Hope you have a wonderful 21st birthday!!! :D
And DFTBA
xxx
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Happy birthday!!!
Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Rachaaaaaael! Happy birthday to you!!!
Hope you have a wonderful 21st birthday!!! :D
And DFTBA
xxx
Hope you have a wonderful 21st birthday!!! :D
And DFTBA
xxx
Monday, 8 August 2011
Nails
Ok so I just realised that I totally forgot about showing you my Harry Potter manicure. I did take pictures but they're not very good and I also took them about a week after I did the manicure so there's a few chips...
This is my bad hand (i.e. I'm left handed so I had to paint this with the wrong hand...). It's not too bad but it's not great either. As you can see I used a black base, then painted on my designs in silver (lightning bolt on ring finger and the deathly hallows on my thumb). Once my design had dried I added a flakey top coat. Any glittery top coat would look good but I always think there's something magical about flakies.
What you can't tell from the picture is that instead of using a normal black I used GOSH Black Passion. It's basically just black but it's packed with really fine silver glitter. I've never seen a nail polish like it and I love it! The flakey I used is also by GOSH and I think it's called Rainbow. GOSH do some seriously awesome nail varnishes and I think you should check them out if you don't know about them already.
Blurry :( I suck at taking nail pictures clearly. But you can see the design and that's all that matters. I used a thin paintbrush to paint my designs on. Probably ruined them but they weren't good ones anyway. You can buy special brushes to paint nail designs on but this probably isn't going to be a normal thing for me to do so it wouldn't be worth me buying them.
This is the lightning nail from my right hand, as you can see I'm much better at painting with my left than my right.
And that concludes my Harry Potter manicure!
I hope you enjoyed it! I'd love to know about anything Harry Potter related you've done, even if it's just something like you're re-reading one of the books. Or checking your email every 5 minutes to see if you have your welcome email from Pottermore. It's always good to meet new Potterheads :)
DFTBA x
This is my bad hand (i.e. I'm left handed so I had to paint this with the wrong hand...). It's not too bad but it's not great either. As you can see I used a black base, then painted on my designs in silver (lightning bolt on ring finger and the deathly hallows on my thumb). Once my design had dried I added a flakey top coat. Any glittery top coat would look good but I always think there's something magical about flakies.
What you can't tell from the picture is that instead of using a normal black I used GOSH Black Passion. It's basically just black but it's packed with really fine silver glitter. I've never seen a nail polish like it and I love it! The flakey I used is also by GOSH and I think it's called Rainbow. GOSH do some seriously awesome nail varnishes and I think you should check them out if you don't know about them already.
Blurry :( I suck at taking nail pictures clearly. But you can see the design and that's all that matters. I used a thin paintbrush to paint my designs on. Probably ruined them but they weren't good ones anyway. You can buy special brushes to paint nail designs on but this probably isn't going to be a normal thing for me to do so it wouldn't be worth me buying them.
This is the lightning nail from my right hand, as you can see I'm much better at painting with my left than my right.
And that concludes my Harry Potter manicure!
I hope you enjoyed it! I'd love to know about anything Harry Potter related you've done, even if it's just something like you're re-reading one of the books. Or checking your email every 5 minutes to see if you have your welcome email from Pottermore. It's always good to meet new Potterheads :)
DFTBA x
Indulging myself in Harry Potter
So if you know me at all you'll know I'm a big Harry Potter fan. (And I'm ever so envious of Rachael at Island Girl Insights who has actually been to the HP theme park!!!)
Since the last film came out I've pretty much constantly been obsessing about HP. It's probably not healthy but I don't have a job so it's doing a good job of filling up my days. I've been doing everything from reading the books and watching the films to re-playing Lego Harry Potter Year 1-4. (Must. Get. 100%!!!)
Then last week was the release of the Magical Quill Clues which granted you early access to Pottermore. I managed to be one of the lucky few who registered on the very first day so hopefully won't be waiting for my welcome email for too long! *fingers crossed*
Anyway to celebrate my 21st birthday last week (YAAAY!) I decided to experiment with some Harry Potter related recipes I found here a few weeks ago.
I made Acid Pops, Liquorice Wands, Butterbeer and Cauldron Cakes.
That's a picture of my cauldron cakes without their handles. Aren't they adorable?!?! I'm making a video where I talk about everything birthday related so I'll be posting that soon, where you get to see completed Cauldron Cakes! With handles and EDIBLE GLITTER!
I have to say they were surprisingly simple to make and were delicious! You can find the recipe for these here. (Looks at how cute they look with the handles!!!!) I substituted buttercream for the filling as it's hard to find marshmallow fluff over here and I really couldn't be bothered making my own.
