Wednesday 2 May 2012

Sweet New Restaurant in Howth

Today Katie and I went to try out a new cafe that opened up in Howth. A welcome change from Beshoffs, don't get me wrong I LOVE Beshoffs but I have it too much now, so I was delighted when Katie told me about this new place called The Dog House Blues Tea Room. Its a sweet little cafe just beside the train station. It has a really nice old vintage feel to it, with its mismatched chairs and old trinkets lying around. They sell coffee, paninii's, stew, soup and sweet cakes. Me and Katie got the chicken soup it was amazing and came with lovely brown bread. And of course we got desert cause we're pigs like that. I got a caramel slice and Katie got a massive muffin. The food was whopper, and they kept playing Take my Breath Away from Topgun, so you should all try it out sometime!

Katie outside 
Inside the sweet cafe
Katie real happy she's finally getting food

Tuesday 1 May 2012

Jennifer's Directorial Debut on Foreign Cities

Recently my friend Jennifer has asked me to help her in the making of her first music video for the Australian artist James Cooper. James is a songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He released his first album ‘Second Season’ in 2005 and co-wrote the ARIA top 10 Australian hit ’Beautiful As You’ for much loved Aussie band The Whitlams in 2006.
So he's kinda a big deal!

James Cooper

 James is currently collaborating with 10 directors and film-based creatives (mostly Irish) creating the Foreign Cities Music Films Project. The concept behind these films are 10 music films of any nature using the songs James has written and produced as either the audio bed on which the director will tell their story or use the song in a more traditional way for a promo style film. It’s all up to the director to make their choice and go their own route.  

So we started filming the video last Saturday with our beautiful models Aine, Amy and producer Declan! We got an absolutely beautiful day for the filming, thank god because we needed it for the video concept. Jennifer got stuck into her role as the director and the day ran smoothly, we even got a lovely sunset!
Day two of shooting we weren't quite so lucky with the weather it was quite a cold blustery day but at least the rain held off and our models were fantastic and braved the cold weather in the dresses! The rain held off right until after the last shot of the day which was great.

 
Aine and Amy
Aine in Ringsend

 For more stills from the shoot click here
Now Declan and Jennifer are getting stuck into the editing and its looking good so far! 
The video will be released along with the other nine videos at the Sugar Club, Leeson St on the 17th of May where there will be a live set from Bantum feat. Geppetto. Hosts For The Love Of (Ivor & Shane). 20 free vinyls for first 20 in the door. €10 door. Its going to be a really sweet evening! So come along and support Jennifer and check out all the creative new videos for James Cooper's new album. 

Check out James here on Facebook and the Foreign Cities website for more information
 

Sunday 8 April 2012

Saturday 31 March 2012

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.....BEETLEJUICE

Ok so is it just me lately or has anyone else noticed this Beetlejuice trend sweeping the nation lately???
In case you haven't noticed it and wanna get in on the trend here's somewhere that can deffo hook ya up with the look
Catch will deffo hook ya up with this trend here are some examples
Jacket
Jeans
Shorts
Dress
I'm considering buying my halloween costume early this year, also this isn't even all the Beetlejuice stuff they have, they have way.....WAY more!
Also Beetlejuice top movie

Happy April Fools


Monday 19 March 2012

St Particks Day Treats!!

My first St Patricks day treat is Lucky Charms krispy cake. For this you will need Lucky Charms, butter, oil and marshmallows
Step 1. Drizzel oil into a pot on medium heat
Step 2. Melt 2 table spoons of butter in the pot
Step 3. Add marshmallows and stir until they are all melted and remove from the heat
Warning!! It will look gross
Step 4. Add in the cereal and stir into the mixture
Step 5. Place the mixture into a cake tin and pop in the fridge
Tada!! 
This cake was real tasty but so so sugary, after one slice you feel like vomiting and go on a serious sugar rush, do not make these for kids, I can only imagine how insane they will go on this amount of sugar!

Next I made green and orange cupcakes for this you will need
350g Self Raising Flour
275g Caster Sugar
275g Soft Margarine
5 Eggs
3 Tablespoons Milk 
Icing Sugar
Green and orange food dye

Step 1. Pre-heat oven to 150°C 300°C Gas 2. 
Step 2. Sieve the flour into a bowl and add all the other ingredients.
Step 3. Beat all the ingredients together, gently, using a low setting on the mixer.
Step 4. When ingredients are combined increase speed and beat for one minute. 
Step 5. Separate the mixture into two bowls
Step 6. Add orange dye to one, and green to the other
Step 7. Spoon mixture into cake tin
Step 8. Cook for 15 mins

 
 Step 9. Go crazy with icing

So very very orange   
Then I made a green milkshake, for this one you will need, I mint Aero bar, green food dye, milk, icecream and ice
Basically throw it all into the blender and tada you got yourself a whopper green milkshake, suck it MacDoanlds!
Here's Maria enjoying hers before Tallafornia
Marty and Collie also got in on the festive themed foo, here are their masterpieces
Marty's jelly and ice cream
Collie's dinner


Friday 16 March 2012

Happy St Patricks Day!!!

