Christmas Recipe Special: Peppermint Hot Chocolate

PEPPERMINT HOT CHOCOLATE

Serves:

Ingredients:

- 2 cups milk
- 1/2 cup full cream
- 1/4 cup of sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon of salt
- 50g chopped chocolate
- 4 drops of peppermint essence or peppermint extract
- 2 tbps hot chocolate drinking mixture.
- Candy-cane (optional)

What to do:

1. In a saucepan over low heat, add the milk and cream together and stir gently.
2. Add in the sugar, salt and chocolate. Stir until chocolate is melted and ingredients are combined.
3. Add in the hot chocolate drinking mixture, stirring until dissolved, and add in the peppermint extract.
4. Once all ingredients are combined into liquid-y goodness, pour into Christmas mugs and serve with peppermint candy-canes.

Too easy!! There are so many cute Christmas mugs out at the moment. I have my reindeer one (shown above) and also this cutey that my mum bought me when I was in Queensland last week:

What's your favourite Christmas drink? 



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Review: Loreal Volume Million Lashes (with special guest appearance!)

I am very fussy with my mascaras. Although I own quite a few, I always go back to my faithful old Maybelline - easy to quickly apply, and I get such great results - why would I change?

I've spent the last few days up in Queensland with my mum, and the other night we went to the Christmas Carols. I was doing her makeup for the night, and asked her to grab me the mascara she uses. 

She handed me Loreal's Volume Million Lashes. 

Woah. 

  

Firstly, the packaging. As you can see in the photos above, the tube is gold which gives a really luxurious feel to the product.
The brush is larger, but not so big that it makes it difficult to get to smaller lashes. I completely forgot to get a photo of the brush, but as you can see in the second picture there is an inbuilt "scraper" which helps to prevent clumping on the brush, so you don't end up with excess product on the lashes.

This mascara lengthens and builds volume, making lashes really long, thick and sexy.

Check out these photos of my mum for evidence!

This is my Mum's eyes with no make-up on - her lashes are quite thin, straight and not very dark. 

And now with the mascara on:

Even from a distance, the lashes stand out.

Overall, I love the volume given by this mascara, and am thinking of purchasing it for myself!

What's your HG mascara?



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Giveaway Winners!

And the winners are....

(drum roll)

The winner of my blog giveaway is... Natalie!!

The winner of my youtube giveaway is ... Sue!!

Congrats ladies! I have mailed off both your parcels today!

Thanks to everyone who entered, if you didn't win this time, you might next time so don't lose hope!
To the lovely winners - I really hope you enjoy your prizes!




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My Week in Pictures #18

The best thing about last week was that I got to fly up to Queensland and see my Mum!

 

We all went and watched the carols. On the left is my Mum and R, and my little bro on the right. What a cheeky smile!

I was also excited to catch up with Snookie girl! I've missed her crazyness. She is definitely enjoying lounging around in the grass. Her favourite thing to do these days is stalk leaves.

Big yawn! It's a hard life being a cat!

Before I left, I wrapped up some Christmas presents. How cute is the ribbon? I cut out some of the white "Happy Christmas" ribbon and have been using it in my hair, haha. 

Ever since Kirryn got me hooked on Starbucks' Peppermint Mocha Frappucinos, I've been trying to replicate the peppermint chocolate at home. J perfected the recipe for me - so stay tuned because it will be up later this week!

I flew back home yesterday morning. I love looking at the clouds when flying above them. Unfortunately the flight back was not that comfortable - the woman in front of me put her seat down (why do people do this on 1 hour flights?) My legs are long and had nowhere to go so they were digging into her seat. She was pretty loudly complaining to whoever she was sitting next to. Not my fault! Put your damn seat up! I swear they've made the seat room smaller as well. 

Got back in time for the last pole lesson of the year. I managed to accomplish this little bugger this week:

This one's called a Cupid and has eluded me for the last 3 months. But I finally got it! (It's an owwie move, which explains the facial expression - mixture of pain and pleasure)

What did you accomplished this week? Tell me some of your worst (or best!) flight stories!




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