cake

 Made this Victoria sponge cake for Max's birthday on Wednesday, well made the cake on Thursday as unfortunately I was feeling too ill to make a cake on the Weds. So whisked this up quickly on the Thursday for him before heading back to uni. Tbh I'm pretty impressed with myself, I'm not that great on making cakes but this one turned out far better than I expected (hence blogging about it). It's just a basic victoria sponge cake with cream and chopped strawberries in the middle, tastes delicious! I love victoria sponge cakes, I love any cake tbh.

Here is a quick snap of what I wore today, just some burgundy leggins and the tee is Max's he got from a vintage shop.

I've been quite busy recently, moved back up to Birmingham on Thursday then have just had so much uni work it's been hard to find time to blog. Thank you for all your lovely comments on my little tutorial (all tied up) the other day, I am definitely going to be wearing my hair like this more often now! 

 Hope everyone's having a lovely weekend, Me and Max just  made our lil Nando's meal - bought the peri peri salt and everything! Was sooo good! Check my twitter @dsychain for a pic of the chicken, would definitely recommend anyone who loves Nandos to try it out!

Love and daisies xx 

all tied up: tutorial

As mentioned previously in the all tied up post  I said I would give a quick tutorial on how to do a bow with your hair on top of your head. Probably works best with hair my length or longer, hair shoulder length would probably still work just need to be able to tie your hair up in a bun.

Hope this helps...

1. Tie Hair up into a high pony tail. Pull hair up to top of head so pony tail is sitting a bit higher on your head than this picture below.

2. Back comb the pony tail to create more volume.

3. Tuck end of pony tail into hair band to create a loop, don't worry about any stray hairs that wont go in.

4. HAIRSPRAY! I use Tresemme Freeze Hold hairspray, dries your hair out but keeps it up! Try and work the stranded hairs into the bun with hairspray, if they keep coming out don't worry.

5. Split the bun down the middle into 2.

6. Pull a strand of hair, a few cm's thick from the back of your bun, careful not to pull the bun out.

7. Pull strand of hair down the middle of the bun and wrap round the bottom and pin at the back with a grip(s).

8. Keep on hairspraying! 

9. Pin any strands of hair into the back with grips and try to make a bit neater than above, although I quite like the messyness!

10. Voila! 

(Picture taken from the other day, my makeup looked bad when I was taking these pics above!)

Hope this tutorial makes sense, I'm not very good at explaining things! If you need any help just ask in the comment box below or tweet me @dsychain and maybe give me a cheeky follow too? :D 

Let me know if any of you guys try this too, would love to see your pics!

Love and daisies xx

Happy Sundays.

Dress worn as top: Awear (sale) 

Skirt: Topshop

Necklace: Topshop

Wore this outfit for a meal out and to the cinema during the week just never got time to post it. My sister got this bargain dress from Awear, think it was closing down or just had a massive sale on, for £7 down from £25, I think. It's a dress to go out in really but as I was only going for a meal and to the cinema thought it was a bit OTT so teamed it with my black skirt that I wear with everything, so be warned you will see this skirt many times! Love this necklace my sister bought me for Christmas, would show up better with a plain top it's just too cool not to wear.

Today I've just realised how much uni work I actually have to get done before I'm back which is stressing me out slightly. I'm one of those people who just sit there and think of all the stuff I have to do, get myself stressed out then never end up doing any of it, therefore stressing myself out even more! So any de-stressing techniques would be greatly appreciated!

Hope you've all had a lovely weekend,
Love and daisies xx

pineapple & sweetcorn

                                                 

Shirt: Charity Shop

Necklace: Topshop

This is what I wore yesterday, just didn't get chance to take any photos of my outfit so put it back on for photo purposes as today was just a lazy day for me (my lazy clothes aren't so attractive!). Been looking for a denim shirt for a while now but they all seem to be over priced but I could just about afford this priced at £3.99. (Only just as my loan hasn't come in yet :( boo!) It is a bit too big for me tbh but think that just adds to the scruffy/ painter-y effect I was going for. Just added this Topshop necklace to 'jazz up' this pretty plain outfit. I wore black tights and a tight black skirt underneath from H&M.

Thank you so much for your lovely comments on my previous post 'all tied up' a few of you commented asking how I achieved the bow with my hair so I will do a post soon on how to do this. 

Hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Love and daisies xx

all tied up

Top: Miss Guided

Glasses: Primark

Thought I'd try the up-do bow look today. Know it's a bit past it's time but I quite like it. I get bored with wearing my hair down but think hair down best suits me. It was surprisingly easy to do, just messed around with a bun for a while and voilà! Not the most neat and amazing bun but think it's a pretty good effort for my first time. Have any of you got any different hair suggestions I can try out? Or that work well for you? 

Jumper is from Miss Guided, it's actually my sisters, (love being home and being able to steal borrow my sisters clothes!) Loving the leopard print cross, gotta love a bit of leopard print atm. It's so cosey too! Winter, comfy clothing ftw. 

Love and daisies xx

americana

 Jumper: Urban Outfitters

Skirt: H&M

Just a quick post to show what I wore today. Love this jumper for when I need something to throw on quickly, hides all those mince pies jam tarts and chocolate fingers eaten over this fatty period. It's so comfy and perfect for this time of year.

Had a lazy day today, should have done some uni work, instead watched Harry Potter with Max (determined to watch them all before we go back to uni) then managed to take the spare wheel off from under the boot of my car?! Phoned my dad (aka god of help when things go wrong) and thankfully he fixed it.

So happy to be getting back into blogging, I love reading all your blogs. Thank you for all your comments, I appreciate every single one.

Love and daisies xx

Back.

I'm back. Here to stay, promise.

New look, new style and hopefully you'll be able to purchase some of my handcrafted jewelry soon!
I love blogging and not really sure why and how I stopped, life just got too busy and then I felt it was too late to get back into it, so I thought new years day will be the day and finally at 8pm I am getting wrong to doing a post. So lazy and unorganised!

I love this saying 'happiness is a mood not a destination. I first heard it on One Tree Hill (oh Julian...) and it just makes perfect sense. All our lives, we (well, maybe just me, generalising a bit here) watched fairy tales repeatedly, were told that if we have friends we'll be happy, go to university and have the 'time of your life', be in a relationship and be happy, over the moon, head over heels in love all the time. But the reality is no one is ever happy all the time, if you are then, well you're just annoying. I just think it's a perfect quote and has opened my eyes to not head towards that fairy tale destination, to just enjoy life right now rather than looking forward to life. (Doesn't mean to say I'm still hoping Prince Charming will come whisk me off to some castle one day...)

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas, New Years Eve. Got fat and now starting the diet. I plan to eat healthy and play on just dance for the rest of the year.

Dress: Topshop
Hair dye: L'Oreal Casting Creme Gloss

 Dyed my hair this 'Black Cherry' colour the other day. I get bored really easily with my hair, I did want to chop it shorter into a Alexa Chung style but freaked out the of day the hairdressers and kept the length. I didn't know what colour to dye my hair, and Max, my boyfriend persuaded me to get this colour and I think he chose well. I love the colour. It is only semi-permanent but I think once it's all out I'll dye my hair permanently this colour as I really like it and think it has come out really well for a semi-permanent dye. 

Until next time...

Love and Daisies x x