London flowers

Recently, I visited the famous Columbia Road flower market in London.After viewing several pictures on Instagram of different bloggers in Columbia Road, I decided to make my way there. I was so please with my decision as it was beautiful. Here are some pictures that I hope you enjoy. 

Simply baking.

So today being my day off, I decided to raid my kitchen cupboards for ingredients to bake. I found half a packet of self raising flour, some vanilla essence so I knew I had the basics for baking with the addition of eggs, milk, sugar and butter. I didn't even follow a recipe today. Crazy right? 

My electric whisk is not working so decided to go through with the manual way. Peeps, I do not know about you guys, but my manual whisking normally ends with half of it stuck on the whisk. So I decided to abandon the whisk and took a wooden ladle and gave it a good mixing. After several minutes, despite being unsatisfied with the dough, I decided to place them on cupcake silicone cakes and whacked them in the oven, which was preheated at Gas mark 5. After 15 minutes, little bundles of joy came out of the oven in the shape of cupcakes. I am not a big fan of icing so I didn't bother with it. I have left them to cool for now and going to enjoy it later with the housemates. 

Little bundles of joy. 

Advent calendars

With the build up to Christmas, not only are we digging deep into our pockets for 
Christmas gifts but also for advent calendars.

 It's come to that time of the year where most of us flock to stores or online to get our advent calendars. Everyone has there own preferences of the type of advent calendar they go for, be it chocolate, tea, or beauty. I have decided to be treated to a beauty one this year.

Competition between beauty advent calendars have been rife ever since the launch of the Lancôme advent calendar in selfridges back in 2011. While on the hunt for mine, I have come across some amazing verity advent calendars.

The one that I have chosen to get is this +Ciate Nagellacke und Caviar Manicure  advent calendar. 

As any advent calendar would, this one comes with 24 surprises leading up to the Christmas day. 

The not so surprising factos is that they are all nail polishes. It might not seem exciting and questions like ' are you really going to change your nail colour every day? ' why are you paying such a high price for it?' Let me just tell you, I think it worth it.

It's available at John lewis and Space NK. Its priced at £42 

The second one is the BOOTS advent calendar. This is a new advent calendar to me as didnt come across this last year.

 Its got such a christmassy feel to it with the red layout. This is £30 and promises products from diffeerent brands like +Juicy Couture , Paco Rabanne, Soap and Glory and many more. 

If i hadnt chosen the +Ciate Nagellacke und Caviar Manicure  calendar, I would've gone for this one as you get a lot of big names for a small price.

 This would be perfect for ladies who are just warming up to the idea of the Beauty calendar. It is available at Boots

I lusted over this next one last year but was too late to buy it as it was already sold out. 

Personally, I am not going for this one this year as the products are not for every day use. I know nail polishes arent really for every day use as well  but I genuinely know that it will be used , if not by me then probably by my hosuemates ( who are equally fascinated by the different colour available in the calendar).

 Anyways, its the +YouBeauty advent calendar. It is definitely a good bargain if you are going to use all the products. As for £49.95 you will be getting products worth £240!! Thats quite good value. They are available on the YouBeauty and it gives you the detailed description of the items available. 

I hope this helps you make up your mind and I would buy it sooner than later as these calendars sell like hot cakes. I hope you are all easing into the Christmas spirit like I am. Lots of love 

P