DIY// Hot Chocolate Mix

I love chocolate so it makes sense that I would love hot chocolate right?! Well not exactly, I love the idea of hot chocolate, the snuggling up in front of the fire with a big streaming mug topped with marshmallows and cream. But I can never seem to find the perfect blend of sweetness and chocolate. But i've been mixing and matching different combinations and I think I've finally found the perfect blend. It's sweet, vanilla-ry, with a little hint of salt and has the perfect amount of chocolate in it as well. If your in a hot chocolate rut like I was why not try this out and see if it can cure you! It's super easy; In a large-ish bowl combine One Cup of Brown Sugar, 200g Chocolate Buttons, One and a Half cups of Cocoa Powder, One Tablespoon of Salt, the insides of Two Vanilla Beans as well as the beans and two Cups of Milk Powder.  Make sure all the dry ingredients are combined before filling up mason jars- or any type of container that suits you!

If you need a present for a friend but don't want to splurge to much why not make them a Hot Chocolate Kit? Fill one jar with Hot Chocolate Mix, another with marshmallows and find a cute mug to go with it. Then tie some ribbon around them all and your done! They'll think you've gone to a lot of effort, when really it was the easiest present you've ever given ;)

Are you a lover of Hot Chocolate? 

Weekly Catchup // Twenty-Sixth May

I can't believe that we're almost half way through the year already! First semesters is almost over except for exams that is! So in the spirit of almost holidays I took a trip into the city for a day of sightseeing and tourist-y photo snapping. Whenever me and Livvy {my other housemate} venture into the city we always seem to end up at Bondi Beach. It really is an amazing place to sit and relax for a few hours. The thing that I love the most is that whenever I snap a photo down at bondi I never have to use a filter. {First world problems ey'} 

But mother nature is that spectacula it deserves a mention!

'Succes is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.' -Winston Churchill

I just had to include this simple quote and pair it with the brilliant words of Winston Churchill. They are definitely words to live by. If your never brave enough to take a chance you'll always be wondering what would have happened if you did!

Who doesn't like a ice-cream; especially from an ice-cream truck in the middle of Sydney city, with the lights of the Opera House twinkling in the background. If you happen to be around the Sydney over the next few weeks make sure you pop into the city as the Vivid Light Festival is on until the 9th of June! It is a spectacular sight to see the Harbour Bridge and the Opera house lit up in amazing designs. If you want to find out more their website is here and if you want my take on the festival heres last years post. If you go in get a choc-fudge-nut icecream- it was delicious!

Thats it for this week; I hope your week was as enjoyable as mine!

P.S My Shanghai Suzy Lipsticks Giveaway ends tomorrow night- if you were thinking of entering make sure you do before it ends!

Shanghai Suzy giveaway is almost up!

Hey guys, if you were still thinking of entering my Shanghai Suzy giveaway you've only got one day left to enter! Can you believe two weeks has gone so fast? I'm so thrilled to give one of you lovely ladies some gorgeous lipsticks that I personally love to bits; i'm almost excited for the giveaway to end just so I can draw the winner. But I have to wait patiently for all the last minute entries; so if your like me and leave things to the last minute head on over to the giveaway post, fill your details into the raffelcopted widget and your all done! Good luck lovelies :)

lots of love,

The Australiasian College Broadway // A Beauty School in the heart of Sydney

  

Last weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to the Australasian College in Broadway. The award winning college is situated right in the heart of Sydney- only a few minutes walk from central station.  They have several specialised courses including Hair, Makeup, Beauty Therapy and IPL. Along with my best friend/ room mate / might-as-well-be sister Emma, we made the venture in from the west into the city. Now we could have walked from the train station- but since we were feeling fancy-schmancy we decided to catch an Uber to the college and my word was it swish. I don't think I'll ever be able to catch a normal taxi again! We arrived feeling like princess's and having been greeted so lovingly {And with the prospect of Champagne} it only added to amazing day. We were given a tour by the lovely Jen who would have to have been one to the warmest and most inviting ladies I have ever met! She really made the tour amazing. The facilities were WOW; amazing! I was so impressed. We started out with a squizz into their IPL centre; I've always been slightly turned off at the thought of sizzling off my hair but after seeing how it is actually done and how careful the College is i'm convinced, sign me up! We then got to speak with Greg Morling, a massage therapist who has an inspirational passion for hot stone massages. I think I speak for both of us when I say we could have spent all day with Greg, he was hilarious but also so intriguing! I loved that he has worked so closely with Indigenous Australians to create collections of stones that have such heartfelt meaning. After the hot stones we were given a crash course in giving the perfect massage on some very relaxed looking mannequins. If your interested in studying beauty therapy this is where you start out, before moving onto soft a softer version and then finally onto your own customers. We also got to visit the makeup and hair side of things- both had such talented artists and stylists, they definitely put little old me to shame! The aesthetics and overall atmosphere was so classy but relaxing at the same time and we were made to feel so welcome that I really didn't want to leave!

If you have ever thought of starting a career in the beauty industry or just want to find out a bit more about the college I 100% recommend checking them out, they are amazing- I'm seriously considering dropping out of uni to do a few course's here

87 Bay Street Cnr Wentworth Park Road
Sydney  Australia  2037 
Phone:  8587 8888
Email: info@tac.edu.au