Recipe For Two Smarties Cookies - 1 for me, 1 for you

This is the ideal recipe for those cookie cravings. The perfect serving size. Enough to satisfy the crave but not enough to binge on.

Ingredients:
30g butter
2 tblsp light brown sugar
1 tblsp granulated sugar
Pinch of salt
1/4 tsp vanilla essence
1 egg yolk
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup all purpose flour
3 heaped tablespoon Smarties

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Heat butter in the microwave until it begins to melt and is softened. Add in sugar, salt and vanilla. Mix well by hand.
3. Add the yolk and stir again.
4. Add baking soda and flour and stir until combined.
5. Stir in smarties.
6. Form cookie dough into two balls and place on baking sheet.
7. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until the edges are golden brown.

Recipe adapted from here.

1 Addition, Many Ways Bobby Pins & Ribbon

All you need is some bobby pins, gold spray paint and some ribbon

Spray paint the bobby pins, clip them onto a ribbon and use as a Pharaoh necklace or as a belt.

Remove the bobby pins from the ribbon and add some gold to the hair.

#RajahLegit Collaboration

Gavin Rajah for Legit hits stores TOMORROW!!!

The collection mainly includes party dresses in the most vibrant colour's that are totally à la mode.

I can not wait to get my hands on the hot pink and orange maxi dress and the über feminine lace dress, just to name a few.

Dressed in Yves Saint Laurent

Dressed in YSL-- oh how I wish.
This will have to do until I save up for the real deal.

PEPPERMINT LOVE - Ice Cream Recipe

Hot days, cool treats. The high temperatures this past weekend had me craving ice cream. This little ice cream experiment took less than 15 minutes and is positively flavoursome

Ingredients:
3 cups Vanilla Ice Cream
90g Dairy Milk Mint Crisp chocolate
2 x 49g Nestlé Peppermint Crisp Chocolate
150ml Orley Whip Dessert Topping
Green food Colouring

Method:
1. Allow the vanilla Ice Cream to Soften
2. Grate the dairy milk and 1 Nestlé chocolate together.
3. Grate the second Nestlé chocolate and put it aside.
4. Mix together the softened ice cream, Orley Whip, Dairy Milk and one Nestlé chocolate together. Add in a few drops of food colouring.
5. Place the mixture into ice cream moulds and place into the freezer over night.
6. Once frozen dish out and sprinkle the remaining Nestlé mint crisp over.

Serves 6

A guiltless Indulgence- 2-in-1 Chocolate Body Wash+ Body Moisturiser

Smells good enough to eat up! Seriously! Once applied, stay away from chocolate lovers.

This easy to make 2-in-1 product is oh so simple to make and smells oh so delicious.

Use as a bath milk/cream and thereafter as a body cream.
Chocolate right through!

Ingredients:
500ml Aqueous Cream
400ml Cocoa butter Cream
100g Baby powder

Steps:
1. Mix all three together thoroughly
2. Empty into clean containers.

I emptied half of the cream into the aqueous cream tub and the other half it into a cleaned out Nutella jar. Chocolate and nutella. Fitting, no?

I'm saving the nutella one for the bath and the other tub for my dresser.

Operation Mannequin

Well hello there. Meet my slightly disfigured mannequin.

I love creating clothes for myself. I love experimenting with draping of fabrics. For this I needed a mannequin. So, being the DIY sucker that I am, I had to try making one.

I used this tutorial to make my mannequin http://goo.gl/xH7WsE

Thereafter I covered it with paper maché, stuffed it with newspaper and gave it a layer of paint. I used a piece of wood as the base and an empty fabric roll for the stand.

It's supposed to fit to your body. Mine is very much out of proportion. Something is better than nothing right?

This was take 1. Hopefully take 2 would be more successful.

Stripes are Hot

Stripes! They're all around us! There's no way you can miss them.

Incorporating stripes into your wardrobe is really simple.

There are a few guidelines. Horizontal stripes tend to make you look broader. Opt for vertical stripes as they elongate the body. However, horizontal stripes are easier to come by. If you have them, keep them!

Try not to mix prints as this can sometimes be tacky. Rarely can this be pulled off. Stay on the safe side with a stripe and a solid.

Bright colours team up well with stripes. Go for the primary colours; red, yellow and blue. Green and orange look great too!

Note, these are only guidelines, you do not have to follow these rules religiously. Fashion is about having fun and being adventurous with your garments. So go ahead, mix, match and go crazy.