I won the Great British Bake off! (kind of)

I finally finished my essay today!! Although i still have a report to write :(. But anyways i thought id give myself the night off and thought it would be good to do a little life update post as i haven't posted anything in a while! (sorry about that)

So last week was just an average week at uni although it was quite chilled out compared to most weeks. I got some nice things done with my illustrations involving a pony and pink fluffyness! Here is a little peek at that :)

awhh poor pony :(

So yeah as the week was just going on as 'normal' and it got to Wednesday and because my teacher is a little bit crazy he had set up something called the 'Great Illustration Bake off.' This was where my class went and baked cakes and decorated them to match the illustrations that we are currently working on, It was so fun!! Our team made vanilla cup cakes and it was very messy to say the least. There was cake mix and icing sugar EVERYWHERE!! so yeah we all got on with decorating our cakes. I decided to make an ice cream cone unicorn horn because there is one in the story that i am illustrating! i was basing it off the little sketch that i had done below :) 

I used pink icing that i had made for the ice cream, and put an ice cream cone on top of it. Okay so it wasn't the most complicated of designs but I WON!!!  I think it was because i had thought a but more outside of the box instead of just drawing a design onto the top of the cake. Everyones designs were really good and it was a lovely fun little afternoon. So yeah i didn't win anything physically but it was nice anyway. Here are some pictures of the finished cake and some other photos from the day.

The winning cake! :')

Me with my cake YUM!!

Here is my lovely class with all of our cup cakes!

I recorded all of the shenanigans on my phone because i thought it would be fun to keep the memories from it. Who knows maybe one day i will edit it into a proper video and show it to the world :O 

Hope you enjoyed that little fun light hearted post i love posts like these and might start doing them more often. Let me know what you think about that in the comments. 

Thanks a lot 

Mel xx 

Liebster Award Nomination!

Warning: Cup of tea needed this is a long post!

Carlie from Puggin' Awesome kindly deiced to nominate me for a liebster award, thank you Carlie! Go over and check out her blog its amazing, you'll love it!
So i thought id create a post where i will answer the questions that Carlie set, create my own questions and nominate some people myself.

First of all here are the liebister award rules 

 If you have been nominated for The Liebster Award AND YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT, write a blog post about the Liebster award in which you:

1. thank the person who nominated you, and post a link to their blog on your blog.

2. display the award on your blog — by including it in your post and/or displaying it using a “widget” or a “gadget”. (Note that the best way to do this is to save the image to your own computer and then upload it to your blog post.)

3.provide 11 random facts about yourself. 

4. answer 11 questions about yourself, which will be provided to you by the person who nominated you.

5. nominate 5 – 11 blogs that you feel deserve the award, who have a less than 200 followers.

6. create a new list of 11 questions for the blogger to answer.

here goes my attempt at writing facts about myself

1, I am an extremely messy person, I sometimes wish I wasn't but I cant help it I just make everything a mess all of the time. 

2, I'm right handed but I use my left hand for most other things like eating and I crochet and knit the left handed way. :S

3, I like to make things so I crochet things and knit hats. (here is a lovely ear warmer that i made) 

4, I have had a lot of different hair colours including pink, purple and ginger.

5, I’m almost never feel thirsty so I don't drink anywhere near the amount that i should.

6, I don’t at all look like the kind of of person that would listen to rock music but its my favourite music genre and I’ve been to download music festival twice!

7, I once sailed a boat for a week and got the most horrifically bruised legs from it. :(

8, I once had my septum and lip pierced.

9,  I’m terrified of moths and butterflies basically anything that can flutter at me.

10, I'm really bad at sports and I don't do any, but one time I did insanity for a month. It almost killed me but I lost about a stone! (I’ve lost around 2 stone now)

11, I love to bake and if I wasn't studying illustration and doing art I think it would probably attempt to become a baker and open up a bakery.  

Carlie's questions 

1) Sum up your blog in one sentence
It shows things that happen in my lovely little life. :D

2) What is the funniest selfie you've ever taken? (bonus points for putting it up!)
Hmm i'm not sure probably this one :') oh god 

3) Favourite skincare Brand?
i use Lush products a lot but i also love no7 and Simple

4) What do you order from a coffee shop?
i always order a Chi latte mmm

5) What languages do you speak?
English and i know how to say a few sentences in German

6) What's your favourite movie?
hmm probably 21 jump street, its so funny! 

7) If you could meet one blogger face to face, who would it be and why?
I think it would either be Zoella or Louise (sprinkle of glitter) because i love their blogs (and youtubes) and i think they're really good role models for girls.  

