Monday, 24 January 2011

My Christmas Clothes that I Got

Heyyyy!
Right well I promised all of you that when I wore some of my Christmas clothes that I received I'd post pictures! So here I am delivering on said promise! This is more gonna be like a mini post rather than on of my full length, take about a century to load if you're reading me from a blackberry post (and if you're reading me from an iPhone same on youuuuuu!) but anyway yeah! Mini post about my outfit! So I'll try not to yak on too much hee hee!
God I say that and then that was a huuuuuuuuge introductory paragraph! Whoops!

So here was the outfit I wore yesterday for school! Nice and simple but still very sweet looking!!!!! I was wearing Lacoste white pumps, some lacy white tights I got for Christmas! MY usual Black frilly skirt that I wear for school, a very pale (sounds grosse but almost like a chewed hubba bubba pink if you get me???) and then my new Chrissy Cardigan!!!! Hee hee don't you just love it! I think it's so adorabubble!!!! Of course I was wearing my school jacket at home, but I definitely prefer it without! Oh and of course my silk hair rose!!!!!!!

So below I took a picture that shows the detailing of the tights! They're in a sweet cream antique lace pattern!!!!! For some reason it reminds me of granny style doilies! But actually it looks rather lovely!!! And it's all flowers as well which is nice!

So here's the detailing on the cardigan!!!! Look at how warm and woolly that material is! Honest you coud be wearing the most skimplyfied outfit and still be warm! How awesome if that!!!!! And And And look at the pockets!!!! Little black bows on the tops of the pockets!!!! How cute is that!!!! Really super cute!!!!!


So here's a picture of my make up that I wore! Really super simple cause obv it's a school day! Just a bit of eye liner! But oooooh I love my hair! I'd pincurled it the night before so I was dead happy with it! The curls are still in today!!!!

Here's a picture of me from above!!!!!! I've always wanted to try this angle!!! I actually quite like it cause it had the advantages of a face shot, but then you still get the clothes in at the same time!!!! Isn't it lovely!!! Hee hee! Everyone should try taking photos from this angle! T'is definitely a good cam whoring angle!!!

Here's another face shot but this time from a side angle! I can't decide which angle makes my eyes look bigger hmmm!!!! Either way I think the lighting in my old dining room is really nice!!! Although I think such pictures will look better when I can re-do my hair!

And here's my final picture!!!! I'd have loved to have done this one outside in a nice grassy area, but it's January and it was already dark when I took this picture so I think not! This is definitely my favourite picture out of the lot! I think that shows the kinda dreamy whispy airy fairy casual hime look I was going for!!!!! Hee hee!!! Love It!


Well I hope you love what clothes I got for Christmas! I know I do! Especially that yummily warm cardie!!!!!!!

*kiss kiss*

Monday, 17 January 2011

Mille Feuille

Yay! Okay so I got 300 hits! Wow talk about totally happy guys! So to say thankyou I'm gonna show you how I make a super delish treat that I actually adore!!!!! And for girls who go to my guides! I may even think these are better than smores! Yes better than smores!!!! So these are how you make half fat, double sugar and totally yummm Mille Feuille!!!

So you'll need some stuff to make 'em, and that involves a bowl, a whisk, a pizza slicer thing, a knife, and also a piping bag, however I didn't have a piping bag, so instead I used a sandwich bag that I put a small hole in the bottom! It doesn't work half as well as a piping bag, but it is a close alternative!

Food wise you'll be needing; some Jus-Rol puff pastry (I made 4 mille feuille out of one sheet so it just depends how many you wanna make as to how much you buy!), some caster sugar, or if you like the recipe recommends icing sugar, but I don't like icing sugar, I find it kinda manky so I go for caster! Some whipping cream, I've got this stuff by Soyatoo, I got it from that eco freak shop in Leeds opposite the corn exchange! They also do soya squirt cream! How awesome hee hee! Anyway, so yeah this is how you make the mille feuille's a lot less fatty! And then finally for the fruit I've used glace cherries cause everyone knows just how much I love glace cherries!!! They're brilliant!!!!! But I know some girls, odd that you are, don't like glace cherries, so strawberries, or *shudders* raspberries will do! And there you go, there's your ingredients!

