Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts

Imagine Dragons

Well is was postponed and was last night, and it was the best night this year.


Tiptoe Higher.



Lift your feet off the ground and feel the music go straight to your heart, listen as your heartbeat changes and everyone in the room becomes friends for and hour or so because the music has the same effect. Scream the lyrics as loud as you can because you can and no one will judge you, jump up and down, dance, and sway. Let the music change you. Spend the entire night on tiptoes because you are stood behind the worlds tallest human being, but most of all smile. Imagine Dragons were amazing last night, and all I want is to be right there forever, because in that moment I felt infinite and it was the happiest I have been this year. Music is more powerful than anything else at bringing people together well said Dan, Ben, Wayne, Daniel and Wolfman.
  






 
xoxo Miriam

P.S. I love the fact that the pictures are blurred the lights are bright and the music was so damn good I don't care.

The Lovecats Inc.

I have been reading The Lovecats Inc  for what seems like a few years, when in reality it has only been a few months. I discovered Helen's space on the internet back in July, and I haven't stopped ooh-ing and aah-ing at the posts since. Helen is a 23yr old magazine/fashion journalism graduate from the UK and I asked her some questions:


 
(Picture "stolen" from her blog)


Me: Why did you start your blog?


Helen:I started my blog alongside my Journalism degree and, as I read a lot of blogs at the time, I thought it can't be too hard! I blogged on and off for about a year before getting a grip and taking it seriously in May 2012!

Me: Do you enjoy creating beauty or fashion posts more on your blog?





Helen: I actually enjoy creating beauty posts more these days, as other blogs have helped my skin so much so I like to share what works for me incase it can help anyone else! I still like doing my outfit posts, it's just with working until late and the nights being dark so quick, I'm finding less time to do them!

Me: What are your top 3 winter essentials?



Helen: My top three winter essentials have to be 1) REN's SOS emollient rescue cream, which is an intensive, balm-like moisturiser that really hydrates skin 2) Estee Lauder's Double Wear Foundation, as it stays in place even if it's pouring down, windy and cold and 3) a massive scarf, because I hate being cold!

Me: What is on your Christmas list so far?

Helen: For Christmas this year, I'd love Kevyn Acoin's The Celestial Powder in Dim Light, as it looks amazing and is so raved about. I'd love to try some things from Pai Skincare, a NUDE facial oil and, if I'm very lucky, Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille perfume as I adore it.

Me: Do you have any tips for other bloggers?




Helen: My top tips for other bloggers are 1) Don't assume people will come to you. Participate in blogger chats, talk to people on twitter, comment on other blogs, it really helps to let people know you're out there! 2) PR samples and all of that aren't something to be expected or demanded, they're a perk! Don't be sad if other people get something and you don't and 3) Have fun with it! Share what you enjoy and if you can't post every day, it's no big deal :)

Me: What is your favourite dessert?

Helen: My favourite dessert is cake. Any kind of cake. I really love cake.
Me: Tea or coffee?

Helen: Neither! I don't actually drink tea or coffee, I'm more of a hot chocolate girl (with caramel, mm).
Me: What is the best book you have read this year?

Helen: I re-read the original The Ring and The Ring 2 recently, they're two of my favourite books.

Me: Where would you go next on holiday if money was no object?


Helen: I would love to go to Tokyo, as I've been meaning to go for the past few years with a friend, but never had the cash at the right time. The shopping would be amazing plus everything's adorable, so I'd be ridiculously happy.

Me: What is the best season of the year?

Helen: My favourite season is Autumn, but just at the beginning where it's still warm enough to wear shorts, but with a jumper or a coat thrown over the top!


A big thanks to Helen and you can follow her here and here!

xoxo Miriam

P.S. She also has YouTube and many other wonderful links so what I think I am trying to say is go and check out her blog and her wonderful thoughts.

Summer Pudding.

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For once I am sticking to my little timetable, and posting a nice little cooking idea on a Sunday. So for today and possibly tomorrow I made a Summer pudding,you know the type, with far too much fruit and not enough bread. to hold it in. Insert weird diagram here....

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Summer Pudding


Serves 4-6


Ingredients:
- 700g Red Fruit - 125g Caster Sugar - 8-10 thin slices of bread with the crusts removed -


Heat the fruit and the sugar in a saucepan until the sugar has dissolved and the juices are running. Remove the mixture from the heat. Lightly grease a pudding basin. Soak the bread in the fruit juice and arrange around the pudding basin. Pour in the fruit and remaining juice. And create a lid with any remaining bread. Leave in a cool place overnight with a plate with weights on top to compress the lid down.


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Miriam


xxx

New Year's Resolutions!

  1. Explore all areas of fashion and beauty, or in other words I want to learn how to write HTML so I can design my own blog professionally and I want to continue with YouTube as an outlet of my creativity.
  2. Relax! I am quite a stressed person, and have a tendency not to stop and think about how I could make things easier in order to free up space so I have more time to do the things that make me HAPPY!
  3. A set of New Year's Resolutions wouldn't be complete without something health and/or exercise related! Now as my job does require a certain amount of fitness and my college course requires me to do 50hrs of exercise I thought I might start attending Spinning classes as I have heard they are incredibly good for your overall fitness!

Happy 2013 lets make this year BRILLIANT. 

Happy New Year's Eve!

Happy New Year's Eve!

What fun New Year's Eve parties are! Apart I'm not attending one, this year. Sat at home doing homework and revision was not the way I had hoped to end 2012 but I can't wait till the new year! There are so many perfect things I have planned!
Now there is the matter of new years resolutions or rather the lack of them! I could be all generic e.g. be healthier, work harder. But I think I might just do what makes me happy and see where it takes me. Small goals throughout the year me thinks.
(Polo shirt - M&S, Top - New Look, Skirt - H&M)
xoxo Miriam

P.S. I am going to have jar where I will write down all the good things that happen so I can see what an amazing year 2013 has been next New Year's Eve!

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