New Job!

Its Summer, this means no school and excessive shopping. when you are a teenager and you love make-up and clothes money can be quite a problem. I will be 16 in August which means that right now I am able to work. So obviously I have decided to get a summer job (my mother wants me out of the house) for a few hours a week. Now that I know that I will have my own income without having to spread out any money that I may get at my Birthday and Christmas, I can splurge (reasonably) on some beauty and fashion items which I get very excited about.
"What is your actual job?" you may ask, basically I work in a local hairdressers where I wash hair, sweep the floor, take appointments and make a substantial amount of tea and coffee. It probably sounds quite boring to many people but the thing is when you are doing them few jobs you don't stop from 9 to 5 (cue Dolly Parton song) and there fore the time flies by. I am very appreciative of my job and I cant wait to go on some shopping sprees and share some reviews and hauls with you!

Grainne

xoxo

Vintage Rose Cupcakes

As I am now off for the Summer Holidays I have went on a baking overdrive as I am obsessed. The other day I had been to the dentist and I was in terrible pain therefore I decided to go on YouTube. I found this great tutorial on icing roses so later on in the day I decided I would have a go at creating them. To be honest I was very proud of myself as this was my first try and they tasted great!

Ingredients;

Makes 12

Cupcake

• 110g/4oz butter or margarine,
  110g/4oz caster sugar
  2 free-range eggs,
  1 tsp vanilla extract
  110g/4oz self-raising flour
  1-2 tbsp milk

Icing

175g unsalted butter
350g icing sugar, sifted
a couple of drops of vanilla extract (optional)

Method

• First you preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
• To make the cupcakes you can use the all in one method where you basically just add all of the ingredients at once and just mix it with a mixer or with a spoon however sometimes I like to add the ingredients one at a time to make sure the mixture is smooth with no lumps.
• When the mixture is smooth you then evenly distribute the mixture into the cupcake cases on the tray.
• Bake the cupcakes in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
• when the cupcakes are springy to touch take them out of the oven and place them on a cooling rack.

Icing

• first cream the butter until it is smooth and then gradually add in the icing sugar mixing every time.
• if you are using the vanilla extract you would then add it in to the butter cream icing.
• fill your piping bag and you are ready.
• Instead of myself typing out the method of the roses I am going to link you to the YouTube video as it is easier to show than write and probably if I wrote out how to do it your cupcakes would turn out to be a catastrophe. Here is the link to the YouTube video.

If you decide to make these cupcakes tag me in your pictures on instagram and twitter so I can have a look at them!

Grainne

xox

Moses Sandals

Around a month ago I went shopping to Primark and I bought theses sandals. Personally when I was buying them I thought how practical they were for example the are a light brown therefore you can basically match them with anything and also they have a mainly closed toe which means you can get away with a bit of chipped nail polish. I also just thought they were pretty cute. This was not the story when I got home... my brother and sisters thought that my sandals looked like something that Moses would wear in the desert. Obviously they were only joking about this but I took it slightly to heart and they were then slipped into my wardrobe for another day. When the sun broke out and it was 28 Degrees Celsius outside I decided fudge it I am going to wear them and ever since them I have barely took them off. I decided that there isn't much point in caring about what other people think therefore I wore my Moses sandals with pride and I have gotten multiple compliments on them since.

The Sandals were around the 3-5 pound mark in Primark.

Grainne