Thursday 17 March 2016

Charger Organiser | DIY | Thursday

Good evening readers,
If you looked at the notice at the bottom of yesterdays post you would all know about my current living arrangements. This also means I may be busier some days than others. I know this may come across as lazy, but that is not what I'm trying to do. As I did not want to leave you guys without a post today, I am going to find a video from Youtube and put it below here and a little section at the bottom about the youtuber. Posts should be back to normal by tomorrow! Hope you all enjoy this little break from reading I guess!



This account does not get enough recognition! It basically is how to make things that most people find useful around every house hold, but yet it looks as if you had gone and bought it. It also may be more affordable, and ideal for you if you're on a budget. Some things you can not purchase, but it does help out, and really they should sell them.
For more videos like this, subscribe to HGTV Handmade, I am ;)

-Tara

Wednesday 16 March 2016

Healthy Lifestyle| Wednesday | Edition 1

Hello everyone!
This post may be up a little late, but I will be explaining why to you at the end in a short notice. (Tell me if you prefer this rather than me writing an entire post on it)

If you've been reading my blog for a rather long time over the past two years as I know a couple of you who have reached out to me on twitter and I know you have been, you'd know I used to do a healthy lifestyle post before. Well, over the last two years I have had so much more experiences and found different things out and instead of continuing them kind of posts, I am going to start from scratch now. If things seem similar over the next couple of posts then that is the reason why. Here is edition one, and I'm actually going to be starting my healthy life style tomorrow so I can follow along to with my progress.

Many of us have tried these 'diets' and 'intense training' and I just want to start of by saying, that's all good if you want to struggle and feel sick straight away. Also, this is NOT a guide of dieting and intense training. This is about slowly changing things in your life for your health benefit, along with weight loss and slowly building up muscle. From experience, I have found do it gradually keeps the weight off, the muscles strong, and is easier to put into a habit.
Before we start with the foods, and exercises and all that stuff, the most important thing to do to make sure you succeed is to find what MOTIVATES YOU. The same thing isn't going to work for everyone. Here is a few ideas to motivate yourself;
1. Keep notices on your phone
They could be a quote that motivates you to get fit, or a photo. This way even when you're not eating or switching classes or at lunch time it will remind you that you are changing your lifestyle because at first a lot of the time you forget you're actually trying to cut down on sugars and things, then think you've 'messed up' today and will start again tomorrow. Remind yourself that that is an excuse. You are NOT getting any closer to your goal by waiting to start till tomorrow. Start NOW. Change NOW.

2. Create a pin board on pintrest and spend ten minutes a day adding to your board

















This is something I do, as you can see above and if you want to check out my boards just click on them! The one I use the most is on private, and you guys can make one on private too if you don't want anyone to see it or know what inspires you. It may come across as personal to some people as it does to some extent to myself. Click on Create a board to set up your own account.

3. Keep images on your phone that motivate you
I used to do this all the time, in fact I still have some photos on my phone that I look at during lunch and break times at school to remind me of my goals. It is actually quite amusing in my opinion to go and find these quotes and images on google as it is something that motivates me and makes me feel good about myself and get a clearer image of what I want in my mind which obviously, motivates me more!

4. Put posters on your wall
This one may come across as weird, but if you was to put up on your wall your goals, your ideal body, little quotes etc. you will see them basically every single day, and it will remind you when you wake up and before you go to sleep that you got goals to achieve and that everyone, has the power to do it with a load of hard work and effort. In the end its worth it!

5. Keep a diary of your goals and progress
Once again, this may seem a little of sorts but if you keep a diary containing all your goals, your progress and all that kind of information, you can remind yourself to write in it daily and add little things in even if its just a few words or a doodle. When you feel like giving up you can flick through this and see how good you're doing, and think do you really want to quit now? Don't you want your goal bad enough? You are cape able.

NOTICE
Okay guys so a little notice why this is late, and about my posting schedule.
As you all know I'm currently in the process of moving into a new house, so if posts are late or I do not post on a certain day, it just simply means I have things I have to do. As soon as that is all done I will be pre-writing my posts so I will be able to do things through out the week, without missing a post. When this is all done I will be able to set a time everyday that a new post will be up. 

Thank you for reading guys, edition 2 will be posted this time next week.

