon Egg; I really like this bath bomb because from the outside it doesn't look like much, but once the outer layer has dissolved away, there is a huge surprise that bursts out into your bath, a bit like a volcano erupting.
Snow Fairy & Prince Charming shower/bath gel; These ones are exclusive for Christmas and Valentines only, but they both smell A-MAZE-ING. Both of them smell likes sweets!
Phoenix; I haven't actually used this bath melt yet, but I recently bought it to try it out, I saw a picture on Tumblr of somebodies bath water after they'd used Phoenix and it looked so pretty, like a midnight sky full of stars!
There are so many other products I love but I can't keep listing other wise I'll have a list as long as the Great Wall of China.
 
Bubble baths are the best way to relax, especially in the Winter/Autumn because they warm you up perfectly. They can also help to make you feel all cosy and sleepy, which is great for me as I find it really hard to fall asleep and it can sometimes become quite stressful.
 
I would just advise that you try out loads of different products in your pamper time, because it can be so fun, and you'd be surprised the things you come across that might end up being your favourite thing to use in your 'Me time'.
 
 
 


Monday, 13 October 2014

Halloween Cupcakes

 
The other day I decided to make some Halloween Cupcakes! I did also film it so that I could make a video for my YouTube channel, however after trying to edit it today, some of the footage didn't upload properly and some of the audio didn't work.
 
But here are my cupcakes I made. To make these cupcakes you will need:
110g of butter or margarine
110g of caster sugar
2 eggs
1 tea spoon of vanilla extract
110g of self raising flour
1-2 table spoons of milk.
 
To decorate my cakes I used:
Vanilla and chocolate icing
Orange and green food colouring
edible cake spray (in the colour green)
pumpkin and black cat sprinkles
edible eyes
coloured writing icing
plastic spiders
All my ingredients and decorations were bought at Asda.
 
 
First of all, you need to preheat your oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line your muffin hole baking tray with paper cases, this recipe makes around 12 cakes, so make sure your baking tray has enough space.
Then, you want to cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl, and beat in the egg's. After that, you will need to add your vanilla extract.
Fold in the flour using a metal spoon, this is also where I added the food colourings. I separated the mixture into two bowls, one for green cakes and one for orange. Once you've done that, add in a little milk.
Spoon the mixture into the paper cases. I would advise that you only fill the paper cases half way, so that when they bake in the oven and they start to rise, they don't overflow. Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes, once they are baked, leave on the side to cool for an additional 10 minutes.
You are then free to decorate the cakes however you like.
 
 
 
This is a really simple recipe, and lots of fun to make. As you can probably tell, the decorating part was my favourite! These cupcakes are great to make if you're having a Halloween party, or a night in watching scary films with your friends, or you could give them out to trick or treaters, or simply just for yourself and your family to munch on!
 
 
 
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