This was what was left of my cake I made for book club last night. It came from a Nigella Lawson recipe from her book Feast that my boyfriend got me for Christmas. It was amaaaaaazing. I recommend making this one because it only takes about 10 or 15 minutes to make and then you just stick it in the oven for an hour. Magic.
Our next book is Shutter Island and we’re going to see the movie together after we read it. Oh Leo… For my book (which is months and months away), I want to read something like Lewis Carrol’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or something like it and have a tea party for the get together. I thought that would be fun and more interesting that the usual get together. Maybe I’ll make everyone wear a big hat.
I definitely want to do something like this. The Flickr it came from has some of the most amazing photos. Loves it.
I went to Ulta earlier today because I really wanted some white eyeshadow and eyelashes and I had a coupon for Ulta so I thought I’d give it a go. I ended up getting 2 Bourjois eyeshadows and a pair of Ardell lashes for sooooooo ridiculously cheap because they were on offer or in the clearance section.
Bourjois shadow 1: Original price $15.00. Clearance price $3.99
Bourjois shadow 2: Original price $14.99. Clearance price $4.99
Ardell Lashes: Original price $3.79. Clearance price $2.99
Add the coupon in the mix and that’s over $33 worth of stuff for $9. Not bad.
I got the lashes for the Valentine’s day look I’m going to recreate. I got the idea from the lovely MissChievous on YouTube. You can watch the video for the look Im talking about here. Hopefully my rendition will look good and I don’t completely screw it up and look like a dime hooker.
The other day, I went to CVS to try out some of the “Organic Wear” products from Physician’s Formula. I got the Origin Bronzer and I absolutely love it. It goes on so well and you can really build up the color without looking muddy and it looks really natural. I couldn’t believe how much I loved it. It comes in three shades for light, medium and dark skin tones. Obviously I got the one for light skin tones. I highly recommend this product. I’m definitely going to try out some of the other products once I use up some more products that I already have.
I have recently become obsessed with 2 blogs in particular.
Sometimes Sweet is the first one. Danielle, the author, is one of the most gorgeous and interesting people and all of her posts are amazing. And all of her clothes are ridiculously cute.
HRH Collection is the second one. I love her taste and vision on everything from clothes to interior decorating. And I can really relate to her because we are only a year apart in age, we both lived in other countries during school and are still obsessed, we can’t seem to find a big girl job, and we pretty much seem to like all of the exact same stuff.
I crossed off all of the things on my to do list today! Yay! I’m such a bad procrastinator, so I always have roll over items on my to do lists. One of my items was to finish my grad school application which was quite an undertaking. Thank goodness that part of the process is done. There is much more to do on that front, but at least I’ve got that bit out of the way.
My other list is a playlist. I thought I’d give it a go to show what I’m listening to at the moment. I have really random music tastes, so beware that I might come across as schizophrenic.
Yay for boyfriends who give flowers!
I just got back from Target, and I was pleased to find that almost everything in the store had a clearance sticker on it. Products from all of the natural beauty lines were on clearance for at least half off, so I stocked up. I might go back tomorrow and get some more just because the prices were so ridiculous.
Giovanni Body Wash: Original price $8.99. Clearance price $4.48.
Kiss My Face Lotion: Original price $9.99. Clearance price $4.98.
I’m in the process of converting everything in my life to natural and chemical free products. The problem is, it’s not an inexpensive thing to do. So it’s times like these that make me very, very happy.
A rather boring edition of library love. Just got some more CD’s to try and build up my iTunes once again.
On another note, I’m going to a job fair for this company tomorrow so I hope that turns out well. I’ll pray and keep my fingers crossed. This economy is freaking crazy. People don’t want me for some jobs because I have an education and other people don’t want me because I don’t have enough education/experience. It’s ridiculous. I just want to crawl into a cave and hibernate until this whole recession thing blows over.
I’ve seen a couple of girls recently with this nail trend of black French tips, but they had fake nails. I thought I’d try it on mine and I really like how it looks. It will look even better when my nails get a bit longer. I used “Soft Petal” by Revlon and for the tips I used Wet N’ Wild’s black. I’ve always thought I’d be really good at doing nails and I often have people ask me where I get my nails done. I have gotten the urge to get my cosmetology license so that I can do them professionally and legally. Here’s a really bad picture of the finished product.
I’m getting sick 
and I know I’m going to feel like absolute garbage when I wake up in the morning. I’m attempting to OD on vitamin C but I don’t think it’s working.
I’ve recently been inspired by the HimeGyaru look from Japan. Basically, the goal is to look like a princess and have big hair. Something like this…
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Very Marie Antoinette and Rococo. Loves it. Anyway, I saw these Lux Addiction phone covers all over Youtube recently and I thought they were tacky at first, but now I find them fabulous. This one is amazing:
And since I don’t have $80 to spend on one or an iPhone for that matter, I was wondering where I could get all of the little bits and bobs and do it myself. I was looking online and I found a blog written by a gorgeous French woman. Her most recent post was about her decorating her phone herself. After Googling random terms, I’ve finally found some kits you can have shipped from Japan to decorate your phone. This site has kits, but they are currently sold out. Hopefully it will be back in stock soon!
