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Sorry I haven't posted in a while... I have been feeling quite ill over the past two weeks and I'm getting so much college work to do and hand in now I have to priorities with that at the moment so I will get posts up as and when I can. 

Some of you will know (if you follow me on twitter *hint hint*) that I have had a stressful and bad week last week with a large amount of college work and then on Wednesday night my rabbit Tink passed away. She was more like a dog than a rabbit but we were all really upset and shocked but she wasn't herself and she is out of pain now. 

Then Friday night we had the dreadful news of the attacks in France that literally saddened the world and thinking about everyone at that awful time!! Also, about the other events which happened on the Friday night, thinking and praying for everyone effected by these events. 

(This is my own image took in 2013 from my trip to Paris with my school. Quite proud of this too!!)

But hopefully I will attempt to get two posts up a week, trying my very best!! Thank you all for your support and for you all for reading my blog too!! Appreciate it so much!! 

Melishia x

October Haul

Last month I didn't really buy much because I am trying to save up for Christmas which is just around the corner... *Excited* 

But I do have a couple of items which I can show you. 

My first two items are hair based products which I have fell in love with!! The VO5 'Give me texture' spray has worked wonders!! I bought this because I was watching Zoella's hair tutorial video and saw that this made her hair stay in longer when it is styled so I had to give this a try. 

Also, because my hair is just so thin, silky and naturally straight, you can't really do anything with it so I have found this is an amazing product which helps a lot and will be on my shopping list for boots each month!! You don't even need a lot on your hair, so hopefully lasts a whole month *fingers crossed* 

The next was the TRESemme Ultimate Hold Hairspray, which also works really well!! This isn't the best hairspray up to now, I still find the Elnett Hairspray works better but that is just my own opinion. I still really like this hairspray though it is a very good product, I just don' think it lasts longer. Give them both a try, see which you think is the best one. 

I have also been loving the hairstyle's Zoella showed on her main channel as a tutorial. I posted a picture of one of the styles on twitter from my first try so I will post it here as well along with the link for Zoella's video for you to try too!! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CACC_A3DxLM 

I find that some perfumes which I own (or my Mam owns) give me headaches from time to time and a headache is not what I want when I'm at college and placement 6 hours a week!! Not good!! So I invested in some Impulse body sprays as I hadn't had them in a while. I got two scents from Boots as there was an offer on. I got 'Into Glamour' and 'Very Very Pink' which smell sooooo good!!! But they don't last long, these two have ran out already :'( 

Lately, I have had quite a few spot breakouts and I can never find a spot treatment that works well. I have tried all the top brands and none of them seem to work, so I gave this one a try and within two days it had cleared up a huge spot on my chin!! It's a great product!!

I have had this hand cream hidden in my bedside table since Christmas last year and hardly ever used it. But my hands are getting very dry being out in the cold so I actually used it and the smell is lovely!! I love Soap&Glory products so much!!

Anddd finally, these two pieces of clothing are to die for. Both from New Look as it may as well be my second home the amount of clothes I buy there. My wardrobe is mainly full of clothes from New Look. 

I bought this top for £9.99 (I think) and the colour is lovely. It is a slight crop top which I am totally not used to wearing at all, so I invested in a pair of black high waisted jeans for £22.99 to go with it. The best thing about shopping in New Look is my student discount! Can not forget that when I'm clothes shopping!! 

These are the only things I had bought and used in October. November won't be as exciting as the only things I am buying are Christmas presents, so this may be the last one until after Christmas when I share with you my Christmas presents!! 

I hope you enjoyed this post and hope you all have a great weekend!! Stay safe with the fireworks and dark nights!! 

Melishia x

Trip to Tweddle Farm

Today I took a trip out with my cousins to Tweddle Farm where I have not been in yearssss!! The last time I was there was when I went up with the Kids Club I was part of at the time to go to Santa's Grotto, and that was when I was 9. I am almost 18. It has changed soooo much!!! But I loved it!! 

I still got to pet the rabbits and of course I couldn't leave them all out...As soon as I stroke one, the whole lot of them in that pen came over and this was the outcome. As you can tell, I love rabbits (and animals).

These rabbits are the ones I realllly want!! Giant rabbits!! They look so cute a cuddly. I think they are probably the size of a puppy if I am honest!!

