Autumn Half Term Collab with Emily!

Hello guys,

A few weeks ago me and Emily had a sleepover, planning something special to post in half term and here it is. This week we will be giving you our ideas on how to have the best sleepover! We will have one post per blog over the next few of days, here is a brief overview on what we will be doing:

Monday - Snacks! We will be sharing a couple of ideas, which you can prepare before or make with your friends

Tuesday - Beauty and DIY! This one is pretty self explanatory but I will be sharing something beauty related and Emily a DIY

Wednesday - Things to do! Fun ideas for games and films

Thursday - Goodbye! This is where our week of collabs will end

So I hope you will stop by each day and enjoy the extra blog posts this week as we have had so much fun together preparing it!

Have a great week,

Abi

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Gold Stripe Nails

Hello Guys,
So today I am going to be sharing with you a nail design for autumn. It's quite simple so I hope that lots of you will be able to try it! You could mix up the colours if you wish, for a more wintery look. Instead of gold, silver and instead of orange, blue.

You will need:

• A gold nail polish
• An orange nail polish
• A cocktail stick
• A base coat
• A top coat:

What you have to do

1) Apply your base coat and leave to dry for about one minute.

2) Paint your index finger orange and the rest gold. Do this on both hands. Wait about 5 minutes until your nails are completely dry.

3) Using a cocktail stick and some gold polish, draw a leave outline in the corner of your index finger. Draw the dots and then join them up if you find this easier then just drawing something. Then a little out from that 'leaf' draw a similar design only larger. Carry on until you have done as many as you want. Do this on both hands.

4) After about 5 minutes apply a top coat and then wait for that to dry. Now you are finished

Thank you for reading, I hope you have a great week.

Abi

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Autumn Garland DIY

Hello guys,
So even though we are quite a way into Autumn now I wanted to share with you this Autumnal Garland DIY to decorate your rooms with. I made this with Emily and we had so much fun making it so I hope you do too.

You Will Need:

• A3 piece of card
• A piece of scrap paper
• 7ml of Red, Orange and Yellow ready mix paints per cup (or you could use 3 blues for a more wintry look)
• 6ml of Water per cup
• 8ml of washing up liquid per cup
• 3m of String

Equipment:

• A leaf template
• 3 cups
• 3 straws
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Hole punch

What you have to do:

1) Start by mixing up your red paint, water and washing up liquid into a cup with the straw. 

2) Blow until the bubbles come over the rim of the cup, pick up your  scrap paper and put it gently on the bubbles. Check the paint doesn't run and it is the colour you want. Adjust measurements if you need too.

3) When you have got your colour sorted repeat step two on your piece of card and cover the piece of card with as many or as little bubbles as you wish.

4) Repeat steps 1-3 with all the colours you wish - I did 3. Leave 5 minutes between each colour.

5) For the back of the card you can do what you want. I used stamped the letters of the word Autumn all over the back but you could do more bubble print or use some gold glitter - whatever suits you!

6) Leave the card until both sides are fully dry and then get your leaf template and start drawing around it all over your card.

7) Cut out all you leaves and hole punch each one at the tip

8) Measure out roughly 3m of string and string the leaves on.

9) Tie the ends and you are done! Now find a nice place to hang in your room.

Bubbles!

I hope you enjoyed this post. Let me know in the comments if you tried it and if you have any questions. Thank you very much for stopping by and reading.

Abi

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Inspirational Mood...

Hello guys,

So on Friday night me and Emily had a sleepover (planing something special for you guys!) and when we where in our beds, well I was in my bed - Emily was on an air bed :), I asked her what she would do if she could do anything at all with her life. We both gave quite long and detailed answers, thinking about further education, jobs, family, retirement, etc! I started to realise that the things I was saying that I would love to do but where unlikely, I actually could achieve if I worked at it. 

The message I wanted to share was that it's your life, you can be whatever you want to be, no matter what other people say too you/ about you. You may have things you don't like about yourself, I do too and so does everybody else - you just have to focus on the things that are good about you. That can be a challenge to a lot of people - me included. Everybody has a skill or a talent - it can be anything from maths to nail art. If someone says you can't do something, prove them wrong by going out and doing it. Marilyn Monroe said "Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius & it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring!" (As you might be able to tell I like a Marilyn Monroe quote!). I like the last bit the most because to me it fits in with the go all out, be ridiculous, take risks and be you message I've shared. It's better to try but fail and be a bit embarrassed, then regret the opportunities you didn't take because you didn't think you could do it.

I really hope that you enjoy this type of blog and that it has inspired you too do what you want and too focus on what's good about yourself, not the things that you don't like or wan to change. Please let me know what you thought in the comment section

Have an amazing week,

Abi

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Keep Smiling!

Hello Guys,
Today's blog post is just a quick one but it is something positive to think of over the week ahead. I haven't had lots of time this week but this is something I thought would be good to share. It was quoted by Marilyn Monroe who, for those of you who don't know, was an American model, actor and singer in the 1950's. This is my favourite quote because it is very positive and it always inspires me to think outside the moment and reminds me how lucky I am to have the life that I live.

Just a quick post but I hope you keep this in your minds, even when life doesn't seem so beautiful! Have a great week!

