DIY Pompom Magnets

The other day, I was scrolling down my favorite website and I saw some pompom magnets and when I clicked on the photo it lead me to a website where you could buy them. Buy them! Considering how incredibly easy to make they are, I seriously do not understand why would anyone buy them... So, you know I have a mission and it is to spread the word about things you can actually easily make at home instead of buying them so... here goes another DIY.
El otro día, estaba cotilleando mi web favorita y vi unos imanes de pompones y cuando hic click en la foto, me llevó a otra web donde podías comprarlos. ¡Compraros! Teniendo en cuenta lo facilísimos que son de hacer, no entiendo por qué alguien iba a comprarlos en vez de hacerlos... Así que, como sabéis, tengo una misión, y es difundir la palabra sobre todas esas cosas que puedes hacer fácilmente en casa en vez de comprar... Así que aquí tenéis otro tutorial.

All you need is:

Necesitaréis:

• Wool
  Lana
• A fork
  Un tenedor
• Scissors
  Tijeras
• A magnet
  Un imán
• Glue
  Pegamento

Start by wrapping the wool around the fork. The more wool you wrap, the fluffier the pompom will be.
Empieza enrollando la lana alrededor del tenedor. Cuanta más lana uses, más blandito será el pompón.

Then, cut a longer piece and insert it through the middle space, underneath the wrapped wool.
Luego, corta un trozo más largo de lana y mételo por el hueco del centro, por debajo de la lana.

Bring the other extreme of the wool over the wool and make a know as tight as you can.

Pasa el otro extremo por encima de la lana, también por el hueco del mecio, y haz un nudo. Apriétalo tanto como puedas.

Insert your scissors through the loops and cut them.

Mete las tijeras por dentro de los círculitos que se forman y ve cortándolos.

Trim the ends so that it looks more rounded and cute.
Recorta los bordes para darle una forma más bonita y redonda.

Glue a magnet to the bottom and... you're done! I used hot glue, but I'm sure most types of glue would work.
Pega un imán abajo y... ¡ya está! Yo he usado pegamento térmico, pero estoy segura de que casi todos los tipos de pegamento funcionarían.

Printable calendar

Next week is my last week of holidays (oh no!) and I'm not looking forward to going to class again at all but... it's not like I have a choice. So to help me keep organized during the school-year I made this cute calendar and decided to share it with you. (Yes, I'm spending my last days of holidays on photoshop).
La semana que viene es mi última semana de vacaciones (¡oh no!) y no me apetece nada de nada volver a empezar las clases pero no me queda otra. Así que, para ayudarme a organizarme este curso, he hecho este calendario y he decidido compartirlo con vosotros. (Sí, estoy pasando mis últimos días de vacaciones en el photoshop).

It doesn't look that well in my picture because I'm running out of color ink, but I hope you like it! Click here to download it.
No sale muy bien en la foto porque me estoy quedando sin tinta de color, pero espero que os guste! Haced click aquí para descargarlo.

Peanut butter filled cookies

Last week, I was bored as hell and decided to bake a little to keep me busy for a while. So I went on the best website ever (aka Pinterest) and search for some cookie recipes. I tried 2 different recipes but I only took pictures of this one.
La semana pasada estaba muriendo de aburrimiento y decidí cocinar un rato para tener algo que hacer. Así que, entré en la mejor página web del mundo (aka Pinterest) y busqué algunas recetas de cocina. Probé dos distintas, pero de la otra no hice fotos.

I wasn't meant to make a blog post or even photograph these cookies, which is why I didn't really bother to make them look good, so... sorry they're not very cute, I only wanted to do something with my time.
No tenía intención de publicarlo en el blog o siquiera fotografiar las galletas, así que no me molesté en hacer que tuviesen buena pinta, así que... lo siento si no son muy bonitas, sólo quería tener algo que hacer.

I can't find the exact recipe because I forgot to pin it but it was pretty similar to this one.
No encuentro la página de la receta exacta que seguí, pero era muy parecida a ésta:

Ingredients
For the filling / Para el relleno:

• 3/4 cup confectioner sugar
  3/4 de taza de azúcar glass
• 3/4 cup peanut butter
  3/4 de taza de mantequilla de cacahuete

Note: I actually used 1/2 cup of each because I didn't have much peanut butter and I still had some left, so maybe try using 1/2 cup and make more filling if you need it.
Nota: Yo use 1/2 taza de cada porque no me quedaba mucha mantequilla de cacahuete y aun así me sobró. Así que os recomiendo que probéis a usar 1/2 taza y luego hacer más si lo necesitas.

