Double Sided Braid Tutorial

Hello :) I am now officially done with all my years of middle school! Today was our last day :/ It's really bittersweet, but high school is an excited experience too!
Anyway, here's how you can do a double sided braid in eight easy steps. My hair isn't long enough for it, but I'd love to see Seana do it sometime on herself cause her hair is pretty long and it might look good on her. Good luck :)
July

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Loaded Cauliflower Casserole

Hey! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. The end of the school year is coming up and I've been super busy with all that! Here's a recipe I found on Pinterest and it's supposed to be like mac and cheese but with cauliflower... Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor!
July

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2 lbs cauliflower florets
8 oz shredded sharp cheddar cheese, divided
8 oz shredded Monterey Jack cheese, divided
8 oz block cream cheese, softened
4 tablespoons heavy cream
2 bunches green onions, sliced (1 1/2 cups)
6 sliced bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 clove garlic, grated
Salt & pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Steam cauliflower florets until tender.
While cauliflower steams, cream together 6 oz of the shredded cheddar, 6 oz of the Monterey Jack, cream cheese, and heavy cream.  
Stir in sliced green onions, chopped bacon, and garlic.
Set aside.
Drain any liquid from steamed cauliflower and add to cheese mixture.
Stir cauliflower and cheese mixture together.
Taste for seasoning, and add as necessary.
If you want a finer texture, give a few mashes with the potato masher.
Pour into a 2-3 quart casserole and sprinkle on remaining cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese.
Cover dish with foil and bake for 25 minutes; remove foil and continue to bake until cheese is brown and bubbly.
Enjoy!

Braided Headband Tutorial

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I sometimes sport this look to school, and a lot of my friends freak out and ask me how I did it. In reality, it's quite simple.

Here's how to do it:

How To Make A One Direction T-Shirt

Hello, lovelies! I was browsing around the internet, and came across a tutorial for making a One  Direction logo T-shirt. I've yet to try this out, but I hope to someday. Let me know how it goes for you!

Thanks to Michelle and Camella who posted this tutorial originally here.

MATERIALS

- Acrylic paint (red, black and white)

- Paintbrushes (thick ones are best)

- Newspaper

- Sticky Tape

- Transparency sheet 

- Logo image

- Scissors or stencil knife

METHOD

Step 1:

Get your chosen logo from here http://promoshq.wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/174021 

(We chose logo 3 

http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/onedirection/Images/Challenge3/One%20D%20key%20logo.jp

g)

Step 2:

Copy Paste the chosen logo and paste it on Microsoft Word ( The Orientation of the page is Landscape)

Step 3:

Get a Transparency Film sheet and put it in your printer (This is the one we used)

Step 4:

and then just print it out on it, It should look like this:

Step 5:

Cut out the stencil using scissors/stanley knife. Remember to cut it neatly for a better result! We used a 

stanley knife first to cut a but off the particular word and then used the scissors for a steadier cut.

Step 6:

Then get your top and put newspaper in the inside of the top so the paint doesn’t go through to the 

other side 

Step 7:

Get your cut out stencil and place it on the top however you like it and put sticky tape at each end or 

wherever until it’s secure

Step 8:

Get your Acrylic paints out (It’s best to use this type because it dries faster and gives a better result)

Step 9:

We used these paintbrushes below (the thicker the brush the better and quicker)

Step 10:

Dab the paintbrush onto the stencil until all areas are covered with paint (Like the picture below) 

NOTE: YOU HAVE TO DAB SO THE STENCIL WON’T MOVE!