The Muppets singing Danny Boy, just beautiful
Look at them tiny bastards dance!

And here's some sweet vintage St Patricks Day photos
2008 Jennifer Hyland gave everyone a green moustache
Including herself
The lads with their Tuborg
2009 mens toilets in the Gresham
And in the Shelburne, we were posh that year
and last year having some good clean fun with fake tattoos
Also big hello to minest two new followers!!!

Monday 12 March 2012

Get Shopping for St Patricks day now

Here's some St Patrick gifts from my favourite gift buying site findagift.com, which also brought you great valentines gifts too
Some personalised boxers that say "heads up for Melissa" along with the cheeky slogan "kiss my Blarney stone" ohhh cheeky!!
 Oh look how cheeky this is "rub me for luck" you dirty dog!
"Send someone the luck o' the Irish with this giant fortune cookie that weighs in at just under 1 pound and is almost the size of a football! Hand dipped in your choice of the finest gourmet Belgian Chocolates"
Nothing says happy St Patricks day like a giant fortune cookie that weighs just under a pound wow!
Matthew is such  "Lil pot o'gold"
What?
"The Beer Belly" Way better than carrying a naggin and cans around all day
Get these two zaney bbz
Defo want this!

Monday 5 March 2012

Shopping and some things to look forward to

Finally got paid this week and i didn't waste any time, got this sweet top in Pennys for 8 blips on Friday and its real sweet and girly! I got my knock off creepers in Korkys on Saturday for 34.99( there I go plugging my shop again) and of course I picked up Vogue, quite late this month due to my poorness but tis real good and fat this month! 
Saving a birra money for Thursday because there is a sweet new vintage shop opening in Georges St Arcade called Tahiti, the shop will be opening at 10.30 on Thursday morning and from 7pm bands including Jetsetter & The September Girls will be playing. There will also be a Miller bar on the night supplying free beer to all and special opening deals
Here is the link to their facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/TAHITI/249111598501030

Also happening this Thursday, Ireland's Newest Rock/Metal Night is Launching at Club 21s Dolier Street. Hailed to be Ireland's Biggest Ever Rock Night in association with Molten Magazine & Radio Nova. From the Promoters who bring you Carnage Metal Club and Club Hell now Bring you Club Poison every Thursday Night. I for one am gagging to go to this! Selected drinks are only 2blips, bottle of Buckfast 10 blips and all other drinks 2.99 and the cover charge is only 5euro



Sunday 4 March 2012

Pinning is winning!!!

I've been perving on Pinterest for some time now, and its sooo addictive and amazing! So last week I finally bit the bullet and started pinning myself, I just pin things I want to buy, a kinda way of remembering what I wanna get come pay day, but at the rate I'm pinning I'll have to win the lotto to buy everything! For those of you who don't know what it is I've copied and pasted a paragraph from Wikipedia 

"Pinterest is a pinboard-styled social photo sharing website. The service allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections. The site's mission statement is to "connect everyone in the world through the 'things' they find interesting." Pinterest is managed by Cold Brew Labs, a team based in Palo Alto, California. The website has proven especially popular among women. The site's founder is Ben Silbermann, of West Des Moines, Iowa."

I'm really addicted to it that's why I've been neglecting the blog for this week but now I have returned. Also wanna say a big howyeeeee to minest newest follower Sophia!!

Hers is the link to my Pinterest


Enjoy x

Sunday 26 February 2012

The Return of (1) and Duffy!!

Duffy!!
Monday marked the return of the glorious babe Clare Duffy to Dublin, for the first time since Christmas! Girly times went into over drive this week, starting with a day of Tallaghfornia on Monday followed by some cocktails made by the cripple Rfp! Tuesday night was spent stuffing our faces with 4 in 1's from San San's a salad finger delacacy at this stage!
Nam Nam
 On Saturday me and the girls went back in time to Whealans to try relive our youth, it was so good went out at ten, got our stamps and down the lane we went which was actually the best part of the night, can't beat a few tinnies down a lane like! Then we went in for the rest of the night and it was just as good as it always has been! Only sad part was Hyland not being able to walk out on the ledge she always used to be able to do, poor form!

Old grafitti is still there
Sweet lane times
Duffy loving being home

Come back Duffy xoxo