A sad day :(

Yup it happened. My mother broke my panda spoon. It's hard to even talk about it. I'm fighting back the tears as I type this. It's sad day as we lose a close friend that was near and dear in our hearts. May he rest in piece or .... Piecesss D':. I never even got to name him. I wasted my precious time with him and now it's too late. I will never forget you.
On the plus side, I mastered the peppermint hot chocolate. I will definitely do a recipe soon ^^ also gonna attempt to do a coconut white hot chocolate and a hazelnut hot chocolate. Yummy. Getting fat toooo night-

♡ Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate Recipe ♡

It's 3:00am and I remembered that I said I was gonna do this like... yesterday... slack haha what can I say I'm on holidays ^^
Any-hoo let's get this scrumptious recipe started BUT before I do, I can't take the credit. I actually got the recipe from a super amazing and ridculously fantabulous youtube lady called missglamorazzi. You should all definitely go check her out, her videos are amaze-bangin! Here's the link to her video if you wanna see the pro make it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjOz0haZ4w
I also saw her panda mug and when I saw it in the store it kinda made me more inclined to buy it. So every time I drink this rich and peanuty drink out of my mug, I feel like I'm channeling her.... and NO it's totally not creepy! I swear! 

Ingredients

• Milk
• Cocoa Mix (I used Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate Powder)
• Peanut Butter (smooth or crunchy optional)
• Reece's mini peanut butter cups
• Vanilla essence
• Nutmeg
• Cinnamon
• Whipped cream

Let's Begin 

1. Grab a saucepan and pour a cup of milk in. This will be enough for one serving so add some more milk if you are making a big batch. 

2. Place it over the stove that is medium heat.
3. Once the milk has been heated up, but not boiling, place 2 spoon fulls of cocoa powder (you can add more if you prefer it to be super chocolaty). Then stir the cocoa until it is mixed well into the milk. After this I test tired it a bit to see if I needed to add sugar, I didn't but you are welcome to if it isn't sweet enough for you. 

4. Then add half a spoon of peanut butter. Seriously do not over do the peanut butter. Learn from my mistake, I added two spoon fulls and it just didn't melt well into the drink and then it was too thick and gluggy and gross. Just don't do it. If you want to add more peanut butter than do it in portions, add a little bit first and try it out before adding more. Make sure the peanut butter is melted well into the mixture.

5. Add a dash of nutmeg and cinnamon. I like cinnamon a lot so I add a lot more than just a dash. Probably like a teaspoon. Maybe more... :P

6. Then add a few drops (like about 3-4) of the vanilla essence. 
7. Then just mix and stir and mix and stir. I remember when I was in highschool taking home economic, my teacher taught me a cleaver little stirring trick to make sure you stirred everything well. Go around the edge of the pan stirring it around 3 times and then when you get back to the top, make a figure 8 in the middle. It's silly but it just stuck with me and I still stir like that. Just a little tidbit I thought I might share. 
8. After everything is thoroughly mixed, just pour the drinking into a mug.

9. Then it's time to decorate. Go crazy with the whip creme and add it like it's not gonna hit your hips. Then just top it off with some mini peanut butter cups and voila you're done. Easy as 1, 2, 3 

 Now go and sip some yumminess

Oh and don't forget to take some cute selfies of your pretty mug with your cute drinking mug ^^ (see what I did there ;) heheheee) 

♡ PanPan Panda Mug ♡

That's right!! I bought the panda mug! It was too cute not to haha and I love it! I also got the kitty kat mug for my 'soon-to-be-sister-in-law' ^^ I'm the best!
I made peanut butter hot chocolate and it is superrr yummy!!! Except I added too much peanut butter and now it's too thick and rich lol just add more milk..... Now I'm out of milk :p this is why I don't cook. I am one girl that doesn't belong in the kitchen. Anyway stay tuned for the recipe later tonight :)

☆ Holiday Mugs ☆

The search for the ultimate cute and quirky holiday mug has begun. It has become my goal in life. This all consuming mission is not gonna stop until I get to feel like I'm sipping out of a winter wonderland. Even though it like the hottest time of year here down under :(
Look how unbelievable adorable these are. So the frog, pig, panda, and cat mug isn't really Christmas-y themed but look how cute it is. I'm gonna have to buy it anyway lol

♡ Elk Espresso Cafe ♡

This quaint little cafe is located somewhat in the outskirts of main Broad Beach and it is definitely the next 'it' cafe. Late last year/this year the new hit cafe was Bumbles Cafe and though still great, it's major faults to me would have to be it's fairly dear price and it's highly increased popularity. Not that I'm not say that both of those qualities aren't good for business, I'm happy that this small, simple, quirky cafe has become one of the wonders of the Gold Coast however for customers like me it's not the perfect getaway place anymore. Perhaps the reason why is becauce I've been there too often, I have lost the first impression/blown away/stunned in awe feeling. And that is the exact reason why I love Elk, I am blown away by it's rustic, industrial feel but at the same time the sharp edgy feel is juxtaposed against hints of rough nature such as thorny, cactus like floral arrangements on each table and a wall of vines wrapped around a metal fencing. 