 

Step 10:

Use a smooth brush to smooth out the paint if you want too (We did)

Step 11:

Wait for the paint to dry and then pull off the sticky tape and DONE! It should turn out like these ones:

Step 12:

Remember before putting it in the wash put a cloth on top of the painted areas and iron it. This will 

prevent the paint from fading away when you put it in the wash! :) 

Earbud Bracelet

Hey! July here. I found this on Pinterest as well (I'm so glad Seana finally convinced me to get one!) and I thought it was cool although I'm not sure why you would want to destroy two perfectly good pairs of earbuds....
Some things are a little unclear in this picture, but I would say that they used two pairs of earbuds and if you didn't know, they used a pencil to string it on :)
It's also unclear to me how they tied it, but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be too hard to figure out.
-Julyabelle

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Medieval Braid

I was browsing Pinterest..... again.... and I found this really cute braid! I don't think just anyone would like it, but I thought it was adorable anyway. If it was me though, I wouldn't've left any hair at the bottom, I would have braided it all, but that's just me :P Let me know how it works if you try it! My hair isn't long enough :/
~July

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Les Mis Braid: Seana Edition

Now, maybe you remember me posting a tutorial about how to do Cosette's braid from Les Miserables. Then again, some of you have no idea. (You can click here for the original post.)

I said that I might try it out on myself sometime, and guess what? Yesterday, I did. Here are the results of my experiment.

Attempt #1: In which I didn't braid the ribbon in very well

Attempt #2: In which The ribbon was braided in better, but my hair lost some of it's wavy poof.

If you have a chance, try out the Les Mis braid! Let me know how it goes for you, and if you'd like, go ahead and send me a picture of it to seana.j.vixen@gmail.com

Happy braiding!

Feathery Nails

Hola! This is July and since many of you don't like recipe posts, I thought I'd do some fashion posts from now on with the occasional recipe. I was browsing Pinterest and found this really cool nail design where you can put a feather on your finger nails and, well, I'll just let you look at the picture ;P
~July

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Les Mis Inspired Braided Hair

Hello, lovelies! Hope your day was awesome. This weekend I watched Les Miserables, and one of the characters, Cosette, had a really gorgeous hairstyle that I wondered if I could recreate. Thankfully, I found a tutorial online for it!

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(For the instructions that go with each picture, scroll down to the blue font!)

So there you have it! An awesome tutorial for Cosette's hair.

Let me know how it goes for you. I'll be trying it out myself sometime if I have time.

*Please note that I had nothing to do with creating the hairstyle or making the tutorial. That credit goes to The Shine Project, to which I linked at the beginning of the post as my source. Thank you Shine Project!

NUTELLA MILK SHAKE!

Hiya! So I'm so sorry I haven't been posting lately. I was wondering what you guys want to see more of on this blog! Please vote on the poll because I want people to enjoy reading our blog and that can only happen if we know what you want to hear!
Now on to the recipe! So I am pretty much obsessed with anything Nutella right now.... I just love Nutella! If you love it too, let's be friends! And if you don't then shame on you. ;P
I saw a picture on Pintrest of a Nutella milkshake and I really wanted to try it but I didn't have all the ingredients so I made up my own recipe sort of although it's not exact measurements

What you'll need

I can not take credit for the picture,
I found it on Google but mine
looked almost exactly like this!

• Nutella
• ice cream
• milk
• spoon
• blender

What you need to do

• First, put ice cream in the blender. I just put in how much I wanted, so you can do the same. I had approximately three/four or so small scoops
• Then I put one spoonful of Nutella in, but everyone likes different amounts of that! I was happy with the amount I put in because it wasn't overpowering but I could taste it fine. You can put as much or as little as you want in according to how big you are making it, but remember that once you put it in, you can't take it out again!
• Next add the milk. I personally don't like mine too runny, so I don't add too much milk. But if you want yours less thick, you can add as much milk as you want! Same as the Nutella though, once it's in there, you'll have a hard time taking it out! It's better to have to little and to add some than to have too much!
• Finally blend it up (I actually used a Magic Bullet thing but a blender would work also) to a consistency that fits your approval, pour it into a glass, and enjoy!

I understand that those are very vague instructions, but it isn't hard to figure out how to do. I did and just ask Sea J, I'm horrible in the kitchen! Try it because it tastes like a really yummy chocolate milk shake with pieces of fudge in it!

~July