21 going on 81. ♥

Hey guys!
This is going to be a bit of a rambling post so I apologize in advance.

Over the past couple of weeks I have seen many of my facebook friends and people who I follow on twitter posting about parties and getting drunk etc and it's got me wondering...

I'm not judging anyone of how they live their life or how they choose to make decisions because each to their own but it got me thinking about how I live my life.
I have a few confessions. 

#1 - I have never been on a night up town. 

For me it's not something that interests me and that I want to do. I could think of nothing worse than going into a club, getting off my face and stumbling home. And let's not get into how much I know some people spend in one night, it's more than my heart can take and well I just see it as concert ticket money haha!
Yes I live my life going to concert and popping to the pub when my friends are back from university and I'm perfectly fine with this. I don't understand how people can count down until the weekend to get drunk and "forget everything". I'm not saying that I will never ever go into a club because there may be a time that I do but at the moment it's not on my list of priorities. Honestly if I don't ever in my life go to a club I wouldn't be bothered and feel like I have 'missed out'.

#2 - I have never gotten that drunk that I can't remember the night before.
I saw a facebook post the other day with someone saying they couldn't remember last night and it was a "messy" one. Again I could think of nothing worse. I enjoy spending time with my friends and making memories that will last a lifetime than to drink them all away and have no recollection of the night before apart from a banging head from all the booze. I know you don't have to drink when you go to places like a club but when you ask people what you do a club they will tell you that you have a little dance, get drunk and 'enjoy yourself'.

I'm not aiming this post at anyone in particular because I couldn't care less how you live you life if i'm honest it's just something that has been on my mind for a while - you do you boo!

Anyways many people who I see post these types of thing are at university and I fully understand that's what you do to let off steam from the week and spend time with your mates but I am someone who owns their own business and works 7 days of the week for around 12 hours a day. This includes being on my feet all day at the shop making cakes to answering facebook and any other enquires at every hour of the day (I have had people message me as early as 3 - 4am in the morning right up until midnight in one day). The thing I enjoy the most is coming home, getting into my PJ's and relaxing with a cup of tea and some rubbish TV every night and weekend when I can.

I guess it's just the generation we live in now a days. I am an old soul I know that. I act more like im 81 than 21 sometime but can drop to acting like a 4 year old at a drop of a hat haha!

If you read this and you are one of these people who enjoy going up town maybe you think i'm strange for not experiencing what you do most weekends and sometimes of a weekday but we each choose our own path in life and I think it's wonderful we have our own views else this world would be a boring one haha!

I know this is a random post but I just wanted to let it all out.

I hope you're all okay

Take Care
Post Soon x

I've been gone a while.

Hey guys!

I have missed sitting and typing out little posts on my own little section of the internet. I hope you guys are doing well!

I have been drowning in everything cake over the last couple of months, not that i'm moaning as I am enjoying what I am doing but it's lovely to have a few minutes to sit and chill and do something little for me.
I have a few blog posts in which I have half types out but never finished and posted them so expect those soon including a few concert posts!

I just wanted to pop on here to say I haven't forgotten about you guys and to let you know how much I have missed posting!

See you in my next post!
Take Care

Post Soon x

Sweet Indulgence Cakes ♥

Hey guys!
I have been putting this post off so much but I am finally getting round to posting it!
As you guys may have already read in previous posts I have started up my own business. Its a Cake designing & Making business!
My friend Jessica has been making cakes for her family for a while now and I have been able to help her out with a few from time to time when I didn't have any college work going on and I really enjoyed it! Not only the opportunity to work with my best friend but to be able to get my creativity flowing and coming up with ideas on how to create a cake and develop it into a physical thing. 

It got me thinking about what I was going to be doing once I had left college... I try to get a job at a beauty counter and try and make my way up the board or set up a freelance business but none of those seemed to make me feel excited or give me any sort of drive. 

So I was brainstorming and after visiting the job centre with Jess we were told about the Princes Trust that help you out with a start up loan for you to start your own business. We had spoke in the past about doing cakes full time but never thought that it would happen. I took the course and did all the paperwork and my loan got accepted! I then put in for a shop a few miles away from home to set up a base for us to do our cakes from and from their we have just been growing! We opened 12th December 2015. I wanted to open on this day as it was my grandads birthday who has sadly passed and wanted their to be a connection to the date.

I hope the future is full of lovely customers and beautiful cakes but who knows. All we can do is dream and keep out fingers and toes crossed!

If you guys would like to check out our business please check out the links below!