8) When putting make up on, what do you generally play up? (eyeliner? bright lipstick?)
Either lipstick because it gets all over my teeth or blusher because i put my makeup on in the car on a morning and its often quite dark and i cant see how bright it is. oopsy :') 

9) What is your go to food of choice?
probably pasta i LOVEE pasta 

10) In any given week, how many ways would you say you style your hair?
I cant style my hair too much its too short at the moment so its usually just in the same boring style
 :(

11) What has been your most rewarding experience so far?
hmm probably finishing college with good grades because it led to me getting into university :D

Sorry i only nominated 7 people i'm rubbish at finding blogs but anyways here's people that i have decided to nominate. I decided to nominate a few people that i know and a few other lovely blogs that i'm really enjoying. 

Canny - cannyphotos

Lina - hidingbehindtheblog

Melissa - rosyrubies

Lauren - beautyfashionlauren

Hannah - fabulouslyfatfashion

Marie - oldcaledonia

Zade - marshmallow-grrl

And here are my 11 (random) questions 

1, Why did you start your blog? 

2, What is your dream job?

3, If you could only use one makeup or skincare product for a year what would it be?

4, If you could have one talent what would it be?

5, what do you spend the majority of your time throughout the week doing?

6, What is your favourite clothing item?

7, Favourite band, group or singer?

8, If you could travel anywhere right now where would you go?

9, Do you have any weird habits? :')  D:  

10, Do you have any hidden talents? 

11, any good advice that you'd like to share with the world? :D

Thanks Mel x 

I also have a art/illustration blog if you're interested melsdailydraws

Don't twirl arround with your eyes closed! (ootd)

Heyllo, (thats what i say whey i go to say hey but realise i'm supposed to act professionally then change to hello)

So for the past few weeks i haven't posted much because iv'e been trying to get uni work done. Im not there yet but i'm slowly catching up so i have a tiny bit more time. Anyways i wanted to do an outfit of the day post today because 1. I haven't done a fashioney blog post yet and 2. I wore a new dress and i thought it was SO cool because when i twirl around (a regular occurrence in my life) i look like a cake (or ballerina)... :') 

okay so here is me wearing the dress, i'm super bad at taking photos of myself and them looking okay so this is the best i could do.So yeah Its a smock dress so its super comfy, i'm really loving the look of smock dresses lately because they have a really different slouchy style that looks great for any occasion. I only went to uni today so i didn't really dress it up or anything, I just wore it with an interesting old chain that I found on my jewellery rack. Its by George at Asda which is a bit random but they have upped their game lately, or at least i think so anyways! And it was a bargin at only £10

I wore the dress with come super thick thermal tights from Primark and my black every day shoes that look like little kids shoes from Red or Dead (I love them!)

I then wanted to twirl around and had a bit too much fin and ended up falling over aha heres a sequence shot of that to make you laugh the last one gets me every time pahahah :') aha i'm such a goon!

:''')

I hope this was okay for a first attempt at a super quick fashion style post. i hope you enjoyed it.

Let me know any tips you have on better twirling down in the comments!

Thanks for reading 

Mel :) x

First impressions: Tanya Burr lip gloss and nails collection

Hello lovely readers,

This post is long overdue as i received the products that i am going to write about a few weeks ago now. oopsy i do apologise, so yeah lets dive right in.When i found out that Tanya Burr had brought out her own range of makeup products i was really exited as i have been watching her videos on youtube for quite a while now. I ordered one product from each of her collections, so one nail polish and one lip-gloss. I ordered them straight away because i had been waiting a long time for her products to become available. i got them from Feel Unique as that's the only place that they are currently available. I didn't mind ordering them straight off line too much but with makeup i usually like to look at them in person first just to make sure because a lot of the time things photograph differently to what they look like in person. So yeah i'd never ordered from this website before and i must say i was so suppressed because they came in such a lovely little box, so well done to them for that!

Ill talk about the lip-gloss first. I was then surprised once again after opening the box as the lip-gloss had its own little packaging, I thought it would just be loose in the box. To be honest i'm not usually fond of products having more packaging than necessary, but the sleeve that it came in was very informative about the product and it did look quite sleek and nice so ill let this one off.

Tanya Burr Lip-gloss in "afternoon tea"

So i ordered the colour 'afternoon tea' because i have been looking for a quite neutral pinky lip-gloss for quite a while now so this was a perfect choice for me. And may i just say all of the products in her line have adorable names so i may have also been slightly swayed by the name. The colour does look really similar to what it did on line so i was super happy about that. The applicator is a little bit different to a normal doe foot applicator as it is more flat but it is really nice and easy to use. The colour is really pretty on and highly pigmented. It does feel a little bit thick and gloopy on but i don't mind because that makes it feel like it will last longer. I have horrible dry patchy lips so lip colour usually never stays on and hopefully this one will. Heres what the product looks like on, excuse my disastrous lips and spotty chinplease.

