'No Ordinary Cupcakes' Simple Butter-Icing ...

Hey everyone, hope you have had a good week! Today I wanted to show you how to make lovely butter icing, which you can make in any colour but I wanted to sow you how to make baby pink this time, anyway lets jump in to it...

You will need:
100g Butter
250g of icing sugar

Make sure the cakes have cooled down for at least 5-10 minutes (this is because the butter icing can just melt off the cake, if the cake is too warm)

 Beat the butter and icing sugar together until light and creamy

Next, add some vanilla

Then add your chosen food colouring

To ice the cakes, fill a piping bag with the butter icing and make a swirl in the middle 

Then fill in the rest of the cake (remember to be generous with the icing)

You can just leave them as they are, but why not be creative and
decorate with sprinkles, stars or any other decorations you might have!

I hope you enjoyed this post, let me know if you try this recipe out and if you liked it?

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Summery Sundays...

Hey lovelies, how are you all? Finally the summer holidays are here and we can now focus on getting great tans rather than horrible homework :) so yesterday I went out to a really cute café in my town with my family and wanted to take you all with me but could only do that through these photos! Let me know if you enjoy these kind of posts...

All my love

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Gifts for anytime of the year No.3 DIY Hearts in a Jar...

Hey everyone I hope your all having a great day! I thought I would show you how to make this super cute jar to either put in your bedroom or give as a gift (It would be amazing for a person you care a lot for), I hope you enjoy....

You will need:

Love Hearts (or any sweets in general, preferably heart shaped ones)

Mason jars or some cheap glass jars like I have I bought mine from Tesco's

Skewers x3

Pastel card for the arrow and X and O
Scissors
Sticky tape
Pencil

Instructions:

 

First to make the shooting arrow you need to cut the two ends of the skewers off and cut the pastel paper into a heart and a feather shape like this...

 

Once you have the two pieces ready, stick them on to one skewer, the heart and feather will be for the shooting arrow then the X's and O's will be on the other two skewers. To make the house shape look like a feather just cut to the centre to create something like this..

To make the X's and O's you just need to draw an X and an O on to the piece of card with a pencil and cut the shapes out with scissors.

Then pour your chosen sweets in to the glass jar. Then use sticky tape to attach the arrow to the jar and use ribbon if you want to embellish it even more!

  

Your finished product should look like this, I think anyone would be really happy to receive this as a gift!

Let me know if you try this DIY!

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What have I been loving this month?....

Hello my sugarplum fairies, how are you all? I hope you are having amazing weeks, today I'm going to show you my favourites this month (rather than calling it 'My June favourites' I decided to call it 'What I have been loving this month' which means I don't have to do make the effort of doing favourite posts every month :) anyways, lets jump in!

So first things first, I have been loving this perfume from body shop, it was limited addition and from quite a while ago so I don't know if you can still purchase it anymore, but I think it is a lovely summer fragrance!

Then I have been using my Mac Mineralize Skin Finish everyday all month and have been enjoying it every single time I use it! It feels so lovely like I'm not even wearing make up which is really good :)

I have been loving freshly picked flowers from the garden this month and thought I would tell you about it even though it isn't a beauty favourite but these items are genuinely things I have been enjoying. I took the picture at the start when I was out on a walk!

How has your June been?

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Weekly Catch-Up...

Hey lovelies, so this week  has been okay so far, today wasn't as good but, surprisingly Monday was a really good day for me, how is your week going? I have been having lots of deep thoughts and just wanted to gather together some pictures that can inspire and motivate the deep thinkers out there:

Love you all

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'No Ordinary Cupcakes' The Basics...

Hello beautiful people, how are you? Today I wanted to start a baking series called, 'No Ordinary Cupcakes', in this series I will be showing you how to make cupcakes, that are really easy but look very professional. However, before that I need to tell you about the basic equipment:

First you will need a baking tray, a mixer, a spatula, a cooling tray, an oven (would be quite handy), mixing bowls, wooden spoons, teaspoons, measuring scales and of course cupcake cases!

Then before you can get creative with decorating you need to know how to bake a plain cupcake, which is what I am going to show you now:

You will need...

