OOTD and Deaf Havana gig

Hola guys!

On a very sunny Saturday, Me and David had a day trip to Manchester to do a bit of retail window shopping and to go see one of our favourite bands, Deaf Havana.

On Valentines day last year, I had no idea who these guys were and David was planning to take me to one of their gigs however, when I searched them in youtube and clicked on an old song of theirs, which was really heavy and not my cup of tea, a sigh of relief as he bought me Nero tickets instead, hehe. But since their first EPs they've changed and are not as heavy/screamery, well just more bearable for me anyway probably because I've fallen in love with them. We saw them at Leeds Festival 2012 and again on Saturday for a more intimate acoustic unplugged gig which was amazing!

You should definitely give them a listen as they are such great musicians, experimenting with different instruments (the singer, James did anyway in the acoustic set, so I expect more of that on their new album which is coming out September time) and their lyrics just brilliant.

Make sure you check out their Myspace, or their Facebook Page and they have most their music on spotify for you to listen too! 

This is what me and David both wore for our day out!

Charlotte:

Dress; Primark

Belt; Primark

Shoes; Topshop

Necklace; eBay

Coat; Urban Outfitters

David:

Shirt; River Island (similar)

Jacket; River Island

Trousers; Ladies Primark Skinnies (tehe)

Shoes; Vans

Hat; Urban Outfitters

Deaf Havana's support act were 'Big Sixes' and this was the first both of us had heard of them and they were actually insanely good. Definitely expect big things from them, their vocals were just brilliant and their overall sound is just so different and very catchy. Check out their music here, you'll understand what I mean. 

Deaf Havana were just as good if not better! Their stage setup was so cute, candles around their set with very minimal lighting and 3 lamps. It made the whole gig feel so much more intimate, more like a show than a gig.

It was such a brilliant and happy gig, everyone just sat in silence and enjoyed and embraced the sound of brilliant music. Even though I booked our tickets at 9am on the release date of tickets, we were sat right at the back at the top in the Royal Northern College of Music, but we still had a pretty good view!

Do you like Deaf Havana's music? or the Big Sixies?

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iPhone 5 Cases

Hellooo darlings!

I saw an iPhone case on a page I follow on facebook called 'Design You Trust' which is such an amazing page if you don't already follow it, I suggest you do, they post some really cool and amazing designs and photographs all the time, like this Bubble wrap case. Which is just such a great idea, you'd never be bored but then I thought how irritating it would get after the novelty ran off!

So then I got hunting on Etsy to find some of my favourite iPhone cases, because I love looking for cool new cases to 'waste my money on' as my momma says! I am currently using my Hello Kitty case, which I bought before there were many iPhone 5 cases on sale so I was limited for choice and now I've just checked and there is so many different Hello Kitty one on eBay, so I'm definitely hunting for a new one.
Check out my 5 Hello Kitty favs: 1/2/3/4/5

Here are my overall favourite, some of these ideas and designs are just amazing!

Going from top left all the way round: 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8-9/10/11-13

All of these designs are so innovative and brilliant, like the paint pallet and the Harry Potter train ticket! The only problem is that I was told if I had a hard case on my iPhone 5 it would scratch the matt finish on the phone, so I've only been buying the silicone cases which you don't get many with cool designs like these on but I may just have to change it and risk it!

I have so many more favourites that I just can't show you them all, here are some great shops on Etsy for you to check out for yourself 1/2/3/4/5/6/

Which is your favourite case? Have you scratched an iPhone 5 with a hard case?

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Bakingmad.com #2

Hello Lovelies!

Happy Easter, hope you're all eating as much chocolate as you can. I've got my Easter egg waiting for me to demolish.

We have some exciting news, our FIRST GIVEAWAY will soon be published to win a Baking Mad Cook Book for all you food and baking fanatics! We haven't received the Cook Book yet, so as soon as we do we'll post more information about the competition, hopefully will be next week!

Anyway in the spirit of Easter, we've been doing a lot of Easter baking! First of all me and Tori made some cute cupcakes, cornflake cakes and shortbreads which all turned out fabulous check out the post here. Then bakingmad.com sent me some decoration ingredients to use so me (Charlotte) and David have baked possibly the most extravagant Victoria sponge I've ever made.

Be sure to check out bakingmad.com if you've not already as they have so many amazing easy recipes for you to follow like these Cake Pops, each recipe have a step by step guide of how to make it and they have loads of inspirational ideas to make your cooking better and more fun!

This is what we got sent. I've never used roll on icing before, so it was a challenge when we finally started decorating the cake.

We decided on a Victoria Sponge with a jam centre, following this recipe but changing the additional ingredients

Here's how to make a brilliant Victoria Sponge

As this was the first time that either me or David had used Roll on Icing I'm afraid I can't give you any advice or tips to perfecting it as we just improvised on our cake, all I can say is that you need a lot of patiences. Check out bakingmad.com here for more information on how to dye the icing.