Tuesday 15 March 2016

Goals&Achievements|Tuesday


Helllooo everyone!
Here is some goals that I want to achieve by next week;
1. Made a good start on my new room
2. Gain one new piece of make up
3. Drink more water

I know this is not a lot, but its really next week when the post will start to get bigger and explain more as I get to write of what I achieved, new goals and things like that. I will be asking you guys on twitter about your goals of the week and what you achieved last week and featuring it in my next post.
I think this is the shortest post I've ever published?!
Oh well..
-Tara

☺Notice | New Themes☺

Hello everyone!
(I'm aware this is a day late, my apologies)
As you can tell  by the title, there are now new themes! Now of course you might recognise a couple of them, but they may be posted on different days in a different way e.g different part of the theme. Originally I started this blog with the intentions of it being based completely as beauty, hence why the blog is basically called beauty blogger. After owning this blog for nearly two years my interests have changed. As selfish as that sounds, I cannot write about something every single day that I no longer have a passion for. Therefore, I added some new themes and got rid of some of the old ones. I've kept a few that I still feel as if I can write a lot about, and are important or may help the readers of my blog. Now I'm going to tell you the new themes and explain them a little bit to you, also they're starting straight away. Because of how fast I'm going to be transferring things, Today (Monday 14/03/2016) I'm going to put up two posts. The new theme, so you can get a taste of what it's about. That post may be up by 8 o'clock UK time as it is a new set out and needs some thinking upon.

Monday - Weekly Agenda (plans)
A Weekly Agenda on a Monday, what a way to organise your life! Using either a website or self made stencil, I'm going to fill in my Agenda for the week. I will leave a link to either a clear copy, or the website I used to you too can fill out your own Agenda! Now I know we don't all know everything we're going to do on a Monday morning, but I will be going back and editing it when I get new plans, I may not include some things for personal and safety reasons. You can do the same too, but make it private or save it on your computer/phone/laptop or you could even copy it into a document and print it out for yourself. I will be adding a Key so if you do something then think oh I need to remember that or I wish I added that, you still can! (If you have any suggestions, changes, issues with this new post please do not hesitate to contact me on my social media or in the comments section)

Tuesday - Goals/Achievements (weekly)
This one is a little self explanatory. On a Tuesday, I will be setting goals for the week for myself, and then after the first post I will also include what I actually achieved of the last weeks goals. This may feel as if its for personal use, but to make it more fun you guys can join along, and I'll be asking on my twitter and younow when I actually start live streaming, some of you guys your weekly goals and last weeks achievements and featuring it on this blog! Also, if you haven't got a younow account I suggest looking it up. It's for live streaming, you can connect with facebook or twitter. If you're interested in seeing my live streams (based on youtubers and this blog) my name is @taralovescookie on there.

Wednesday - Healthy Lifestyle (ideas)
On a Wednesday, kind of mid-week there will be a post up all about either healthy eating, fitness, quotes and anything really to encourage a healthy lifestyle of others. Sometimes this will be applied to myself and other times not. If you're not interested in this stuff, and you're unhappy with yourself but do not have the power to lose or gain weight, keep an eye out on the confidence section on a Sunday as there will be body confidence posts in future.

Thursday - DIY's (Do it yourself tutorials)
One of my favourite things to do, is do things myself! On a Thursday I'll be writing about how to make things our of cardboard, old things, new things, anything! I'll be trying to make all different things so eventually you may be able to find a post useful or think that you'd like to do that! Send me your results on twitter and tell me about it on younow, and I'll be more than happy to feature it on my blog, if you would like. You may also leave suggestions in the comments of what DIY's you'd like me to try!

Friday - Society Views (Drugs,Sex etc.)
Okay so one of my hobbies, is participating in conversations and debates about social views. My friends and I can spend hours on end just speaking about other peoples concept of drug use, smoking, sex, age limits and things of that type. We speak about our own experiences and it is a really good pass time and you get a chance to put your perspective out there in a safe environment where you wont be judged! I know that sounds a bit ironic on the internet, but on this blog all comments are monitored and no unnecessary comments will be posted! I was thinking on putting live chats up about this so we can all discuss the matter.

Saturday - Before&After (make up&hair)
Not forgetting the real reason I started this blog, and I still have a strong interest in beauty and hairstyles. On a Saturday, either on myself or on a friend, I will create a different hair and make up look and create a before and after. Then I will leave a review by the one having their face done. Like I said, this could be me or a friend depending on what I'm actually meant to be doing that day or what I can plan.

Sunday - Confidence Building (Coping Mechanisms)
Last but defiantly not least, Confidence Building. It's been renamed, but this used to be the Monday post. The new version will occasionally have posts including copy mechanisms on how to cope during anxiety attacks, when your feeling low or are in arguments. I know that sounds irrelevant, but in personal experience that really does have a big impact on your own confidence. 

