How to make a magazine collage!

This collage looks great but it takes a while so please have patience and persevere. You will feel great after you've done it as it looks great and its a project which you keep adding too, everyday.

Materials: 

PVA glue

A magazine (I used boots - health & beauty magazine)

A canvas or a piece of card.

Method:

1.Rip up your magazine into small bits. I personally rip them up because it makes a better effect, you can cut the bits up if you want, but i'm sure it would still look fantastic:)

2. Put the bits on the top right corner of the canvas/card and squeeze some glue onto a bit plastic (or something) and put that at the bottom left corner.

3. Start the collage by dipping the glue spatula in the glue and taking a piece of the magazine bit. Put it on the card and smooth over the top with glue, locking it into the card with a glossy film like this...

4. Carry on like this, until the whole of the page is filled. Leave to dry and then put on last layer of glue on top of the collage to lock it in and make sure nothing falls off! Here is a picture of my finished one on a canvas...

While your doing this, listen to music and watch TV  It will help a lot as it may start to get a bit bored after a while so if you do something at the same time you'll surprise yourself at how much you can actually do!  Remember to have fun and even if you start to get bored, carry on because the end product will be amazing! Good luck! Annia-x-

How to make Bath bombs/bath fizzies!

A lot of people always think that bath bombs are really hard to make but they really aren't  There are two main ingredients, which is citric acid and bicarbonate of soda. When these two mixtures combine together they form bath bombs. The bicarb is the base for the bath bomb and citric acid makes it fizz. We use a ratio of 2 parts bicarb and 1 part citric acid. I would also recommend doing this outside! Anyway onto the recipe!

Equipment:

A bowl
A whisk
Moulds (I use silicone ice cube moulds from IKEA)

Ingredients:

1/2 cup of bicarbonate of soda
1/4 cup of citric acid
A couple of drop of colourant (I use food colours, personally
Fragrance of your choice (I use eau de toilette)

Method:

1. Sieve and measure out the bicarb of soda and make sure there is no lumps as you don't want clumps in your bath bombs.

2. Measure and add your citric acid to bowl and mix together until all the bicarb and citric acid  is combined together.

3. Now you want to add your colourant and fragrance. You have to be very careful with this as you don't want to wet the mixture too much or you'll set the mixture off too early.

4. Keep adding the colourant and fragrance until the get the desired colour and scent. An easy way to know when to stop is to get some mixture in your hands and squeeze it together. If it sticks together then you know its done but if  it can hardly hold its self together then obviously you need more. Keep doing this test after every drop you add.

5. Now its time to press the mixture into your moulds. When filling the moulds, you want to tightly store in as much mixture as possible. This prevents gaps in the bath bombs which can cause the bath bombs to break when handled. Use the technique of: pulling the mixture in and pressing, like this...

6. Leave in a dry environment for about 2 to 3 hours or until they are set and there is no moisture in them.

7. This is the fun bit!! Pop the bathbombs out of the moulds and wrap them up. You can give them as presents to family & friends or you can keep them for your self and indulge in a warm bubbly bath! Here's one from today's batch:

As you can see, this recipe is super simple and easy to do! So have a go and see for yourself!  Annia-x-

How to make shower jelly!

It is quite expensive to buy shower jelly from lush, so why don't you try this simple recipe which is inexpensive, fun and easy to do!

Equipment:

A spoon

A bowl

A fridge

Pots to put the S.jelly in

Ingredients:

1 sachet of un-flavoured gelatine

3/4 cup of boiling water (185ml)

A pinch of salt

1/2 cup of shower gel (125ml)

Method:

1. Mix the gelatine into the water, it may make clumps like this...

But keep mixing until all of the gelatine has dissolved into the water.

2. Add in the shower gel.

3. Now should add the salt.

4. Mix together until all of the ingredients are combined together. Remove the bubbles like this...

Keep doing this until  you have something like this...

5. Pour the mixture into the pots but don't fill right to the top.

6.Carefully put the pots in the fridge. Don't put the lids on, they will go on after.

7. Leave in the fridge for 3 to 4 hours or until firm to touch.

This recipe is so simple but sometimes that's just what you need! So say goodbye to expensive lush prices and hello to the new world of D.I.Y beauty products! Here are some pics of the final product:

 You can also leave me a comment to tell me what else you want me to explain and if you like my blog, thanks. Annia-x-

How to make the simplest pasta sauce!

This pasta sauce is a quick sauce for one. You can have it when you just want a portion for yourself and don't want to open a whole can of tomatoes!  It is tasty and easy to do. Anyway here we go!!

Equipment:

A  bowl

A fork

A microwave

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons of tomato puree.

3/4 tablespoons of warm/boiling water

1 teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon of  black pepper

1 teaspoon of mixed herbs/ herbs de provence

1/2 teaspoon of garlic

Chilli paste/hot sauce (this is entirely optional and add only if you want a 'kick')

 You can obviously add more and less of the spices if you want but this is just a rough guide.

