In this week's Great British Bake Off we watched the bakers tackle sweet dough recipes, and I decided to try a former technical challenge - Paul's iced fingers from season 2. I took the recipe from here (halving the quantities as I felt 6 buns would be enough for me and the boyfriend), and I also watched … Continue reading Bake Off: Sweet Dough (#GBBO)
It takes me no more than 10 minutes to do my everyday makeup in the morning, which is ideal as I don’t have much time to play with. My morning makeup routine is the same every day and I always try to go quite natural for work, and I thought I would share with you … Continue reading Everyday Makeup Routine
Still a week behind with my Bake Off inspired bakes, I decided to bake some traybake brownies to accompany my watching of this week's episode (it's impossible to watch Bake Off without some sort of baked goods in the house). I've made quite a lot of biscuits this year already so I thought I'd go down … Continue reading Bake Off: Biscuits and Traybakes (#GBBO)
For my recent giveaway I asked you to share your top tips for baking, style and blogging, and I promised I would share the best ones. So here we are, just to inspire you… Baking To prevent getting greasy and buttery scales weigh your butter on top of the dry ingredients like your flour or … Continue reading Be Inspired: Top Tips
I thought I’d try a different sort of post today, and join all the chatter about university now that a new year is starting. I’ve decided to share my honest thoughts about my time at university, as I have mixed feelings overall. Firstly I always like to remind myself of the real positives, and the … Continue reading University: My Honest Opinion
As I've been away my Bake Off Pie Week post is a little belated, but better late than never! I've never made any kind of pastry, so wanted to master that this week, and rather than go for a fruit pie like they did in last week's episode I thought it would be nicer for … Continue reading Bake Off: Pie Week (#GBBO)
All I want to wear right now are autumnal colours, and they're all that’s attracting me in the shops. The blacks, metallics and sparkles will come later when it starts to feel Christmassy, but at the moment I’m all about mustard, navy, brown and claret, and here’s my current little autumn mood board (aka wish list). What styles … Continue reading Autumn Colours
This is a post for anyone who loves animals (apes and monkeys in particular), as I cannot show enough support for Monkey World in Dorset, and every now and again like to feature them. I’ve posted about my Monkey World trips before, as we try to visit the park every year to see our adopted … Continue reading The Great Big Monkey World Sleepover
Autumn is most definitely in full swing now! I love the autumnal feeling of the sun shining whilst the temperature gets cooler and seeing orange leaves on the ground, although I can’t say I enjoyed yesterday’s downpour! Anyway this week I’ve been down in Dorset visiting the primates at Monkey World again (more on that … Continue reading What I Wore: Autumn Daytrip Outfit
It’s always useful to have a dry shampoo in your collection for those last minute hair emergencies or just to add some volume to an up-do. I’ve only previously ever used Batiste, which has always worked well, and the only reason I decided to try the Superdrug own-brand version was Superdrug’s cruelty free credentials. However, … Continue reading Review: Superdrug Dry Shampoo
