Hey guys! So some New Zealanders have gone a bit crazy over this Candle company called Candle Crush. It is a New Zealand based company. So many people obsess over candles and I just don't get how people buy so many candles. I get it, they do smell good and makes your room/house smell good too but most candles are quite expensive. Especially from really popular companies. One of my friends told me there was this discount which can get $10 off your purchase if it's over $30. One of their candles cost around $30 so you'll be able to get the $10 off! :) After my friend told me about the discount, I went on their website and saw the cute designs that they put on the jars and the scents sounded really good. I couldn't resist but to get some! I ended up buying two candles and one melt. I'm giving one of the two candles for a present though so I pretty much just got one candle and one melt for myself.

The main reasons I bought candles from Candle Crush is because:
1. It was $10 off with the discount coupon code! (Who doesn't love getting things for cheaper! haha)
2. The scents sounded really nice and are unique
3. The original price is only $30 which is cheap compared to high end candles which are like $60+ normally.
4. It's free shipping. However, it doesn't not ship internationally! :(
5. The candles burn up to 50 hours!! :o and the candle melts last up to 8 hours.

I only bought these three things from there. The hot chocolate one is a candle melt.

The "Smokin' Hot Chocolate" candle melt. This actually does smell like hot chocolate. It's hard to explain the smell of hot chocolate because it's not exactly chocolate, there's another scent mixed in there. I just know that that's what hot chocolate smells like!

"As snug as a bug in a rug" smells just like baby powder. It's exactly what I was expecting because it'll be the smell of a baby which would be baby powder. It's not the most amazing nor horrible.

The back of the candle looks like this. So adorable and at the back of each candle, there's a cute little description of the candles scent.

KOOKIEEEEEEEE! This one smells like cookies! It's really sweet so definitely don't take a huge sniff at once because that might give you a headache or  make you feel sick. When I gave it to my mum to smell, she thought it was a vanilla scent. When I told her it's actually cookie scented, she said "oh yeah, I was close because vanilla is put to make cookies" hahah twisting her own words to make her right!

The back of the cookie scented candle is just cute and on the last line it says "the only thing missing is a glass of milk!" <3 It'd be so cool if they did a milk scented candle and sell this cookie one and the milk one as a set which you can give one to your friend and be like cookies and milk, the perfect combo! ;)

The lid and top of the candle jars look like this. It's plain but does it's job so that's all that matters. It'd look so nice if there was a little diamond shaped handle kind of thing on the lid but it's not a necessity so I'm not major sad about the lid being plain.

The candle looks so big on here haha!

Overall, I enjoyed buying the candles from there and the candles do smell pretty good! The only thing that I'm bummed out about is the fact that I didn't get any samples. :( At least the candles smell good though and it was super fast shipping! I ordered it on Friday and got it today (Monday) which may seem like they didn't ship it out til ages but it was just because the courier doesn't work on Saturday's and Sunday's. They had the post tracker thing on so I saw that they shipped it out really quick.

Hey! EXAMS ARE OVERRRR for this year! YAY! So happy! I'm free! I had my last exam today, which was biology. It was actually easy than I expected so hopefully I get a good grade for it. :D Anyways, enough exam talk. After my exam, Yvonne and my mum came to pick me up from school and we went straight to Westfield, Albany. We spent quite a long time at the city. Especially since I was shopping with a pregnant woman (Yvonne) and my mum who gets tired and sore feet easily. We arrived there at around 1pm and came back home at 9.30pm. That is quite a long time because normally, mum just wants to buy groceries from Asian super markets instead of actually shopping for clothes. I didn't actually buy that many things, but I'm going to make a haul video for the things I bought and also, add in things that I'm buying over these holidays. I'm going to like add up all the items I buy and do one big haul for it. So stay tuned on my Youtube channel to see when that comes out. :)

McDonald's recently came out with a new item... frozen sprite! There are a few flavours that you can choose from like cotton candy, bubble gum, green apple and a few more. Me, being a cotton candy lover of course had to get the cotton candy flavoured one first. It looks quite pretty, with the strips of red. It costed only $1 as well! Pretty good and my cup was a small size. I didn't choose medium or large because I was afraid that it would get too sickly after drinking too much.