Abi

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Gingerbread Cookies

Hello guys,

So as we are getting closer and closer to what I call 'proper Autumn' - when the leaves are falling of the trees and it starts to get cold, I wanted to do an autumnal bake, something that you can eat with a hot drink, in front of the fire and feel very cosy! So what better recepie to share then gingerbread. Gingerbread is one of my favourite recipes and this one is really good!

This was taking out of Mary Berry's Baking Bible and I am not taking any credit for it. If you enjoy baking then this is defiantly book I would recommend buying.

Ingredients:

• 350g of plain flour

• 1 level teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

• 2 level teaspoons of ground ginger

• 100g butter

• 175g of light muscavado sugar

• 4 tablespoons of holding syrup

• 1 large egg, beaten

Method:

1 Pre-heat the oven to 190°C/Fan 170°C/Gas 5. Lightly grease 3 baking trays.

2 Measure the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger into a bowl. Rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs, then stir in the sugar. Add the golden syrup and beaten egg and mix to form a smooth dough, kneading lightly with the hands towards the end.

3 Divide the dough in roughly half and roll out one half on a lightly floured work surface to a thickness of about 5mm. Cut out your biscuits using a cutter and place them on the baking trays.

4 Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 10-12 minutes until they become a slightly darker shade. Cool slightly then lift on to a wire rack and leve to cool completely.

5 This final step is optional and it is to ice the biscuits. This bit wasn't in my book and I'm not sure how much I used. If you do choose to ice you cookies use 6 teaspoons of water for every 200g of icing sugar.

If you made this recepie then tell me how it went in the comments. Also if you gave any questions ask, and I will try my best to answer them.

Thank you for reading

 Abi
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The Best Friend Tag!

Hello Guys,

First of all I want to apologise for my lack of posts over the last month I have been busy (and lazy!) but i will try to post one a week from now on!

Anyway this week I wanted to do the best friend tag with my best friend Emily. She also has a blog, so please click on her name to check it out!

Emily is on the left and I'm on the right

1. How and when did we meet?

Together: When I (Abi) was born and Emily was 9 months old, through our families and church

2. What are your favourite memories together?

Emily: The holidays to Norfolk and France

Abi: Em's first birthday sleepover

3. Describe each other in one word.

Abi: Creative

Emily: Hilarious

4. What's your best friends dream job?

Abi: Emily wants to be a dance teacher or a West end Performer

Emily: Abi would like to be an interior designer or a West End performer


5. What's your best friend's favourite makeup brand?

Abi: MUA

Emily: Collection


6. What is something that annoys you about the other person?

Abi: When I ask Em a question she often just shrugs her shoulders or says dunno

Emily: Abi always takes mugshots of me

7. If you could go anywhere in the world together, where would it be? 

Together: NEW YORK!!

8. Favourite inside joke? 

Abi: My Baby is home...

Emily: Rubber dub dub...

9. My best friend looks beautiful when ________

Emily: When Abi has her hair in a bun

Abi: When Em is dressed up and looks fancy!

10. Your best friend's favourite season? 

Emily: Summer because Abi loves the heat (even in England!)

Abi: Emily is greedy and likes them all but probably Autumn if she had to choose

11. If your best friend has a scar, how did they get it? 

Abi: Em has to lines on her arm from scraping it on a door

Emily: Abi has one on her forehead because she is a wizard (that's what she says but she doesn't actually know how!) and one on her knee from falling over

12. What is it like being best friends with a blogger. 

Together: We are both quite new to blogging so it means we can inspire each other with different ideas

13. Would your best friend choose heels or flats? 

Emily: Abi loves heels but thinks flats are a lot more comfy, so flats

Abi: Emily likes wedges!

14. Would your best friend choose trousers or dresses? 

Emily: Both! It depends on the occasion but probably trousers

Abi: Dresses

15. Your best friend's favourite animal? 

Emily: Her cats Beebo and Hector

Abi: Giraffe

16. If your best friend's house was burning down, and their entire family and pets were sure to be okay, what 3 things would your best friend save? 

Abi: Emily would save Winnie the Pooh, her Special box and her phone as it has all her pictures on it

Emily: Abi would save Grandpa Bear, Special Box and her pandora bracelet 

17. Would your best friend choose comedy, horror, or chick-flick? 

Abi: chick-flick

Emily: Abi likes comedy

18. Would your best friend choose Blackberry or iPhone? 

Together: iPhone!

19. Does your best friend have any nicknames?

Emily: Abs, Abi, Shmabi

Abi: Em

20. What is something weird that your best friend eats? 

Emily: Abi would eat Biscoff by the spoon!

Abi: Emily eats the gherkin in the McDonalds burger which is gross

21. Do you guys have anything matching? 

Together: A top from Primark

22. If you were out together, what would your best friend eat?

Emily: A margarita pizza (thin base)

Abi: Emily likes curry

23. What's something you want to teach your best friend? 

Abi: How to play sims!

Emily: To eat more interesting foods

24. What is something you want to change about your best friend?

Emily: To be more organised 

Abi: To be less organised!

25. If your best friend were deserted on an island, what are the 3 things she could not live without?

Abi: Her Dad, her bed and her fridge!

Emily: Her Parents, her bed and her fridge (after a big Tesco shop!)

Thank you so much for reading I hope you enjoyed, have a great week and I will (hopefully) post another blog soon!

Abi
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