So take out your puff pastry and you need to cut 12 rectangles (for 4) you need to make sure they're 9 cms long! I just use my school ruler to measure so it's fine!!!! This is where your pizza cutter thing comes in handy and you use that to slice them all up!!!!


And they also ought to be 5 cms high! I suppose you can change the dimensions if you want to, all that matters is that they're the same shape! I'd love to do love heart shaped ones but I think that would be a bit too tricky to keep a regular shape ne?


So once you've got them all done put them on a tray with some greese proof paper and shove them in the fridge for half an hour and then whilst that's going on you can get in with ...



Making the whipped cream, so I just shoved the whole packet in, but I have nooooo idea how much that was!!! I dunno, I think if i zoom in a bit on the pic it looks like 100 ml, and I had like a bit too much left over so, it just depends really, just stick the whole lot in I feel, anyway, there you go and it looks pretty mank ne?


Before you start whipping it though, I love sweet stuff, and cream shouldn't taste like cream and soya, so I added 2 and a half spoons of caster sugar, just to give it that more extra sugary sweetness!!! They're just so delish with all that sugar in! Yummmmmmm!


Right so now you've added the sugar you can get whipping until it looks like below!!! Ha that looks much more normal than the first picture of the cream I feel!!!! So just whip it up like that until when you take the whisk out and it has a tiny little peak in it, then you know that it's done. Then basically you can push that to the side and leave it be for the while.

And move onto preparing the fruit, or in my case fruit that's been covered in preservatives, and colourings and sugar!!! Yum! I can't think of owt more delish!!!!! Hee hee! So you need them to be chopped fairly small-ly or else you won't be able to fit your mille feuille in your mouth cause of it's height, unless like a snake you're able to dislocate your jaw, so yeah, chop 'em small. I've chopped my galce cherries in half, and that's probably the same for raspberries, strawberries you'll probably have to do into quaters though! So make as many as you want! I nearly went through the whole tub!!!!


So whilst you've been occupying yourself with that the 30 mins should be up!!! Now get your chosen sugar out! As you know mine is caster! And sprinkle each with a good covering of the sugar on your board! And once you've done that you can stick it in the oven for 10 mins! The oven should be 200 degrees c, I probs should have told you that earlier but oh well! C'est la vie!


After your 10 mins are up you take them out of the oven and turn them over then sprinkle the other side with sugar and shove them back in the oven! You carry on repeating this until they're golden brown, minus adding the sugar every time. So when both sides are lovely golden brown take them out of the oven (don't forget to switch it off after) and shove them back in the fridge for them to fully cool down, otherwise when you put the whipped cream on them it'll go all runny!


So here comes the first bit of piping out all the cream, so first if you don't have a piping bag, make a small hole no bigger than a penny in the corner of your sandwich bag, then shove in all the whipped cream so it's like below!!!!


So take your first puff pastry slice, and pipe on the whipped cream in little peaks all the way round the edge of the slice!!!!! After this you add on your fruit inbetween each od the peaks, as you can see from the bottom level of this mille feuille. Once you've done this when you're putting the next level just put a huge long splodge along the bottom and that'll help it stick to the layer below

Hee hee and then of course you need to finish it off with a gorgeous topping! I did three little peaks of whipped cream with two cherries in the middle, I would have done 5 cherries with 3 peaks of whipped cream, but I was running out of cherries which really sucked! But I think it looks good as it is ne!



So there you go! Totally delish and yummy mille feuille! And when I say they're delish I really do mean totally delish! I mean just look at them! They're practically screaming "Eat me Eat me!" Hee hee!!!! So go on eat them!!! Oh but before you do just shove them in the fridge for half an hour cause they'll just be a tiny bit fragile at first, and putting them in the fridge will mean the layers are less likely to slide off each other! But yeah totally yummy! I hope you enjoy eating them, they are totally Delish I promise!!!

