Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post. Today is something that is very special to me even thought its a good 18 days overdue, and it is the one year anniversary of this blog! I know is super late but trust me, nobody is feeling as sad or slack for that matter, that I missed the actual day, apart from me. I know this sounds very cliche but it honestly does feels like yesterday I was writing my first ever blog post, which is still live to this very day. But I mean, if I wanted to be technical and give myself a rubbish excuse I didn't actually write my first proper post until the 29th of December, which is today! My first post was just an introductory post about me and what this blog was going to be about which if you would like to check out I will link it here.
Throughout my one year journey on this blog, I am going to be honest and say that nothing much has changed for me. I mean apart from the obvious things like my age and the fact that I will be going into year 11 next year (I know right, crazy, only two years left), personally, I still feel like the same 15 year old girl who sat on her bed one year ago trying to figure out how to link her social medias to the blog or make a favicon (which if you didn't know it is the little symbol next to the URL that is black and says JM). Just a little advise I would just like to say to anyone who is thinking about making a blog or already has one, make sure people are able to subscribe properly to your blog, and make sure commenting is enabled. I learned that the hard way as I found out only a few days ago that people couldn't leave comments since I did my last re-designed my blog... that was about 9 months ago... *FACE PALM*. But life goes on and lessons are learned, even if you need to take a moment to take in your mistake.


So I guess what I am trying to say through the rambled mess of this post is a big big BIG thank you to you reading this blog. It means the world, whether this is the first post you are reading of mine of the 25th post. Thank you very much.
I hope you enjoyed this post, if you have made it this far through that is aha. Don't forget to share this post and also comment down below any tags or posts you would like me to do for the New Year. Maybe an everyday makeup routine, who knows? Also make sure you have a wonderful day! Byeeeeeeeee!


Jade Madeleine, xo

As you can probably tell by just stepping out your front door, it is almost Christmas. It is literally my favourite time of year when we are driving down the street and you get a glimpse of some fairy lights. There is just something so wonderful about the whole concept of Christmas. However, instead of blabbing on about how much I really do love the Holiday Season, I decided to do The Christmas Tag. I found this tag off of The Enthusiast so definitely go and check her post out if you have a little extra time. Even though the post is about 4 years old I still really enjoyed reading it and so will you hopefully. Lets get started!

As you can probably guess, I had my Christmas music and baking supplies at the ready and had to much fun just messing about in the kitchen. I also made some peanut brittle (I was in a very peanut buttery mood) however that did not turn out cause it was kind of burnt in the end haha. Which is such a shame cause it was going so well and looked so delicious until the very last step when I wasn't quick enough getting it out of the pot and onto the tray so it burnt :( but oh well aha I still had one amazing treat to save my night.

Ingredients you will need...

• 1 cup of peanut butter (crunchy or smooth, your choice. I used smooth because it balls already are quite crunchy on their own)

• 1 tablespoon softened butter

• 1 cup of icing sugar / powdered sugar

• 1 packet of butterscotch sweets (hard boiled, you could use Werther's if you like)

• 1 cup of rice bubbles

• 300g of milk chocolate

Method...

1. Place your butterscotch sweets into a plastic zip lock back and basically bash them until they are a relatively small or to your desired size and place aside for later on.

2. Cream your peanut butter and butter in a large bowl.

3. Add in icing sugar and mix until combined well.

4. Gently stir in the rice bubbles and crushed butterscotch pieces remembering to leave approximately 1/3 aside to sprinkle over the top at the end.

5. Place mixture in freezer for 20 minutes or until you feel it is hard enough to be able to roll into balls.

6. Place some baking paper onto a tray.

7. Remove mixture from the freezer and roll into 1 inch size balls. If the mixture has become to soft or sticky, place back in the freezer to be able to harden again.

8. Return balls back to the freezer to set.

9. Melt the milk chocolate in a bowl over the stove or in the microwave.

10. For this step if you choose you can completely cover the balls in chocolate by sticking a skewer in to through the bottom of the ball and rolling in the chocolate bowl, or you may drizzle a tablespoon full of melted chocolate over each ball to create a dripping effect down the sides.

11. Sprinkle the 1/3 of crushed butterscotch sweets that you places aside over each truffle.

12. For decoration you are welcome to also sprinkle some icing sugar or the top of everything just to make it look really pretty haha.

Based on this recipe: http://www.lemontreedwelling.com/2014/12/crispy-peanut-butter-toffee-truffles.html

Jade Madeleine, xo

So, this is officially my first Christmas post ever! I don't think I have ever done one on this blog and what better way to start off the Festive season than music. I am one of those people who get way too excited for their own good about the holidays and even though I only have a few people who get just as excited as me, I just can't help think of Christmas! For me Christmas is about fun and joy and happiness, and who can have fun and joy without music? I have compiled my own little (maybe not so little) Christmas playlist.

It literally has everything, and I think that is why I love it so much. It has Michael Bublè to Ariana Grande to NSYNC to Justin Bieber to Mariah Carey. Pretty much whatever mood your in, its there. Sometimes I love a good traditional Christmas tune to karaoke to, but sometimes I like a good pop song to dance around.

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post. Today I though I would do another not monthly but monthly favourites as we all know they don't come on time every month xD. However I still love to share with you guys what I am into and what I have been using lately so lets jump straight in!

Beauty

Makeup

The first product I am going to talk about is this concealer and it is the Maybelline Fit Me Concealer in the shade 20 Sand Sable. I honestly love this concealer so much and it's running really low so I will just have to pick another up very soon. It is such a smooth and creamy consistency and blends really really easy with a brush, sponge or even your finger. To be honest I half blend it out with my fingers and then finish it off with a beauty blender cause I feel like the beauty blender just absorbs the product way to fast.

My next favourite for this month makeup wise is the Stay Matte Pressed Powder by Rimmel. It was literally like $10 and I am so in love with it. It leaves such a lovely finish over my makeup and also adds a bit of extra coverage. This is totally my holy grail powder and it definitely seen better days if you ask me. It's great for me to use for school on its own maybe with a bit of concealer and mascara and gives a great flawless look especially for those hot days when your skin can get a little extra oily.

Body

Hair

Books and TV Shows

Thank you all so much for reading and I hoped you enjoyed. Don't forget to share and comment down below and have a wonderful day! Byeeeeeeee!

Jade Madeleine, xo

With exam time coming up towards the end of term and my brain beginning to fizz with all the things I will need to remember, all I can seem to think about is holidays. I will be finishing year 10 in only a few weeks (which is so so crazy to me!) and I can't wait for summer holidays to come, but I also miss the past holidays so much. During the September holidays which you probably had if you live in Australia or New Zealand, I visited Japan! I know, crazy right.








I am pretty sure I have already mentioned this in past blogs but this is the official blog in which I show you all the pictures I took. Some of these are taken with my proper camera (Nikon D5500) however the trip was so jam packed and busy and just so go go go, it was much easier to just whip out my phone and take a few snaps (thanks to the good old iPhone 6s quality).