I absolutely died when I tried their Crème brûlée thickshake, it has to be THE best item on their menu. I love it so much that I had two of them in one week. Yeah I'm just a tad addicted hehee I have to know how to make it... actually maybe it's good that I don't know or I would be drinking it everyday all day haha I wanna try their other drinks but the Crème brûlée is wayyy too good. I'm just gonna have to force myself to try new things. 

Their food menu isn't what I would call extensive. But then again it is just a simple cafe. I ordered shoestring chips with aioli dip which I must say was flipping amazing. I have extremely high standards for aioli sauce and I have had a lot of let downs but this was up to standard. It has been given my stamp of approval  Then for my main I ordered something I have totally forgotten the name of but I know it had rocket, potato and trout, and other stuff lol It was good stuff.              I thoroughly enjoyed my meal. But the definitely isn't the place to go if you are super hungry. Luckily for me, the both times I went I wasn't overly starved. It is more what I would categorize as a place to go for the atmosphere and vibe not so much the content obese sumo man food feeling. 

Then for dessert I got the chocolate and caramel meringue. 

It came out warm and heated, the bottom chocolate cake layer was soft then the thin middle layer of caramel was melted and deliciously oozing out and then finally on top was the perfectly crisp meringue. Yummy! At least that's how it looked. It wasn't as good as I hoped it would taste. Not complaints however it was lacking a little oomph if you know what I mean. 

Currently for cakes they are doing a 2 for 1 special so the second time I went I tried their other cakes. This was the banana bread and the orange and almond cake.

I must say, their creme is spectacular. I never ever EVER like creme but the sweet sugary one and their creme definitely wasn't that. Their creme wasn't bland but wasn't overly sweet either, what sold me was the fact that it wasn't a heavy type of creme, it was light and fluff and honesly... cloud like. I know it sounds like a movie type gimmick .. 'like floating on a cloud', but seriously it was that magical. It was so good that I gobbled up all the creme, I never do that! 

I feel like this place is definitely gonna be seeing more of me. A new summer fling perhaps ;)

Elk Espresso

07 5592 2888

Broadbeach/Mermaid Beach

16 Chelsea Avenue Broadbeach, QLD, 4218

♡ NOTD ♡

Portman's Dazzling Blue

♡ OOTD ♡

A simple outfit that packs a punch. This bright yellow cardigan makes me feel so upbeat and perky. It's kinda the clothing version of Spongebob Square pants or Ned Flanders, both of them make me feel like being a better and happier person.
I paired this cardigan with a dark navy singlet, brown high waisted shorts, brown shoes, and a nude shoulder bag, trying to keep everything else simple.
I was getting annoyed because I missed all the snuggly, dark, warm, winter clothes but I'm finally getting into summer and the bright happy colors.
This summer I will be doing a summer blog post series so stay tuned :) and happy summer!!!

♡ NOTD ♡

Sally Hansen's salon effects 'Kitty, kitty'

♥ Birthday Presents ♥

FINALLY finished editing!!! 

Grand opening of all my 19th birthday presents. I filmed it on the very night of the dinner but I've just been SO caught up with exams so I haven't had time to edit it and put music in and ect. Also sorry that it is super long, it goes for 25mins and I honestly did everything I could to cut it down, you'll know what I mean when you watch it haha. 

Enjoying watching ^^

LE-GIT! THE MOST EMBARRASSING THING EVA!

I swear that I am not exaggerating. Last night something BAD happened. Literally I contemplated buying a shovel and digging a hole for myself. That is seriously how bad it was. Imagine the worst possible embarrassing moment in a teen-aged girl's life, then times it by ten million and bingo! my night. Just watch the video, it'll all make sense soon enough. 

♡ It's ma BIRTH DAY YO!!! ♡

I'M OFFICIALLY 19!!! YIPP YIPP!!! >< 

My goodness is it hard to plan events. This year I am doing a simple dinner with some friend and that somehow turned into the most difficult feat. I specifically asked everyone to confirm attending or declining by thursday 1:00pm... I literally was specific. Then on friday arvo, the facebook invite had 20 people attending so I made the booking for 25 people just in case. After doing that I texted some people to confirm and sooooo many more people said that they were going. So i extended the booking to 32 people and hopefully that should be the entire amount. I really hope we don't run out of room. Also as a condition of getting a booking and table, I had to agree to leave by 8:30pm since another booking is coming in at that time and they kinda booked it first, so fair enough. It was my bad for booking so late but come on, everyone else is so flakey for not getting back to me on time. And there was one person who actually must legit think I'm psychic because I haven't heard A SINGLE word from her, no facebook message or post or etc, no verbalization or even chitter chatter about the dinner, and the other day my OTHER friend texted me asking if we were going to do anything after the dinner because that girl was wondering. So today that kinda rang alarm bells in my head so I texted the friend to see if the other girl was coming and apparently she has been planning to come all along.... WHEN THE FUCK WERE YOU GONNA TELL ME!!! I'M NOT FUCK PSYCHIC, HOW THE FUCK WAS I SUPPOSE TO KNOW THAT YOU WERE GONNA COME! IF YOU DON'T CLICK ATTENDING ON FACEBOOK OR VERBALIZE IT TO ME OR EVEN TEXT ME, I AM NOT GONNA KNOW!!! DO YOU SEE A HORN BETWEEN MY EYEBROWS? NO! THAT'S CAUSE I'M NOT A UNICORN OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF MYTHICAL CREATURE AND I CAN'T FUCKING READ MINDS OR TELL THE FUTURE. SO NEXT TIME JUST FUCKINGGGG TELL ME!!!! Also people really need to learn how to click a mouse so they can click attending if they are attending. Don't fuck with me here! Seriously, it is not that fuck hard to click attending on facebook or even send out a simple text message. Really! If you have enough time to like crap on facebook or turn up to my dinner or even BREATHE then you should haven enough time to click attending! Is it really that hard, I honestly would like to know what everybody has been doing that is keeping them away from clicking attending! like FUCKKKK!!!!

