I'm moving to a different blog for a bit

Hi everyone,

Just a quick update and maybe my last one on this blog. I'm gonna recreate teacup of Danni Wordpress because I've found there are quite a few technical errors with this blog preventing people from following it or seeing it on blog lovin ect meaning it'll never be able to grow, I'll post a link here once it's finished.


Song of the day : Shine - Take That

Au revoir ☕️❤️

Update: I didn't get on with Wordpress so decided to stick with blogger, my new URL is teacupofdanni.blogspot.com so far I've had more page views in the 5 days I've had it than the 3 months I've had this one, come subscribe to my new one cos I'm pretty sure this will be the last post on here :-)

Tape | What I'm reading

Hello everyone,

It's Monday, and as I promised, here's my 'what I'm reading' post. This week I'm reading 'Tape' by Steven Camden. 

I was drawn to the book's bright cover when in the young adult section in WHsmiths last week. Upon seeing the cover up closely I imagined the book was just going to be another ordinary romance book but it really isn't. It's about about a girl, Ameliah who finds a tape in her new house, when she lays it she hears a boys voice which she believes is speaking to her. The boy is Ryan who talks about his hopes, dreams, fear and most importantly his love for a girl who doesn't know he exists. 

The cover reminded me of the first few chapters of 'Eleanor and Parc' by Rainbow Rowell because of the importance of tapes in their relationship when it starts to grow, along with comic books. The curly hair of the girl is also how I imagined Eleanor. If you've read this please tell me if you thought the same! 

Before I read this book I looked at some of the top reviews for it on GoodReads and it's fair to say people have mixed opinions, there's everything from 1 star to 5 star ratings, some found it boring whilst others described it as captivating. Personally, I'm enjoying it thus far, it's interesting and original, though it has been slightly predictable. I'm looking forward to finishing it and seeing how it ends, though by the sound of a few reviews I'm going to need a box of tissues.

My favourite character so far is Ameliah as you can relate to her, she is free spirited, funny and loveable! 

This isn't related to the book but I've been reading Louise's blog (aka sprinkleofglitter) who has been doing daily happies which I love the idea of, so I've decided I'm going to do the same thing but at the end of my favourite Friday blog posts as an addition. I'd love to hear yours :-)

Let me know what you're reading in the comments below and whether you've read and enjoyed this book or not - no spoilers please! 

Song of the day : Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson (I've just seen an edit of this with markiplier in on tumblr and laughed hysterically)

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Flower Crowns - My Advice

Hello Everyone, 

Today I felt like blogging about something I've loved for a long time, flower crowns! A load if people seem to be enjoying these at the minute whether they're getting ready for summer with them or photoshopping them onto Benedict Cumberbatch, and I love seeing them around. 

Last time I was in town I went into peacocks and saw an entire shelf of them staring at me and found it impossible not to be drawn towards the display of colours. I picked one covered in small white roses in the hope that I would be able to coordinate it with almost any outfit, and so far I've been able to. When looking at the price tag and expecting to find that they were going to cost a lot I found they were only £3:50, two bargains in a week! I then ventured on in my shopping adventure to find an identical crown tho the one I had just purchased costing nearly £15!! 

In the near future I hope to buy more lovely flower crowns as I think they look cute, elegant gorgeous! I'm planning on trying mine out with multiple outfits though nothing too fancy as it will draw attention away from the crown or make the outfit look too busy.  I think a flower crown would look pretty with braided hairstyles such as French, Dutch or waterfall braids (if any of you would like a blog post on how to do this let me know) or wavy hair no-matter what length hair you have. Personally I have medium-long hair but it has a few layers restricting a few hair styles. 

Thanks for reading I hope you gained some inspiration from this post. If there is a particular type of blog post you want to see or if there are any hairdos you want me to do a tutorial on then please comment below.

Song of the day : Title - Megan Trainor

 

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Superdrug face masks | Favourites Friday

Hello everyone,

So today is Friday and what better time to do a post about one of my favourite things from this week, I'm hoping thins can become a 'thing' and I'll remember to do this every Friday, because let's face it, favourites Friday has a good ring to it! 

This week I've chose the face masks from superdrug. I picked them up whilst in town this week as the packaging caught my eye, it's super bright and there's loads of variation. These cost as little as 99p each and they had a 3 for 2 offer on too! 

The ones I picked up were : super fruits exfoliating mask, chocolate orange self heating mask, cucumber cooling clay mask and tropical cocktail peel off mask. 

I put the chocolate orange one on with my cousin a few nights ago and was very impressed, despite the packets being fairly thin and small there's a lot in there. We were able to cover our faces leisurely whilst there's still 1/2 left. A bargain for 99p! The sensation of applying this was strange (as it always is with self heating masks) but it smelt and looked exactly like melted chocolate (yummy but not what I'd really like to smear on my face). You leave these ones on for about 15 minutes until they dry and then wash them off. They came off relatively easy and my face felt smoother than it has for a long time! 