Now this parrot never shut up. It literally sounded like it was a screaming child at one point and all it wanted you to do was to stroke it's head. If you stopped, it would start squawking again. Later on when we came back, it was having a conversation with another Bird other in the other enclosure shouting "Hello" back and forth. It was also loving the camera.

I always manage to fit Disney into my posts somewhere... I found Cinderella!!! 

The farm is split into different sections, so first we were in the rabbit barn and then we headed over to the baby animal barn which I loved so much!!! I didn't get a picture of the cows though as it kept trying to steal my food I had for the animals... I also liked how they named their baby lambs after the 7 dwarfs too!

Little baby Lama too :)

These pigs would not shut up either. 

Heading out of the baby animal barn we found this picture option moment thing, so me and my cousin Kyle decided to jump in.

This monkey was the cutest little monkey I had ever seen. There were two of them but I think the other one was camera shy.

Literally had a race with these goats all because they wanted the food in my bag for them. They had their own little bridge to get over to the other side too. I loved it!!

Yes Donkey, It is okay for you to constantly lick the fence?

This is me on a Sunday afternoon when I have just ate my Sunday Dinner and I'm too tired to do anything. Hahaha!!

THERE WAS A CHRISTMAS TREE AND I BECAME SOOOO EXCITED!!! 

But when it came to taking the picture I had to delete some photos so I was stood there for a good 5 minutes deciding which photos were the best ones to take a photo of the Christmas tree...

So this was my day out to Tweddle Farm. I love it here so much, it just reminds me of all the times I used to go when I was little and It's changed so much. When I was little I think it had only just opened and wasn't a lot there and now it is much bigger and more animals and different barns to go into. So glad it is still in business!! 

I am an animal lover too so when my Mam said that's where she was going I couldn't say no!! 

Hope you had a lovely day!! Send me your links on twitter :) 

Melishia x 

Fave Songs of October

I haven't done this type of post before so I thought I would give it a go. 

There is also a Gif at the bottom with flashing lights, just warning just in case it's a shock.

I'm going to share with you my top songs that I have been loving this month, they will either be really new or really old... My music taste is literally anything!! I will go from listening to something in the top 40 to something from High School Musical... There is no in between.  (All of these will be on Spotify to listen to)

1. "Friends"- Eliza and The Bear. 

I really like this song it's kinda catchy and it's as though it is saying you have friends and family behind you, so don't let anything bring you down in a way. 

2. "The Weekend"- Eden xo 

This song is kinda cheesy but its so catchy and its great its something I would sing constantly on a Friday. Forget about Rebecca Black this song is the new "Friday" song hahaha!! When I first heard it I was like "what is this?!" but I have had it on repeat like since Wednesday!! 

3. "Drag me Down"- One Direction 

As I have mentioned before I used to be obsessed with 1D but now I'm not but I still like there music and this song is probably one of my favourites of theirs. I have had a tough year and this song probably sums me up from this year.

4. "Stay Out"-Nina Nesbitt 

There isn't really a reason behind this song, I hadn't heard it for ages and it was in my Discover weekly on Spotify one week and I've had it on quite a bit lately. 

5. "Freaks"- Timmy Trumpet, Savage 

This is suchhh a catchy song. After the viral video of when your Mama isn't home I needed to find the song and this is the song I put on to make me walk faster to college from the train station or to put me in a good mood. 

6. "What Now"- Rhianna 

This song is an oldie again, but when I have listened to this song again it's quite personal to me and it's like when everything seems to be going right and you feel like something is laughing at you and pulling you back. Which is how I feel about my anxiety. 

7. "Air Hostess"- Busted 

Just can not get enough of this song!! Loved Busted ever since I was little and I can remember standing in my aunties kitchen and the radio announcing they had split. I must of been about 8 or 9. It's an oldie but it's a goodie!! 

8. "Best Fake Smile"- James Bay 

I really like this song. I didn't really like James Bay at first but now he has grew on me and listened to his full album and this song has a strong message and for that reason this is one of my favourite songs. Basically, It tells you don't pretend be yourself.

9. "Bohemian Rhapsody"- Queen 

I don't even need to explain why this is in my monthly favourites because it is probably the best song of all time hands down. There is no negative about it. Wrote by 1 person which is why it is so great!! 

10. "Black Magic"- Little Mix 

I Love Little Mix, I really do and I love this song and the music video to go with it!! I have never seen Little Mix live but I reallllllly want to!! They would be amazing!! 

