Embarrassing Dad Jokes

  Hello everybody!

  Since its Father's Day today I thought I would do something dedicated to all the dads out there, hopefully you will enjoy (and cringe) - it's embarrassing dad jokes. To make it a bit more interactive (because I do love involving you all) I have made an embarrassment scale rating (1/5) on how painful these puns are. Let's get cringey...

  What's the richest country in the world?

  Ireland, because its capital is always Dublin.

  Embarrassment scale rating: 3/5

  First man: How many people work in your office?

  Second man: About half of them.

  Embarrassment scale rating: 1/5

  Did you hear about the man who drowned in a bowl of muesli?

  He was pulled under by a strong currant.

  Embarrassment scale rating: 3/5

  Where did Napoleon keep his armies?

  Up his sleevies.

  Embarrassment scale rating: 4/5

  What lies on the seabed and shivers?

  A nervous wreck.

  Embarrassment scale rating: 2/5

  I used to think that the sea was orange...

  Now I know that it is just a Fanta-sea.

  Embarrassment scale rating: 5/5

  Two men walked into a bar.

  You'd of thought one of them would have seen it.

  Embarrassment scale rating: 1/5

  Two goldfish were in a tank.

  One says, 'Do you know how to drive this thing?'

  Embarrassment scale rating: 2/5

  How did the tap-dancer hurt himself?

  He fell in the sink.

  Embarrassment scale rating: 3/5

  Waiter: And how did you find your steak, sir?

  Diner: I just moved a chip and there it was.

  Embarrassment scale rating: 4/5

  

 Apart from cringey dad jokes our dad's are heroes and amazing people! Show this to your dad and see what he thinks! I will see you again next week for another blog post! Love you all!

  Byyeee!!!!

  

  

Berry Meringue Nests

  Hello everybody!

  It's getting hot so, berry meringue nests are a great way to feel that it's (almost) summer. This is a fun bake but quite difficult. Challenge yourself by making these delicious summery meringues!

 

Tip:

All the equipment you use to make meringues must be scrupulously clean, dry and grease-free. Even the slightest smudge of oil on the bowl or pin-drop of egg yolk in the whites will stop them from whisking properly. It's best to use a metal bowl as plastic retains traces of fatty substances on the surface.

  Serves: 9

  Cook time: 2 Hours

  Prep time: 40 minutes

  Effort: Moderately Difficult

  To make the meringues you will need:

  

For the meringue nest:

  3 egg whites

  1/2 tsp lemon juice

  150g caster sugar

  

  For the rippled cream:

  200ml tub crème fraîche

  200ml natural yoghurt

  300g strawberry, hulled

  250g raspberry 

  Small bunch mint, leaves stripped and finely chopped

  Small knob fresh root ginger, peeled and finely grated (optional, I didn't use it)

  5 tbsp icing sugar (you may not need it all)

  9 little sprigs of mint and icing sugar, to decorate

  Method:

  ▪️ Heat oven to 110C/fan 90C/gas 1/4. Tip the egg whites and lemon juice into the clean bowl of a food mixer (or you can use an electric whisk or by hand). Whisk until the whites double in volume and hold a peak when the whisk is drawn through them. Keep the whisk running and add the sugar a tbsp at a time, incorporating completely before adding the next. Whisk until all the sugar has been added and the whites are glossy.

  ▪️ Place a square of baking parchment on a large baking sheet. Pencil nine circles, about 7cm each, onto the parchment. Spoon the meringue into a large piping bag fitted with a plain nozzle (or star nozzle) and pipe concentric rounds to fit each drawn circle, piping two or more rings around the edge to form a nest. Bake for 2 hrs until they are crisp and lift off the paper easily. Leave to cool completely.

  ▪️Whisk the crème fraîche until stiff, then fold in the yoghurt. Set 2 strawberries and 9 raspberries aside and roughly chop the rest. Tip the chopped berries, mint and ginger into a bowl. Sprinkle with a little icing sugar and use a wooden spoon to mash to a rough purée. Gently fold the berries into a yoghurt mix, adding icing sugar to taste.

