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So today for you guys i have got my very lovely sponge cupcakes, hmm maybe i should figure out a really fancy name, but seeing as i cant think of one were just call them Lily's jam fillers, seeing as they get filled with jam it seems like a good name! 

Ingredients:
225g unsalted butter, at room temperature (or i use flora)
225g caster sugar 
210g self raising flour, sifted
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3-5 table spoons of water


To start off with you will need to preheat the oven to 160 (fan oven). You will then need to weigh out the butter and the sugar, cutting the butter into small cubes and putting them into a bowl to then be mixed to create almost a soft cream. The go ahead and add the eggs and mix well. 



Then you need to add the flour, (sifted) baking powder and the vanilla extract, at this point you will be ready to put them in to your cake cases. I used Christmas ones because i didn't have any others the size i wanted.




You will want to leave them in the over for around 15-20 minutes or until they are brown on top and cooked inside ( you can find out if they are cooked inside by putting a knife in and when pulling it out if its clean then they are cooked. Once you have left them to cool, (I left mine for a few hours and then came back to them) you will want to cut small circles out of the middle of each cake going in around half way.



When it comes to filling them and icing the cakes you will need two things, jam and butter icing, you can either make that or buy it. For mine i used strawberry and raspberry jam and then made vanilla butter cream for the topping. 

It's safe to say that these were amazing! 

I'd love to know what kind of cakes you love to make.


Lilypad xo




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20:07 1 comments
I started to get sick, sick of the place i lived and sick of the people that filled the streets.
It was plastic.
Everyone trying to be something they were not, it was all fake.
I hated it all almost as much as i hated myself. I was fed up of the nick names people got just for living here, i was sick of it all. But people just thought i was crazy.

"You will never get out of here" they said
"Why would you want to leave?" they kept asking

How was i supposed to answer them when they loved everything about that stupid little town that i hated? The reasons i wanted to leave were some of the reasons why they would never even think about going. To them it was home.
To me it was just a pit stop.
I needed to refill and i could go again.

I could never see myself living in that place.
I could never see myself working there.
Owning a house.
Getting married.
Starting a family.

I wanted to start fresh but i also just wanted to stop being one of those plastic people stuck in that plastic town not being able to move.



- I needed so badly to get my thoughts down, so here they are, today i'm not feeling to good but tomorrow i should be better - 


Lilypad xo





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Sometimes I feel like giving up, then I remember I have a lot of motherfuckers to prove wrong.:


I guess we all just want to prove people wrong when they expect the worse from us. 
And when we feel like giving up people expecting the worse from us is the only thing that keeps us going. 



Lilypad xo




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If any of you have been reading my blog from the start they you will all know that i love having different colour hair, i had red, pink and purple for the last 6 years and have recently been dying my hair blue. A few months ago i started experimenting with different colour make up too. Im not going to lie i am normally the one to buy the cheaper option and stick with the make up products i know but thanks to my sister because she actually gave me a few different coloured eye liner that now i cant stop experimenting with different colour products. 

Also another make up thing that im not really good at because i simply am to lazy and like to stick with what i know is that i do not ever wear wing eye liner or ever line my top lid. But recently i have been loving blue on blue. i have been using a plue eyeshadow with an angled brush to line my top lid and then bringing it down on to my bottom lash line and finishing it of with this amazingly blue mascara. 
WHICH I LOVE. 

This product is from avon and my sister gave it me as she never used it, but since then i have been obsessed with avon and infact put an order in with them for a tone more colourful products.


Do any of you guys order from avon? 
If so what is your go to item to order?


Lilypad xo





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Another uninspiring day, but one hell of an inspiring thought. 
Sat here listening to music, charging my ipod as we speak, the idea of shareing my ipod music to you floated in to my head. Now my ipod is reasonably new so i don't have much music but what i do have I'm about to share with you.  



Here's just a lil screen shot of my iTunes right now.
As you can tell I have a very varied music taste from fall out boy to miley cyrus. 

Right now i am obsessed with Halsey and my work out music is Fall out boy. I'm also in the middle of down loading a few albums too which are: 

Frankie - Dreamstate
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
The weekend - Beauty Behind The Madness


What music are you guys listening to??



Lilypad xo





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Okay so a bit of an inspired post today, I've spotted a few bloggers doing it and i really like the idea of it so thought id give it ago too, plus I'm lacking inspiration for a post today so were give this ago.

Eat:
At the moment i am loving my sisters cooking. Bit up to her as I'm a really fussy eater. My sister made this really amazing spaghetti bolognese with red and green peppers and a heck tone of garlic bread! (because I'm a big garlic bread lover) any ways that's what I've love this week.


Wear:
Okay so every autumn i because this crazed coat lover, and well yes its autumn and yes im a crazed coat lover. I've brought two new ones in the space of 3 weeks, one being plether with a faux fur collar, and the other being this really nice pattered fabric coat with a grey fur collar. Also this week i have been loving a new jumper from Debenhams. Its grey, over sized, and so comfy. i love it so much i have warn it every day this week part from one because as much as i love the jumper it needed to be washed. I'm in love with it so much that im thinking about getting it in black and red too, or is that to much? HELPPP!


Live:
I miss my bestfriend. 
BUTTT, I'm so happy with volunteering right now, and i guess I'm in a good place.



What have you guys been loving eating, and wearing recently? 