Selfie with my love ;)

After that, my mum went shopping in Asian supermarkets so Yvonne and I went to a Korean mart store and bought ice cream! Who wouldn't want to eat a frozen sprite then an ice cream? ;)

Sitting in the car eating the ice cream haha

See how my ice cream has a bite taken out of it? It's was actually my sisters ice cream originally but I might've sneezed and got some spit on it hahahahaahahahah Okay, don't say that I'm gross. It was an unexpected sneeze okay :(

We sat in the car for ages! Mum likes to take her time while grocery shopping haha. When she finally came back, we went shopping and just looked at clothes pretty much! I didn't find anything too nice so I didn't buy any clothes. After shopping, we left to go to a restaurant. I think it's a korean restaurant. We kind of got lost on the way there because Yvonne's so bad with directions but we finally found the place! haha

We ordered three main dishes and a few sides to share between us three.

All the dishes that we got.

Spicy fish roe soup

Free coffee from the restaurant.

As you can see from the coffee photo, the sky is still pretty bright due to daylight savings. The time of the photo would have been around 9pm! I love daylight savings because the day always seem to last longer.

Off to paint my nails now! I'll be making a tutorial on how to do christmas themed nail art soon so stay tuned on my youtube. :)


Love,
Elaine

Hi guys! Seems like I haven't written a blog post in aggggeees! I'm just too lazy haha and besides, I can't think of anything slightly interesting to write about even though it is the holidays but I haven't done anything too amazing. Anyways, yesterday, I went shopping at Westfield, Albany with my friend Rachel. It was so fun! It's been ages since I've bought that many clothing items in one outing haha. So I'm going to talk about what a bought.


From K Mart, I bought:
Two shorts that can be used for exercising or just normal everyday for home. I already have three shorts at home but there's no harm in buying just two more because I'll wear them at home all the time since they're so comfortable.

From Valley Girl, I bought:

• Leopard print shorts (YAY! I finally have some more shorts! I only had two shorts left at home so I'm definitely glad that I have one more pair now)

From Cotton On, I bought:

• A black skirt (I finally have a black skirt! haha I have always wanted a black skirt and yesterday I finally found one that looks good. It seems like I never ever see black skirts at stores but that's probably just because I was never truly looking hard enough for them but oh well! I finally have a black skirt. So happy because black skirts go well with anything!)

• A floral print skirt ((This skirt looks quite good. It goes well with plain tops (I'll be wear it with the black tank top) and it's perfect for the summer time : D))

• Plain black tank top (Even though it's just a plain black top, it's always good to have more because they will never go out of style and you can wear them with anything you want and it'll look great 99% of the time)

Hiya! Yvonne recently went to Japan (she's written about it -->here<--) She bought back loads of goodies. Mostly junk and shit that won't be used but who cares? Junk's still stuff. She bought a whole dining table full of things. I know, it's weird because I said dining table instead something else but it's only because we unpacked her stuff onto the dining table. One, because she wanted to take a photo of every single thing she bought and two, we couldn't unpack on the ground, otherwise Hazel will probably attack all the stuff.
These are a few of the things that she bought me (or things that we can share... lol)

Here's the whole heap of junk. And this is minus the clothes she bought

Hello Kitty glasses Why are they so popular now in Asian countries? They do look cute though, just not on me haha. You can't see the detail in this photo but on both sides of the glasses, there are three designs to look like whiskers. Oh, and the best part of these glasses is that there are no lens, not even fake lens.

Mini egg-like chocolate with Disney character wrapping. I'll be using the container thing as a pencil case probably. Not sure what else I could use it for haha

This cracker/biscuit (not sure) snack it pretty weird. Like, your first bite and it's real crunchy and then the centre of it is all soft. It reminds me of cereal like coco pops. but it's a giant coco pop and not as crunchy. PLUS, a huge bummer was because I thought that every packet/box of these will contain a key chain of the white dog (pictured on the side of the box) but instead I just got a stupid sticker. I think it's random, you either get a sticker or if you're really lucky, you'll get the key chain?