Twitter

Facebook

Instagram

I hope you guys are okay!
Take Care

Post Soon x

Surprise Birthday Party - Nan 80th ♥

Hey guys!
Yesterday (Saturday 4th July) was my nans 80th birthday.
She never wants any fuss on her birthday and would rather just be left to have her day to herself.
However me being the grand-daughter that I am I couldn't let an 80th birthday not be celebrated.
I planned a surprise party and told everyone what was going on and just asked them to contribute to the cost. My aunt took her out for the day so I could rush round and put all the decorations up, do all the food and get everyone together for the arrival.
My uncle dressed as a beaver. Yes a beaver.

My nan cried as she got out the car and was so shocked to see everyone. She did make me laugh when she turned to me and said "I don't have enough cups for everyone to have a cup of tea" haha!
I took her in the house and showed her all the food and decorations that I had been working on all day.
She turned to me again and broke her heart crying on my shoulder.

Another surprise was on its way.
I made my nans cake for her birthday.
I have never ever ever made a cake in my life. Let alone a 2 tier cake!
It took me 4 days to make it all. Every single rose on the cake was hand made.

I didn't get any pictures of my makeup that day apart from a few pictures of my eye makeup. I was going to make a separate post for it but i thought i would just add it onto the end of this post haha!

I used a dark brown and black in the crease and blended it out. Took a wet brush into a gold/copper shadow and applied it to the crease. I applied a matte highlighter to the brow bone and the inner tear duct. My brows are my natural brows with a bit of brow gel brushed through them.

Overall the day was lovely even thought it was a bit stressful.

My nan had a good time which was the main things and everyone got to talk a reconnect after not seeing each other for a while.

Take Care

Post Soon x

Baking with Sophie & Jess! - Chocolate Orange Soda Cupcakes ♥

Hey guys!
I hope you are all doing well!
Today's post is going to be about some cupcakes that me and Jess made on Monday.

 Last time she was making cupcakes she was looking on the internet for other random things that people make cake out of and we found something called a soda cake. If you are unfamiliar with what soda is, it is the american equivalent to pop or a fizzy drink. We saw some different ones that people has done and decided that none of them seemed like they would taste good until we got to one where someone had used an orange fizzy drink.
Jess said she wanted to try and make one so that's what we did!

There are only three ingredients you are going to need for this recipe:
A box chocolate cake mix (Me and Jess used Betty Crocker devil chocolate cake)
Can of pop (Me and Jess used Orange Fanta)
Betty Crocker Devil Chocolate Fudge Icing (You can also make your own icing if you wish)

1. The first thing you need to do is preheat the oven to the temperature that is stated on the back on the box. We were using a gas oven so we put it on gas mark 4.

2. Empty your cake mixture into a bowl and add your can of soda

3. Mix well until you can see that both of the wet and dry ingredients have come together and that there are no lumps

DO NOT PUT ANY OF THE EGG, WATER OR OIL THAT IS STATED ON THE BACK ON THE BOX TO USE ELSE YOU WILL WRECK YOUR CAKE!
The soda as all the elements that the cakes need to help bake them!

4. Place into two circle cake trays if you are making a huge cake or if you are doing cupcakes place then into some paper cases. We got about 22 cakes from this batch but you could get round 24

5. Place into the oven and watch them rise!
If you are unsure if your cakes are cooked all the way through stick a fork, toothpick or skewer into the centre of the cake and if the utensil comes out clean the cake is ready!

6.Leave on the side to cool down for a while. You don't want to be placing icing on hot cake else it will just melt and look a mess!

7.Add you chosen icing, Either store brought or home made. At this point you can either spread the icing on or if you want them look professional like jess did you can use a piping bag and a nozzle and make one hell of  beautiful pattern on the top!

8. (Optional) You can now add your decorations to the top of your cake/cupcakes. Me and jess went with small edible golden balls as you can see from the picture below

9. Make a cup of tea or hot beverage of your choice and...

 10. ENJOY!

I hope you guys liked this post, I thought it was something different and my friend Jess makes the best cupcakes and cakes so I thought I would share with you how we made one of the cakes
These turned out really good even thought we were a bit sceptical that they would turn out rubbish. The only hiccup we has it that by the time was up that the box recommended the bottoms were still squishy and not a cake texture. However we just put them in for a bit longer and they were okay once that had cooled! You can't really taste a lot of orange from this cake which is what I was expecting but they still taste good!
This is how I got my cupcakes home. I strapped them into my car seat with the seat belt and took them on a little drive :)

I hope you are having a good week!
Take Care
Post Soon x