I will post more birthday happenings once all the birthday happenings have happened... In other words I've not been to my parents yet so will put the video up once I've seen them and all by birthday things have finished!
DFTBA!
Since the last film came out I've pretty much constantly been obsessing about HP. It's probably not healthy but I don't have a job so it's doing a good job of filling up my days. I've been doing everything from reading the books and watching the films to re-playing Lego Harry Potter Year 1-4. (Must. Get. 100%!!!)
Then last week was the release of the Magical Quill Clues which granted you early access to Pottermore. I managed to be one of the lucky few who registered on the very first day so hopefully won't be waiting for my welcome email for too long! *fingers crossed*
Anyway to celebrate my 21st birthday last week (YAAAY!) I decided to experiment with some Harry Potter related recipes I found here a few weeks ago.
I made Acid Pops, Liquorice Wands, Butterbeer and Cauldron Cakes.
That's a picture of my cauldron cakes without their handles. Aren't they adorable?!?! I'm making a video where I talk about everything birthday related so I'll be posting that soon, where you get to see completed Cauldron Cakes! With handles and EDIBLE GLITTER!
I have to say they were surprisingly simple to make and were delicious! You can find the recipe for these here. (Looks at how cute they look with the handles!!!!) I substituted buttercream for the filling as it's hard to find marshmallow fluff over here and I really couldn't be bothered making my own.
I will post more birthday happenings once all the birthday happenings have happened... In other words I've not been to my parents yet so will put the video up once I've seen them and all by birthday things have finished!
DFTBA!
P.S. DFTBA = don't forget to be awesome. I think you should all check out Vlogbrothers.
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
You're doing it wrong!
Ok so it's officially only 52 minutes until I turn 21. Then I will be able to legally drink alcohol in all of the US states. Which will be helpful if I ever go to the US and fancy a cocktail or two.
I've not posted in a bit because... Well if I'm honest I just got a bit annoyed at this entire blogging thing. Not particularly with my blog but with some others that I've been following. Maybe I'm getting the idea of a blog entirely wrong but surely you write a blog because you like to write? And if you like to write then you should care about how you write. No? So if both of these things are true then you should care about your spelling and grammar? (Feel free to leave a comment if you think I'm talking crazy.)
I've been following a lot of blogs recently and it infuriates me to see people writing blogs with incorrect spelling and grammar. This vexes me most when it's someone whose first language is English. If you can't be bothered to learn how to write your own language properly then why are you bothering with a blog? A blog is all about writing! Have some respect and pick up a dictionary once in a while.
Sorry for the rant but this is a pet peeve of mine and really gets me wound up!
If, like me, you prefer your grammar and spelling to be correct at all times then you might like this book.
It's a very good and amusing read! I know that I picked up on a lot of grammar that I didn't know about or had forgotten from this book.
You should also watch the video below! Hank Green at his Nerdfighteria best.
P.S. Agh 39 minutes til I'm old now!
I've not posted in a bit because... Well if I'm honest I just got a bit annoyed at this entire blogging thing. Not particularly with my blog but with some others that I've been following. Maybe I'm getting the idea of a blog entirely wrong but surely you write a blog because you like to write? And if you like to write then you should care about how you write. No? So if both of these things are true then you should care about your spelling and grammar? (Feel free to leave a comment if you think I'm talking crazy.)
I've been following a lot of blogs recently and it infuriates me to see people writing blogs with incorrect spelling and grammar. This vexes me most when it's someone whose first language is English. If you can't be bothered to learn how to write your own language properly then why are you bothering with a blog? A blog is all about writing! Have some respect and pick up a dictionary once in a while.
Sorry for the rant but this is a pet peeve of mine and really gets me wound up!
If, like me, you prefer your grammar and spelling to be correct at all times then you might like this book.
It's a very good and amusing read! I know that I picked up on a lot of grammar that I didn't know about or had forgotten from this book.
You should also watch the video below! Hank Green at his Nerdfighteria best.
P.S. Agh 39 minutes til I'm old now!
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Harry Potter
I'm going to see the final Harry Potter film tonight and I can barely contain my excitement! Although I can't believe it's going to be over. I've been brought up with the books and the films ever since I was about 8. 12 years has gone by so quickly.... I'll most probably have a little weep once the film is over. Thankfully we still have Pottermore to look forward to! Not that I'm entirely sure what it is mind...
In celebration of the last film I've painted my nails in a Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows theme. I'll do another post tomorrow about them! :)
P.S. Painting on your nails with the wrong hand is tricky so I won't be showing you both hands.
In celebration of the last film I've painted my nails in a Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows theme. I'll do another post tomorrow about them! :)
P.S. Painting on your nails with the wrong hand is tricky so I won't be showing you both hands.
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