Here it is! This took us all day long and after lots of stressing trying to get my chick and eggs to look life like, I was very pleased of the final outcome!
Massive thanks to David for helping me, and doing all the banner and the icing letters and for the morale boost!
After trying the cake, it was totally worth it, the Sponge tastes amazing and the icing is just the right amount, I wish I could give you all a piece to try.

We will let you know as soon as we get the competition sort and hopefully you will be a lucky winner of a new Cook Book!

Have you made an Easter Cake? What do you think of our cake?

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Passion for Fashion?

Hey lovelies!

Moneysupermarket.com are holding a 'Passion for Fashion' competition and to enter all you need to do is write a blog post and show them how you would find an outfit for under £200 for each of these categories; Casual wear, Party wear and Holiday wear! Obviously I had to this, I love a good challenge and creating my own outfits even if it makes me really upset that I can't buy all the nice things I want. The closing date of the competition is 8th April 2013, so you have loads of time and for more information check it out here.

So here are my outfits!

1/2/3/4/5/6/7

TOTAL: £152.58

This outfit took me so long, I'm not quite sure why, but it was definitely time well spent. I saw this Miss Selfridge dress in the store not so long ago and it's been on my wishlist since, I love it, it's so adorable and I have such a weakness for an embellished collar.
Originally I was going to use the Mini Sienna Padlock Bag from Topshop as the colour matched so well with the brogues and the belts however with the price tag of £75 I thought that I could find a bag just as good for cheaper, after all we all love a good bargain, and I think this bag looks just as good if not better.
The socks actually come part as a 3 pack, therefore for £8 I didn't think was so bad because then you can mix and match the socks with other shoes to create a whole new look and the belts also come as a 2 Pack for £4.99 which is brilliant as both belts would really go with the whole outfit.

1/2/3/4/5/6

TOTAL: £112.48

I love the neon trend at the moment. My original plan was just to have a neon clutch, however I've wanted a bow clip from AA for ages now, and when I saw they did it in orange, it just would look so cute at the back of my hair and I also thought that the dress would look great with a chunky statement necklace and when I came across this chain one from Topshop, it was like it was meant to be.
I really want these flatforms from Riverisland, I don't like wearing heels because I just tower above everyone else so I normally wear flatforms and I think that these shoes will last a good while as the tread is pretty big!

1/2/3/4/5/6

TOTAL: £114

If you've not already guessed already, Coral/Pink is my favourite colour, I have so many Coral items in my wardrobe, and this summer I will probably buy a whole lot more, I hope. Coral looks great with a tan and when I found this Topshop Cover up I was in love, no matter what swim suit you pick, you could probably pair it with this cover up. The Sandals are just made for the sun, apparently as they are called 'easy tan summer sandal' and there is nothing worse than tan lines, especially embarrassing ones.
This AA bag will be perfect hold all for the beach, you definitely will be able to fit everything in like a towel, dry clothes, books and camera, everything you need!
I love River Island Sunglasses, they suit me a lot better than most sunglasses and for £13 they are a little price to pay. Unfortunately I lost my last pair when I was in Turkey in this beautiful flowing river, nearly cried when it happened and was hunting for ages to find them but as soon as they fell off my head, they were gone *sigh*. If we ever get a summer again this year, they are definitely the first purchase!

For more information on the competition  and how to enter check here and make sure you send me the link to your outfits collages!

Do you like my outfit collages? Which is your favourite outfit?

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Bakingmad.com #1

Evening!
Hope your all enjoying Easter, we thought that we'd carry on with our Easter theme. Like Charlotte said in Bakingmad #2 post we did some baking together before we was given the Bakingmad set and it's too good not too post cause they all turned out so tasty.

The recipe we picked could have been anything from Cupcakes, Flapjacks or even something Easter related like Easter Bunny Cake Pops. There was just too much choice and we decided to make 3 things; Homemade Shortbread, Chocolate Corflake Cakes and Easter Cupcakes
And they all turned out pretty good!

Round 1: Easter Cupcakes

The finished product of all our cakes is at the bottom of this post :) 

Round 2: Home Made Short Bread

The finished product of all our cakes is at the bottom of this post :) 

Round 3: Cornflake Cakes

We couldn't find a proper Cornflake Cake Recipe on bakingmad.com however they do have Chocolate Crispy Cakes which is practically the same, just with different cereal and we've made ours Easter related too!

Well we had TONES of fun making all these treats, had a proper full afternoon of baking and finished the day off eating them while having a Harry Potter marathon! Bliss.

As we've said, we are still waiting on a Bakingmad Cook Book to arrive for us to give away, and as soon as we get it I'm sure we'll get our hands messy, bake some more and tell you more about the giveaway!