Monday, 25 February 2013

One of Those Days!

Hello Everyone!

Ever have on of those days where everything seems to be going wrong! Maybe you didn't get enough sleep last night, maybe you trip and landed on your face getting out of bed, maybe you were out of nutella this morning..... THE WORST! For whatever reason you are having one of those days, I feel for ya!


The majority of my "bad" days start off with me not having enough sleep, and that is only my own fault because I stay up to all hours of the night watching youtube videos of people doing their makeup and funny cats! You can't blame me though, once you find one awesome video on youtube its like a black hole that just sucks you in to more and more videos! I wish my job was just watching youtube videos, then I would get so much work done! Another reason I often don't get enough sleep at night is because I continuously drink coffee late at night. As if I could learn my lesson after one caffeine overdose and bouncing off the walls until 2am, I do this ALL THE TIME. I never learn. I just love coffee, I enjoy the way it tastes and it's winter and I just want to feel warm on the inside out!

Then there are those days when you crawl out of bed and everything seems to be honky dorey, then it happens.... you drop your toast on your pants... damn my clumsiness and damn peanut butter for always landing peanut butter side down! Then you have to go through the troubles of changing those pants... which usually leads to changing your shirt as well! Such a process, not a recipe for a wonderful day!

I could go on and on about things that could go wrong in the morning to make you start off having a bad day... traffic, over load of emails from work, rude people, etc etc... but then I like to remember that no matter what "bad" things are happening, it could always be worse! At least I have a bed and a computer to watch youtube videos on... at least I have a coffee machine and food, at least I have clothes to change in and out of! I guess what I am saying is, don't sweat the small stuff... and in the end, pretty much everything is small stuff! If you get mad or upset at something that happens, take a moment to really feel that emotion, then move on! No need to dwell on the things that don't matter!

If all else fails... looks at these pictures, and your day will go from grey to sparkly in seconds!










So don't be a grumpy pants...

Just smile :)

Disclaimer... I swear I am not a crazy cat lady!

Have a WONDERFUL day :)

xoxo

Jamie-Leigh <3


Youtuber of the week! Shaaanxo

Hello All!

The winner this week for Youtuber of the week must go to Shaaanxo! Shaaanxo is a beauty guru on youtube and puts out some of my favourite beauty videos! She is from New Zealand and I just love her accent! I also find her to be relatable and just fun to watch! She also gives a lot of great suggestions on both high end products and drugstore brands, which is great if you are like me and are on a budget ;) I find my self on her channel for hours just watching her chit chat videos and makeup tutorials! She really makes you feel like you are right there with her, hanging out! Maybe it's the accent that I love or maybe she is just plain awesome! I think one thing I like about her is that she doesn't try to sensor herself and she doesn't try to act perfect, which I find many of the beauty gurus do on youtube.

Here are my favourite videos from Shaaanxo:

Her chit chat videos are my favourite!!

Her favourites videos give me so many great ideas!



She does such a good variety of tutorials as well!



Check out her channel here--> Shaaanxo and subscribe if you like what you see :)

She also has a vlog channel which I watch regularly. Her vlog channel consists of a lot of Q&A's and life updates, things like that!

You can find her vlog channel here -->Shaaanxovlogs :)

Have a wonderful day :)

xoxo

Jamie-Leigh <3

Saturday, 23 February 2013

My Youtube Channel :)

Hello All!

For anyone interested in hearing what I have to say rather than reading it, I have recently started vlogging on youtube! I find I am much better at talking than writing, as in, I could talk all day long with no breaths and would be loving life! I will still be doing my blog posts as well of course, but I will be updating my vlog more frequently! :)

I would love for you to subscribe and let me know what you think of the videos! I am always open to suggestions, recommendations, and constructive criticism :) Of course, if there are any videos you would like me to make let me know and I will make them!

You can find my channel right here --> JLeighHearts!

Hope you enjoy watching my videos :)



Have a wonderful day!!

xoxo

Jamie-Leigh <3

Monday, 18 February 2013

Books I read in January and February To Be Read (TBR)

Hello All!

