Hello everybody!

Hope you're doing well (and that you're still not totally bored with my posting...). Today has been an eventful day and I've got quite a lot done. Tomorrow, I will put up our little Halloween decorations and later on I will show them to you. They're nothing much, but something fun for the weekend, at least.

However, like I promised earlier today, I wanted to share these super cute Halloween treats with you! If I could, I would hand these out through the screen for you all. They're that good.



Like you guys might know, I've been on gluten free diet since summer, as I was diagnosed with celiac disease. Sounds scary, I know, but it's nothing major. I just have to eat right and I feel well. Easy-peasy. With that change, however, I need to keep looking my baking a bit differently. I need to work with new ingredients and some of them work slightly differently than the ones I had been used to.

But I figured that if I find a fool-proof (or at least surely good) recipe I could actually modify it for my diet. So I took a cupcake recipe from Martha Stewart (click here to see the recipe) and switched the flour to gluten free flour mix and rice flour, and added some psyllium fiber to make the texture better. And, I must say, it went pretty well. Taken that this was my first time making cupcakes since my diagnose.



When it comes to the appearance, I can say I'm not Martha Stewart, nor Bree van de Kamp, but these still came out pretty decent. The eyes are simply painted with gel food color, but the seeds that the recipe called for would have been more fun. These are so delicious with all the chocolate goodness going on and the little marshmallows inside, that you can't really eat more than one at a time. Or per day, for that matter.



I still have one more recipe to go this week, as well as one costume idea, before I show bits and pieces of our low-key Halloween. Then you can say goodbye for Halloween posts for a year, but I promise, I have fun stuff even after this. Just in more sensible posting schedule.

But let me know what you think about these goodies, and what you will maybe bake for Halloween, in the comments below!

I'm heading to bed now, but I will talk to you very, very soon ♥

Have an awesome day guys!

Heya lovelies!

How are you this Sunday? ♥

We've been packing our stuff like crazy, and I can't believe how close our move is already. I hope we get the keys ASAP, since I would love to get decorating already. ;)

I hope your weekend has been great - but maybe not as busy as ours :D

Today I really wanna show you this little tutorial for nail art - do you remember the Cupcake Nails I showed you a while back? Well, anyone who wants to make those, can do so with a little of this tutorial. :)

Let's get to it, shall we? ♥



You'll need: Base coat, top coat, dotting tool (or two), brush for clean up, clear nail polish, glitter polish, two different shades of pink (or any other color) polishes, some nail art pens, white polish, micro beads/manicure caviar, rhinestones, and a tool to help you with placing the rhinestones.

Start (as you always should) with a base coat, and let it dry completely before doing anything else.



Take out the pink polishes (or whichever colors you may choose), and start painting your nails as follows:



Now, any nails you wanna have a cupcake on, only paint them halfway through, or little less, with the pink. We shall handle the top part on the next step. You can have a cupcake on as many nails as you wish, I went with just one this time.



Paint the top half of the cupcake nail(s) with your glitter polish.



Bust out your white polish and a nail art pen for the cupcake. The white will be your icing, so again, use any color you wish, I personally like the light shades best. The nail art pen is for the "cup" of the cupcake, to give it more dimension. This should be either a little darker or a little lighter than the cup, depending what kind of color you've chosen for the cup.



With the nail art pen, draw few horizontal lines to the cup, to make it more detailed and dimensional. then take the white, and start creating the icing with three dots. These can be either identical or totally random, compared to each other, it's totally up to you.



Next, connect the dots and paint a sort of half circle above them. Make sure there's no glitter polish showing through your frosting. You can also go creative, and make this any shape possible, but I think this is the easiest way.



Take out your rhinestones and if possible, use the bright red ones. It's meant to be a cherry - but again, do like you feel best. Here's where you'll need the clear polish, it'll be the glue for the rhinestones. place a drop of clear polish on top of the cupcake, and place a rhinestone while the polish is still wet. Note! The white polish should be dry before you do this. ;)



Now, take the caviar beads, and keep the clear polish in hand. This is without a question the trickiest part of the cupcake. Place some of the beads somewhere where you can easily pick them up individually. You might need a small brush or other tool to do this neatly. Working with one bead at a time, place a drop of clear polish with a dotting tool (toothpick works, too) to where you want your "sprinkles" to go. Do this with all the beads until you have enough details. I know this is time-consuming and tests your patience, but I think it's worth it.



Decorate the rest of the nails as you wish - I went with stripes and rhinestones this time, and remember to clean up the edges. Finish off with the top coat to seal in your creation.







And your finished nail art looks - at least for the cupcake - like this.

If you try this out, please link me your creations, as I love to see others' work. Also, please let me know what you think about the tutorial. And if there's any questions, I'm happy to answer them in the comments. ♥

That's all for now, I hope you liked this tutorial and found it at least a tiny bit helpful in any way. Have a nice Sunday, and also, have a fantastic start for your week tomorrow!

Blog ya later,

xoxo

Johanna

Hey lovelies!

How are you all? ♥

Today, I'm having this verbal test in business English, and I just hope everything will go well. Not that it's hard, but I fear that I'll have some blackout and forget the words. But, I shall not worry about it. I hardly think one could actually fail it. :D

Another thing I've been concentrating lately, is getting rid of clutter. Both real life as well as on my laptop. I recently realized my hard drive was only having 18% space left, so now I'm going through some serious clean up there as well. I kinda hoped I could just leave the cleaning to closet and the little everyday cleaning, but no. I feel like I have to organize and re-organize every single thing. But that might be a good thing, right?

So, today's post is about (besides my blabbering) nails. I have two pretty nice manicures to share with you, both probably in top 10 of my manicures ever! :) If you want to learn something about my nail art, see here and here for tutorials. And remember, you can always wish for another one, I'm happy to make them for you. ;)



The first manicure is done with this gorgeous hologram polish from Make Up Store. It looks very neutral and sandy in the bottle, but once on your nails, it has the most fabulous holo effect in every color. I thought a caviar ring finger in metallic pastel shades would compliment it well, and because I always have to add everything possible to every manicure, I put a piece of striping tape across every nail. It's still pretty simple, and looking at this now, I think I need to do and interpretation of this soon. ;)





And one picture in daylight. I was seriously taking too many photos of this because I liked it so much!

The other mani is more colorful and maybe less elegant, but it was so much fun to create. ;)



Cupcake nails! For some idiotic reason this blogger was dumb enough to not take many different pictures of these nails... Oh well. Luckily this picture shows everything about the mani, so you're not missing out. I've been asked to do a tutorial of these babies, so that's something I need to work on this weekend. And sorry about the misshaped thumb nail, it had a little accident but I didn't want to cut it down.



So, here are the manicures this time. I hope you liked them!

Are these manicures something you might try out? And is there a manicure you would like to see from me? Let me know in the comments! ♥ 

That's all for now, but I'll try to write something new pretty soon. I have a feeling I might even get to write a makeup review post this week, if everything goes as planned. ;)

Have a lovely week!

xoxo

Johanna