Anyway! Thankyou everybody for reading hee hee! I've no idea what my next post will be on but c'est la vie! I'm sure something good will happen ne!!! Enjoy your week!
*kiss kiss*

Saturday, 15 January 2011

Christmas Eve, Christmas Presents, New Years, & Rhiannon's 18th!

Hey okay so I was gonna do my last update on Tuesday, but I lost the connector for my camera so it's been a delayed process!!!! And so being the nice person I am, to try to make up for it instead of breaking this down into two posts like I was going to I've squished it all into one hee hee so that we're all up to date!!!! Aren't I lovely!!! Sobecause this pretty much covers from christmas eve till last weekend here is a pic of my christmas tree as it was! Finallhy mom let us do it without a colour scheme so I had full license!



I think it looks like one of those tradition victorian style with everything bejewelled on to it! Isn't it lovely?!?!?!



And there it was again with the flash on! Okay so on Christmas Eve my church always does a nativity, and as always I was an angel!!! So being one of the grown up angels a) I didn't have to wear one of those silly tinsel halos and b) mine and the other big angels' jobs are to shepard the baby angels in the right direction! They were so cuuuuuute! Shame I didn't get pics, but the church was soooo super crowded!



So there I am on Christmas Eve before I want up to sleep because obviously everyone goes to sleep early on christmas eve so that christmas eve can arrive quicker!!!




Here's me having stolen one of the decorations off the chrissy tree! It's a little gold bejewlled bird that matches my dress! I got a set of 8 in various colours from paper chase! They're beautiful! If they start selling 'em next year everyone should definitely get some!!!!




So I was just mucking about here and mom snapped a pic! I really rather like it though! Ha shows my cheeky personality! Afterall angels don't always have to be glam (although I suppose they usually are - somehow I can't imagine the angel gabrielle as un-elegant!)


Here's me in one of my "holier than thou" poses I was doing! Really doesn't suit me does it ha!





So here's the last pic me and mom took before I went for sleep sleep time!!! I really like this one, i think I look very soft and gentle which is definitely a good thing, and it just looked so christmassy and warmy whilst it was snowwy outside!





So here's the start of my christmas day outfit!!!!! I was wearing the new look shoes I talked about in an older post AAAAAAND my new christmas coat!!!! Isn't it beautiful!!!!!I'm afraid you can't see cause I didn't take any detailed pics, but the coat is actually made out of a lasce print on the white, AAAAND it has bow detailing on the back! Talk about super cute and girly!!!!!



So once I'd taken the coat off this was what I was wearing! I did have some shorts on but as is evident one can't see them, which is good, cause I like to think of thistop as a very short dress as apposed to a very long top!!!! Hee hee t'was also a christmas present from mom so I was very very happy!!!!!!!




So here's to show how I did my hair for the day!!! I put it up into a swept up casual top bun!!!1 And to finish off my little HK detailed bow! Just gives it a sweet edge to a more grown up style! Very nice for something to do as a casual style whenn you can't be bothered with curling and straightening! Without resorting to the dreadfully boring ... PONYTAIL!!!





So here's my make up, it never really came out clear though which I was super cross about. This one was the best pic I took. When i'll just say as the main colour I used a Barry M pink gold (a pressie I got as you'll see later) and a nice bronze to edge!!!!






So here's one I took with eyes open! For some reason I'm seeing Audrey Hepburn eyes here so you can imagine just how pleased I am with this pic! And the colour of my eyes are leaning towards green here which makes me even happier! Go nice eye days!!!!!




So here's the detailing on the top I got and wore on Christmas!!!! How nice does all that frill look around the neck! Talk about a super girlie rose like touch! Or maybe more like icing than a rose! either way it's something sweet and delish!!!!! And pearls buttons as well to add a look of opulence!!!! How loveley!!!!! I got some other clothes for christmas but they're in the wash so I can't take pics of 'em, when I wear them though I'll be sure to get pics I promise!!!!




So here's the jewellery stuff I got from mom! I have a pearl bracelet that has lace and mini pearls and a gauze rose! I mean how beautiful! Really really lovely and I also got two rings! Here come the close ups!