As I said in my last post, I will now be doing reviews on the books I am reading! Starting off with Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl and How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You from The Oatmeal!

There are no spoilers in this review, however I may do a more in depth review of Beautiful Creatures later.. who knows!



Have a wonderful day!!

xoxo

Jamie-Leigh <3

Sunday, 17 February 2013

My Complete Book List


Hello All!

So I have been just a little book crazy lately and have been buying so many it's been hard to keep track! My boyfriend and I organized all of our books today and I thought it would be a good time to make a lop of all the ones I have! Which will hopefully help when I go to buy more so I don't accidentally buy the same book, which would be something I would do!



I think I am going to start reviewing the books I read in video form! I do find it easier to talk than to write and I am sure I will have lots to say about my books :) Stay tuned for the review!

For anyone who is interested in seeing my book list.. not including the ones I have at my apartment that belong to Jeff.. here it is! 

PS: The bold titles are the ones that I have already read :)

.... I wonder how many people will make it through the whole list... haha

Have a wonderful evening!!

xoxo

Jamie-Leigh <3

My Complete Book List

·      A Christmas carol
- Charles Dickens
·      The Island
 - Elin Hilderbrand
·      Twilight Saga – Stephanie Meyers: Twilight (2 copies) ; New Moon ; Eclipse ; Breaking Dawn 

·      The Hunger Games
 Series – Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games ; Catching fire
; Mocking jay

·      The Caster Chronicles – Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl: Beautiful Creatures
; Beautiful Darkness
; Beautiful Chaos
; Beautiful Redemption

·      The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams
·      The Host
- Stephanie Meyers
·      Fifty Shades Series - E.L. James: Fifty Shades of Grey
; Fifty Shades Darker
; Fifty Shades Freed

·      Oh the Places You'll Go
- Dr. Suess
·      The Help
- Kathryn Stockett
·      Millennium Series - Stieg Larsson
: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ; The Girl Who Played with Fire
; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest
·      The Reader
- Bernhard Schlink &Carol Brown Janeway
·      Seriously … I'm kidding
- Ellen Degeneres
·      The Choice
- Nicholas Sparks
·      A Million Little Pieces
- James Frey
·      Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me
? – Mindy Kiling
·      The Notebook

- Nicholas Sparks
·      The Wedding

- Nicholas Sparks
·      The Kite Runner
- Khaled Hosseini
·      The Time Travellers Wife
- Audrey Niffenegger
·      Water for Elephants
- Sara Gruen
·      Memoirs of a Geisha
- Arthur Golden
·      A Bend in the Road

- Nicholas Sparks
·      The Rescue

- Nicholas Sparks
·      The Lucky One

- Nicholas Sparks
·      The Book of Awesome
- Neil Pasricha
·      Barney's Version
- Mordecai Richler
·      The Life and Death of Charlie St. Cloud
 - Ben Sherwood
·      The Fallen – Thomas E. Sniegoski: The fallen ; Leviathan 
; Aeries; Reckoning

·      Bossypants
- Tina Fey
·      Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert

·      Dewey
- Vicki Myron & Bret Witter
·      Steve Jobs
- Walter Isaacson
·      I Am America and So Can You
 - Stephen Colbert
·      How to Live with a Neurotic Cat
- Stephen Baker
·      One on One
- Peter Mansbridge
·      How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You
- Matthew Inman
·      Follow your dreams wherever they lead you
- Blue Mountain Arts
·      How Full is Your Bucket
 - Tom Rath & Donald O. Clifton
·      The Wireless Room
- Shane Rhodes
·      Weird Ideas that Work
- Robert I. Sutton
·      The Lovely Bones – Alice Seabold
·      The Automatic Millionaire
- David Bach
·      One Good Friend Deserves Another
- Lisa Verge Higgins
·      The Secret Life of Bees
- Sue Monk Kidd
·      Pride and prejudice
 - Jane Austin
·      The Mermaid Chair
- Sue Monk Kidd
·      101 Uses for a Golden – Denver Bryan