Okay, I'm better now. 

Anyway, all of this planning on top of studying AND having to basically run my parents restaurant while my mum is away (long story), I have been up to my neck with stress. I have 3 stress pimples already. I still haven't even decided what I'm going to wear for tonight. And I only just recently decided on my nails but even though I've done them already, I'm not 100% sure if I like them for tonight. They're nice but are they birthday-y?

These are the Sally Hanson Salon effects 'Red-y to Rock'

I also decided that I will be cracking out the fake eyelashes AND eyeliner. This will be legit the first time wearing eyeliner in public and the second time doing fake eyelashes. The first time wasn't that great of an experience but I have a good feeling about this time. And to make sure that it will look good, I did a pre-test eye make up.

What do you think aye? Pretty good for a noob don't cha think. 

Honestly I don't care if you think it's a botched job. If you think I did a fantastic job, then feel free to leave a nice comment :) But any negative ones shall not affect me because I think I did a good job and I like it. I like it so much that I shall be doing it for the night.

I still haven't decided on a lip colour yet, mainly because I haven't decided on an outfit and it's hard to get a nice lip colour with the red hair now. So I guess that will be a surprise later in the night, once I decide on it haha

 

Yeah, of course I had to add in heaps of selfies ^^

So after stressing out way too much about the cake because I realized in the last minute that I need a cake, I called up a few places and Sweet seemed the most reasonably priced and it also has super nice cakes. The cake shall be a surprise to everyone, so not even my readers or my friends will know until after the dinner hehehe But because I'm nice, here's a hint: it's one of the cakes below. 

I have take some time out of my studying to pick an outfit. But unfortunately I am super indecisive and I don't know what to wear. You got-sta help me. 

Should I pick 1. the cute girly and vibrant pop of colour one which is a tad uncomfortable or 2. the structured but colourful and happy one which is a kinda of hard material so I'll be a bit of a stick all night or 3. which is kinda my favourite because it is SUPER comfy and LOOK HOW CUTE IT IS!!! >< but it's not that dressy.

DO YOU SEE MY DILEMMA!!! HELPPP MEEE

(BTW my hair is in that yuck high bun thing because I haven't washed it in two days, now three actually. I'm attempting to preserve the red hair, at least until the birthday dinner. So I will be washing it later today FOR SURE. It is getting so gross, I hate oily unwashed hair, legit gotta be the worst)

Or should I go with what I wore to my 18th last year, or how about what I wore to my brothers 18th, or even better, the dress I wore to formal. 

HAHA I'm joking btw. Those last two are fashion disasters! And I'm sure in a few years time, I'll think the blue dress is a train wreck too. Actually I'm kinda think it was already, I mean like damn it's short, I look so slutty. ew. Also I'm still contemplating changing my nail polish.

Anyone? Anyone wanna help a girl out! 

ASOS

Agghh!!! My ASOS order came today!!! I'm super happy!!! Now I have new jewelry to wear to my birthday dinner. Yippie! I'm at work right now so I couldn't do full snaps of the each of the items but I will definitely include them in my big ass haul that's coming up super soon!

Bad day 'pick-me-ups'

Hot, tired, and just feeling gloomy? Have an iced tea! It's the perfect pick-me-up drink that will turn your frown upside down. It's a natural coolant and it's tasty. Try the mango green tea, no sugar because I'm trying to be healthy lol. And try it at the Taiwanese popcorn chicken and bubble tea stall at Carrara markets :)

Or if you don't live on the Gold Coast, try and get your hands on this Lipton Iced Tea drink. It's limited edition so hurry hurry!! There are three flavors and I really really REALLY want them to make more. I'm not a huge alcoholic drinker so these virgin/mocktails are perfects for me and those light weights out there ^^

The Pine Colada and Mojito are okay but the Strawberry Daiquiri is to die for. The first time I bought these, the store was out of the Daiquiri :( After grocery shopping today, I went to get apple juice and saw the Daiquiri and I had to get it. I wanted to get the bigger bottle but that was sold out so I had to just get the normal sized one. No wonder places are sold out of this flavor, it's the best one.

So cool down with some tea :) Have a wonderful tea fill day ♡

♡ How to Make Friendship Bracelets ♡