Weekly Roundup #1

Happy Easter beautiful people, hope you've had a lovely day indulging yourself in chocolate!! 

This is my Weekly Instagram Roundup. 

1 - Nicki Minaj Pink Print Tour!! I got to wear my Nicki Viva Glam Mac Lipstick

2 - Cupcakes for the work girls

3 - Mummy's birthday presents

4 - Because a selfie never hurts

5 - Green tea before a trip to the Ice Bar in London

6 - Waiting..waiting..more waiting

7 - Mac. Brave, Hot Gossip and Love Cloud

8 - Because its Easter!

9 - Looking after this little cutie, say hi to Tilly the guinea pig. 

Hope you've all had a great week, you can follow me @kathrynscupcake :)
Signed, Kathryn x

@kathrynscupcake

@kathrynscupcake 

Long story short, I deleted my old instagram account because I was in a low moment in my life and my photos reflected that. It wasn't me and although I regret deleting it now as I had some amazing followers I feel my new account will bring my love for blogging back! I want to stop looking and comparing my photos to others and not spend over an hour just to get one shot that I think people will love. 

I've only just started this account so it would be great if you could follow and I shall follow back to ensure I don't miss out on all your goings on either. 

@kathrynscupcake 

Signed, Kathryn x

Life through Instagram!

Hello lovely people! :) 

I love seeing instagram updates on blogs and also love creating posts like this just as a quick recap on some happenings, I suppose its an easy post to write but still enjoyable so without further-ado lets get to it! 

I've done my fair share of baking the past few weeks. Some pretty pink vanilla cupcakes, strawberry and banana muffins and peanut butter and banana pancakes! YUM, all of which are followed by some jasmine white tea from Thailand. I am also decorating my parents 25th Silver Wedding Anniversary cake so will post about that shortly.  

I have also had a bit of a tidy up, although looking at the current state of my room you wouldn't think it! I cleared my makeup, brushes and vanity tray and bought a lovely sausage dog ring holder!

Speaking of purchases, I saw this lovely grey top as photographed above from Oasis and loveee it especially as its so comfy! In addition one of my best friends recently went to America for several months and has just returned. She bought us each little presents and I received some Willy Wonka Nerds, EOS Strawberry Sorbet Balm and a Vanilla Cupcake Yankee Candle, what an amazing friend!! The small things in life eh :) 

xx

Still no laptop.. iPhone Weekly Update

I sure hope everyone from the UK had a lovely Monday Bank holiday despite the horrid weather! I certainly did although I have had a rotten cold which being nominate by several people now for the ice bucket challenge will 100% not help fix that. Having a current 9-5 part time job has really taken its toll on me and I still haven't had time to sort out my laptop... can't quite believe I have gone a week without it now, although I suppose I use the majority of my work time on Bloglovin anyways.



Here is a quick little update of life through my iPhone, seeing as I can't publish any of my posts without the good quality photographs :( 

 

Rocky Road Cupcakes - Recipe to follow!



My ca-uteee new iPhone case



Best new slippers!



Bringing back the beach look using Texture Spray





First time using rollers in ageesss

Follow me on instagram for more updates @kathryns_cupcakes :) I reallyyyy do hope I will have a laptop fixed by next week! 

Life Through My Phone #1

Evening all :) 

I've been a busy bee lately and with my birthday coming up tomorrow I've had some pretty exciting days to the lead up as well as birthday celebrations at the end of this week. 

I have changed my instagram account since (you can now find me @kathryns_cupcakes) but in the mean time here is some highlights from the last few weeks, taken from my personal account :)! 

1/ New Purchase from Topshop 2/ Afternoon Tea 3/ Cupcake Baking 4/ Green Tea, Mint & Lime Costa 5/ Selfridges (excited for Great British Bake Off) 6/ Some early birthday presents 7/ Charlie & the Chocolate Factory 8/ Beautiful flowers from parents 9/ My friends cutest kitten

Tomorrow I am off to Champneys for a spa day with my mum, ekk.

Xxx

New Instagram Account

Just a quick post to say I have created a new instagram account for my blog. I didn't feel it was necessary for everyone to see casual day to day posts of my friends & family therefore: 

You can now find me here / @kathryns_cupcakes 

Please follow to keep updated with posts and little extras. 

:)

Oh and I've also had a play about with my layout so hope you like it!

Life update! ( & the day Tanya Burr and Jim walked past me whilst I was dressed as a tap)

Ha sorry for the long title.. but I will get to that part in a minute! 