Isn't it lovely and big??? Hee hee very much in your face bling, and therefore henceforth and forthwith is very veryme!!!!!!! hee hee!



So I have two pics of my fox ring and this one is the one from on top where you can see it's lovely white tail and how big it is, and just the general sparkly-ness of it!!! I've wanted a fox ring for so long, so one that's a fox, and bling, and pink then it's super super awesome!!!!


And here it is from the front as well!!!!!! It even has lovely big pink cat eyes!!!!




Speaking of blings I'm interrupting my present list to put in pictures of my new year new bling for my gadgets!!!!! Here's my Hello Kitty newly blinged camera case!!!!!





And new phone!!!! I changed it cause last years was more of a dark pink and silver where as this is more baby pink and gold so it's more opulent!!! Isn't it lovely! I do have an iPod case to match but I forgot to take a pic of it! silly me!!!!! But d'you like my new phone case??? I do!!! Hee hee!





So back to presents from mom she got me some make up things!!! A Bare Minerals pallete from Harvey Nicks!!!!! AAAAND something I've been lusting after for aaaages the Smokey eye kit from Too Faced!!!! And lemme tell you, this thing is brilliant! I would totally reccommend it to anyone!!!! Realy everyone should get it because the colours are just lovely, and they have nice names! And they apply well!!!!!!! Hee hee and then I also got two Barry M dazzle dusts from mom! One in a rich purple (although it looks dark there)and the pink gold I got from mom! The pink gold is awesome cause it looks gold in the inner of your eyes where you need your eyes to blook brihgt, but then goes to the pink at the edge so you get the nice colour!



So I got one DVD and 3 CDs from mom!!!! I got another Studio Ghibli film to add to my collection - Princess Mononoke. I've watched it and it seems quite strange compared to the others i've watched but I still rather like it, especially the little tree spirits that shake their heads and make that cute noise hee hee!!!! So as you can see I got NOW that's what I call XMAS which has the cavalry song on which i adore and which mother was sick of by the end of the christmas period!!! Then I got the regular NOW CD because I always have to get them, although I wasn't ammused by the fact Cheryl Cole came in before track number 5 on this for the second time!!!!! Very displeased about that indeed!!!!!!! And then I got my Katy Perry CD which i've been desparate for for ages because I love Katy Perry and think she's awesome!!!!



So here comes all the HK stuff I got from mom, the pic above is just one of the two files I got but then I got lots of other Hello Kitty stuff as well!!!!!!




So from mother I got a pen, some cute little clips of HK dressedas an angel ... OMG THE HANDBAG!!!! I officially have a pink, quilted in the shape of HK face, with Hello Kitty stitched on one pocket (that may I point outperfectly fits a blackberry) and the other pocket with a metal Hello Kitty face that has crystals in it!!!! And the inside of the bag even has a special Hello Kitty fabric!!! And did you know my mom even wrapped all of this in Hello Kitty wrapping paper - Hee hee love you so much!!!!





So here'smy stuff from dad I took a huuuge pic of everything and then I took a separate pic of the smaller stuff. Dad was one of the ones I got loads of the clothes off but obvs no pics :( I even got another coat a red river island one! So anyway I'll go over what I got! I got some gold glitter bubble bath in a champagne bottle, I got a special boar's bristle hair brush bnecause I'm growing my hair, so it helps to evenly disperse hair oils whilst also minimalising brushing damage to split ends. I got some cute nodding and waving kitties that are solar powered that now sit on my window cill nodding relaxingly!!!! Then I got the new Take That CD as well asmy others, and another Hello Kitty lunch box hee hee!!!! As well I also got a lot of sweets and chocolates as you can see, but you can't see many of them cause I ate them!!!! Some lovely new patterned tights that have cutesie little bows on them as well for lots of matching with my girlie outfits!!! And woooooo talk about cool I got the Compare the Meerkats book "A Simples Life" It's brilliant so funny!!!! I also got some other real books but didn't take pics of them,they're all good though hee hee! So to finish off I got some posters! Hee hee I got the standard from daddy Hello Kitty poster, a Barbie one that I was lusting after in HMV aaaaand JEDWARD poster!!!! Hee hee talk about awesome-ness!!!! I also got some posters from mom but didn't unravel them cause I don't have anywhere to put them up yet!!! But i'll tell you anyway! I got Katy Perry California girls, and two more hello kitty ones! So cool!!!