I also used the exfoliating one last night, it definately did it's job, my face feels refreshed and this one felt a lot cleaner and smelt gorgeous! Mmmmmm!

I will definately be buying these again as they are affordable and luxurious at the same time.

I think it'd be nice if you joined in with the favourites Friday, either comment on this post saying what your favourite product/ purchase of this week was or tweet/post on tumblr using #favouritesfriday

Song of the day : Silver Lining - Hurts

Au Revoir ☕️❤️

So much chocolate

Hi everyone, 

 I hope you all had a good Easter, I sure did :-) . It was a weekend full of spending quality time with my family and eater a lot of chocolate :-) there's not much to say about it really but I did enjoy myself :-) (so many smiley faces). 

Oh one more thing, look at this : 

It used to be full of celebrations as you probably guessed but I've eaten those now, oops! It's such an amazing bottle :-) !

I also made cake :-) much better than the meringues I tried making! I'm gonna post about them sometime soon because quite frankly they were the most disastrous thing I've ever made!! 

Let me know what you did for Easter or what you've baked in the past and been proud of! 

Song of the day : Cell Block Tango - Chicago (I CANT GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD)

Au revoir ☕️❤️

Since you've been gone | Book Review

Hello everyone, 

 I've just finished reading this book  (Since you've been gone by Morgan Matson) for the third time, yes the third time, it's that amazing. I bought it last year when visiting waterstones in London (which is the most amazing book shop I've ever been to) and this caught my eye. I've got a feeling that this book is going to be very successful. 

Firstly, the cover design is amazing. It depicts exactly how I'd imagine the main characters Sloanne and  Emily. It's an eye catching and original design with the name clearly stated. 

Basically Sloanne has disappeared, Emily has no idea where she is and will do anything to try and get her best friend back, then one day she finds a to-do list in Sloanne's hand writing. It states all sorts of absurd things out of her comfort zone that she must do before the end of the summer. Whilst on her mini adventure she meets new friends and gets multiple love interests throughout. Her last and final one is unexpected but I ship it! 

I ended up reading this in two days and I would have finished it earlier if they hadn't been school days. Every chapter was interesting and all in all the book inspired me. It made me hint about what I can do to enjoy my self and what I can do that's out of my comfort zone to gain confidence. 

The character development of Emily from start to finish is amazing, she becomes so much more self aware and confident, she realises just how important she is and that she doesn't need other people to define her, and can we talk about Morgan's writing skills?! This book is written phenomenally, and I would absolutely love a sequel! 

One thing I would improve is the ending, though it was written well, it broke my heart! Why would you do that to me? (No-one dies don't worry) . It completely changed my view of Sloanne and I really wanted them to be able to be best friends forever, even though it didn't turn out too badly for the pair! 

The book is interesting, funny, emotional, I laughed and cried and I really recommend reading it (though maybe not in public as some bits might make you look insane). It's my favourite book along with Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas. If any of you have read it, send a message my way and we can fangirl/ fanboy together about it :-) .

I hope this post was interesting, let me know if any of you have any books you'd like me to read and review I will read any genre! 

Song of the day : Lips are moving - Megan Trainor

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They were supposed to be meringues

Hello everyone, 

 So I said I'd post a picture of my failed meringues, though it don't think you can really call these meringues anymore.

First off the mixture wouldn't stiffen meaning that it was basically liquid (I don't know what I did wrong there) so I decided I'd put them in a cake tin because it would be impossible to put blobs of the mixture on a tray. I put them in at the same time as my cake which needed twice as long as the meringues but forgot about this completely and only took them out of the oven when I noticed a strong burning smell. Moral of the story is don't trust me with cooking.

Let me know of any baking disasters you've had recently in the comments below :-) 

Song of the day : Sofa - Ed Sheeran 

Au revoir ☕️❤️

Is it just me? My favourite colour...

Hello everyone,

So this is just a quick update to tell you about my favourite colour (you know that, you read the title). At the minute I am in love with the colour plum. I have plum lipstick nail varnish, hat and dress and I want more! It's such a beautiful colour which I find goes with nearly anything. It looks stylish and kinda elegant - which is something I'm not :-( . 

Do you ever just feel like wearing a certain something gives you confidence. Makes you feel like no-ones opinions matter because you are comfortable in your own skin. I'm like that with this colour. I don't know whether it's just me but I honestly feel like I'm ready to face the world with this. Also, I love the hat, isn't it just gorgeous! ❤️

Tell me what you think. What are your favourite colours? Do you feel more confident in different colours/ outfits? 

Song of the day: TNT - AC/DC

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