So I haven't posted much lately because university work has taken over my life and I have been doing extra hours at work to buy the boyfriend a 21st present (what a great girlfriend..). Any who, here is a little life update that hopefully isn't too boring :) If it is I am sorry ha, I just don't want my blog to fizzle out so figured this was the best way. 

Also.. another update: 16 days into March and I haven't bought any makeup woho! 

1// Soya American Pancakes 2//Fav Flowers! 3//Livewire Radio 4//Beacbeachbeach 5//Tap. 6//Beach again 7//Cocktails 8// Archery? 9//Night out

Okay that didn't really seem very exciting did it. 

Anywasy, yesterday (Saturday) I was raising money for the charity Water Aid in the town center.. dressed in a very very silly tap costume... Just my luck that Tanya Burr and Jim walk past me ( unfortunately they didn't donate booo :( ). 

Anyways, hope every one is having a beautiful weekend. I will also have some cupcakes to go bake this week which I will post! :D 

Much love, Kathryn xx

P.s http://www.justgiving.com/tomandconorgohitchhiking2014 This is the reason I was dressed like I was ha!

November in a nutshell

Another week over and another month has come to an end. Seriously, when I started writing this blog and also doing the radio it shows you how quick time really does fly.

Earlier in the month I done a short instagram post on my days at home so ignoring them photos here are some little captured memories to remember the month by!

1,2,3/ Dinner date! I swear all my money either goes on makeup or going out for dinner! Had a little catch up in Nandos with one of my girls!

4/ Mexican night! Always nice to have nights in with your housemates!

5/ DJ Wars. I was asked to be on News Presenter DJ Wars on the radio. We had to pick songs related to the weather, sport and politics. I won!

6/ Just a nice Sunset over campus!

7/ Dinner date take 2. This time to Giraffe

8/ Christmas lights. Took a little trip to town to watch the christmas lights being turned on!

9/ Mulled wine! It is officially christmas when the mulled wine comes to the scene.

10/ Mac lipstick in Angel

11/ Sunday walks! The best days to go for a walk

12/ Christmas decorations. This was one of my favourite shifts at work, just decorating the bar with Christmas deco!

12/ Thankyou card! I recieved my Great Pink Bake Off poster in which I raised a total of £144.80 for breast cancer!

13/ Cath Kidston cupcakes! My besties birthday

14/ Christmas Number 1!.. Okay maybe not number 1 but 6 of the girls recorded a christmas single for livewire (the uni radio station). We sand Jingle Bell wrong and with no auto tune I think it sounds rather good!

15/ Christmas nails! L'oreal paris number 842

16,17/ Jamies Italian for Alice's birthday!! 

And that is my November in a nutshell.. not to mention I took part in the universities naked calender for the environmental science society! Ha. All in the name of charity!  

Lotsa love, Kathryn xx

Instagram!

I will probably be doing a double post today as I want to make some belated Halloween cupcakes so will do a Halloween post later on today... but for now I just want to share some Instagram photos of the past 2 or so weeks as once again I have been extremely busy with some really random days!

First Row

1: This is just a drunken selfie from the Bar Social a few weeks back! 

2: Radioooo! My first radio broadcast :') I love it, I'm slowly getting used to it and the nerves are still there but they'll soon fade!

3: Sweets. My mum who is a hygienist would not appreciate this pick a mix but sometimes you have to treat yourself!  

4: Dinner Date! I love dinner with my girls, I went with one of my best girls at uni to Giraffe. Hot duck stir fry, sweet potato fries and a cocktail <3 

Second Row

5: Whilst walking to the carpark after dinner we spotted the Doctor Who tardis for its 50th Anniversary1

6: Rupert! I love cats and when at uni I miss mine, but luckily we have this little ginger guy come and visit. I don't know his name so we've named him Rupert! 

7: The Great British Bake Off final. Everyone needs to watch this show! Our friend came over and he bought us girls some wine and popcorn to watch the final, naww :) 

8: Tom Odelle! Working at the bar means you get to watch great acts! I am not a fan of Tom Odelle but I can see why people like him, I also saw Goo Goo Dolls a few days before and on Wednesday.. Gabrielle Aplin ekk! 

Third Row

9: Another dinner! This time it was a lovely Thai restaurant and the photo shows the cutest elephant tea pot!

10/11/12: Okay so this day was so bizzare! I had my radio show ( photo 13) then as I am part of the Env Soc committee I had to attend some volunteering for field work. We went to this little wet woodlands where this lady named Kathy lives. She is so lovely but it's a very odd place to live, its like a giant shed and she had a tree inside her bedroom. Anyways, we done some fieldwork on the river then I got to hold her pet chicken... THEN we went to the river and got out the old rusty boat and canoes.. THEN we found a vodka bottle with a message inside, it was so random. Being us, we rang the number left on the note and was told the guy was in Germany but he had visited the lake several years back ha! 