  ▪️ To assemble, cut the remaining strawberries into 9 slices and place a slice inside each meringue case. Generously share the rippled cream between the cases, then top with a raspberry and a mint sprig. (Meringues keep in an airtight container for 2 days.)

  That's it! I guess it was fairly straight forward apart from the piping, which needed some concentration! When I first tasted these delicious meringue nests I thought of summer! I hope you enjoyed reading this baking blog! See you next week for another blog post! Love you all!

  Byyeee!!!!

  

 

14 Beauty Tips!

  Hello everybody!

  This weeks post is something you might find helpful or you might just learn a few things! It is beauty tips! I have a mixture ranging between skincare, makeup, nails and hair. Here are the tips...

1. Use excess eye cream on cuticles. The more you hydrate your cuticles, the stronger your nails will be.

2. To prevent hair colour from fading in the summer months, use a conditioning treatment weekly or bi-monthly.

3. Always allow about two fingers from your nose to where blush starts.

4. Balance out your shimmer. If you’re doing a shimmery eye, opt for a matte lipstick.

5. Wear white eyeliner in your water line to make eyes appear less red.

6. When choosing a red lipstick, you just want to remember to get one that looks good with your undertone. If you have a warm undertone, then go for warmer reds, and if you have a cool undertone, then go cooler.

7. To make a spot go away faster, don’t pick it! The bacteria on your fingers will create more redness, and any attempt at popping will make things worse.

8. Pick a sulfate-free shampoo, as sulfates can be harsh and drying on the hair cuticle.

9. If you have greasy hair, avoid directly conditioning roots and condition from your ear down to ends.

10. Remember, clean your makeup brushes to fight against potential bacteria and breakouts! At least once a week, swirl brushes around in a mixture of warm water and mild soap, then lay flat to dry.

11. If you don’t have nail polish remover, apply clear nail polish over your nail, and then wipe off. It will remove old polish.

12. To clean up the flick of a cat eye, use a dampened, pointed cotton bud.

13.  If you have chipped nail polish, add glitter on top to disguise the look of chipping.

14.  Carrots are good for the hair. A healthy diet leads to a beautiful you.

  I hope you enjoyed these tips! Some of them are quiet generic but others are a bit unusual! If you do happen to try these let me know what you think of them, you can check out my Instagram page (@ISayBell_blog) and my new Facebook page (@ISayBell Blog). Love you all!

  Byyeee!!!!

Monthly Favourites!

Hello everybody! 

This week is a monthly favourites. 

I have done these so many times I don't need to explain and if this is your first blog that you have seen from me you can probably guess what it is by the title, it's pretty self explanatory. 

 The favourites are.....

  ▪️Instax Mini Accessories

  ▪️Tatty Teddy 'BFF' Mug

  ▪️Colour Works measuring spoons 

  ▪️Elsa Funko Pop Vinyl 

  ▪️Bomb Cosmetics 'Little Box of Love' bath creamers

  ▪️Next funky llama shirt

  ▪️ F&F gold shimmery trousers

  ▪️ Monsoon green and coral bikini

 

  That's all for this week. I hope you enjoyed the variety of the items. I will see you all for another post next week. Love you all!

  Byyeee!!!!

    

May Musical.lys + Playlist

  Hello everybody!

  This week is a 2-in-1 kind of blog; it's quite short, but really really special so let me explain how I have merged two ideas to make an awesome blog post for you all!

  The first part of this blog that I want to talk about is Muiscal.ly. For those of you who don't know what Musical.ly is, it is an app where you can lip sync to your favourite songs and upload your videos so that people can see them! I made a short compilation of some songs that I did and I posted a video of it on YouTube, if you wanna see that click on this link:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=foca5fJIKac

  The songs that are included in the compilation are:

  ▪️Me Too by Meghan Trainor

  ▪️No Money by Galantis

  ▪️Sweatshirt by Jacob Sartorius

Fun fact: Jacob Sartorius is an account on Musical.ly and now has 6+ million followers and 394+ million likes!

