Daisy's and candy stripes

Top: TK Maxx

Skirt: Primark

Shoes: Asos

Watch: Fossil

Earrings: River Island

Hello hello, just a quick outfit post for you today. It is gorgeously sunny in London today and I'm going to be spending my day in an office that is like a greenhouse so I opted for a very light breezy outfit. I spotted this skirt in Primark when i was out doing research for work. Seen as I had braved Oxford Street in the middle of the day I thought it was perfectly acceptable to do a little bit of shopping, no? 

I bought the blue one and also a black one with little printed postcards and I really love both of them. Midi skirts are so easy to wear and are great for work as well as going out which is ideal for me. The top is from Tk Maxx via my mum's wardrobe. 

My favourite part of this outfit are the little daisy earrings that I picked up for £2 in River Island and my pink candy striped nails (post hopefully coming next Tuesday on these)

Pudsey Bear

Good old Pudsey. I am so looking forward to the CIN show tonight, it's so cute... and sad too, but everyone is super charitable and it gives me faith in humanity again. 

Last night I thought it would be a super idea to stay up until 1am making 36 cupcakes for my mum's school fair. So here it is:

For 12 cupcakes

120g plain flour

140g caster sugar

40g unsalted butter

1.5 tsp baking powder

Pinch of salt

1 egg

120ml milk

0.5 teaspoon vanilla extract

170° oven or 150° fan

Mix flour, sugar, butter in a bowl until crumb like. Slowly add everything else until you have a smooth mixture, be careful not to over do it.

Split equally into 4 bowls and add a little gel food colouring into each - I used red, yellow, green, blue.

Fill each case until roughly 2/3rd's full. Cook for around 20 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.

Remove and leave to cool in the tin.

Buttercream

250g icing sugar

40g unsalted butter

Few drops of milk

Yellow food colouring

Mix it all like crazy and amend the amount of butter/milk depending on thickness and taste preferences.

Now, how you decorate it is entirely up to you. I used up some roll out icing to make Pudsey faces, but you could also make white buttercream and then add some coloured dots. Or you could ice paw prints. Do whatever you like, the world is your oyster!

Seen as I was already up at 1am I thought i'd paint my mum's nails for her. (She was already up, she helped me with the cakes. I didn't just wake her up for funsies)

Taking Pudseys face for inspiration I ended up with this:

Are you guys going to do anything for CIN tonight? I hope you all donate.

Have a great weekend.

Megan xo

P.S. I'm sorry about the lighting in the images. There's not a whole lotta natural light at midnight.

Halloween part 2 (part 1 of 2)

Happy halloween!

I was going to do 2 parts but then I decided my nails needed sprucing up and so I thought I'd add a quick how to on my 'webs and ghouls.'

Base coat: Collection 2000

Top coat: Leighton Denny

MUA in white and Ciaté paint pot in dark purple (I was originally going to use my black Barry M but it had gone gloopy so had to chuck it.)

Dotting tool and thin brush

I won't show you photos of the stages because this is just a quick how to whilst I wait for my cakes to cool!

Don't forget to use the base coat first. Then, paint your nails alternately in white and purple/black. Once completely dry, use the thin brush to create the start of the webs on your purple nails.

Use the thin brush again to complete your webs. Use the dotting tool to create the ghost faces.

Once dry, cover in a clear top coat. Webs and ghouls=complete.

 

Megan xo

 

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