Current Beauty Favourites

Looking at these photos it could be the middle of May, with birds tweeting outside my window and a gentle breeze blowing through my open window. Alas, they were taken on a rare sunny January morning – but we can pretend, can’t we? Anyway, the Christmas stocking is a wonderful thing because it’s the perfect destination for beauty-sized presents that you don’t want to spend the money on yourself but need oh so badly, which is precisely where I got 3/4 of the products featured here from.

Sponge

Now that the beautiful weather has moved on, I had resigned myself to the next two weeks of exams being full of miserable thoughts, low hopes and possibly insanity. That is, until I got home today to see a little box waiting outside my door, inside which sat a cake, just for me! I’m sure you can imagine the elation of finding a cake outside your door for you and you only to devour. Well, imagine how warmed my heart felt when I read the little card sitting inside, signed “Love Elliot” – that is my boyfriend by the way (although even if it was from a stranger I wouldn’t have said no…).

I heard about Sponge recently, and I was blown away by the concept, extremely disappointed in myself that I hadn’t thought of it first and also excited at the thought that one day I might get one myself. And now I have. A extremely appetising, fun, homemade (that’s my favourite bit) cake, just for me. Oh, and it tastes ruddy good too!

The next time a far-away friend has a birthday, or you want to wish someone luck for their looming exams, or you just want to perk them up a little bit, go online and type in http://www.sponge.co.uk and I guarantee you will make someone’s day. If my boyfriend can’t be here to cheer me up during revision and exams, then this scrummy cake is the next best thing.

(And yes, I do have my own personalised cake tin.)