New Years Eve Eve ♥

So today is New Years Eve Eve...and it is also getting close to mine and Ed's anniversary. Our 3rd anniversary will be New years day, we were together when we were younger too so collectively it would be about 5 years. Seems way longer but I am excited. We are having a New years eve party at our new place, with all the family round. I have spent the last day or so tidying up for it, and we've got all the grub and stuff for it now so I'm looking forward! I got up late today so I've only had about 3 hours of daylight and haven't really felt like doing anything today because it's too cold and plus I just want it to be tomorrow! So what I did do, was paint my nails ready! 

I  was inspired by blogger Dolly Bow Bow, who had put up a tutorial on how to do newspaper nails. So  I painted them with 2 coats of Barry M 305 Pink Flamingo. I ♥ Barry M - hence the Dazzled part of the blog name! I must have almost every Dazzle dust going, and plenty of their other products, but I'll go through some of those on a later post. So once dry, I dipped each nail in Vodka and then pressed a strip of newspaper over them. After about 30 seconds I peeled the paper off and it leaves the print on the nail. I then coated them with Sally Hansen Diamond strength top coat which I also LOVE. I would recommend it to anyone, it dries instantly and really does help brittle nails. Apologies for the rubbishy picture, but you get the idea!

I also managed to make the bed today. Our room is all tidy so I have to keep on top of it now. Our covers are Cameo's and necklaces. I love them and they were only about £13.00 from Primark. Another one of my all time love's :) 

Just thought I would show a couple of my jewellery stands. I am pretty obsessed with Jewellery and have billions of necklaces and earrings. (Perhaps slight exaggeration...) This has my Pearl Thomas Sabo on it. I have 6 charms on it I think. I have the Eiffel Tower with a diamond in it (I am also obsessed with the Eiffel) a 'T' for Tilly, and 'E' for Ed, a plane because I love flying, a pink heart and a '21' that my friends at work got me for my birthday. I wear it pretty much everyday along with my Pandora. Also got on there my fakey Tresor Paris. I got it off Ebay and was only about a fiver. I didn't want a real one because no doubt something new will come along sooner or later! I love it all the same.

This is my Eiffel Tower earring holder. One of my bestie's saw it in Claire's while I was with her and it was in the sale for like £4! Bargain! It just had to be bought. So I love big studs and vintage looking earrings. The top earrings I found at a charity shop for about a pound, I couldn't believe it. I never go in charity shops but I have seen a few people on here and youtube that go and find stuff, so I had a look and came out with a few crackers!

I also found this beautifully detailed bag in a charity shop as well. It was 3 pounds and I think if that was in a shop now it'd be pretty expensive because of the detailing. I also found the bow for 50p in a bow tie box. I had a broken pearl necklace at home, so I sewed on the pearls in the corners and sewed on the bow just to customise it a bit. It's great for the vintage look and there won't be another one anywhere! 

So if I get chance I will blog tomorrow on how the preparations for the party are going! If not, have a great new year! 

Ciao for now x

Intro & Christmas ♥

I really don't have a clue how to begin this, because how do you explain who you are and everything you do in the first blog? I really don't want to overwhelm you all with info, so I'll try and do it all gradually! A great way to start would probably be my name...it's Tilly! Nice to meet you :) So I'm really into everything girly I guess - make up, clothes, fashion, photography etc etc. I'm also 21, although I have always aspired to be a photographer - slash - make up artist...I have ended up becoming a hotel Receptionist. I never EVER thought I would end up doing that, and it really isn't my forte but it pays the bills. I worked on Christmas day last year so this year I managed to have it off, and it was THE best Christmas I have ever had.

Our Christmas tree. Me and my fiance moved in together in October 2011, so this is our first Christmas together. It is so nice to be able to have whatever you want on your own tree! So we wanted a pretty, modern tree so we went for black. It was about 20 quid from Asda, and we got all the decs from there too. We went for white, silver and black glittery baubles as well as big diamonds and 2 pink glittery music notes just to shake it up a bit. We both love music so I just couldn't resist picking those up! 

My Christmas cake! I have become fairly domesticated since moving in. I have lived on my own for a bit before but never really had the facilities to do much cooking, I'm sure I'll let you know more in due course. Anyway so I really wanted to do a Christmas cake as they look quite tricky. I only wanted to do a simple one just to see if I could actually do it - and according to my sweet-toothed husband to be, I think it turned out pretty well! I don't even like Christmas cake, but it was full of brandy so it was only right I had a slice...

Here are just a few pressies. The paper is from Asda again, I had quite a few comments on it and it was only cheap, so will deffo get it from there again next year. You can tell we have an Asda close to us can't you! We had a great Christmas day. Ed - my fiance - got me a Nintendo Wii! I love it, we have got Toy Story 3, Mario and Wii fit. Can't wait to get zumba for it, definitely lose weight time in January. I also got some proper pots and pans, not like the rubbish we started out with, and some cook books! I got the usual chocolate and stuff, and Vera Wang Lovestruck perfume but I'll discuss that in a beauty blog later on!

Away from Christmas, I quickly threw this white choc chip rainbow cake together for a little gathering at my Mom's house. Mmm it's so yummy. It was quite simple to make actually. Get your average Victoria Sponge recipe, but add a few drops of vanilla essence and a small bag of white chocolate chips. Then spoon your mixture equally into 5 separate bowls (washing up is a pain - but worth it!). I use Silver Spoon colour creator food colourings which are really cool because the more you put in the mixture, the darker the colour goes, so you could have a pastel coloured cake or a vibrant one! I went for vibrant. So I got these in Green, Pink, Lilac, Yellow and Blue and they were about 79p from Sainsbury's. Put as much colouring as you want in and mix into the mixtures. Then spoon into the greased baking tins evenly. This doesn't have to be accurate as long as the tins have equally as much mixture in. TIP - Use a little more ingredients than your recipe says, because moving the mixture from bowl to bowl will result in a slight loss. Whack the tins in the oven for about 25 mins until springy on top and a skewer comes out clean, and Weheyyy - Rainbow sponge! I cheated and iced mine with vanilla Betty Crocker frosting. YUM!

So this is me. I actually REALLY don't look anything like this. It's a funny angle pic but it'll at least give you a face to the blogger! So If you are still here, I've bored you enough now. If I had the confidence I would do a Youtube Vlog because I just love watching you guys on it. I start filming and just press cancel straight away! I just can't do it! So this will have to do for now. 

Let me know what you guys like to bake, and what you did for Christmas!

Ciao for now!