In March I made a post about my current favourite Instagram accounts. I love these kinda posts cause they show appreciation for other p...

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I've been loving Sarah's account recently as I love how relatable her photos are and yet how personalised the account is

Now we're getting into November it's starting to get ALOT colder and this month I've been loving a few older songs as well...

Last week me and my family spent the weekend in Birmingham! Not as exciting as Spain I know! but it was definitely still exciting to exp...

Last week me and my family spent the weekend in Birmingham! Not as exciting as Spain I know! but it was definitely still exciting to explore a new place.

For anyone wondering... why Birmingham? Well the main reason was for a family wedding celebration.

So the weekend started early on Saturday morning and involved almost 6 hours of train journeys. If anyone has read the book in the photos below please let me know what you thought of it!

After a long day of travelling we finally arrived in Cannock. (about 30 mins from Birmingham by train) It was here that the event was taking place.

So now we had got the travelling over and done with it was time for the fun part!

The venue was part of the hotel we were staying at so this meant that we didn't have to travel far! This meant that we had more time to get ready cause let's be honest, who spends all day travelling and gets to their destination looking their best? I definitely don't!

The venue looked amazing with confetti and glitter covering every table and a beautiful candle centerpiece. Also lets not forget the red and white Helium balloons!

I'm not going to go into just how many drinks were consumed during the evening but I will say that the effects were definitely felt the next morning!

Something that made the night extra special was the use of a photo booth! Some of our photos can be seen below!

On the Sunday morning after saying our goodbyes to various family members as we all parted ways we took a train back to Birmingham. As we had traveled such a long way we decided to extend the trip and stay in Birmingham for a few days. The next few days consisted mainly of shopping (and lots of it!) and eating!

Sadly as every trip eventually does the time came for us to leave Birmingham and travel back home. Little did we know it but this journey was to be very stressful from start to finish! After arriving at the station early morning we quickly noticed that the train before ours was delayed by almost 40 minutes! As time went on our train also appeared delayed. (We later found out this was due to a signalling problem combined with a theft.) 

However this wasn't the only issue, as we sat waiting we overheard multiple announcements regarding our train. It's at this point I'd like to mention that we were constantly checking the National Rail website for updates! We were told that our train had been cancelled and was to terminate at Birmingham! However a replacement train would carry out the rest of the journey, the only problem was, instead of leaving at the delayed time we were expecting it would be leaving in the next few minutes! This meant that we were having to rush down escalators in order to actually make it onto the train!

After researching further we did find out that the cause of the cancellation was due to an incident occurring much earlier.

After over 6 hours and multiple trains we finally arrived home!

I can honestly say that I'm not looking forward to the next train journey I take, 
however I do hope it is ALOT less stressful than the last one! 

I hope you enjoyed this blog post!
 I know this was a long one so well done if you made it to the end!

As it's Halloween in less than 2 days I decided to make some  Halloween inspired cupcakes!  I've been wanting to post a baking...

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So here is everything you will need to make Halloween cupcakes, perfect for party's or just personal enjoyment! (based on a recipe from BBC Good Food)

What you need

110g softened butter, caster sugar & self-raising flour
2 eggs (lightly beaten)
1tsp vanilla extract
1-2 tbsp milk

140g butter (softened)
280g icing sugar
1-2 tbsp milk
orange & black food colouring

What to do...

Preheat the oven to 180°c (gas 4) and grease and line a baking tray with 12 muffin cases

cream together the butter and sugar until pale

add in the eggs and vanilla extract and beat the mixture

fold in the flour adding a little milk if needed, spoon the mixture into the cases until half full

bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes until golden, set aside the cakes on a cooling rack for 10 minutes until cool this ensures that the icing doesn't melt once added to the cake

for the icing, beat the icing sugar and butter together in a bowl until soft, add some milk if necessary

separate the icing into 3 bowls and add the orange food colouring to one bowl, and the black food colouring into another

mix until the icing and colouring are well combined

spoon the icing into a piping bag of your choice and pipe the icing in a circle motion onto the cupcakes

Decorate the cupcakes how you choose!

Ghost - melted and cooled white chocolate in the shape of a circle and covered in icing with edible silver balls for the eyes
Spider Web - Black buttercream icing with yellow icing detail for the web (cause I didn't have any white left!)
Pumpkin - Orange buttercream icing for the pumpkin, rainbow popping candy and green icing for the stalk
Skull -  white buttercream icing, skull detail and red icing for the blood

I've been back in the UK over 2 weeks and I'm only just getting around to actually writing and posting this!  So for anyone...

It's already October 19th and it's crazy how close to Christmas we are! (66 days! Not that I'm counting.. ;)) As with ev...

It's already October 19th and it's crazy how close to Christmas we are! (66 days! Not that I'm counting.. ;))

As with every month here is my current favourite songs for the month of September

Top 10

Last October after wanting to dye my hair for years (and I really do mean years!) I finally decided to buy some dye and dye my hair....

Before dying my hair I would use a range of different shampoos and conditioners and would be constantly changing the products I used, however since dying my hair I've found 2 different shampoos which are not only amazing for your hair but they are also great for keeping the colour looking fresher for longer. I usually find myself alternating between the LOréal Paris Elvive Colour Protect Caring shampoo and the Herbal Essences Ignite my Colour shampoo. 

During a normal week I will wash my hair 2-3 times maximum however I will often use dry shampoo if I feel the need to. Also I always try to let my hair air dry if I have the time although this can take a while when you have long hair!

Since dying my hair I've been using conditioner ALOT more than I used to and have also been trying to leave my hair longer in between washes as this helps to preserve the colour for longer.

Every 3-4 weeks I will touch up my roots using The LOréal Excellence hair colourant in the shade #4 Natural Dark Brown. Whilst touching up my roots I also use some of the colourant on the rest of my hair just to freshen up the colour and make sure it looks as natural as possible.

 And that's basically everything I do to keep my hair at it's best (well... somewhere close..)