#OOTD Gold Elements

Shoes - ASOS

Make Up Palette - Benefit 

Roll-On Perfume - Victoria's Secret

Lipstick - Elizabeth Arden: Coral Fizz 32

Bag - Zara

Blazer - Zara

Necklace - New Look 

Recipe Of The Week: The Most AMAZING Apple Crumble

Ingredients 

• 6 Apples (Peeled, cored and diced)
• 250g Caster Sugar
• 200g Flour
• 120g Butter 
• Cinnamon Powder

Methods 

• Put the apple chunks into a pan, add three quarters of the sugar and 2 teaspoons of cinnamon powder (I LOVE cinnamon so I put an extra teaspoon but add to your own preference). Allow to stew gently for half an hour, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon. Keep checking as they can easily burn at the beginning.
• Check that the fruit is cooked by mashing it a bit with a wooden spoon. The apples should be soft but not puréed.
• Put the apples into the serving dish and allow to cool. Set the temperature of the oven to 150 C / gas 2.
• Mix the flour, remaining sugar and the butter with your fingers in a bowl until it becomes like a breadcrumb consistency. Cover the stewed apples with the crumble topping, without pressing down.
• Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until the crumble is golden brown and crunchy. Spoon a helping of crumble into a dish and serve with custard or ice cream.

#OOTD Summer Chic

Shoes - New Look

Perfume - Balenciaga 'B'

Necklace - Ted Baker

Jumpsuit - ASOS

Lipstick - Maybelline: Velvet Biege 630 

Purse - DKNY

Recipe Of The Week: The Easiest Brownie Recipe

Ingredients 

• 400g Caster Sugar
• 225g Butter (Melted)
• 60g Cocoa Powder 
• 1 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
• 4 Eggs
• 225g Plain Flour 
• 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1/2 Teaspoon Salt

Method

• Mix ingredients together in the order given
• Pour into a greased baking tray
• Cook for 20-25minuties on 180c/Gas 4
• Cool, and cut into equally square shapes 

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3 Tips To Help Drink More Water

Now, If you are like me drinking 8 glasses of water a day doesn't sound as easy as 8 glasses of wine. BUT change is happening. Over the next couple of months, I am aiming to change my lifestyle and become healthier..zzzZZZ...Yeah, how many times have you heard someone say that?

Has anyone else been in that position where you have a drastic change of mind and think..'I need to change my ways, I need to eat healthy, I need avocados to make avocado on toast so at least social media thinks I am healthy', we have all been there!

That happened to me a month before I started university. I had it all panned out. Being a student, I would have no money for food and therefore loose weight, sounds simple doesn't it?. Well. Apparently theres always money for food, even when you're broke. Now I am back at home and ready to change my unhealthy ways, starting with water.

Drinking, water all day is understandably boring. So, I have 3 tips on how to make it a little more exciting (as exciting as it can get).

Now, before I give you the tips. They are not the general tips like: Drink a glass of water before every meal or use an app on your phone because one, who thinks of water when dinner is ready? and two, who uses those hydration apps for more than a week?! The tips below are things than can easily be adopted by diet.

Tip 1 - Add Flavour & Ice

Details: No instructions needed, just put the fruit in a glass with some ice and leave for 20mins to allows the flavours to infuse the water.

Lemon, Orange & Lime: Really refreshing and light, the cucumber takes the tanginess away but leaves the citrus flavours of the lemon and orange. YUMMY.

Blueberry, Raspberry & Lime: Honestly, I could only taste the lime and raspberry. Not my favourite as I would have rather eaten the raspberries!

Peach & Cherry: The peach flavour comes through really well and reminded me of a much healthy version of the Volvic Peach flavoured water. A drink I would much rather drink but not now I have my healthy head on.

Tip 2: The Swap 

The swap. I rarely drink fizzy drinks but I am a big lover of fruit juice. Orange, Apple, Cranberry, Raspberry and blueberry...all which  probably have a similar amount of sugar in as any fizzy drink. The one thing that keeps me drinking water is the noticeable difference between having a glass of orange juice and having a glass of water. I could drink a whole bottle of orange juice and still be thirsty and hungry, drinking one glass of water makes me feel hydrated and fuller. Water is a winner. 

Tip 3: Drink Herbal Tea With No Added Extras 

This is one of my main habits, Tea. Green, Earl, Peppermint. Warm water is so beneficial as it helps speed up your metabolism, helps lose weight, detoxifies your body and helps prevent acne. Plus all the individual benefits from each tea. 

Happy Friday! 

#MondayMotivation

I think this is something I have lived by. Another way of putting it is, be selectively stubborn. Stubborn behaviour is frequently seen as a negative...Why?! Being stubborn is a way of showing that you know what you want, that you are passionate and that you are not going to take no for an answer. There will be moments when nothing is going your way and you'll think 'this just isn't supposed to be' or if your like me express a few swear words, cry and then sleep, but nothing worth having will come to you easily, it takes time and (a word no one likes to hear)...patience. 

Happy Monday! 

Food For Thought

This applies to everyone. 

We forget. We forget that life is short. We forget the good that is infront of us. We forget that others happiness isn't always our happiness. As a reminder to others and myself, a small token of selflessness goes a long way. Forget material items, they are forgettable. Sacrifice your own emotions for someone else. This is a real token of gratitude. We are all humans, to most of us being selfless does not come naturally (guilty). So don't be disheartened when you make a decision and then look  back and think..."that was selfish of me" and go and sit on the naughty step and sulk for the rest of the day; get up, apologise and learn.

#CAUTION# If I make this sound easy, It is actually a lot harder to do in real life. But wait until you see the appreciation and happiness on the other persons face, it will be worth way more than the cheap piece of happiness you wanted in the beginning. 

Happy Friday!