4oz of caster sugar

4oz of butter

4oz of self-raising flour

2 eggs

1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla extract (better than vanilla essence)

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees or gas mark 4, and put the cupcake cases into the baking tray

2. Then beat together the caster sugar and butter until extremely pale (this is the most important part because this makes the cupcakes light and fluffy)

3. Next add the vanilla and 2 eggs, then beat together

4. Add the self-raising flour, keep mixing until fully combined!

5. Use teaspoons to spoon the mixture in to the cases and then place in the oven for 12-15 minutes

6. Check if they are ready with a cocktail stick, then take them out when they are golden brown.

8. Place the cakes on to a cooling tray and leave for 5 minutes to cool down!

There you have it, the basic cupcake, I'd love if you could leave me some suggestions on what I should decorate cupcakes with next time?

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A few ways to be happier when you are feeling sad...

Hey guys! Today I want to give you some ideas and tips on how to be happier. My very first tip is to make a folder on your computer of all things that make you smile here are some of my favourite things...

Then do something you enjoy, it could be baking, helping someone out, going for a walk, basically do something you really want to do!

When you are a little bit happier, have a little think about why you were either upset or unhappy. Decide what you want to change about it because, your the only one making yourself feel that way!

Lastly, what I like to do is either do/ eat something healthy. It makes you feel 10x better, even if you just have a drink that can help lots!

I hope you enjoyed this post, let me know what you do to make you feel happier?! I'd love to know

All pictures from We Heart it

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Sunday Mornings...

Hello Lovelies, how are you all I hope you are enjoying the day? I am. So far this morning, I made myself a really cute breakfast and it tasted amazing, I basically wanted to show you all what it looked like :). I then decided to have a really productive day! I'm going to my grandmas house for dinner in the evening so that should be absolutely lovely,

What are you plans for today?

Lots of Love

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Gifts for anyday of the year No.2 Homemade Hand Scrub...

Hey everyone, hope you're all well! Today I'm going to show you all how to make this really easy and simple hand scrub, you only need a few ingredients:

Sugar

Liquid soap

Glass Jar

A cocktail stick (Sorry it's not in the photo)

First pour how much sugar you want in to the glass jar

Next add the soap, make sure there is enough to cover the sugar like so...

Then mix it all together...

Attach some embellishments, then give to whoever needs a little pick me up, to clean it of use cold/hot water.

Let me know if you make this...

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Mini Spring/Summer Haul

Hey guys, so the other day I went shopping and picked up a few items that I really wanted to show you all...

The first item that I picked up was this Disney Detangling spray that works as a heat protectant as well. The reason I got this was because it has Ariel on the bottle (Ariel's my favourite Disney character)...

Then from new look I got this super pretty pair of shorts (that looks like a skirt), I absolutely love it because it can go with anything.

Okay, so last but no means least I picked up this stunning swimming costume from River Island. It was £30.00 which is quite expensive for a swimming costume but I couldn't resist!

I hope you are having an amazing day! 

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Spring Essentials/Favourites...

Hey guys, I hope you all had a great Easter! Today, I wanted to show you some of my spring essentials :)

Okay, to start with my favourite skin care item so far has to be this lovely product called Steam Cream, it can be used on the face, hands and body but I like to use it just on my face. It is so gentle and nourishes dry skin but cares for oily skin and is great for all skin types. Plus you can choose what type of tin you want from hundreds of designs. Have a look...

During spring my favourite type of lip product to use is lip-gloss, recently I have been using Tanya Burr's lip-gloss in Picnic in the park, it is such a beautiful shade, I can't wait to purchase some different colours from her range. Her products are now in Superdrugs around the UK so go have a look.

Whenever the sun starts to come out more and the days get shorter, I always like to smell really nice so one of my favourite fragrances to use in spring, is one by River Island, it is a beautiful fragrance and has a lovely subtle floral scent. Also the bottle is a really good quality.

For the past few weeks I have been using this Wella SP Luxe Oil everyday and I have noticed how much it has helped my split ends! It smells so so nice and it's such a lovely product, I recommend it to anyone who has really long hair with dry ends and anyone with split ends.

If you have any Spring essentials and want to share, I'd love to know what you've been loving?

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