Style Saturday #12 No Outfits, No Hauls

First things first, there is no outfit post or haul today. If you really want to know what happened today, I basically didn't do anything exciting. I am just organising out a few things like schoolwork and such. Who knew you actually had to do work in transition year? I guess it's better to keep myself preoccupied and so, instead of being bored all day.

How To Deal With Stress

Stress. Even though it's normal for us to have a little bit of stress in our life, sometimes it can get out of control. So instead of avoiding it, why not try and find a way to deal with it.

Tasty Tuesday #11 Cooking/Baking YouTube Channels

Sometimes, I go through a phase on YouTube where I want to watch a certain thing, it could be The Sims Let's Plays, daily vlogs or simply just cooking and baking videos. I've been watching a lot of cooking channels, for some strange unbeknownst reason. I'm not too sure why but I'm going to list a few of my favourite channels on YouTube below.

Style Saturday #11 Teeny Tiny Haul

There is no outfit post today. Instead there is going to be a small haul. To be honest, you won't have thought my outfit was great today, especially the way my hair was. It was quite questionable. At least it feels and looks better now, but earlier, not so. The jumper I was wearing is slowly kind-of wearing out, and I'm getting slightly nostalgic thinking about it. The times it's lived through. Like this morning, when I tried to get that small bit of cleanser out of the tube, and of course I got some on my jumper.

Short and Sweet

Today's post is going to short and sweet. I mean what do you except at girl whose is half-asleep to write. Nothing very interesting. Not when my day was full of ups and downs. There is no need to drone on about the negative things, instead appreciate the good. That's another thing. Sometimes, I think people think too ill of people and they hurt the people who are actually being genuinely nice. I know it's hard people, I know much about that, but life shouldn't be wasted like this. If someone's being hurtful in anyway, it's best to just distance yourself from them, or maybe just say it to them, if you're brave. And most importantly, take care of yourself first, because you cannot always rely on others, and you trust yourself most.

To step anyway from that, you would be surprised to know that I'm doing a lot of work. Weird, because they always call it a dose year. I half beg to differ. Im doing projects, competitions, homework (ugh!) but maybe it will good for next year. Anyway, we are doing some different things like work experience also. I've definitely been thinking about that, but I need to contact people also. 

I might just finish it here,since it's probably a little boring for you. Ta-ta for now, Nee x

Tasty Tuesday #10 Cold Weather Soup

Recently, the weather has gotten and bit nippy and colder here and due to that, I have developed a sore throat. If you have ever had a sore throat, with blocked sinuses, all you want to do is sleep and stop blowing your red-raw nose, but you can't. To help me recover and feel better, my mom decided to make me her cold weather soup, inspired by one of Jamie Oliver's recipes. This soup has chilli in it to help the blocked sinuses and also add a bit of warmth. However the butternut squash makes it so soothing for any throat soreness. This is one of my favourites that she makes around winter time and I was so glad she made it.

Style Saturday #10 JC Night

So, as I promised here is my outfit post from Wednesday night, when I got my exam results. Instead of heading out dancing and stuff, I decided to go out to dinner with my family. The crowds would have been dodge for me if I went out dancing. We headed to a restaurant called Liberty Grill, which is supposed to be amazing for breakfast, but we went for dinner and enjoyed it. I got a chicken burger with chips along with a Lemon Lime Bitter mocktail. It was lovely, especially the drink. We also shared a few starters and desserts between one another and they are delicious. 

Exam Results, Ed Sheeran and Dentist

Back to my late (ish) posts today. I'll update you from the last few days. As I said in my last post, I got my exams results yesterday. Somehow it managed to fit snugly between my blogging days. It was probably for the best because I would have totally forgotten to post anything, like my first week.  Anyway, I'm very happy with my results, thank God, as I thought I did bad in some of them. I guess I was one of the lucky ones. I celebrated the event by heading out to do nee with my family. I will post my outfit on Saturday for Style Saturday. The clothes I wore were mostly what I bought that day.

Tasty Tuesday #9 Well Tasty-ish Iced Coffee

This recipe was literally only made a few seconds ago, but I don't really suggest you try it, well not as an iced coffee, but maybe as a cappuccino it would be nice. I suppose this post is a little rushed, probably because I will be getting my exams results tomorrow, eek! Anyway, I will probably not sleep from the coffee or the nervousness. Let's get on to the recipe. First note I used a U Nespresso Machine along with their Aeroccino Machine for cappuccinos, lattes, frappuccinos, etc.

Style Saturday #9 Grey on Black

This Saturday I decided to head out on a shopping trip, where I only bought two things and one was for school. Yes, it was not a successful trip but I found some A/W pieces I could buy, hint, hint, the sixties style amazing-ness. I wore something nice and comfortable, something that is easy to change when I am trying on clothes. Although it was sunny today, I opted to layer up. I decided to wear black leggings from Topshop, black tank top from Gap along with my flip-flops, which you are probably sick of. I threw on this grey tank top as I find I don't wear it very often. I also wore my black cardigan that I wore two Saturdays ago. So it was overall quite simple but handy between seasons. 

DIY Sharpie Printed T-Shirt

Look, I remembered to post my DIY Sharpie Printed T-Shirt thing! I meant to post this up last week, but I forgot (blaming going back to school for that), but it's alright now. I still kind of settling back into school, but I think it will be all settled by the time our exam results come out next week. They are coming out on Thursday, so expect me to be either, depressed or excited in next weeks blog post. School's grand, I'm still getting used to waking up early, but otherwise everything's pretty much ok. So let's start this thing.

Tasty Tuesday #8 Chocolate Cookies (So yum!)

I remembered to post this time! I actually nearly forgot a few times so I decided to do this as soon as I get home, when I'll remember it most. Last night I nearly panicked thinking that it was Tuesday, but it was alright, just a Monday night, so I was ok.

Today I'm going to share this chocolate cookie kind-of recipe that reminds me of Nesquik, I love that cereal. Anyway, it is very simple and can last for a few days, if you're not tempted by them. 

Ingredients:

• 225g/8oz butter, softened
• 110g/4oz caster sugar 
• 250g/9oz plain flour
• 50g/2oz cocoa powder 
• 125g/4 1/2oz white chocolate chips 

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius/325 degrees Fahrenhuit/Gas Mark 3.
2. Cream the butter in a mixing bowl with an electric whisk until it's soft. Add in the sugar and whisk until light and fluffy.
3. Sift in the flour and cocoa powder and bring the mixture together until a dough is formed
4. Add in the chocolate chips and mix again
5. Grease the baking tray with butter.
6. Roll the dough into walnut-sized balls and place them onto the tray slightly apart. You can flatten them a little with a fork, but that's optional.
7. Bake them in the oven for 13 minutes. When you take the cookies out, it is ok if they sink when poked, they will harden later. 
8. Transfer the cookies to the wire tray when hot. Once cooled enjoy eating them or putting them into an airtight container for a few days, probably 3.

Note: If you have leftover dough, you can roll it into a log and leave in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. You can remove them from the fridge and cut them into slices before popping them into a preheated oven.

Here are the photos, please take note that the mixture can look dodge before baked, as seen below.