Few of the goodies for me. My favourite would have to be the Minnie (or mickey) mouse necklace because it's so cute. From left to right: Cream cat earphones, Bear with buttons key chain, Panda cooling gel, Random red key chain, Easter Wonderland 2012 Disney (contains chocolate inside), Silver and red glitter bear key chain, key chain (necklace's were too expensive, apparently) of Disney's mickey's head shape as a pancake or some type of dessert with whipped cream and strawberry on one of the ears, Winnie the Pooh chopsticks and finally, a pair of Hello Kitty chopsticks.

I love this so much! It's hand made so each individual one of these are different. Yvonne bought this from a zoo.

Question of the day: What's your favourite gift that you've gotten from someone when they went overseas?
Love,
Elaine

Hi Sim lovers. My mum recently brought me the Pets expansion pack. Even though all Sims maniacs would've gotten it when it first released but because my mum's cheap, she brought it for half price! (So did my biffle, lol) We both saved money! The original price for this expansion pack is $69.90 but since it was half price, it only cost $34.95! That's quite a lot of money, of course it's not like $100+ but still, save as much as you can in these bad economy days.

I really love playing with Pets included in the game because it makes the main story much more different, since your sims life will be based around animals. And there's new clothes for your sims. For those who have played The Sims 2 pets, you probably know how to play this but for those who haven't (I haven't) you'll still learn how to play and control everything easily. Another reason why I love this game is because there is quite a large variety of pets/animals. I didn't expect snakes, turles and lizards to be in the game even though you can't control them, it can still make the game more fun.

Sims 3 Pets

The pets my household has are a scottish fold cat, horse (not a horse expert so I don't remember the breed) and I also found a cockatoo in my backyard so I took it home and pretty much stole it from nature. I just hope that my cat doesn't attack the bird. I adopted a puppy from a neighbour and it is so cute! It's a mutt, female and has light and dark brown fur. I would love to have a dog or cat have babies I think it'd be cuter than a baby horse but it is rare to see a horse give birth/have babies. Unless of course, you have horses yourself and breed them. I wish that you could have more animals in this game though. I mean, I know it's tricky to design the animals and all that, but it'd be so fun if they made cows/bulls and you can ride them for the rodeo! Even though there are no rodeo theme's...

Question of the day: What Sims 3 expansion packs do you have? If none, then why?

Love,
Elaine

Hiyah, have you tried the not-so-new baby lips by Maybelline? I bought one today and I can honestly say, it is one of the best lip balms I've used. It's really soothing especially when you've got chapped lips. I got my one from K Mart and it cost me $4.50. I think that is quite cheap because before I went into K Mart looking for a good chap stick, I was in Equip and I saw this really cute ice block lip balm. (The container of the lip balm was an ice block) I really wanted to get it but it was $3.99 for 1.5g!! And the baby lips was $4.50 and it's 4g! I'm so glad that I decided not to buy the cute stuff haha. I got the limited NY fashion edition, not only does it look quite nice but it's berry flavoured. Which was a bit of a bonus. I always thought that the packaging to it was too casual because I would think that Maybelline would produce something that looks more classy and elegant. But this only means that they're targeting teens. The flavour/type I got is 'Protecting Berry' It is also limited edition so better buy yours before it sells out! My friends brought the mango and the other berry one. Both of those two smell nice as well. They all have a very light smell so if you don't end up liking the smell, it won't matter too much because you can't spell it on your lips only when you're applying it on. If you've never used/owned one of these baby lips lip balms, then I suggest you go out to your nearest shop (if they sell cosmetics) and buy it. There are around 5 or 6 different flavours to choose from as well and I'm sure they all smell nice (I don't know for sure though so don't buy it and then blame me). These lip balms even have SPF 20! So it's perfect for all you sun bathing/tanning girls out there. Even though I'm pretty sure there are lip balms that go higher than SPF 20.

The packaging

baby pink coloured lip balm

Question of the day: Have you ever gotten a Baby Lips lip balm? If so, what flavour was it and did it smell nice?

Love,
Elaine