Lilypad xo





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You know when you read a book and you are completely and utterly inspired, yep well that was me when i read life with a sprinkle of glitter. 
I cant explain how much i love this book, and how much of louise is in it, i have been watching her videos now for 4 years and when watching someone for that long you pick up on a few things and you learn how they speak and how they write and this book is louise pentland. 
Its funny and whitty and inspirational. 
I loved how the chapters were planned, having one for cooking, DIY, Beauty, bullying, internet and so on. 

The one thing that i love most about this book is that through out the whole book there are quotes. To inspire us and to give us another view on the world. She brought part of her blog (motivation monday) to the book. 



Have you checked out this book yet? 

lilypad xo




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You know when your in school and you have those silly nicknames that people just say and fingers crossed they don't stick but sadly they do, yep well i had two. Lilypad, and plum. Now thankfully they weren't that bad and i was only called plum because of my purple hair. And lilypad because well doesn't everyone called lily get called lilypad?

I had a best friend, from the time i finished school to about a year ago who loved to call me lilypad, and from then on i loved it too, i guess it was time to embrace it by then. That same friend persuaded me to create this blog and when i did i had no idea what to call it so i just used my nickname...

That's the story of how my blog name came about. 


how did you decide on your blog name?



lilypad xo




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Since god knows when i have always dreamed about traveling, I think everyone i know has too. i guess most of us dream about going to a place to escape, or just going to a really hot place and getting a tan. 
I wanted to make a few posts this month that are a tad bit more "get to know me" type and i thought a good place to start would be right here. With 10 places i would love to travel too. 

Wouldn't it be so nice if it wasn't so expensive to travel??!


- New York 
- Paris
- Greece
- Japan
- Egypt
- Canada
- Fiji
- Italy
- Thailand
- Portland


What places would you love to travel too??


Lilypad xo




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22:54 2 comments
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/20-motivational-quotes-start-your-week.html:

This quote hit home rather hard when i saw it, Simply because recently i have been struggling with my anxiety and sometimes its so hard to see the finish line, or the light at the end of the tunnel. 

I am now going to have this quote imprinted in the back of my head ready to remind myself of it when i am having a bit of a panic or am finding it hard to go out. 

Lilypad xo



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Having blue hair was on my bucket list.
I was sat writing one night and decided to write my bucket list on and stick it up on my wall, like i had seen in a film that i was in love with. Anyways i wanted to add some more "doable" items to my bucket and blue hair was more of a do able thing, as well as slapping a strangers ass, and singing on the train.

I started to volunteer.
I wanted to do something with my spare time, i also wanted to get another reference for my cv. their forth i came to the conclusion that volunteering would be a good step. I'm really love it and my confidence is already starting to grow!!

I HATE spiders.
Just before i started to write this post i put a dvd on, i guess i don't use my tv and dvd player to much but for some reason this time the dvd didn't work, and i couldn't understand why it wouldn't play... i put my head close to the gap and started the blow the dust out when all of a sudden a spider comes out, crawls across my tv and down my wall, i try to grab it but i wasn't quick enough... now I'm sleeping with the spiders.  

I love having my birthday on Halloween.
ever since i was younger i used to get son excited for the build up to Halloween, i used to decorate my bedroom and i always remember having this massive spider (that i think i still have) that went over the door with ribbons hanging down. Also id just like to point out i used to be the cool kid that threw all the cool parties.. and who doesn't like to get cake presents and sweets all on one day??!


I hope this helps you get to know me a lil better! 



Lilypad xo




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22:24 2 comments
Recently I've been trying to rediscover my love for music and there's a few albums that i have been obsessed with and have been playing non stop for the last month or so, Here are just a few songs from those albums that i have been playing non stop. 



Lucie Silvas - Letters To Ghosts



Halsey - Castles 



Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me



Frankie - New Obsession 



The Weekend - Cant Feel My Face



What songs have you been loving lately? 

Lilypad xo





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Don't we all just love reading blogs? i guess if you didn't you wouldn't really be reading mine right now but the point I'm trying to make is, well i defo do!! And for me where i get most of my blog inspiration is other bloggers blogs. Bloggers block is the worse and i love how inspired every is in the blogger world. Here's a small list of the top 5 bloggers i have been loving recently. 

Scarphelia

Lily Melrose

A Girl Obsessed

Hannah Gale

Lydia Rose


What are your favorite blogs? 

Lilypad xo




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HEY YOU!
Yes you reading this. 
I TAG YOU TO DO THE BLOGTOBER TAG.

I started blogtober this time last year, with one thing in mind, to post every single day for a full month. I don't know what i was hoping to get from it apart from not being very successful. But this year I'm hoping that it will go a lot better, and i wont stop at 16 and will actually do the full 31 days. 

Today's post Is just an intro, I wasn't really sure where else to start so i thought explaining whats going on on my blog for the next month would be a good start. 

Though out this month i will be doing a tone of reviews, fingers crossed some cooking posts and defiantly some Halloween posts too ranging from food to makeup. All posts that i am working with a company on will be high lighted as a review or an ad.
On the 31'st (being Halloween and all)i will only be posting photos from the day, as it will be spent with family and friends to celebrate my 20th! Apart from that if i use any photos that are not mine the credit will be mentioned under the photo on the blog post. 

I have challenged every single one of you you reading this post to do the blogtober challenge. All you have to do, is put a post a day up on your blog every single day for the whole of October, if you don't have a blog, you can instagram it, and let me know by tagging me in the photos! 


I hope you all enjoy the next month worth of posts on my blog, and i would really appreciate all of the feed back. 


Lilypad xo





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