Winter Cookies

Even though Christmas has past, I hadn't made any of the traditions Christmas cookies that my family normally makes. So I decided that this weekend, I would make "winter" themed roll-out sugar cookies. Here is the recipe I used:

1 cup of butter

1 cup of sugar

2 eggs

2 1/2 tsp. vanilla

3 1/2 cups of flour

2 1/4 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1. Beat together the butter and sugar

2. Put all dry ingredients into a separate bowl

3. Add to the butter and sugar, the vanilla and eggs; beat together

4. Gradually add in the dry ingredients

5. Refrigerate for 1 hr, then roll-out 

6. Use cookie cutters to make the desired shapes, bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes

Here is how my cookies turned out: 

I used heart, star and snowflake cookie cutters. Next I make the icing for the cookies. Of course you can use a can of already made frosting but I didn't have any so I made my own. Here is the recipe I used:

1/2 tsp. vanilla

2 tbsp. milk

2 cups powdered sugar

2 tbsp. butter

1. Beat all ingredients until smooth

2. Put frosting into separate bowls and add food coloring (optional)

Here is how the frosting looked:

For the blue frosting, I used 4 drops of blue food coloring and 1 drop of green.

For the pink frosting, I used 3 drops of red food coloring and 2 drops of yellow. 

And there you have it! My winter themed sugar cookies! I hope you like them and don't forget to send me pictures on my social media if you recreate them! 

Love you lots <3 

Welcome 2015!

Happy New Year! This year is going to be an exciting one and I hope you are ready! I know that I have been lacking on my posts and I have been saying I am working on things and never getting them published but the truth is, I have been really busy and just unmotivated to post. I have made so many posts that I just don't like and I don't feel that they are good so I don't post them. I am one of those people that I have to put out my best work and that is what I am going to do this year. I am going to scrap all the posts that I was working on and start fresh, only posting when I can and not trying to half-ass anything. I made this blog because I wanted to and because it made me happy and for the past few months I haven't been happy with it. So starting TODAY I will fix my blog and make it the way I want it to be.

To start off the New Year, I thought I would follow the path of many bloggers and post my New Years resolutions.

1. Bake more - baking makes me happy and I always find awesome recipes on Pinterest that I plan to use
2. Walk my dog more often - going outside on a walk can be just what I need some days and it is good for my dog too
3. Stop procrastinating- this needs no explanation, I think we all need this resolution
4. Maintain my blog - this blog is important to me and I need to keep it up and running!

These are just a few of my resolutions that I will try to stick to this year! Hopefully 2015 will be my best year yet!

Love you lots <3

Updates and Coming soon!

I'm so sorry I haven't posted in forever, over a month, but I have not been able to come up with post ideas and even if I had an idea I would not have had time to even sit at my computer and write a post. Everything has been really crazy and I have just been so busy that blogging has been out of my reach. But I am not going to let that stop me from doing what I love so I am going to try hard to keep this blog up and running! So what better time is there for me to fix my blog than December! I love December because it means Christmas, which of course is my favorite time of the year! I have so many plans and posts already cooking for you guys that I am really excited to share. A few posts that are coming are: November favorites, Black Friday mini haul, decorating my room for Christmas, decorating my tree, and many other Christmas themed things! So I haven't been very active right but that that is going to change right now! Another thing that I have planned is to do tweetmas, which is where I will tweet everyday, answer questions and do different tags to make you all get to know me more and get more into my blog. I really want to start a YouTube channel and participate in vlogmas but I feel that it wouldn't be very interesting for you guys because my vlog would mostly be me going to and from school and hockey practice. So a YouTube channel may be coming later but I will not be participating in vlogmas this year. But anyway so this is a bit of a laid back, update post. I like to do little posts like this to fill you guys in on what is going on in my life so let me know if you like these types of things. As always, I am open for any suggestions and I want to read your comments and opinions so please tell me what you guys think! So I will see you all very very soon! 

Love you lots <3 

Halloween Nails

Halloween is just arround the corner! And no costume is complete without perfect spooky nails to match! So this week i gatjered some inspiration and nail polish and got to work to show you these 5 designs for your spooktacular nails this Halloween. I will show you how make mummy, pumpkin, Frankenstein, skull and candycorn nails. First up is the mummy. 

