Lucy's DIY Cupcake Towers

Ever get bored and just want to make something new? Well that happened to me today and i've been collecting tins for a secret DIY project (ooooh!) so I was like, why not? So here it is, my DIY Cupcake Tower things. 

Utensils: - A couple of tins, washed and dried with labels off

- Greaseproof paper or non-stick spray

- Stuff you'd use to make normal cake mixture, like an electric whisk, bowl, spoons, whatever you use to make cake mixture.

Ingredients: Mixture: 

- 8oz flour

- 8oz sugar

- 8oz margarine

- 4 eggs

- 4oz cooking chocolate

Icing: 

- Butter or margarine

- Icing Sugar

-Strawberry Flavouring

-Bit of Milk (for consistency)

Method: - PREHEAT OVEN TO ABOUT 160 DEGREES CELCIUS

1) Mix together margarine and sugar in bowl.

2) Melt chocolate and put aside

3) Mix flour and eggs into sugar and margarine mixture. Then mix in the melted chocolate. If you don't think its gloopy enough, add a bit of milk. 

To grease the tins, either cut out the shapes as follows for the tin, or use non stick spray to ensure they slide out after baking easily. 

Scoop some mixture into tin and make sure it's about half full.  

Pop in the oven and leave in for 20-30 mins, or stick a knife in it and see if it's gooey in the middle still. If it is, put it back in the oven!

Make up your butter icing while the cakes are cooling. All you need to do is soften the butter, add in icing sugar until it tastes right, add flavouring and a bit of milk. 

Once the cakes have cooled, cut them across as seen in the photo below and spread the butter icing on them and join them up. If you get me. It makes a cupcake tower cake thing! My sister says they remind her of Daleks? From Doctor Who? 

Anyhoo! They are super easy to make and super cute! And super tasty! 

Hope you enjoyed this little tutorial! 

Thanks guys, 

Lucy xo

My Heels Collection

hello my lovelies! Just a quick post here, don't really have much to say apart from... welcome to my shoe collection! Part 1 of a series ;) No just kidding these are just some of my high heels! I have a bit of an obsession!! Some are from New Look, Penneys, Zara, Faith, Next... And then I have my Carvela's and my red shoes from Guess! :) 

Please enjoy these little snaps and feel free to ask me where I got each pair! I'll be more than happy to help you find similar versions online or whatever! :) I have about 15 pairs here, I thought putting them all up would be too much but you can enjoy some of my favourites! :)

Thank you darlings :D

Lucy xo

Trying On Debs Dresses!

Hello! For any of my readers that are not from Ireland, when you graduate from secondary school, or high school, we hold an event called the Debs. Its like a ball, a prom, a formal, whatever you call it. You usually go with a date, get a corsage, have champagne, go out for a meal with your old year and then go to a nightclub afterwards. Most of the time, girls dress in long ball gown type dresses, so I went shopping with one of my friends and these are the ones that I liked the most!

These dresses pictured are from a dress hire shop in Dublin called 'Covet'. They have the most beautiful designer dresses to hire, and it was so hard to pick one! I fell in love with the red one pictured first, but unfortunately it wasn't available to hire for the date of my debs. So I guess I may rent one of the others or I will just keep looking! 

And if you're reading this and you're attending my debs, sorry for the preview!! Hope you guys enjoyed this, I have a few more posts to come over the next few days. I've been so busy lately! And the weather is awful and I was hoping to get outside for a photoshoot. In the next week or two I will try to get something up.  

Thanks for reading!

Lucy xo

Ps. Sorry for my crazy hair and no makeup lol. 

http://covet.ie <<< link to dress hire shop and they also have a Facebook!

DIY Candle Jars

Heyyyy my lovelies! I am sorry its been a while since I posted, I haven't been at home much, I've been at my boyfriends a bit and my friends and they've been here so I haven't had much time to do anything! But today I have another DIY post for you!! We had a load of jars and I thought, hey why not do some DIY?? We had a load of paint samples from last summer when I was painting my room so I just used those to paint the jars.  The one in the photo has some candle wax on it sorry, twas from when I was testing to see if the tea light would sit okay in it!! :)

The pictures are pretty self explanatory, so I don't think I need to do a step by step. You need a jar, some paint, masking tap, scissors, some ribbon and a tea light. You need to make a love heart shape out of masking tape and stick it onto the front of the jar, Then you can paint over it with the paint and then peel it off when you're finished and you have a cute heart shape on the front! Then just stick your tea light in, tie a ribbon around the top and voila! 

These little jars are perfect for gifts. They're cheap and easy to make and don't take up a lot of time! :) If anyone makes one, take a picture, post it to instagram and tag me in it!! :D 

Thanks guys I hope you enjoy this little post! :) 

Lucy xo

DIY Crop Tops!!!

So I found some old swimming costumes of my little sisters that were way too small for any of us to fit in, so I decided to do some DIY. Its summer, I have a lot of free time so why not? These crop tops are super cute! They're a perfect idea for going on holidays or just for chilling at home during the summer months.  Swimming costumes are good to use as they are designed to cling to your skin and you don't need to stitch up at the bottom of the top. 

I am really not good at doing step by step details of things, I always feel like I ramble on and make no sense, so I will do my best to help. 

Step 1: Measure the swimming costume up against you, and in one side of the costume, cut a small hole at the height you want your crop top to be. Measure with a ruler or something with a straight edge, where the opposite side would match up to and cut a small hole in the other side.

Step 2: Cut across from one hole to the other. Do this on the front and back of the costume. Make sure to stretch the material so that it is a straight line with no rugged edges.

Step 3: Trim off any jagged edges. And voila, you are ready to go!

You can now wear this as a crop top for going out or just a casual top with high waisted jeans or something! Or you could also use the bottoms and make a 2 piece swimming costume! It is up to you what you decide to do with it! Get creative! 

 

Got an old t-shirt of your Dads? Brothers? Boyfriends? They're going to throw it out? STOP THEM NOW! You can reuse it and make a cool crop top! 

Step 1: Mark off where you want to crop top to end and make your cut off marks an inch or so below that.

Step 2: Repeat the steps from the first crop tops. 

Step 3:  Cut a line, about an inch in length, in the middle on the front, just above the line you have just cut. This is to be used to tie the other sides across. 

Step 4: Take 2 bits of material from either side of the shirt, and tie a not through the hole you have just cut down the middle of the top. And there you go, a cute crop top! PS. excuse lines on my belly, I was sitting over for ages cutting the tops lol. But who cares? ;) 

Thanks everyone, hope you enjoyed this post! If you recreate these looks, put a photo on instagram and tag me in it! Username, xxxlmgigglesxxx , surprise surprise!!

Thanks, 

Lucy xo