Sunday, 19 April 2015

OOTD : Afternoon beach walk

Today me and Dan took his dog for a walk on Wells  beach, here are a few pictures of my outfit.
Jeans - Primark
All the clothes listed have links to buy online apart from Primark,
I will putting another post up very soon with some more pictures from our day out.

xx



Saturday, 18 April 2015

Lush Haul



I was in Norwich on Saturday running errands, walked past lush so I thought I would pop in, I my stash had recently run out! (worst day EVER!) So I ran in and picked up a few bits. A few are old favourites but many are new ones. Most of which I have used now so I will be able to give a little review on some. They didn't last long, I have come to the realisation that I use bath bombs too quickly so you might be seeing another haul sooner than you think.


This is a bath bomb called Space Girl, i was very excited about this when I saw it in store, I think it might be the aesthetics which made me pick this up. But I just loved the way it looked and smelt (I can't remember what they smelt like now). When I put it in the bath not a lot happened it obviously fizzed away and left some colour in the bath but it wasn't what I was expecting at all! I probably should have read the label on the bag because it states that 'it doesn't do anything exciting it just makes bath time more fun' well they had me fooled. 

As I picked all these up before Easter I managed to pick up some of the Easter collections as well, I really liked this one it was simple but smelt amazing, this is called Hoppity Poppity and as you can probably tell by the name this contained popping candy, at first I wasn't really sure what was happening, I thought there was something wrong with the bath tub. Good job there wasn't really. Other than the popping candy this didn't really do anything, but I did smell amazing, it was like a menthol fresh smell, really relaxing.

This is rose bubble bar, I don't really have much of an opinion on this one, maybe if there was more of a scent and there were more bubbles it would have been better. But just wasn't amazing. Unless I really didn't have the right technique.
You've Been Mangoed Bath Melt, this has to be one of my all time favourites, I have repurchased this for years. I love fruity refreshing bath products and this is just amazing, it leaves your skin lovely and soft when you get out of the bath and its full of fragrant scents.

I cannot for the life of my remember what this was called, the only thing I remember is having some wilted soggy flowers floating around the bath with my after the bomb was all out of fizz. I mean some people might like that and find it romantic or relaxing, I just didn't like the idea of a plant floating around me, I also don't remember much of the scent of the bath bomb so it couldn't have been amazing.

Honey bee this was incredible, it smelt amazing! It smelt how you would expect it to, it was  very subtle. A really good thing about this bath bomb is that it smelt lovely and it also didn't leave marks in the bath. I would definatly buy this again.

Dragons Egg was the one is was most excited about, when i was instore they did a demonstration of them letting go dragons egg, it filled the store with an amazing scent and you could see the thick layer of foam! It fills the room with a citrusy lemon scent. The only problem I found is that when I got home my dragons egg was in half broke right down the middle. Still great though the bath changed to many different colours before staying orange and having a slight gold shimmer.
This was okay, not really a lot to say about it other that it stained my Emma Hardie cleansing cloth, which is annoying. It is very bright and a fun bath bomb

xx









Friday, 17 April 2015

My iPhone Captured March

I literally can't believe how fast this year has gone, I have thrown together another post of the pictures I have taken over the last month because the last post I did seemed to be a big hit!

Anna and I
Hands down my favourite chocolate of the moment
A lovely bike ride in high lodge with Kirstie and Dan, corrggh did by bum hurt the next day though
My cousins came to my house for the weekend and we got up to lots of exciting things, like visiting the park and going out for a lovely meal
I can't believe how quickly my nephew has grown up Zachary will be 6 months this month, where is the time going

x

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Friday, 6 March 2015

My TOPSHOP wishlist

As the warmer weather is coming I have been searching the internet for some spring essentials, so I thought I would throw together a list of things I would love for the spring season. Topshop was my first stop and I fell in love with some of these beautiful pieces.



thanks so much for reading, I can't wait to add some of these items to my wardrobe and get dressed for spring!




Strawberry and Vanilla Cupcakes



Today I made some cupcakes, they don't look that amazing but they tasted fantastic which is why I chose to share this recipe. 
It was just a basic vanilla sponge with a strawberry flavoured frosting.
Ingredients

For the cupcakes
120 grams of plain white flour
1.5 teaspoons baking powder
A pinch of salt
120 ml milk (I used semi-skinned)
1 egg
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
40 grams butter (unsalted)
140 grams caster sugar

For the buttercream
125 grams icing sugar
A dash of strawberry flavouring
100 grams of butter
Pink food colouring
10 mls of milk (semi-skimmed

Step one - I preheated the oven to 190 degrees, i then lined my cupcake tin with the cases. You can use plain white ones or patterned completely up to you.
Step two - I then mixed the sugar, butter, flour, baking powder and salt on a low speed using a electric whisk.
Step three - I placed the egg in a jug and whisked it with a folk, then added the milk and vanilla essence.
Step four - Pour about half of your liquid into the dry ingredents then mixed on a medium speed, when they are all combined i then added the second half of the mixture.
Step five - Now spoon the mixture into your paper cases i used an ice cream scoop which was perfect for ensure i didn't over or under fill the cases. Best to fill them until half full.
Step six - Place the tray into the oven for 18-20 minutes or until they have risen and springy to touch. When they are done place them on a wire rack until they cool.
Step seven - when they are completely cool mix the butter icing sugar, flavouring and colouring until fully combined. Then pipe onto the cupcakes.

If you decide to follow this recipe i would love it if you could sho me some feedback and see your pictures.
Thanks for reading


Monday, 2 March 2015

My IPhone Captured February

I have done a post like this before and it proved very popular, I don't have many pictures but I thought I would try and start doing these monthly.

A joint Birthday weekend in London with my good friend Anna and a lot of our friends.
Birthday meal at The Breakfast Club
Me and my friend Josh posing
An amazing burger at Five Guys
Dan bought me a bunny for Valentines
We took my beautiful Nephew (Zachary) to the seaside
My beautiful sisters, who met Zachary for the first time this weekend

Thank you for reading,
lots of love