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11Jan/1225

Cake Days – Because We All Love Cake

Ah, hello world, so this is how you look like to the 23-year-old me?

Some awwwesome cupcake cups I got for my birthday from my girl E. We all ♥ cake! 

Between my previous post and this one I celebrated my 23rd birthday. Some might argue that at this age you weren't supposed to count the years anymore, but I want to be proud of my age!

Heh heh that's right... I got this perfectly suitable birthday card!

Then again - Wouldn't it be fun if I suddenly hid my age and then you'd all be thinking I was, as I often hear I look, an 18-year-old little girl - who'd just happen to be about to graduate from Uni at age 18 and would therefore have to be one heck of a genius? That'd be a nifty alias!

Maybe next year.

Now I'm here to share a few (cake) photos from my birthday;

It had snowed heavily during the night before my birthday, so I woke up to this. What a beautiful gift.

I wasn't expecting gifts but my mom surprised me with a little cosmetics bag gift in the morning.
Including the new Trésor Midnight Rose (starred By Emma Watson) eau de parfum! Sweet ♥

For b-day bakings I used a recipe from the Hummingbird Bakery's Cake Days book I got for Christmas.

This time I baked Red Velvet cupcakes for the first time, by the recipe from the Cake Days book.

The cakes were yummy, and what's almost as important is, I got to use my cupcake tower for once!

Here's a shot from the pages of the Cake Days book - it must be the prettiest & yummiest book I've seen yet.

The layout & photos are just beautiful. Here the Strawberry Daiquiri mini cupcakes - so cute.

This year my birthday included baking, breakfast with mom & dad, little new treasures and coffee with very few close friends.  The older you get, the more you realize how many "friends" you have made that never really were friends to begin with - and then again, how great those few people are that will stick in your life. And there aren't many.

Muffin much, my current combo back to staying at my parents again + turning 23 is not so flattering - but I'm sure my age will fit me just fine once things with that i.e. go back to "normal".

PS. Ok, this post had little to do with style/fashion. Next post is more style related! Cheers!

1Nov/1023

Unpacking Another YesStyle Package

So it's November already huh? Wow. Hope everyone had a blast on Halloween! I was still in the 'better stay home & get better / not get sick any worse' condition so I spent mine at home & at mom&dad's.

For my Halloween I carved 3 little mini pumpkins!

There's 3 of us kids; my older sister J, me and our little bro M so naturally there had to be three little Jack-O's hohoho. 3 little monsters.
Which one do you think is me? →

On Saturday I already felt good enough (and bored enough for doing nothing because of being sick) for baking something and so I made mini cupcakeys with chocolate icing. And as I was sitting there trying to pack some to take with me all frustrated like 'noooo, I keep messing the icing, noooo there went another one!' my dad came up with the most genius doggy bag for those.

For carrying mini cakes from house to house without braking them or the icing;

The new mini-cupcake holder, an egg package! Genius, huh? Ah, runs in the family

So to cheer myself up this past weekend I tried baking, carving pumpkins and did some deco-den too, all 3 worked alright. I've been feeling better since Saturday but last week, aw man. I wasn't able to do anything or see anyone - I've even had to stay separated from my BB so that he wouldn't get sick too. Boooooo ( ≥`      ∩      ´≤ )

Oh, sorry for the whining, but really. Being this sick really does frustrate a girl, no joke.

I got a nice surprise on, I think it was on Thursday tho! I went to check up on things at my place and found two notes from the post office saying that I had two packages waiting to be picked up at the office. And so I stopped by at the post place right away and got a little bubble letter from this one hair place and a familiar-looking package from YesStyle! ↓

Let's see, what do we have in the YS box... 3 tops/tunics ↓ + 2 pairs of circle lenses!

I thought I'd make a little run-through of the stuff that I got in this time's order but I didn't take any pictures of the lenses yet. BUT I tried on the tops today and decided to take some outfit pics at the same time. Here we go;

Military jacket tunic in khaki

With a detachable hood, from the TokyoFashion brand on YS. I don't have a proper army coat yet but at least I've now got something khaki colored for the gal military trend!

Gray & black baseball sleeve tunic

From the brand PUFFY. With a funky print on the back: it says 'Love is party night - You escort me'... OK. Am I really going to be walking around with a print like that shouting out to all the 'escorters' out there? Hohoho. Uh, sorry B! Didn't think of what the print said when ordering this.

Cream colored 'Blogger' tee

Also from PUFFY. This one's probably going to stay as a home wear / workout wear shirt because *cough*. Well let's just say I once again forgot the fact that I have boobs and the models on YesStyle usually don't. In other words, the print falls in a funny looking place when worn irl and the shirt itself hangs down kind of like a maternity shirt soooo. Yeppers. Oh well. I'm still glad I've got my Blogger shirt!

This banner ↓ will take you to PUFFY's selection on YS, case these items got you interested.

And then like said, I got some of what many might call one of a gal's bff's - circle lenses ♥

To those that didn't know, YesStyle also sells GEO circle lenses! *click click* ↑
They seem to have almost all lenses (with 0 +/-) in stock too all the time so it's fast, too. Recommended!

I haven't been wearing lenses since, uh, winter I guess so I thought it was about time to get some! I like to wear circle lenses like AngelColor lenses for when I go out and such but lately there hasn't really been a big need for lenses. But I was kind of like 'a gal needs to have at least some circle lenses in case she comes to need some!' so I decided to get a pair of AngelColors (in gray) and a pair of Nudie's (in brown) this time.

I'll get back to those lenses once I've got pics! Today I'm just wearing my own eyes;

Buuuut that was a pretty long post / picture spam. For a change. Now I just kind of want to be off the computer and I feel like I could go to bed like naaooww to be honest.

Cheers & thanks for reading you guys!