If I'd known you were coming I'd-a baked a cake...

I'm going for a meal for one of my friend's birthdays on Monday so I thought I'd bake her a cake. Last year I decided it would be fun to make a cake that looks normal from the outside but then have a really bright sponge in the middle as a suprise when you cut it open. I made a green and a blue one... the green one worked best and for this one I decided to go for pink. The food colouring I used was one with no artificial colours in it and it turns out that for a nice bright sponge you need a couple of lovely E numbers. The mixture looked really bright but then once baked the sponge was pretty much normal cake coloured so I decided to have a slice with a cup of tea this afternoon, share the rest out and make another one using proper food colouring.

I asked my boyfriend if he wanted to come round and help and when he got here I made him a cup of tea, gave him some mini eggs and he parked himself on the sofa and watched a film instead. He wore a pair of my sunglasses for a bit too.

Here is the original coloured cake:

The Cake Teapot:I don't usually wear rings but I love this one - you can't really see it properly but it sparkles loads of different colours. It was an impulse buy from Manchester Airport. I've also got a floral apron like all good housewives ready to bake.

The Useless Boy:

These sunglasses (another impulse buy when it was wet and windy outside) were £2 from Asda!

And the finished (half eaten) product which was actually very nice indeed! But not pink enough:

Really I should stop messing around with cakes and do some coursework.

I also bought this cute Minnie Mouse style hairclip from a charity shop today:

Bed time!

The Midas Touch...

I bought some white pumps from primark and on the day I got them, stupidly wore them on a night out and they got filthy because for some reason people tend to stand on my feet a lot in bars.

I tried giving them a bit of a scrub but that just made them look sad and grey so I thought the only solution was to paint them gold!

So..

These:


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This:

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Shiny Happy Shoes once more!

N.B. The horrible curtains in the background are in my room at uni.. Good old Unite provided me with them, I am not responsible for them in any way.

Another gold pair of shoes I am lusting after for AGES are these Marc by Marc Jacobs boots but they are only on the US net-a-porter and not in my size. If any one would like to magic me up a pair in a UK 8 I would be very greatful as they are much more snazzy than my painted pumps.

One, two, three 'o' clock, four 'o' clock... Frock!

I'm Charlotte and decided to create a blog after being inspired by my wonderful friend Nic! The things I love are dresses (I think I have seventy-four at the moment), clip-on earrings, Chanel, teapots (+ Typhoo NOT Tetleys), Elton John, Gordon's Gin, my car Francisco and massive bags.

I tend to wear things that are quite colourful/my boyfriend dislikes.

Here are some examples:

This dress was from New Look in the Gold by Giles collection a few seasons ago.
The didn't have it in my size but then I found it in the sale for just £7 which made me very happy.


This is probably some sort of really energetic dancing... but I don't really remember.
Skirt - American Apparel, Top - Gap, Bag - Primark, Telephone necklace - Joy.

Bowler Hat - Topshop, Cardigan - Dorothy Perkins, Lipstick - YSL

These are my shelves in uni which have very important things on them:


Yes there are four teapots there.
I've just realised I have more teapots than cups and saucers which is distressing.

So that's it really! I'll probably regret making this when I have exams and I am more bothered about posts than revision but never mind.