My Week A La Instagram

1. A goodbye wagamamas with Toby and Megan before she went back to uni :( 2. Finally found myself an everyday lipstick, No 7. Classic Rose 3. Emma came round for tea and nail painting. 4. My nails. 5. The yummy lunch Emma and I had in covent garden. 6. Emma looking gawj on the train. 7. Toby the absolute charmer chillin' like a villian. 8. Started a granny square crochet blanket! 9. Peter being a lazy mog.
Lil x

Company Magazine's Blogging Event!

Going to Company's Event was amazing! Emma and I spent the whole day doing lots of shopping and the evening was spent at The Rich Mix Venue in Bethnal Green. We travelled down super early and spent the whole train journey trying to find the ticket chap and not fall onto any sleeping commuters (we have now learnt Emma has the worst balance especially on the tube - she almost landed in plenty of laps!) 

Me on the left, two fellow bloggers and my gal Emma on the right. Photo from Company website.

Once in London we did the majority of our shopping in Oxford street, stopping off at Topshop, Primark etc and  I finally got to go in a Forever21 - it was amazing!! We then went to covent garden where we had lunch of a delicious chicken burger with fries and salad. We hit quite a few charity shops and I was astounded at some of their content! Manolo Blahniks and Chanel shoes for £60 - craziness! And we also went to The East End Thrift Store which is a storage unit of vintage finds that would make every hipster cry with excitement and we have decided we shall revisit one day for sure. We also went to Somerset House and had a look at a free exhibition that was on.

Chanels and Manolo Blahnik's for £60!

Somerset House has unisex toilets?

After a hefty walk because of a misjudgment of tube stations, we arrived at The Rich Mix where we were greeted by some beauties from Company and welcomed into a room full of fellow bloggers. After grabbing a drink we got chatting to two lovely ladies that work at company, shortly followed by two equally lovely ladies who work for Amber Venz who happened to be on the blogging panel. 

We went through to where the seating was for the Q&A sesh and we were greeted at our seats with the BEST goodie bag you could ever wish for (and I thought party bags were great pffft nothing compared to these goody laden bags of joy.) 
Listening to all these successful ladies was so inspiring and all their answers made so much sense and has made me want to blog more and regularly! After the Q&A we got to mingle again and we managed to talk to Gem from GemFatale, Carrie from Wishwishwish and Shini from ParknCube who are all amazing gals! We travelled back to Waterloo and then homeward after having met Charlotte who travelled home on the underground with us, check out her blog here: plastichorsess.

All in all a rather fabulous day spent with the best friend, one I would quite happily repeat :) And, I finally joined twitter - follow me @ElizabethPoyntz
I will be putting up a post about my purchases and my amazing goodie bag, so keep your eyes peeled and your keyboards at the ready.
Lil x

Beginning With Some Baking!

As I'm a bit of a blogging virgin I roped my best friend Emma in to give me some help with pretty much everything! We've lived on the same road since we were about eight and so just a phone call and she's here in minutes, it's great! 
We made some Aero Meringues, here's how we did it:

All you'll need is some eggs, sugar, vanilla, mint aero and some green food colouring!

Make sure you have super sexy aprons!

Wash your hands, preferably with a double chin ;)

Separate 2 eggs using the whites only.

Whack out the whisk.

Peter got involved, he loves a bit of baking!

Whisk until you can do this.

Weigh out 110g of caster sugar and add in portions whilst whisking the whites.

Add some vanilla bean paste (Emma's dad is a chef so it's the fancy stuff)

Whisk until it all looks nice and fluffy.

Chop up a whole bar of Aero and add to the egg mixture.

Place large spoonfuls onto a lined baking tray.

Bake for 30 minutes at Gas Mark 2/150C.

And they should look like these beauties! We put in some green food colouring during the mixing but its not very noticeable. Just enough to make it look a tad more minty!

Enjoy with a cuppa :)

Got a bit snap happy, they're super yummy!
Give 'em a try and let me know how they go?
Lil x