Review: 'The Böögg'

'The Böögg' is a bath ballistic from the Christmas collection at Lush. It is shaped like the head of snowman and has colourful bits inside (mine was a bit broken at the back). I got this ballistic as a Sinterklaas present from a friend, and decided to use it last Tuesday. I had never used a bath ballistic from Lush before, so I had no idea what it would be like and would happen. When my bath was full, I got in and put The Böögg next to me. The ballistic started to fizz, and the colourful bits spread out through my bath. The white part was gone after about 3 minutes, and the colourful bits disappeared within 5 minutes. After those 5 minutes I was left with just my bath water, which I thought was a shame. But then I noticed the lovely smell that The Böögg had left not only on me, but in the entire bathroom. The next morning the bathroom still smelled of this ballistic!

So if you like bath ballistics and want your whole bathroom to smell of them, The Böögg is definitely a good choice. However, I personally like the bubble bar slices from Lush more because you can use them multiple times and they give you loads of foam, where the ballistics just leave you with an empty bath.

'The Böögg' costs € 3.95 a piece.
I don't know if it's still available, since it was a special Christmas product, but if you see it and you like bath ballistics it's worth buying!

Merry Christmas!

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I would like to wish you, my lovely readers, a merry Christmas! Enjoy the snow (or sun, if you are on the other side of the world), food and, if you get them, presents :]

Postcards

I think I have told you about postcrossing before, but I never took the time to scan the cards I received and show them. Up to now I have received 3 cards, all of them in November.

This was the first card I received, and it came all the way from Australia! It's not my favourite one, because I don't like advertisement cards that much, but it does smell good and it has cute stamps with koalas on the back.

As you can see this one came from Dortmund, Germany. I like this one very much, because I like seeing the cities where the other postcrossers are from!

This card came from a city called Arkhangelsk, in Russia. This is my favourite of the three, because I like cities by night. It also has very nice stamps on the back, with bears on them!






I hope that I will receive some more cards soon, but I also want to send some more myself. However, I think it's hard to find nice postcards that aren't too expensive. Does anybody know a webshop with nice cards, or maybe a shop in the area of Leiden?

Tired

I'm so sorry that I haven't blogged for over 2 weeks, but I've been busy with school lately and I've not had much blogging inspiration. I hope you can understand, and I promise that you can look forward to a new post this weekend!

I'm too tired to really think of what to write now, because I had christmas gala yesterday night. I was in bed at 2 (okay not so late, I agree) and had to get out again at 7:30. The gala was okay, but the music was horrible and partying is still not something I really enjoy, I'd rather go to a nice concert. Today a few friends and I sold cupcakes and baklava for 'Actie Paardenkracht', where students from my school get a free afternoon to raise money in this case for Ethiopia. We raised about 47 euros, so not that much, but I think that every little bit helps!

I promise I'll write a more interesting post this weekend! :]

Boys Like Girls

Sorry that I didn't post anything for a week, but I was busy. I also don't have that much time now, so this will be a short post.

I went to Boys Like Girls in Eindhoven last Friday with my friend Kim, it was great and I can't wait till they come back to The Netherlands! If you haven't heard of them, you should look them up on youtube, one of my favourite songs is 'Learning To Fall'. Some pictures I took at the concert, sorry for the bad quality but the camera I took with me isn't very good:

Cupcakes with Oreos

I made these cupcakes with my two best friends, Eline and Annabell, in the summer and they are lovely! Not only are there oreos in the cupcakes themselves, but also in the icing. Yum!
The recipe came from the book '500 cupcakes' from Fergal Connolly, a lovely book with tons of yummy cupcakes!
This recipe will make approximately 18 cupcakes. I'm sorry if not everything is clear, I translated it from Dutch, and I don't know all the baking jargon in English.

Ingredients

For the cupcakes
230 g soft butter
230 very fine sugar
230 g selfrising baking flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
10 crumbled/crushed double chocolate cookies (i.e. Oreos or similar cookies)

For the icing
600 g powdered sugar (sieved)
230 g soft butter
Pinch of salt
10 crumbled/crushed double chocolate cookies (i.e. Oreos or similar cookies)

Instructions
Warm up the oven to 175 degrees celsius or gas setting 2-3. Put 18 cupcake/muffin forms in the muffin bakingplate. Put all ingredients for the cupcakes except the crushed cookies in a big bowl and use a mixer to mix them for 2-3 minutes so you get a light-coloured, creamy batter. Carefully scoop (so not using the mixer but using a spoon!) the cookie crumbles through the batter. Put the batter in the cupcake forms and bake for 20 minutes. Take the baking plates out of the oven and let them cool down for 5 minutes. After that, take the cupcakes out and let them cool down.

For the icing, mix the powdered sugar with butter and salt using a mixer. Put some icing on each cupcake and sprinkle some cookie crumbles over them.

Enjoy!

Note
The powdered sugar used in the icing is a huge amount, therefore just slowly add the powdered sugar until you like the icing.

If you made them, tell me if you liked them!

I love London

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I absolutely love London. I've only been there a few times, of which I only remember the last time I went, because I was too young before that. Last years' trip made me fall in love with the city. I can't really define what it is that made me fall in love, but I think it's a combination of the atmosphere, the people, the shops and the language. London is just a lot nicer than any city in The Netherlands, and if you've never been there it's time to go soon! I hope to be visiting this gorgeous city again next year, and then I'll make a decision on whether I will follow a full university course there, or only spend a year of my study there.
If you visit London I really recommend Camden Market, this used to be a horse market (if I'm right?) and now there are loads of little stalls that sell alternative clothing, music merchandise and many other things. In the same area there are also more alternative shops, such as a Criminal Damage shop. So if you like alternative styles: go to Camden Market.

Do you also like London as much as I do or do you have another favourite city?