So here's my close ups of the little pressies daddy got me!!! I got keyring lipglossses cause I always need 'em, some AMAAAZING benefit lipglosses!!!! A blinged up nail file!!! Some glittery eye liner, a cool pen, and a pair of nail clippers shaped like a doll that are magnatised to a special sucker, so you can stick them to something so you never lose them! Is daddy trying to tell me something here??? And a strange little diamond handbag contrption. So as you may have noticed I always have a handbag, so when you go to someone's house, and you wanna carry your bag round with you, and then you sit down at the table, you simply clip this thing on, and it works as a hook for holding your handbag, clever ne?



So here above and below you see my two big pressies!!!!! From daddy it's my new samsung camera with front screen for super cam whoring! And below my Hello Kitty iPod docking station! Both presents are amazing! And such such such such good quality I can't tell you how much I reccomend both of these products!!!! Honestly!!!!! Really amazing!!! Hee hee happy presents!!!





So here below I won't comment on these, but these are some of the pics I took on boxing day with my new camera in one of my new tops!!!! Aren't they pretty hee hee!!!! And how good do my skin and eyes look! Hee hee I love good lighting!!!






Okay so I said I wasn't gonna comment on any of these pics but I really do love this last one so soo much!!!!! Isn't it just so loveley and cute looking!!!!!!



So on New Year's Eve I went out with Roselle and Co!!!! So that was me, Zell, Coco, Kaka, Lydia, Lolly, Sophie Evans, Megan Sadler, and two other girls I'd never met before! Hee hee we all looked fab, so here's a pre-event cam whoring pic!



Now here's a proper pic shoing all my make up, I went for a strong smokey eyed cat flick, using the dark green, and black I got in my Too Faced make up palette, along with my own products! For my lips I of course used my good old Mac Russian Red hee hee! What d'you think of my make up style! Oh and hand of cours! I pincurled my hair! Then when it had dried I swept it into a side ponytail with a tendril down each side and a small ammount of volume at the back!!!!






So above is the pic of my outfit! Not very good sorry I was in a rush! So I was wearing my super nice black stilletoes!!!1 My apple bottom jeans! And a lovely gorgeous silk vintage top I bought from Rose and Co a lovely vintage shop!!!



So here's the lovely Zell and Lydia!!!! Hee hee don't they look adorabubble!!! Blonde bombshell pair!!!!



So here's us in Pizza Express and a pic I took of Coco and Kaka!!!! Ha seeing them together just reminds me of Lady Royd!!!!



Here's Zell with her lovely boyfriend Ed both of them lovingly clutching their white wine hee hee!!!!



Okay so this one's a bit blurry but oh well hee hee we can't take perfect pics all the time! So this is Lolly and Lydia! Hee hee two L's how ammusing!!!



Here's one of Lydia fluffing up her hair! How cute does she look here! Super cute ne!





Here's one of Lolly and Kaka sat together under the window we spent time covering in writing and pics because it was all fogged up hee hee!



So here's the last one I put up from this night of Kaka, Coco, and Lydia in Pizza Express!!!! Hee hee it was such a good night hee hee!!!




So it was my cousin Rhia's 18th family birthday party, and here's me and my little cousin Tanya!!!! And below me with Rhiannon's pet snake, I can't remember what it's name was oops!!








Here's the yummy looking cake her mom had made and Rhia blowing out all 18 candles! That must take a big breath!



To finish off I just added a random picture from Spanish class! Hee hee Anisha had brought in an orange and we decided to make it into a likeness of the beloved Whitters! A true artistic likeness I believe! Hee hee we love you Whitters!!!!




Anyway!!!! Thankyou for reading!!! I'm so relieved I'm now all up to date!!!!! Yay! Next up i'm writing about making my dairy free Mille Feuille hee hee yummy yummy scrummy!!!!
*kiss kiss*