Fourth Row.. nearly there

13: Just another radio selfie..

14: Donkeys! There's a beautiful lake at my uni campus where I used to go every weekend to for walks but I just haven't had time, until now! There's a huge field with over 20 donkeys/ponies/horses. Was a great way to cure a hangover

15: Halloween!! I will post about this later :')

16: My flat mate got a new camera so I was just testing it out on a random cat outside my bedroom! 

Hope you've all had a great week! 

Happy Halloween and Bonfire Night

Kathryn xxxx

Instagram!

Geez, we are now a week into October, where on earth has the time gone again?! 

I love being able to look back and read what I have done and also be reminded of things via photos so I have decided that this post will be full of my Instagram photo's.

 I 100% should be doing work right now but once this is done I won't need to post for a while and also I have NO laptop once again so am borrowing my lovely friends whilst it gets fixed. 

On to the photos..

1: Environmental Science Society. I am currently the part of the Social side of the Environmental Science Society at University which brings people from both the school and those interested in the Environment together to have nights out, gain extra work in the fields and what not. So for the Society Fair I designed an eco-friendly banner made from recyclable materials to advertise our society and I am so pleased with the result, it looks so professional and if I can say so myself, that A* in Product Design came in very handy! 

2/3/4: Gigs! I am a lover of The 1975's at the moment, if you have yet to hear their album then you are missing out! Luckily my best friend works at the place they hold gigs and we gained free entry to see them 2 weeks ago now! They were amazing! Straight after the gig we went back to the Student Union to continue freshers week where Zane Lowe (Radio 1 DJ) was DJ'ing. Oh what a night!

5: Take Me Out to Nandos! Okay so long story short, last year my friends signed me up to take part in Take Me Out university edition. Fair enough it was a fun experience but I really dont want to be put on stage in front of every one judging guys ever again. I did however end up on a date to Nandos which was a laugh and actually me and the guy got on extremely well, not in a romantic way just as mates. He has now graduated but on a night out he managed to spot me and the next day we went back to Nandos for a catch up :) 

6/7/8: 50th Anniversary. My University were celebrating their 50th anniversary last weekend and they could not of asked for better weather! It was so cute, people who graduated way back we're reunited throughout the day at meetings and then had a big party till 2 am!

 It was such a busy day..I worked at the bar till lunch time, walked around campus with a beautiful burger, went on some rides, strolled back home to have dinner, then walked back onto campus to watch a Volcano Fire Works display THEN on the way back into work I spotted Greg James (Radio 1 DJ), who used to go to my university so got a little photo with him then had to work outside in this cold beer tent until 1 in the morning. God that was a long day! Oh and I also went out after work where Greg James was DJ'ing for us!

9/10/11/12: Last Thursday! I was very ill after that weekend but had to be up early to do a demo for my University Radio! This photo basically shows you hand panted gorillas that have been around the city for charity which was my news story for the radio. And guess who got the spot.. ME! I will be on air on Fridays at 12 o'clock presenting the news and also the weather of course. Yay I am so excited, happy and greatful that they chose me for a news beat slot!! 

God this is a long post. So during the day our shopping center had a Student Night, I was actually good for once and bought nothing, the high light was defiantly this photo booth! In the evening we hit town where the silly TOWIE cast ( Charlie and Mario ) were. Although I do watch the show the guys in it aren't the nicest of people, nevertheless I still got a photo ha! 

Nearly there...

13: Summer Blues. In the mist of all the excitement I am still having holiday blues. I don't know why because everything is so great at the moment but I wish I could just be rich and fly out, get on a cruise and relax for a bit whilst catching some rays. Although I am looking forward to the Autumn sun and the frosty mornings!

14/15/16: Yesterday! Yesterday was such a beautiful day, thank you high pressure! Our university has the most lovely lake where all the students chill, have lunch, read books and also fish! During freshers I pratically lived down there but this was probably the first time this year I have walked there. So we had a lovely walk and a little picnic on one of the fishing docks then in the evening had dinner at Gourmet Burger Kitchen that had just opened up. Being lactose intolerant and all it wasn't all that great and the service was awful. I am sure it is nice if you can eat the majority of the menu though :)

And that is my last few weeks in photos. 

Now.. I really need to start my dissertation properly and also start the coursework that I have been set before anything else crops up however I have work in an hour ha so the work will have to wait. 

ALSO I am seeing Bastille on Thursday ekkk!! 

Okay that's enough for one week. 

Lots of Love, Kathryn xxx