I just had to use this gif it's so funny Hahaha!!!

If you haven't heard any of these songs go ahead to Spotify or YouTube if you don't have a Spotify account and you can check them out there and let me know what you think. 

I know everyone has their own music tastes but I listen to anything so if you have any suggestions to listen to, just tweet me or leave it in the comments!! 

Hope everyone had a great weekend!! 

Melishia x 

Follow Friday

It's that time of the week again that I haven't done in a while.... bad me!! But I am back and more organised so lets just get to it shall we and see which 6 bloggers I chose for my Follow Friday this week!! 

Gemma, at Confessions of a Nagging Mother: 

I love, love, loveeee, Gemma's blog!! I love it all because she has a love for Disney and she is so sweet in her blogs all the time and also her blog deserves the recognition. When I'm feeling down this is one blog I would turn to it's just so great!! 

Kathryn, at Chapters of Kat: 

Yessss I have included Kathryn before but her latest blog posts have been amazing!! A one that should certainly be read is her post on World Mental Health Day. I know this is something that is close to her heart and mine too and she puts so much work into her blog. It's well worth the read!! 

Judith, at JudiJen: 

Judith is such a lovely and kind girl and she puts this across into her blog which makes it so friendly to read too!! I know she has been busy with school work lately so If you give her blog a read She has some new posts liker her Autumn walks which I loved!! 

Patience, at Fodreamy: 

When I first opened this blog I thought that it looked amazing!! The design which she used is just like the layout of a computer or an email which I really like the thought of!! Everything she talks about in her blog is so interesting too and I really like it and this blog also deserves more recognition!! 

Kayla, at Dainty Dweeb: 

I have only just recently came across this blog and I have really enjoyed reading her posts!! It feels like you are actually there talking to her or that you have known her for years when reading her blog which is one thing I love about it!! I also really like her latest post about autumn because as you all know I love all Autumn/Winter posts so I obviously love Kayla's too and so will you!! 

Sam, at The Belle Jar blog:

I fell in Love with Sam's blog instantly when I saw the name of her blog and the image that goes along with it because Beauty and The Beast is my all time favourite Disney film and I think I could of "Fangirled" over it hahah!! She is also a lover for Disney and her Autumn post is lovely!! We also have the same scarf hahah Snap!! 

So these are this weeks Follow Friday Bloggers and each and everyone of them work's hard at their blog and really deserve the recognition! I love reading their blogs and I hope you will too!! 

Have a great weekend and Happy Reading!! 

Melishia x

Kevs 18th Birthday!!

Last week was Kev's 18th Birthday which he has been waiting for all year. It's a shame I have to wait until April but hopefully it will fly by!! 

It was such a great night!! We went out for a meal in a hotel on the sea front with his family and I thought it was lovely!! The hotel was lovely too. I had a Chicken Parmo, which is a Northern food and for those who don't know what it is, it is breaded chicken covered in 2 layers of cheese and it is one of my favourite foods ever!!

I know down south, some people haven't even heard of a Chicken Parmo, My cousins husband always has to get one every time they come home to visit. Anyway, I really enjoyed my meal but kev didn't, he doesn't like much food which is weird because I love my food hahaha!!  

And of course, because he was finally 18 he had to go and buy his first pint, which ended up being one of 7. He was soooo funny!! I literally couldn't stop laughing, I'm pretty sure I had to go to the toilet about 3 times I was laughing at him that much. We were leaving the hotel and he got up to leave first and shouted, "Come on Power Rangers, Let's Go!" I was laughing so much it just came from no where hahaha!! And once we got back home he was soon throwing up and me looking after him and putting him to bed. I won't go into details because it was disgusting hahaha!!

On the Friday we didn't do anything apart from sitting in with kev having a hangover and the hangover cure of Mcdonald's to the rescue!! 

Then Saturday, we had a trip to Newcastle to go shopping which is a nightmare on the train because there are never ever any seats as my town is where most people get on the train. I had never been to Newcastle shopping before and it wasn't the best, I think I will stick the the Metro Centre from now on. But it was so busy because me being me I totally forgot the Rugby World Cup was on so everywhere we went was the sound of bagpipes.  

However, I did get some lovely tops from new look which I will add photos in an October Haul because they are in the washing at the minute hahaha!! I did get some good photos as well. 