I hope you're all as excited for this new theme as I am!
-Tara










Sunday 13 March 2016

Where have I been? | Mystery Sunday ♥

Hello everyone,
Happy Sunday!
As I previously mentioned, at some point I would be doing a post of what I've been up to, what's been going on in my life and that kind of stuff if you were all interested. I thought, instead of overloading you with posts, I would make it my mystery post for this week!
Now, if you've been reading my blog you would probably know that I haven't posted or been active for around about a year! A lot of things have been happening in this year.

1. My mother and little brother moved out
- I still see and speak to my little brother, I love him to bits and even though we don't always bond and get along he will always be my little brother

2. My dad got engaged!
- We had the engagement party the other week, it went brilliantly and I'm glad he has found somebody for him and hope fully they'll stay together now.

3. We've moved from a house to a two bedroom flat closer to my dads fiancée and we're still currently working on it now but it seems brilliant, and if you've read my other posts you'd know I had two different rooms in my old house done out, and now we've moved and I got to have my other room done out now and I think I'm going to be having this one for a very long time now!

4. Along with a lot of dramas, parties, memory's etc. I've had a really busy year. I hope you all understand this is why I haven't been posting. But now I finally can get back to one of my favourite hobbies, writing on this blog for you all.

OTHER NOTICES
I've decided that once my room is all set up, to start a make up collection from scratch and dig out my camcorders, charge them up and start my youtube account all over again. This time, because of the move and the change of lifestyle I really do believe I will be able to keep this up and if it works out it will be another hobby that I do enjoy doing.
In about 2 weeks, (26/03/2016) there is a possibility I will be posting reaching out to you all asking someone to take over one day of the week. This would allow you to get on with your current life, yet have an entire 6 days to do little bits and create a good post.
More will be explained nearer the time.

Thank you for reading. - Tara-lee


Saturday 12 March 2016

ARTISTIC CANVASES| DIY Saturday♥

Hey everyone!
So I spent hours watching videos, looking on the web and trying to find some DIY room things that I could maybe add a personal twist too and post! But everything I watch is kinda the same and cost a bit of money to recreate, so I thought I'd just write about something that's more money efficient, and you can all make to your own taste or room theme! 
Also I'm doing a SECOND post some time next week to explain to you where I've been and what is actually going on in my life at the moment, if you guys are interesting in reading about it.
Anyway, back to it! Artistic canvases! I'm going to post a few examples below and tell you all how to do it, that's if you don't want to try it out yourself.
NOTICE: I FOUND ALL THESE IMAGES ON GOOGLE! I AM NOT CLAIMING THEM TO BE MY OWN. For those who are wondering, I will start using my own images in about two weeks time!:)
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Here are a few ideas I've copied off the internet, if they aren't a bit self explanatory, here is my perspective on how to do them below.

1. The first one you see, looks very cool and relaxing. But you can personalise this up.
Either take some photos of places you like, wanna go, been, look pretty etc. from the internet and print them out. 
Or, you could get your own photos of places you've been etc.
Take your scissors, and cut them into either triangles, circles or any other shape you prefer.
Line them up how you would like, and bond them to the canvas using any bonding agent you have/can get.

2. Line up all the canvases you have, and apply a sticker or paint one big picture using all the canvases together. You can use blue tac to keep them together stronger. Once your happy with the drawing you've got, let it dry then take off the blue tac. You can then separate them.

3. The third one you may need to purchase some plastic animal figures. Paint them with a few good coats of coloured paint. Paint the canvas a plain colour, then use a strong bonding agent to attach them once they're both bone dry. 

4. Grab a couple of different sized canvases and a few different shades of the same colour, or different colours depending on your personal taste. Paint them all different bold colours, then when dry move them around together to find your best fit. You can then hang them up.

-Tara


Friday 11 March 2016

Returning

Hey everyone, so I know I haven't posted for like a year now...
oops..

well I'm going to start (either from now or Monday) posting again!

I'm also going to open a new twitter account back up, as my old one is basically full of people spamming me. I'm going to try and re-connect with a few of you so as soon as I set it up I'll post it here for you all to go check it out and chuck me a DM!
I was also thinking, if I can keep this up for a few more months, taking on some writers to post when I'm un able too. Of course, thats going to be a bit further down the line but it'd be good if you start speaking to me now so I can start gaining trust a take a few of your ideas on board!

I hope you all haven't lost intrest, and if you have give me new ideas,
new posts, new themes and let me know what you're all into!

I am still hoping to post every day but if I can not, help is always appreciated and looked into.
Thanks for reading,
Tara