Nails Beauty night

Good looking nails are like your own business card. When I was young I did bite my nails. For that reason i started to use nailpolish. Something that turned out in an addiction to nailpolish. I have about 90+ bottles. I bought a new nail file. This one is a six in one. I also bought nail drops. This stuff helps to let the nails dry very quickly.

I take a lot of care about my nails. So here it is my nailpolish routine in pictures.

This is the file. Easy to use because of all the steps are written on the file. And you only hace to use on product to manicure your nails. It is from Essence and costs about € 2,00.



This are the quick dry drops. Also form Essnce and €1,99. Apply with the pipette on your painted nails.



For my nail routine I use the products in the picture. From left to right you see: the base coat(MAX from action, i tought it was 49 or 65 cents and is a good product), Catrice nailpolish, with a fab name: Marilyn and me, Quick dry top coat form Essence(it turned pink from my red nailpolishes), naildrops from Essence and the File from Essence.



The nailpolish Marilyn and me. It is a red with red sparkles(€ 2,49 by Catrice).


The result on my nails:



Some tips for your nails

- when you use a nailbuffer file, you can use the shine side when you want to. the surface file only once in some what of 3 weeks.
- for the length of the nails, file them with a fine file and in one direction
- Use nailpolish on clean nails.
- always use a base coat. as you can see from this article, they don't have to cost much to be good ;).
- use two layers of polish
- use a top coat to seal the polish

Pie day

Winter is turning in very fast now. It was only 4°C, very cold. Time for pies I say!

For dinner I made chicken & leek pie which you can see in the picture. Really a dish to get your cold feet warm again. Here you can find the recipe chicken and leek pie I added some bacon and white wine for some extra flavours


After making this pie, I had some dough left. What to do with it



Well I decided to make some kind of apple pie without a recipe. I took some apples, cinnamon, sugar, vanilla and a bit of cream, chopped hazelnuts and lemonjuice. Mixed it together like this



Putted the dough and apple mixture in a tin and covered it with another layer of dough. And in to the oven he went for 45 minutes. I had no idea what it would like like or what was going to happen when finished.



After baking it looked like this.


Time to plate up now. This is the result: some sort of apfelstrudel looking applepie. With vanilla whipped cream. And tasty it was!

sunset on an autumn day

While in traffic jam on the road and waiting at the shiplocks I had time to take some nice photo's of the environment and the sunset.


sunset and trains


photo taken taken at an shiplock that was build in 1929

Party Pasta

When looking for pasta I found this funny one. Time for party on a plate :D



It ended up like this:


party pasta, tomato sauce, steak with herbes de Provence and garlic. Topped with some fresh parmesan cheese and basil leaves

Halloween 2011

Finally i have some to time to write on my blog. I was quite busy with school last couple of weeks. So here it is, my halloween costume. I went as a robot. I sometimes have to show my geeky side :)


This is me as a robot and my best friend Philizz , who went as emo.(he also makes great videomixes which you can check out by clicking on his name)

MangoFool

What to do with the mango? There was one on the table for a week now. It was finally eatable. I wanted to make something special with it. So i decided to make a mangofool(yes it is really named that.)


I made my own variation with from bottom to top:some tropical syrup, yogurt, mangofool, chocolate and tangerine

For the real mango fanatic:

Ice cream and a bra

Indeed, a bra and ice cream. Good combination I must say, because it was buy a magnum temptation ice cream and win limited edition Marlies Dekkers lingerie. Specially designed for magnum. And I won. Also my sister has won one. So we both were happy girls.



It went like this: In June you could win a Marlies Dekkers lingerieset by eating Magnum temptaion ice cream. It was easy, buy the magnum temptaion ice cream, go to the website marliesdekkersformagnum submit and maybe you are lucky. And I was! actually we both were. You had to fill in some personal data and on which day and where you wanted to pick up your set.

Sice the 500 sets of this limited edition line were not made yet, every winner had to wait until last week.
On October 12, we went to the Marlies Dekkers store at the Berenstraat Amsterdam to pick up our amazing looking and also very well fitting Marlies Dekkers set.


the set with the bag

I really like the pink with brown colors ans the swirls. Those are based on the magnum temptation ice cream colors and substance. The design of the set is also great.
What I also like is the new style of the Marlies dekkers storagebag. They used to be black or white most of the times. This is the new one. A really nice see trough gold color with satin ribbons and blotting paper with also the design of the bag.