I took this photo just outside of the Eldon Square Shopping Centre and I thought it was really unusual and I really liked it so why not take a photo? 

Then, we came across this monument of Earl Grey which was surrounded by lots of Rugby Fans but still managed to get a good photo. Also, Is this who Earl Grey tea is named after? It sounds so stupid to ask that but it is a genuine question hahaha!! If you know, let me know!! 

This photo has to be my favourite from that day. This was took on the train back from Newcastle and the train was going pretty fast, as trains do of course, and I was so pleased with myself that this photo turned out to look so good!! This is one of the best photo's I have ever took, but I really can't wait until I get my new camera to take much better quality photos!!

That was my busy week last week and is the reason why I wasn't blogging last week and also because I was ill the week before and beginning of this week too, but I'll be back to normal soon, hopefully!! 

Hope you have had a great weekend!! 

Melishia x

I'M BACKKK :D

I'm backkkk!!

  

I am soooo sorry I haven't posted in a while, I have just been so busy, ill and just not in the right frame of mind to write a good enough post for you all that you will enjoy. But now I am feeling much better and there will be more pots coming your way too!! I may have to do a time table of when I have enough time in the day to be able to write and upload a post so that I can fit everything into the day and not to leave you all without a post for ages!! 

College has just been getting a lot busier and I have started my placement in a primary school now every Thursday and Friday and I am loving it!! But there will still be posts. I am hopefully going to be doing a lot more things as I tend to find myself doing a lot more in the run up to Christmas as it is almost a month away in just a few weeks... EXCITED!!! 

I hope all of you have been okay and thank you to you all for your support on twitter of over the last week and a bit, your comments have been so helpful, Blogging community is the best by far!! So glad I started Blogging and met all of you wonderful people and your blogs. Well done to everyone and expect more posts soon!!

 Have a great weekend!!

Melishia X

Cookies and Cup Cakes

Last Sunday I though I would be creative and bake some cookies and cupcakes, just because I was bored and had nothing else to do... apart from the college work I almost forgot to do... I know some of you were looking forward to this post to know how to make them yourselves!!

Toffee Popcorn Cookies 

225g Soft Butter 

250g Demerara Sugar (brown sugar) 

1 Large Egg 

300g Self Raising Flower 

1/2 tsp Baking Powder 

100g Toffee Popcorn 

100g Dark Chocolate 

Method: 

1. Pre-Heat your oven to 180, fan 160, gas mark 4. 

2. Whisk the butter and sugar together until all combined, then add the egg and whisk together. 

3. Pour in the flour, baking powder and half of the popcorn, then add a pinch of salt and mix together with a wooden spoon. 

4. Split the dough into golf size balls and place them onto a large flat baking tray with baking paper/grease proof paper. Lightly flatten each of the dough balls and press the remaining popcorn into the top of the dough. 

5. Bake the cookies for about 15-20 minutes (but I would check them at about 10 minutes just to be safe). leave the cookies on the tray to cool for 2-3 minutes then transfer them to a cooling rack. 

6. Now, you can melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of boiling water then drizzle it over the top, which I forgot to do...

Princess Cupcakes: 

100g Sugar 

100g Butter 

100g Self Raising Flour 

2 Large Eggs 

1 tsp Vanilla Essence 

Cupcake casings 

Method:

1.Add the sugar and butter into a mixing bowl and whisk them both together until light and fluffy. Then add the two eggs and whisk again until all combined. 

2.Pour in the flour and whisk again until all the mixture is combined and add 1tsp of vanilla essence. 

3.Once all the mixture is combined together, add your cake casings into a pudding tin (I doubled the casings over so the mixture didn't spill out.) Then spoon the mixture equally into each of the cases. 

TIP:Don't fill the cases right to the top, you have got to give them enough room to be able to rise and so they don't spill over the cases. 

4.Place into the oven at around 180(Fan) for around 15-20 minutes. To make sure the cakes are cooked, place a knife into the middle of one of the cakes, if no mixture is left on the knife, they are ready. 

5. Leave to cool on a cooling rack for about 25-30 minutes before decorating. I used the butter icing recipe from the back of the icing sugar box (which I put in the bin so I can't remember the brand but it is in a pink box). 