Method:

The first thing you have to do is put your pasta/spaghetti on:)

1. Put the tomato paste in the bowl and give a quick mix to smooth it out.

2. Now, you want to add in the salt and spices ( black pepper, herbs and garlic). You should add the chilli paste/sauce now as well, if desired.

3. Next you want to whisk (with a fork) the ingredients to make a thick paste.

4. Add water to the paste until you get the consistency desired.

My consistency was like this...

5. You may want to add some more spices as adding water will obviously water the taste down. When you've done that microwave this on full power for 2 minutes. Have a break between each minute and mix then put it back in for a minute.

6. This is the best bit, serve and enjoy! Bon appetit!

How simple was that!  Annia-x-

About Me:) -x-

About Me!

Basics:  

Name: Annia Naik

Nickname: Little;)

Birthday: 24th January 1998

Hair colour: Dark dark dark brown with dark ginger streaks (caramel)

Eye colour: brown

Current location: England:)

This or that?

Hugs or kisses - Hugs.
Pepsi or coke - Fanta
KFC or burger king - Mcdonalds
Chocolate or vanilla - Vanilla
Soda or juice - Apple Juice
Music or internet - Internet
Dogs or cats - If I said dogs. my cat would kill me, so yeah.
Curly or straight hair - Straight
Corded phone or wireless - Corded (so american (Y))
Food or drink - Food.

sod

Liverpool.forever.and.always♥♥
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bitch,please.
Anna: MOODY JKS JKS.
Eva: the 'JOKER'
Fern: yess bladd.♥
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Izzy:HER DADS MY DOC.
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If someone walks away from youu, let them goo, it dosent mean there a bad person it just means that their part of your story is over♥ aaaw;)
I dont hate you but if you were on fire and i had a cup of water, i'd drink it:')
i'll be waiting, for you, when your ready to love me again:)
BABY BABY BABY OOOH,
'How did you know 'cause I never told
You found out
I've got a crush on you
No more charades
My heart's been displayed
You found out
I've got a crush on you'
Nero
Muse
Chase'and'status
Rizzlekicks
ONEDIRECTION(omg.)
Adele♥♥♥
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Well, I hope you've learnt a bit about me:)  I Annia -x-

How to make chocolate covered strawberries!

These are so simple and tasty. The rich power of the chocolate compliments the freshness of the juicy strawberries:)

Equipment:

 A glass bowl
 A pan
A spoon
A tray and grease proof paper


Ingredients:
1 bar of chocolate
Strawberries - just one pack (roughly, there are 20 in a pack)


Method:
1. First you want to break up your chocolate and melt your chocolate your chocolate on a double boiler (if you don't know what this is then check my blog post for my truffles, as I explain on there). It should look like this...

2. Wash your strawberries...:)

3. Melt the chocolate until its smooth and creamy like this...

4. Dry the strawberries and dip then into the chocolate. me sure you cover the entire strawberry evenly but don't go all the way up to stalk or you wont have anything to hold onto when you take them out of the bowl.

5. Drip off the excess chocolate so you can prevent having a big chocolate disc around the bottom of the strawberry.

6. Place the strawberry on the grease proof paper and repeat steps 4 and 5 until you've used up all the strawberries and eat the remaining chocolate!:)

7. Put these in the fridge for about an hour or so (leave in for longer if needed). Make sure they are firm, they should be hard and solid on the outside and sweets and juicy in the inside. They should look like this....

Sorry that isn't a very good picture but you get what i'm saying! A nice twist is to layer the bottom of the strawberry in white chocolate! Anyway have fun and enjoy:* Annia -x-

How to make chocolate truffles!!:)

Hey guys, today I wanted to show you how I make chocolate truffles! lets gooo;)

Equipment:
glass bowl
pan
A spoon
A tray and grease proof paper

Ingredients:
1 or 2 bars of chocolate
fruits, nuts etc. (only if you want to though, I made plain ones today but its entirely up to you)
2 tablespoons of milk
cocoa power for dusting (optional)

Method:
1. First you want to break up your chocolate, use 1 and a half bars then leave the other half (we'll be using this later)

2.Make a double boiler (you can do this by putting a pan of boiling water under a bowl this helps to melt something properly and doesn't scorch it but make sure the water doesn't touch the bowl or it will burn the contents inside the bowl)  and start to melt the chocolate like this...

3. Wait until the chocolate is melted and is smooth and then add some milk in. Keep mixing until the chocolate goes clumpy, add more milk if needed, the chocolate should look like this...

4. Now you have to quickly roll the chocolate in balls (or your preferred shape) before the mixture goes to hard to work with. This step is pretty simple but just remember to work fast!

5. Melt the rest of your chocolate (the half you saved earlier) and roll the truffles in this, you can cover it in something else if you want like cocoa powder. Only sprinkle a little cocoa powder on otherwise you will get a horrible bitter taste in your mouth (yuck). Alternatively you can mix it with icing sugar to sweeten up!:)

6. That's it really, just place on grease proof paper to harden up then your done!!:)

I hoped you enjoyed this recipe:) Annia -x-