  I now move onto my playlist on 'Podsnack'. If you didn't know, I have my own playlist where I post some songs so that you can listen to them for free! If you remember from the last playlist blog post I did, I mentioned that the link isn't that convenient, unfortunately, I still haven't found a way to make the link as simple as it should be so to get onto the playlist you will need to:

  ▪️Copy and paste this link into Google or whatever search website you like to use! 

http://www.podsnack.com/ISayBell/

  The songs on the playlist are full versions of the songs I did on Musical.ly!

  Just before I go, I have quite an important message for you, I have set up a Facebook page for my blog page now so it's a new media to follow me on! I love reading comments and I hope to be able to interact on Facebook now too, I obviously love all the support too! To get to the page use this link;

https://fr-fr.facebook.com/isaybellblog/

   Don't forget I also have an Instagram page; @ISayBell_blog

 That is all for this week I hope you enjoyed the short video and the playlist! I'm glad to be back posting on YouTube. Let me know if you want to see more YouTube. Try Musical.ly for yourself, it's free and fun, so why not! Love you all!

  Byyeee!!!!

  

  

   

Pecan Perfect Carrot Cake

  Hello everybody!

  This week is a baking blog! You all seem to love these, so I bring to you another one! This week is Carrot Cake (shoutout to my Grandma for giving me the recipe!) Without further delay LETS... GET... BAKING!

  

  Serves: 10-12

  Cook time: 55-60 minutes

  Prep time: 15 minutes

  Effort: Easy

  To make the carrot cake you will need:

  400g carrots, peeled and roughly chopped

  120g pecans

  175g brown sugar

  110g caster sugar

  225g plain flour

  1 teaspoon baking powder

  1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

  2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

  125ml vegetable oil

  70g plain yoghurt

  2 medium eggs

  2 teaspoons vanilla extract

  To make the cream cheese frosting you will need:

  250g cream cheese, softened

  50g fresh ricotta

  55g icing sugar

  1 generous tablespoon lemon juice

  1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste

  Method:

  ▪️Preheat the oven to 160C. Place the carrot and pecans in a food processor and process until finely chopped. Add both the sugars, flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon, oil, yoghurt, eggs and vanilla and pulse in short bursts until combined. Pour the mixture into a 22cm round springform cake tin lined with nonstick baking powder and bake for 55-60 minutes or until just cooked when tested with a skewer. Cool in the tin.

  ▪️To make the frosting, place the cream cheese, ricotta, sugar, lemon and vanilla in a food processor and process until smooth. Spread the frosting over the cooled cake to serve.

  That's the end of the fabulous carrot cake! If you do happen to make it please tag me on Instagram my name is @ISayBell_blog and I would love to see how yours came out! Leave some comments on what you want me to bake next! I hope you enjoyed! Love you all!

  Byyeee!!!!

 

  

  

  

  

         

Q&A

  Hello everybody!

  This week I'm doing a Q&A, it is my first time doing one! You have all been sending in some questions via Instagram using #askbell for the past few weeks and I'm going to answer them for you...

  

  ▪️"#askbell who is your crush?"

       That is a secret for me to keep!

  ▪️"#askbell what is your favourite thing to do?"

        My favourite thing to do is blog and in my spare time I like to sing!

  ▪️"#askbell who is your fave YouTuber?"

        Lately I've really been loving Grav3yardgirl!

 

 ▪️"#askbell who is your idol?"

       I would say Zoella (Zoë Sugg) because she has inspired me to do so much!

  ▪️"#askbell what is your biggest weakness?"

      Sometimes I can be a drama queen!

  ▪️"#askbell how do I stop playing video games all the time?"

      I think it's almost impossible! And I've fallen into that hole too!

 

  ▪️"#askbell what would your dream house look like?"

       Probably like this...

   

  

  That's all for this week! I hope you enjoyed and I also hope I answered all your questions well! I will see you next week for another blog!

  Byyeee!!!!

  PS. A great friend of mine just made an awesome blog so go check it out! Here is the link, http://deardiary124.blogspot.com/