Now on to the nail polish. I decided to order the colour 'Midnight Sparkles' because it looked so pretty on the picture and i am partial to a bit of glitter in my nail varnish. It also looks exactly like it does online so that was great! The bottle is nothing special but it is a nice size and its definitely functional. I don't mind that the bottle has no thrills because i love the product. One thing i will say though is that it looks a lot more sparkly in the bottle than it does on your nails. Despite that it is really pretty on, as at a glance it just looks like a lovely deep purple but at a closer look you can see the bits of sparkle. I like that because it will work for every day but it still adds a bit of glam for a night out.

Tanya Burr Nail polish in "Midnight Sparkle" 

Overall i really like the products from Tanya Burr although i feel they are slightly overpriced but hopefully if the products become successful enough they might lower in price. I am loving these two products and i look forward to trying out more in the future.

I hope this helped out if you are trying to decide weather to try her products out. I definitely recommend you do, and if you don't know who Tanya Burr is and you like makeup why not give some of her videos on her youtube channel a watch by clicking here

Thanks for reading

:) Mel x

TMI tag :o

I haven't put up a blog post in a while because i have a lot of essays and drawing to get done for university. Unfortunately i don't really have the time to sit and construct a good post so i decided to do the TMI tag. Its probably going to be horrible and embarrassing but oh well. anyways hope you all enjoy it :')

1: What are you wearing?

Primark pyjama bottoms and a grey tee shirt.. so stylish 

2: Ever been in love?

yeah right now ;) soo cheesy

3: Ever had a terrible breakup?

Not really. Someone broke up with me for being too happy once which i found hilarious :')

4: How tall are you?

5 foot 2 inches.. i'm really small

5: How much do you weigh?

ermm 8 stone something I don’t really know aha

6: Any tattoos?

I have Peter pan and Tigerlilly red Indian tattoos on my feet and a dot work lotus flower on my fore arm 

7: Any piercings? 

My ears are both done twice one of my ears is stretched a little bit, my nose and my belly button :P

8: OTP?

I don’t even know what this is aha :’) i'm too cool

9: Favourite Show? 

Ermm.. New girl or Walking dead

10: Favourite bands? 

Biffy Clyro, 30 Seconds to mars, Korn, paramore, Bastille, Mumford and sons and loads more the list could go on foever

11: Something you miss?

Hmm I miss doing lots of different activities that I used to do when I was younger. I used to do swimming, dancing and ice skating

12: Favourite song?

It changes daily but at the moment im loving 'Luck' by American Authors

13: How old are you?

19

14: Zodiac sign? 

Virgo.

15: Quality you look for in a partner?

They have to be able to make me laugh. 

16: Favourite quote?

Hmm stay happy? Keep smiling something like that

17: Favourite actor?

I don’t really know

18: Favourite colour?

Teal

19: Loud music or soft?

Somewhere in the middle

20: Where do you go when you’re sad?

Away from whatever is making me say

21: How long does it take you to shower?

I usually have baths and they take me about 10 minutes

22: How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?

Not long I’m always rushing to get ready in time to catch the train so about 5 minutes

23: Ever been in a physical fight?

One time.. Not through choice a girl hit me from behind and yeah. I lost I’m a right wimp

24: Turn on?

I don’t know really.. good hair?

25: Turn off?

when people take themselves too seriously and cant laugh about themselves

26: The reason I started my blog?

I started my university blog and i really enjoyed it so I wanted to create a personal blog and I’m loving it so far

27: Fears?

totally irrational but i'm scared of my neck being touched

also i get scared on really crowded busses and trains

28: Last thing that made you cry?

I don’t know I cant remember it was probably for no reason

29: Last time you said you loved someone?

About 20 minutes ago.

30: Meaning behind your blog name? 

erm I write about lovely things in my life? And I’m little

31: Last book you read?

A history book (for university)

32: The book you’re currently reading?

The fault in our stars and carry on Jeeves

33: Last show you watched?

The walking dead

34: Last person you talked to?

My Mum

35: The relationship between you and the person you last texted? 

My Boyfriend

36: Favourite food?

Breakfast food mmm

37: Place you want to visit?

Lots of places

38: Last place you were?

On the train home form Uni

39: Do you have a crush?

Nah

40: Last time you kissed someone?

About an hour ago?

41: Last time you were insulted?

Probably by one of my friends today (in a joking way)

42: Favourite flavour of sweet?

Black current

43: What instruments do you play?

I used to play the tenor horn in a brass band and tambourine in a group. Aha I’m such a geek :’)

44: Favourite piece of jewellery?

My Tiffanies necklace from Alex (my boyfriend) I never take it off

45: Last sport you played?

Sport?..

46: Last song you sang?

Probably something stupid

47: Favourite chat up line?

I don’t have one

48: Have you ever used it?

Even if I did have one I wouldn’t use it :’)

49: Last time you hung out with anyone?

Right now.

50: Who should answer these questions next? 

Everyone should! :D

Aha well that was nice and cringey hope you enjoyed reading it anyway

Thanks a lot Mel x