·      The Secret Heiress
- Judith Gould
·      Confessions of a Shopaholic
- Sophie Kinsella
·      Marley and Me
- John Grogen
·      Bridget Jones's Diary
- Helen Fielding
·      Harry Potter Series
- J.K. Rowling : Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ; Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince ; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
·      The Da Vinci Code
- Dan Brown
·      Thin Rich Pretty
- Beth Harbison
·      The Nanny Diaries
- Emma McLaughlin
·      Nanny Returns

- Emma McLaughlin
·      The Lake of Dreams
- Kim Edwards
·      Memory Keepers Daughter
- Kim Edwards
·      The History of Love
- Nicole Krauss
·      Say You're One of Them
- Uwem Akpan
·      Bared to You
- Sylvia Day
·      Four Blondes
- Candace Bushnell
·      Me Talk Pretty One Day
 - David Sedaris
·      Secrets to Happiness
- Sarah Dunn
·      The Last Summer
- Ann Brashares
·      He's Just Not That Into You
- Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo
·      Something Borrowed
- Emily Giffin
·      The Periodic Table
- Primo Levi
·      House of Sand and Fog
- Andre Dubus III
·      We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Lionel Shriver
·      A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius
- Dave Eggers
·      The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
·      L.A. Candy
- Lauren Conrad
·      Sugar and Spice
- Lauren Conrad
·      666 Park Avenue
- Gabriella Pierce
·      Girl Interrupted 
- Susanna Kayson
·      I Feel Bad About my Neck
- Nora Ephron
·      The Happiness Project
- Gretchen Rubin
·      The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- Rebecca Wells
·      The Icing on the Cupcake
- Jennifer Ross
·      The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
·      Push
- Sapphire
·      Confessions of Georgia Nicolson – Louise Rennison: Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging
; On the Bright Side, I'm now the Girlfriend of a Sex God ; Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas

·      J'adore New York – Isabelle Lafleche

I

What's Cookin? - Better than Sex Cake

Hello All!

As you may know I am an avid baker and love to bake at any chance I get! This week I decided to go for one of my favourites, Better than Sex Cake. It is the most delicious!

Here's how I did it!

Ingredients:
- 1 box Betty Crocker Devils Food Cake Mix (I cheated ;) )
- 1 & 1/4 cups milk
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup veggie oil
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 tub whipped topping
- about 3/4 cup skor chipits
- about 1/2 cup caramel/butterscotch topping



Instructions:

- Mix together cake mix as instructed on the box!... Basically just throw the ingrediants together and mix it up!
- Pour batter into two cake pans
- Bake according to box
- Let cool for 5 minutes, than poke holes all over the cakes with the handle of a wooden spoon
- Pour the can of sweetened condensed milk evenly over each cake
- Pour some caramel sauce over each cake
- Let sit for about 10-15 minutes


- Mix cake up and Scoop out of cake pans and into another container for first layer (don't use all the cake up yet!) 
- Add a layer of whipped topping on top of the batter
- Pour some caramel on top and sprinkle some skor bits on top
- Add the rest of the cake on top of the whipped topping
- Add another layer of whipped topping
- Add more caramel sauce and more skor!
- I added some heart sprinkles on top for Valentines day :)
- now...... EAT UP :D


- Cover and store in the fridge :)

It's as simple as that! This cake is a big time crowd pleaser, it's super moist and very very rich!

Enjoy!

Have a wonderful day!

xoxo

Jamie-Leigh <3

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Goo Hoarding... Episode 1 - Lip Goo

Hello All!

First of all.... HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!! <3 <3 <3

I hope everyone had a fantastic valentines day and that you all got some love :)

I made a video this morning which I will post right after this! It's all about goo hoarding, first up, my lip products! I hate to say that I have more than whats in the video! So here is my lip product collection.... which I am hoping to expand!


Have a wonderful night :)

xoxo

Jamie-Leigh <3