Things I Love Thursdays... Nail Art

Tribal pink nail polish - life giving designs! :)

It’s that time of the week again when I share things that I love. This week, I’m sharing my love of nail art & in particular, nail art done by my home girl Liane! J

The master at work! :)

I’ve known Liane for a long time, since uni days to be precise and for the last few years I’ve been following her nail journey. Recently, we’ve managed to get it together and she has been blessing me with some of her awesome nail designs.

Cake pops and Keith Haring

Liane is a mobile nail artist based in London. Check out her website http://www.ldoesnails.com or her Instagram @ldoesnails to see more of her work.

What do you know about my nail artist??/

Peace & Love

xx

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Stylist Magazine

A mock Stylist mag cover with my cakies on the front... A girl can dream :)

I love the Stylist Magazine. Every Wednesday when it comes out (and I manage to actually get a copy), I flick through cover to cover and dream of one day getting a mention... Maybe even my own article one day.

They regularly have baking competitions, and this year, they had one called "Bake the Cover". I thought, "This is it, this is my shot..." (cue Eminem...)  

Now to those not familiar with the way competitions like this work; I liken them to playing the National Lottery. I remember when the lottery first came out and people used to cue for hours and spend loads of money buying tickets. You just knew that they weren't winning anything. 

Ever. Ever ever ever. 

And they were always poor, or at least I didn't see any rich people cueing up to play the lottery. 

Ever. 

So at the tender age of 16, playing the lottery became an affront to my principles on the basis that I refuse to accept an exercise in futility as my only shot at getting a million pounds, (or indeed a shout-out).

Futility!

But then I thought about Eminem, being the only white guy in the village, against all odds winning the rap competition and being really famous, so I entered anyway. I even got some help designing my cake and spent loads of time and energy making it & creating a mock cover. In my mind I was like "That could really happen!"

Alas, it wasn't to be. There was no Stylist cover featuring yours truly or even a little mention. 

So I've decided on another tactic; Do me & Be awesome. 

Yes, that's actually the plan. I'm going to be like my man Bill Gates here and get on with it. No more silly competitions. 

How could they resist these cuties???

If anyone has any clever(er) ideas &/or hook-ups then holla me. Otherwise, send me good vibrations and look out for me in a publication near you! :)

Come on Stylist, you know it makes sense!

Peace & Love

xx

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Happy Birthday To Me!

It has just occurred to me that I have blogging for over a year people! This time last year I was dinner pon partying and look at me now (I'm fresher than a .....)

Thank you for your support over the last year & here's to many more xx

Peace & Love

xx

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Easter Time

This Easter was interesting to say the least in a grow and mature as a human being, life lessons type of way. There are certain moments in your life when you realise you are a grown up, this weekend was one of those times.

Here are some of the insights I gained;

1. Easter egg hunts are fun (see how grown I am though!) I did my first ever egg hunt this year and enjoyed it so much that I did another one the very next day. I have been missing out all my life and I suddenly noticed all of these people walking around carrying baskets of eggs. It appears I am the only one not to have experienced the pleasures of hunting!

2. Tomorrow is never a good time to start anything, especially a healthy eating plan. When your jeans start to cut off the circulation to your legs it's time to take action today (although technically the day is finished so it will have to be tomorrow now but well what I mean is.....)

3. Spontaneous dinners with sisters are worth their weight in gold. A Sunday roast is also officially my second favourite meal.

4. Going out and having fun is good. Staying in, saving money and being productive can be better. Note that I said 'can be', let's not get carried away with any sweeping statements, has Samantha Brick taught us nothing?

5. Whilst the resurrection story gives us hope in life after death, many things die for a good reason. Especially things that are holding us back and causing us pain. It is best accept the truth, grieve and then move on to make way for new life and happy times.

So there you have it.

In amongst major life lessons, I also managed to squeeze in making these Vanilla Mini Cupcakes Easter  style. I topped them with green vanilla buttercream and a mixture of white chocolate Maltesers and mini eggs. Click here for the recipe.

I hope you had a great Easter.

Peace & Love
xx

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Birthday Boy

Happy Monday People, I hope you all had a good weekend. Yesterday was my son's 6th birthday. He's been counting down to it for the last 3 months, (no exaggeration), so you could imagine his level of excitement come Saturday night. He asked for a Streetfighter Ryu cake, then decided he wanted a giant cupcake so we decided to try and do both. Both of the my boys helped me make them, it was a lot of fun & very messy :)

The birthday boy picking his Ryu image...

We went to a soft play place called Party Man World and they ran around for about 4 hours, just watching them was exhausting! 

The guests arriving...

Normality has now been restored and it's countdown time till Christmas. As for me, I'm in need of some inspiration and will be going to at least one art gallery this week if not more. I'm also looking forward to trying some new recipes. What are you up to this week? Whatever you do have fun!

Peace & Love

xx

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