I used a piping bag to do my icing which you can get from any supermarket I think. Then used some pink and purple sprinkles from home bargains to place on top of my cakes too. The cake boxes were two for 50p from Tesco if you were wondering.

So that is how I made both of these and they were delicious!! I would suggest eating the cookies within 2-3 days of baking them as the popcorn goes a bit dry and soggy after a while, other than that I really enjoyed baking them and eating them hahah!! 

I hope you enjoyed this post and if you bake these send me your pictures I would love to see the end product!! 

Have a great weekend 

Melishia x

My Top Ten Disney Films

You should all know by now that I have a massive love for Disney!! I could have a Disney quote or a song for almost everything!! 

Usually every Sunday I will watch a variety of Disney films because that's what Sunday's are made of... Being lazy, staying in bed and cuddling up watching Disney films. Since it's the weekend and Sunday is approaching, why not share with you my Top Ten Disney Films. 

1)Beauty and The Beast 

2)Tangled 

3)Lilo and Stich 

4)Bambi 

5)Frozen 

6)Monsters Inc 

7)Peter Pan (Non animated) 

8)Lion King

9)Aladdin

10)Toy Story 

I can honestly tell you that, that was the hardest list I have probably done I love every single Disney Film but why on earth did I have to do a Top Ten hahaha!! 

But I love all of these films the characters and music are brilliant in these films and I think these are probably my all time favourite Disney Films. If you haven't seen any of these then you really need to, but hopefully you have seen them because that wouldn't be normal!! Let me know your thoughts on these films. 

Fun fact: When Frozen first got released I thought it was really annoying with the songs and it was really over-rated but when I seen it for the first time, I fell in love with it instantly!!! Have you ever thought like this about a film? 

I hope you enjoyed this post and watch these films soon because they are brilliant!! 

Have a great weekend! 

Melishia x

Autumn Days

Days are getting shorter, Nights are getting darker. You know what that means don't you? Autumn is here... then WINTER!!! I am so excited for both of these seasons, they are my favourite time of the year! Well Winter is my overall fave but then Autumn is the run up to winter which Makes you even more excited!! 

As it is Autumn very very soon, I am obviously going to write an Autumn post!! Also suggested by Jasmine at Blogsallbeautyy (Go check her out, her blog is Great!)

First of all, I know most of us girls have different make up choices to chose from for different seasons. So why don't I show you the products I have started using for this season. 

This Eye shadow pallet, that was also featured in the August Haul, has different shades which can be used for every season which is why I love it so much and been wearing it almost everyday!! As you can see by the delves in the segments, I have used 4 shades more than the others. The 2 shades at the beginning of the pallet to the left are the shades I was wearing all the way through August and I loved them! The other two darker shades towards the right end of the pallet are what I have been starting to use with a little lighter colour to the inner of my eye. These colours are great for Autumn and Winter.  

The next product I have started using is a liquid foundation by L'Oreal instead of the Dream Matte Mouse by Maybelline as I find that in the summer months, liquid foundation doesn't really work for me but the Dream Matte Mouse did so I used that for the summer and now I am going to start using this for Autumn/Winter months. This is the True match foundation by L'Oreal in Beige and I have used it for about 2 weeks and I really like it. It took me a while to get used to but it complements my skin really well in my opinion. (and my Mam thinks so too hahaha) 

And of course you can't have your foundation without the matching concealer too!! I really like this concealer works really well too. 

I haven't got a very good image of how I have been wearing my hair a lot more but I know I have posted this image on Twitter so some of you may have seen it. I got this look from Zoe (Zoella) from her YouTube tutorial and I really liked it and it looks cute and Autumn and Winter are cute seasons so it reminded me of that hahaha!! It can't be just me... Also this outfit can fit into the autumn season too and this wasn't even planned that way. 

Of course no Autumn days are complete without candles burning all around your house to make it extra cosy and warm when the weather outside isn't all that good. These are currently the candles I have out. I do have another candle but it wouldn't fit in the photo. Every single candle I have in my room is a Christmas candle apart from the purple candle called Black Plum Blossom from Yankee Candle, which is like a spring scent. 

And to finish it all off, My favourite, Fudge Hot Chocolate with Mini Marshmallows and Squirty Cream, Can't go wrong really can you?

So there it is, most of the things I will be using/Wearing this Autumn and winter, I love all of these!! If you have any Autumn related posts, send me your blog links I would love to read them!!

 Melishia x