First of all I shall apologise for the lack of posts; since going back to college everything just hasn't stopped, I can't remember the last time I was this tired. Probably need to eat a lot of spinach or something.

But anyway, remember that it took me far too long to read my January Book? Well, thanks to some kind of miracle, I have finished my February book, thank goodness for the extra day, it was definitely needed. 

My February book is:

 "Through Thick and Thin" by Gok Wan

His Autobiography.

Just going to say, I LOVE HIM! 

His book is written in such a way that you feel like he is really speaking to you. It's easy to read and you are drawn in to his story. It begins by telling you about his childhood on a council estate and his school life where he was continuously bullied. We are told about his struggle with anorexia, his knock backs and his failures, all of this makes him seem a little more real to us. He may come across as confident and out-going, but deep down he is as nervous and self-critical as anybody else.

He is amazing inspiration to me, he's fought through so much to get where he is and I also want to join the fashion world, his book serves as great warning to what is out there is the ruthless and competitive world of fashion.

I also feel very privileged that I have actually met Gok Wan and being honest, I was amazingly starstruck. He also said HE LOVES ME!!! You read that right, GOK WAN SAID HE LOVES ME! It made my entire day, despite already being at the 'Clothes Show Live', which is practically a personal heaven of mine, Gok Wan was just the cherry on top of an already brilliant experience. I'll make sure to upload a picture of my signed book at some point, maybe when I'm not so shattered though.

(Also I can't believe it's the end of February already, I swore I would do more posts that I did in January, I'm obviously, just a massive fail. But I swear I shall do better in March, I Will, I Will, I Will! And perhaps make an about me page, well if that isn't something to look forward to, I just don't know what is?)

So remember, each day, live a little, laugh a little and love a little. ♥

I know this title is not very creative, but seriously this is genius. No, I have discovered that this idea is not original, but whatever my method is a lot simpler than others out there, plus it's fun.

While babysitting the gruesome twosome yesterday (two of my younger siblings) we were confuddled about what we should do. Then remembering that they'd asked to make cakes a couple of days beforehand I started looking through Abs' cook books for cakes and muffins. Now, the gruesome twosome are extremely fussy eaters, so most of the delicious sounding cakes had to be disqualified, sadly for me. Both J&A love Maltesers (and so do I, not that was an influence at all) so I came up with the idea of Malteser Muffins! I had a beautiful image in my head of what they'd look like, however cooking with little kids kind of means it'll be messy, oh well.

Ingredients:

Muffin:

Butter Cream:

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 200 Degrees C.

1. Add the flour to a bowl, then add your butter/margarine (whichever you choose to use). Using your fingers, rub the flour into the butter/margarine until it is crumbly.

2. Then add your sugar, mixing it in. Then add your egg (yay for cracking the egg = fun bit!) mixing it in, the mixture can get a little tough here but keep working at it.

3. Add and mix in your crushed Maltesers! (Try not to eat too many, I used some for decoration).

4. Add in the vanilla essence and enough milk  for the mixture to become creamy, like a normal cake mix. Then add to your cake cases, we managed to half fill about 12 cases, remember the cakes will rise! 

5. Put in the oven for 15-20 minutes.

Optional- lick the bowl!!! But remember this can make you ill/give you a sore stomach because of the raw egg.

6. Either while the muffins are cooking or cooling (leave them to cool for about 15-30 minutes) you can make your butter cream. I haven't added measurements because everyone likes it differently. But first add your butter to a bowl and cream it.

7. Then add in the icing sugar bit by bit, until it is the right sweetness, you can then add in some vanilla essence.

8. Add your butter cream to the top of your muffins and decorate with your remaining Maltesers (if there are any) to your heart's content.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! SO YUMMY!

These are great to make with kids, its not hard and doesn't take too long. They were so good that my Mum and one of her best friend's begged that I make some for her to take to work for her and the other nurses. Believe it not, she forgot them after I slaved away! These photos are of the cakes from today and not yesterday, as yesterday the butter cream didn't look quite so good. Despite how stressful and tiring looking after J&A can be, I actually had fun making these cakes, however it is a lot easier when doing it on my own.

So remember, each day, live a little, laugh a little and love a little. ♥

And eat a Cake! ♥♥♥

I have finally finished my January book! Drum Roll Please, it was 'Maskerade' by Terry Pratchett. 

Terry Pratchett is a Genius!

I first started reading Terry Pratchett books about 3 years ago, my Mum is obsessed with his books, we have every one ever published, a couple of which are signed and she got tired of telling me what happened, so I had to go and read them for myself and I'm so glad I did. He writes in such a way that will mesmerise the reader and although the plots can occasionally be confusing, it only intrigues me more. There are so many characters across the 'Discworld' series and yet you can't help but becoming attached to every single one.

My favourite characters are Sam Vimes and Death!

Because my writing skills can't, in any way possible, do this book justice, I shall supply you with the blurb:

"THE SHOW MUST GO ON, AS MURDER,

MUSIC AND MAYHEM RUN RIOT INTO THE NIGHT...

The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...a huge, rambling

building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to 

their destiny by a strangely-familiar evil mastermind

in a hideously-deformed evening dress...

At least, he hopes so. But Granny Weatherwax,

 Discworld's most famous witch, is in the audience.

And she doesn't hold with that sort of thing.

So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a

good evening's entertainment with murders you

can really hum...)"

Some of my Favourite Quotes from this book are:

"Greebo could, in fact, commit sexual harrassment simply by sitting very quietly in the next room."

I'll just say that Greebo is a cat! A cat that turns into a human when the witches tell him to, because one day they were really nice and decided to experiment on poor Greebo. However Greebo makes a very sexy and dangerous human...

"Yes, she thought, it has to go on. It's like the build-up to a thunderstorm...no...it's more like making love. Yes. That's a far more Oggish metaphor. You put everything you've got into it, so sooner or later there's a point where it's got to go on, because you can't image stopping."

I just love this quote because of the witch's dirty mind, she has a sexy cat and she definitely is not an innocent old lady.

Now to start on my next book, hopefully I will finish it in the next 13 days, wish me luck!

So remember, each day, live a little, laugh a little and love a little. ♥

After watching the video and listening to the also amazing voice of Kimbra, I decided to investigate some of her music and I was rather surprised to find she has done some rather Poppy songs as well as more Jazz influenced ones. My favourite so far is:

Please, everyone, make sure you do something to make yourself feel beautiful. Even at the end of a long day; do you're make-up for no reason, have a glass of wine, have a nice hot bath, pamper yourself and feel beautiful, because truth is, you are!

So remember, each day, live a little, laugh a little and love a little. ♥

So all in all I had an amazing birthday and an amazing time in London, I couldn't have asked for a more memorable 18th birthday. ♥

So remember, each day, live a little, laugh a little and love a little. ♥