Wednesday food

Today I have discovered the wonder that is Cinder toffee layered yoghurt. I do believe M&S have created something amazing here, perfect for an Autumn pudding! It is plain yoghurt thickly layered with lots of gloopy toffee. I love it so much that I have dedicated this entire blog post too it, hurrah! So that is what my Wednesday has mostly consisted of, cinder toffee yoghurt and pinterest, but  I'm not complaining!

Hello October

Gypsophila bouquets on the kitchen table, tied with gardeners twine.

Noodles, looking like a fierce little lion cub in the morning sun (notice the little tongue peeking out ha). Her long ear fur always makes me giggle!

'All good things are wild and free'. One of my favourite quotes!

October beginning has made me feel very excited for Autumn (and Halloween). I'm excited to go out and photograph pumpkins in national trust gardens and to wear my big fluffy parka and drink hazelnut hot chocolates. 

What's your favourite thing about Autumn?

Tatton park and tea room

At the weekend I went to Tatton park with my family, this seems to be coming a yearly tradition to go around Halloween and see all the decorations. Again the park was decorated for Halloween with ghosts hung in all the trees and pumpkins hidden around the gardens. Talking of pumpkins take a look at these sparkly pumpkins on the Belly Button blog, and please do leave a lovely comment!
 I'm definitely going to be doing my own Pumpkin like that this year!

We walked all around the Italian gardens and then had a well deserved tea (hot chocolate for me) and cake in the Tea room. There is no denying that the tea room was my favourite bit... oops!
 I was thinking of doing another Halloween blog post this year, like I did last year with my friend Lily, let me know if you would like to see that!

My Halloween makeup

This is just a quick little post to day to show you all what I am planning to do my face like for Halloween (I was going to say makeup but it's not really makeup is it?) To do this half skull look I used white face paint to paint half of my face (sorry you can't really tell because of the effect on the photo, plus it was only taken on my iPhone), I then used a mixture of blakc paint and black eyeshadow to make a ring around the eye and fill it in, then I used eyeliner to fill in my waterline. I drew the teeth on and filled in the gaps between them again using black paint,and lastly I used black eyeshadow to make my cheekbones look hollow! Sorry this is very brief but I didn't know how this was going to turn out so I didn't take proper photos, but now I wish I had! If you follow my on instagram you will have already seen this, and I am only 5 followers away from 100, so please take a look, my name is rosee_petals.

Happy Halloween Bunting - DIY

Make some flag templates by using a diamond shape (I did this on pages on a mac, but you can do it it word/publisher etc), then fill them with different Halloween patterns, I just searched for 'Halloween patterns' on Google images! I then downloaded this font and spelled out 'Happy Halloween' with 1 letter per flag. (I'm sorry I tried to upload the flag documents but blogger won't let me :(, because then you could have all used the same ones, but if anybody wants me to email it to them just let me know and tell me whether you would like it in a format for mac or pc))

You will need scissors, double sided sticky tape or pritt stick, and some string ( I used black for Halloween)

Cut out all of the flag shapes and lay them down in order.

 Take a length of string ( I didn't cut mine until I finished as I wasn't sure how long it would be) and fold your flags in half.

Place strips of double-sided sticky tape onto the inside of the flag and peel away the non-sticky paper.

Place your flag under the string and fold the flag in half, keeping the string at the top!

 They your flag should look like this, keep going and don't forget to leave a bigger gap between the end of 'Happy' and the start 'Halloween'

 You now have your very own handmade Halloween bunting! I hope you like it! 

Tag, 8 Fall (Autumn) loves

Hello Everyone, today I am doing a tag! I was tagged by the lovely Khadija to do the '8 Fall loves Tag'

 

1) Favourite nail polish:

My favourite nail polish for Autumn is probably, 'My Private Jet' by OPI! It's such a pretty browny/gold shade that's all sparkly :D

 

2) Favourite Eyeshadow:

I don't really have a favourite eyesahdow as I never wear it because it doesn't really suit me! But if I were to pick a colour I would probably go for a browny, gold orangey shade.

3) Favourite Blush:

 I only own about 2 blushes, but I really love my Sleek one in the shade 'Flushed' which is a really lovely deep pinky/red.

 4) Favourite clothing item:

I would probably say a big knitted jumper or cardigan, but I also love my Leather Jacket I got from Zara, it's so warm and comfy and I wear it everyday! 

5) Favourite Autumn Lipstick:

I love anything deep red for Autumn! SO I would say my Rimmel lipstick '480 classic Wine' or a deep red one that I have from MUA, I don't know the number of this one becasue the label has rubbed off, sorry. 

6) Favourite Auntumn Jewellery item:

Oooh I don't really have one for this, because I just tend to wear whatever goes with what I'm wearing! But I think my gold collar necklace from Kukee is quite Autumnal.

7) Favourite Autumn Perfume:

I think it would have to be either, the body shop Vanilla perfume, because it is so lovely and lasts for ages or another body shop perfume called 'Amorito' because this one is such a lovely scent, I can't describe it all, but it reminds me of Christmas and my Mum because she always wears it too!

8) Favourite Miscelaneous Autumn Item:

My fingerless elbow length gloves form H&M! They are knitted and deep burgundy and I think they are called 'hand warmers' but I just love them! 

9) What is th ething you look forward ot most in Autumn?

HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN!!! :D I get so excited because I love any excuse to dress up really! I always dress up as a witch, not in one of these revealing costumes that people wear to parties, but in a black dress with tights and hat haha!

10) Do you go trick or treating, if so what are you planning on dressing up as this year?

I don't go properly trick or treating, but we take our next  door neighbours little girl around our road to the neighbours hehe! She is only 3-4 and last year she dressed up as Tinkerbell, and I was a witch (again) so I will probably do the same this year. I also love to paint fake injuries on myself, a bit like I did the post on the ripped nail I made, so I could do some more blog posts on that sort of thing for Halloween perhaps?

I hope you all liked the Tag, I tag anybody who wants to do it because I don't want anyone to feel left out so feel free to just do it and say I tagged you :)