Penney's Purchases ❤

So I recently went to Penney's to pick up a few things and thought I'd share a couple of my favourite purchases!

The first thing I got was this Beauty Blender sponge and it was an absolute STEAL at only €1.50. I haven't tried either the Real Techniques Beauty Blender or the Original Beauty Blender, but this one works fabulously! I can't see either of the others doing a better job. And for the price of it I wouldn't really mind if it didn't last a really long time.

The next two purchases were a dark pink and cream floral crowns! Now I've been searching everywhere for one of these beauties that isn't extraordinarily expensive, like here for example, where the crown is selling for almost €23. I bought the two crowns in Penneys for €3 each!! They're sure to sell out super quickly so get down ASAP and get them before they're gone!

Here's the cream floral crown on:

More soon 

xxx

Red Velvet Cupcakes ❤

This is way overdue, but it's time for a new baking post! Three words, RED. VELVET. CUPCAKES. I see these literally everywhere and they look so cute and tasty! So I just had to make them in honor of my sister's return home from Scotland.

This particular recipe is from Odlums for the cupcake and Kraft recipes for the icing. The ingredients are:

175g Self Raising Flour

125g Caster Sugar

150g Butter/Margarine 

2 Large Eggs

2 Tablespoons Drinking Chocolate

4 Tablespoons Water

2 Teaspoons Red Food Colouring

1 pkg. Philadephia Cream Cheese, softened

1 tsp.  Vanilla

2 cups  Icing Sugar, sifted

Cupcake
Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4.
Beat butter or margarine and sugar in a bowl until light in colour.
Add the flour, eggs, drinking chocolate, water and red colouring.
Beat well until mixture resembles a thick batter.
Divide the mixture into the muffin pan and bake for 20 minutes until risen and ‘springs back’ when gently touched.
Cool on a wire tray and then decorate with icing!

Icing

Beat cream cheese and vanilla in large bowl with mixer until well blended.

Then add sugar gradually, beating until well blended after each addition.

They turned out pretty nice actually!
More soon

xxx

Favourite iPhone Apps ❤

I've been meaning to do a "favourite app" post since I got my phone last October. So here it is! 

First off is Instagram, I think this is a fairly obvious one but I do really love it! I can spend ages scrolling through other people's pictures - because I'm so nosy! And I love how some people edit their pictures too, such a creative little app :) You can follow me here.

Next is Twitter, I've only gotten into this recently but I find myself using it more and more these days! I find myself waking up in the morning and checking Twitter to see what's going on in the world before I even get out of the bed! My twitter is here. 

Buzzfeed is such a handy little app for when you're sitting on the bus or waiting to go somewhere; there's loads of articles, quizzes and videos to look at from make-up and fashion to celebrity news and current affairs. It really makes the news much more exciting to read! 

Afterlight is the best app for editing in my opinion. There's a huge range of filters and lights which can be added to the picture, along with the standard editing tools like brightness, saturation and contrast. I'd have to say that I use Afterlight for the majority of my Instagram photos. It is 89c (I think) in the App Store but it's well worth it!

If you're looking for a good exercising app, Runtastic is pretty nifty. It can track the distance, pace and calories burned during whichever exercise you select, and it shows exactly where you traveled on the map! I've been using it for the last few runs/walks that I've been on and it's great to be able to keep track of everything on the one app.

I love finding cool apps to download and I'm forever looking out for new ones! I'd love to hear any suggestions, especially picture editing apps ❤

xxx