1. Paint a black base color 

2. Add fairly large white circles for eyes using a dotting tool or a striping brush

3. Add smaller circles inside using the same black circles as before

4. Use a striper or thin brish to createany small lines for the wrapping

5. Admire your nails!

Pumpkin:

1. Paint a base color, i used a sparkly white but of course you can just leave your natural nail

2. Paint a small circle at the tip of your nail in orange to create the pumpking base

3. Paint lines on the pumpkin using a darker oranges to create stipes 

4. Add a leaf and a stem 

5. Admire your nails!

Frankenstein's monster:

1. To a green base, add some spikey hair

2. Add large white cirlcles for the outside of the eyes

3. Add smaller black circles for the pupils

4. Use a thin brush to Create a line and stitching for the mouth 

5. (Optional) add sliver bolts 

Skeleton:

1. Paint a white base

2. Add large ovals for eye sockets

3. Paint a triangle for the nose

4. Paint a curved mouth with a fine brush similar to the Frankenstein mouth

5. (Optional) add a matte top coat

Candy corn: 

1. Add a small yellow both at the vase of your nail

2. Add an orange blotch over top

3. Finally add a white blotch and blend

4. (Optional) add a sparkly top coat

And thats it! :) Those are all my apooky halloween nails! Let me k ow what you think and send me pictures on twitter! As always send me suggestions and follow me on all of my social media! Happy Halloween!

Love you lots <3

Getting lost in IKEA and the cutest mug ever

Yesterday night was homecoming at my school and since there isn't very much dancing going on, my friends and I decided to dress up and just hang out instead. So we went all over town! First we went to the mall and tried on all kinds of dresses and ran around, I found this gorgeous gown and was dancing around in it. Then we took a trip to IKEA because one of my friends had never been there before. It's like a whole different world over there. I just love looking at all the well-put together rooms and sitting on all the beds and couches. I took a picture looking over the top of all of the rooms which for some reason I really liked it. 

It's a behind the scenes picture if you will and I just thought it was very cool :) While I was running around IKEA I also found the cutest little espresso mug that I just had to share with you guys 

After IKEA we went to dinner and then hung out and watched movies. It was just a fun weekend just hanging out with friends. 
I hope you like this type of post, it was more of a day in the life post instead of beauty. And I know technically this is a beauty blog but I just wanted to change it up a little bit and see how you like it! I will see you next week with a tutorial on how to do some spooky Halloween nails!
Love you lots <3 

Autumn Love and Posting schedule

I know I haven't posted in a month but don't worry, I am not giving up blogging. School had just started and I had to get adjusted to a new homework load and more responsibilities. But now that I'm back in the school swing, I am ready to set a posting schedule! My plan is start out with 1 post a week on Saturday mornings and slowly move up to 2 posts a week. Hopefully I can keep up with this schedule starting next weekend!
Now that I got through all the business, I wanted to talk about my favorite season starting: fall! I love fall; the crisp breeze, the smell of leaves, all the beautiful colors, just everything that makes fall special. Recently I have been listening to one song on repeat that just puts me in a great fall mood, Bloom by The Paper Kites. It's such an upbeat song, it makes me feel happy and it reminds of all the reasons I love fall. I listen to it as I walk home from the bus stop and one day as I walked under a giant tree, the wind blew the leaves off the tree and I watched as they swirled through the wind. It made me smile and it made my ordinary day just that much better ♡
I'm hoping to make many more fall posts so make sure to follow me on bloglovin', as well as all of my other social media, so you can know the next time I make a post. So my message to you today is: pay attention to the little things and your day may just improve in ways you never thought were possible

Love you lots <3

Birthday Gifts

I had my birthday party this weekend since my birthday was this week and I thought that you would want to see what I got. 

Here is an over-all view of what I got, a mixture of make-up and nail polish bits. So let's dive right in. 

Make-up:

So from right to left I have:

• Nivea Creme- hand and body butter/lotion
• Covergirl Cheekers blush- shade classic pink 110
• Covergirl Professional Super Thick Lashes mascara- shade very black
• Baby Lips Dr.Rescue medicated lip balm- shade too cool 35
• Baby Lips Electro- shade minty sheer 90
• Covergirl eyeshadow-  shade shimmering sands 
• EOS hand lotion- scent berry blast

Nail polish:

Xtreme wear:

• White on- 300
• Blue Boom- 423
• Golden-I- 485

NYC:

• Lexington Lilac- 147
• Skyline Blue- 151

 Funky Fingers color change:

• Hang ten brah
• Surf's Up

Essie:

• Ballet Slippers- 162

Sinful Colors:

• Out of Bounds- 1211

Nicole by OPI:

• Matte top coat

Sally Hansen:

• Base coat

That's everything that I got for my birthday! Hope you like it! Let me know if you have any of the same products and if you like them. You can send me ideas and suggestions for blogposts and my blog on all my social media :)

Love you lots <3