Essential Autumn Staples

Hello Friends ! 

Autumn is my and my girlfriends favorite month ! We love the cold nights, cuddles, hot chocolates, conker collecting .. well .. actually we love EVERYTHING about Autumn. Some may say we're obsessed ! So today I've decided to put together a collection of my autumn staples and I can't wait to hear about yours in the comments !

Fashion 

You simply cannot go through Autumn without at least three essential shades of nail varnish . Everyone needs a burgundy, a gold shimmer and a navy ! Well .. I do anyway hehe, what shades do you love in Autumn? Let me know in the comments !

Boots are one particularly important staple , especially in good old rainy Britain ! There are cute boots everywhere at the minute and as exciting as it is, it's incredibly bad news for my purse . However possibly the most important thing as the colder months move in is a snuggly autumn jumper ! Nothing feels better than snuggling up on the sofa in a jumper and leggings and a lovely hot chocolate.

Hair And Make UP

If you are a regular reader then you'll know that I never leave the house without glitter in my hair . I personally love to use The Body Shops "The Sparkler"  or as I call it " Glitter Puff" because it's the most adorable little vintage style perfume bottle and with one squeeze a beautiful puff of glitter is covering your hair and what's not great about that ?

Personally, one of my favorite things about Autumn is changing up my make up. Bringing in those gorgeous golds and beautiful berry colors is the best part of the year ! My personal favorites that I'm wearing Rimmel Glam Eyes Golds palette eye shadows that give the most beautiful and well pigmented shimmery effects you could imagine. Meanwhile my go to Autumn lippy is the Rimmel Drop Of Sherry !

Home Decor 

In Autumn, one of the most simple pleasures can be to cuddle up in your room with your good friend Netflix. I love to make my room feel Autumnal. In ASDA they super some ADORABLE duvets with hedgehogs and foxes on and all sorts of sweet snow scenes :) I also love to add a few burgundy pillows to the bed to cosy everything up and of course, fairy lights.

What's your favorite season ? How do you get in the autumn spirit ? I'd love to hear all of your wonderful thoughts in the comments !

Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :) 

Lots of love, Marianne xxx

Recipe : Hot Chocolate !

Yesterday ( The 23rd September ) It officially became Autumn in England and I'm very VERY excited ! I love Autumn because I love all the colours and the clothing and the cuddling and most importantly, I can start preparing Christmas DIYs for my blog which I'm so eager to start doing ! So to celebrate the official start of the half of the year where you can snuggle up in bed with Sherlock on and drinking endless hot chocolates. I wanted to share with you my own recipe for the best hot chocolate ever ! But as we're nearing the end of the week and getting tired I thought we might need something stronger ... so I'm adding edible glitter !!!

Step One : Pop about four teaspoons of chocolate chips into a mug and add an extra one because... chocolate tastes nice ;) Then add about 5/6 mini marshmallows in and mix it all together !

Step Two : Refrain from eating the marshmallows and chocolate chips mixture you've just made .

Step Three : Repeat Step One because I know you ignored Step Two ;)

Step Four : fill your mug about a quarter of the way up with milk

Step Five : Microwave in for thirty seconds and then stir until the chocolate in melted into the milk. Then fill the rest of the mug up with milk .

Step Six : Microwave again for two minutes. To stop the milk from boiling over your mug and ruining your mothers microwave ( sorry mum ) I found that it's best to microwave it for thirty seconds, stir, another thirty seconds, stir and then one minute and stir again !

Step Seven : You don't really need to add edible glitter at this point but I got over excited about the sparkles and did but you can see how pretty it looks :)

Step Eight : Okay, this is the cool bit, you might be confused, think I'm going mad or both but honestly just try it ! Add some chocolate ice cream on top of your hot chocolate and then sprinkle some edible gold glitter on for extra magic . As you drink it the ice cream cools down the hot chocolate on the way into your mouth just enough to make it the perfect temperature and oh my gosh it tastes so SO good !!!

Let me know if you give this a try ! I promise you'll love it and it's great for treating yourself after a rough day or when you just have a craving for chocolate :) I hope you like it !

Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :)

lots of love, Marianne xxx