Let Them Eat Cake. Part Two

So here are yet more yummy cakes (maybe a few sneaky biscuits too)!! Again made by myself, my sisters, or my mum.

 Raspberry Eton Mess Cakes

 Melting Moments

 Strawberry Daquiri Cakes

 Chocolate Fingers and Chocolate Button Cake

Queen's Jubilee Iced Biscuits and Cakes 

Queen's Jubilee Crown Iced Biscuit and Iced Butterfly Biscuit 

Fresh Fruit and Cream Filled Sandwich Sponge 

Cream and Strawberry Jam Filled Chocolate Dirt Track BMX Cake 

Fresh Fruit and Cream Topped Sponge with Chocolate Fingers Birthday Cake

Allotment Chocolate Birthday Cake 

Dairy Free Buttercream Topped Fairy Cakes 

It's a Boy!, Baby Cakes 

Half a Chocolate Finger and Malteasers Birthday Sponge Cake  

 Dairy Free Merengue Topped Fairy Cakes

Hope this has inspired you to get baking and to be more creative with decorating cakes! It is fun to do (and even better to eat them!!).

x x x

Let Them Eat Cake... Part One

Now, I don't know how or when this started but looking through the photos on my phone there are a ridiculous amount of pictures of cakes. I'm not sure if this is normal or if I have a problem. I say I, but I actually mean me, my sisters (Sophie and Olivia) and my mother (Annie-two-pies). We make, I would say, an above average amount of cakes. 

Any occasion calls for a cake, whether it be a birthday, graduation, Easter, Christmas or even it just being Sunday...(Sunday actually calls for two cakes) WE LOVE A CAKE!! Now we started out like everyone else, little fairy cakes with icing on the top but as the years have gone on they have became more and more elaborate. 

I am quite proud of our cakes and thought I would share some of the pictures on my phone (more to come in part two). 

 Blueberry cake with a cream cheese and blueberry topping

Princess cakes for my 21st birthday cake

 Princess and circus themed cakes for my 21st

 Mille feuille with home grown red currents and strawberries

 Chocolate Easter cake with chicks

Periodic table of elements fairy cakes

Starry chocolate cream birthday cake 

 Fisherman catching a giant fish birthday cake

Lulu Guinness handbag cake 

Chemist birthday cake 

Lulu Guinness lips clutch birthday cake

An amazing fruit topped fresh vanilla cheesecake

Now I hope those have got your mouth watering or give you some cake inspiration, but keep your eyes peeled for part two... even more delicious amazing cakes (I know MORE cakes). 

x x x

DIY studded collars for an OOTD

Studs are everywhere now, studded shoes, bags, jackets, belts and collars. The may look good, but the price tag that comes along with them aren't. So of course I thought, I can do that for the fraction of the price and off I pop to eBay and get myself some studs. This is the seller I used and they were £2.50. 

I used a mint green blouse I had bought from New Look, I thought it would look good contrasted to the silver studs.

It was really easy to do, the spikes easily pushed through the fabric and I used a thimble to press over the spikes to secure them in place.

I added three rows of studs, as it prevents hair being caught in them! They look like collar tips almost. I added them to the pockets as well.

I think they look really good! and for £2.50 I can add them to anything, plus they are really easy to remove again.

I wore it recently with a skirt I had made from Liberty fabric and some vintage lace that was lying around my house. Looked perfectly summery.

This is one customization that anyone could do themselves, so I would deffo give it a go on a rainy day (plenty of those at the moment) or to give an old item of clothing an edgy new look. The result looks professional and expensive! No one would ever know that it only cost £2.50!!

x x x 

OOTD 9/8/2012 DIY ombre hair for summer

Recently I've been umming and arring over the ombre hair look, I think it is beautiful for the summer, but the thought of bleach on my hair and the expense was putting me off. Saying that most of my hair is extensions, so it is not my hair I'll be bleaching!! (well it is mine, I bought it!!). Next was the expense... so I must have watched a million YouTube videos and read a million blog posts of girls who did it themselves. From these videos and posts I decided that I could do that, looked simple enough, and the results looked good. So I took the plunge, it is only hair after all, it grows back, you can dye it back. Plus I've sort of got into the mentality recently of 'You only live once' so why not?

So I used Jerome Russell B blonde hair lightener. It was around £5 from Home and Bargain. It was one of the powder bleach ones. I bought two boxes as my hair is quite long, and my hair is almost black!!

So I followed all the tutorials I had seen, and after one attempt I washed my hair. It had lightened it, but it wasn't as light as I wanted so I did it on the very end of my hair two more times. This time I washed my hair and thought 'Oh my God it's ginger!!!' but thankfully it was just the light in my bathroom!! Again it was not the colour I wanted, but it had worked, just more subtle than I had hoped for. But ah well!! This is what it looks like.

So it looks ok I suppose but i don't think this hair will physically go any lighter!!

Anyway, so today is actually like proper summer, so you can actually wear summer clothes, so i thought I'd do a quick actual summer outfit of the day. So i'm just wearing a white vest from Dorothy Perkins (about £4), a grey jersey high low skirt from Topshop (£20), vintage gold, white gold and rose gold necklace from my nan, and Primark nude pumps with gold studs (£10), and Primark plaited belt (~£1). Excuse the pasty legs, they haven't seen sun in about a year!!

Hopefully I'll get a bit of tan on them today!! 

Much love x x

OOTD home made ombre shorts 5/8/2012

As I'm quite nifty with a sewing machine and feel I can turn my hand to most things, I decided to turn an old pair of ('boyfriend') ASOS jeans into some ombre denim shorts.

I chose boys jeans as they make better shorts as they usually have straight legs, making them easier to turn up (and then they don't dig into your leg) plus I like a looser fitting jean. So I cut them longer than I wanted them and turned them up twice and held them in place with a few stitches.

Next then ombre. So I took some ordinary household bleach (I think I bought mine in Home and Bargains for about 50p) and poured quite a lot into my washing up bowl and diluted it with a small amount of water. I then wet my shorts so that they were soaking wet. (I did this in the bath).   I then put my plastic gloves on (just the ones from hair dye kits) and dipped my shorts into the bleach/water solution. I dipped them as far as I wanted the lightest part of the shorts to be. I left the shorts dipped in the bleach for about an hour, (I would keep checking for the colour you want). As the jeans were wet already this allows the bleach to travel up the jeans, giving an ombre effect.

Once the desired colour has been achieved I then used my shower to rinse all the bleach from the jeans. These were then left to dry. It is then best to machine wash the jeans, just remove any excess bleach or dye to prevent it from transferring. 

I was rather pleased with the results and wore them in an outfit.

So I teamed my newly ombred shorts with a Topshop red checked shirt, Topshop silver and jade collar tips, Primark plaited brown belt, black tights and a pair of black creepers (not shown). 

This, believe it or not is a summer outfit!! (yes the weather is this rubbish in Liverpool) Let's pray for good weather so I can wear these bad boys without tights and a white vest!!

x x