For the cookies / Para las galletas:

• 1/2 cup white sugar
  1/2 taza de azúcar blanca
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
  1/2 taza de azúcar morena
• 1/2 cup butter (room temperature)
  1/2 taza de mantequilla (a temperatura ambiente)
• 1/4 cup peanut butter
  1/4 taza de mantequilla de cacahuete
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
  1 cucharilla de extracto de vainilla
• 1 egg
  1 huevo
• 1/2 cup sugar
  1 1/2 tazas de harina
• 1/2 cup pure cocoa powder
  1/2 taza de cacao en polvo puro
• 1/2 cup baking soda
  1/2 cucharilla de bicarbonato

Directions

1. Mix the ingredients for the filling and leave aside
   Mezcla los ingredientes del relleno y reserva.
2. Beat the butter, sugar and peanut butter in the bowl of an electric mixer.
   Bate la mantequilla, el azúcar y la mantequilla de cacahuete en un robot de cocina.
3. Add vanilla and egg and mix again.
   Añade la vainilla y el huevo y vuelve a mezclar todo.
4. In another bowl, mix the flour with the cocoa powder and the baking soda. Slowly add this mix into the other one.
   En otro bol, mezcla la harina, el cacao y el bicarbonato. Añade lentamente esta mezcla a la anterior.
5. Preheat oven to 180ºC / 375ºF
   Precalienta el horno a 180ºC / 375ºF
6. Make a ball using 1 tbs of cookie dough and flatten it. Make another ball with 1 tsp of the filling and place it on the cookie dough. Cover the filling with the cookie dough.
   Make another ball using 1Haz bolitas con aprox. una cucharada de masa de galleta y aplástala. Añade una bolita de una cucharrilla de relleno. Envuelve el relleno con la masa de galleta.
7. Bake for 7 to 9 minutes and let the cookies cool on a rack.
   Hornea entre 7 y 9 minutos y deja que se enfríen fuera.

Adapted from Baking and Mistaking

Adaptada de Baking and Mistaking

Dress your tech: Polkadot hearts backgrounds for iPhone 4 & 5

Hey everyone!

This is my first 'dress your tech' post, and I actually hadn't ever tried to make iPhone backgrounds before starting this blog. I gave it a couple of chances this summer but I was never very satisfied with the results... until today. I do know these aren't the prettiest backgrounds ever, but I did think they looked cute enough. So... here you have!
Este es mi primer post de 'dress your tech' y, de hecho, nunca antes había intentado hacer fondos para iPhone antes de empezar este blog. Lo he intentado un par de veces este verano pero nunca me convencían mucho los resultados... hasta hoy. Sé que no son los fondos más bonitos de mundo, pero aun así me parecía que eran los suficientemente monos para compartirlos. Así que... aquí tenéis.

I made four different colors you can  choose your favorite. Just click on the color you want and it will open a new window with the background.

Los he hecho en cuatro colores distintos para que elijáis vuestro favorito. Sólo tenéis que hacer click en el color que queráis y se os abrirá una ventana con el fondo.

iPhone 4:

   

iPhone 5:

   

I hope you like it. Please, let me know in the comments if you do or if you want me to make more. Have a nice day!

Espero que os guste. Por favor, si os gusta o si queréis ver más, dejad un comentario. ¡Que tengáis un buen día!

The Liebster Award

I hadn't heard of this until Eleanor tagged me. But it looks like a fun and nice idea.

I have actually been tagged by both Eleanor and Georgina, so I'll answer to their questions in the same post.

Rules

• Nominees have to answer the 11 questions that are addressed to them by the person who has nominated them (me).
• The nominees then nominate 11 other bloggers that have under 200 followers and ask them 11 new questions.
• The people you nominate need to be informed about their nomination.

Eleanor's questions

Favourite sweet/candy?
Peanut Butter Cups

If you could meet one celebrity who would it be?
McFly. I can't just choose one. All of them.

What/who do you love the most in the world?
My best friend.

What made you want to start blogging?
Actually, I've been interested in making websites and stuff since I was like 10 years old and I'd started some other blogs before, but it was coming across blogs like For Chic Sake and Agus Yornet what inspired me to start this one.

What is your must have beauty product?
BB cream.

What is your favourite season?
Winter

If you were invisible for the day what would you do and why?
Maybe prank some people and listen to some conversations.

If you could move to any part of the world where would it be?
New York City!

Who is your inspiration?
I have a lot. My grandmother, my friends, McFly, Bethany Mota, Brian Cag...

What couldn't you live without?
Internet. Or my best friend.

How do you see your future in the next 10 years to be like?

Hopefully, I'll graduate from University, get a job, move out (and I hope I'll move to another country). Maybe married and with kids.

Georgina's questions

What's your favourite season?
Winter

Favourite high-end and drugstore/high street brand?
I love maybelline and benefit.

What's your favourite place to go on Holiday?
New York City

How would your friends describe you?
As... weird. Probably

What/Who inspired you to start your blog?
Agus Yornet & For Chic Sake

What's your favourite blog?
Those two. (Agus Yornet & For Chic Sake)

What was the first make-up item that you ever bought or was bought for you?
Pencil liner

What is your favourite nail varnish colour?
Pink.

What is your main haircare product?
Argan Oil. It has magic in it or something.

What's your favourite pastel colour? (Sorry guy's I just love pastels!)
Pink!

My questions

1. Describe your dream holiday
2. Favorite Disney Princess?
3. Favorite color?
4. Name something you can't leave home without. (your cellphone doesn't count)
5. Favorite social network?
6. If you could teleport right now, where would you go?
7. If you were given the chance to live forever, would you take it?
8. If you had to live forever and you could choose one person to live forever too, who would you choose?
9. Your top 3 make-up products.
10. Do you believe wishes can come true?
11. Are you superstitious?

I nominate

1. Lauren
2. Hannah
3. Alba
4. Roze
5. Nichol
6. Alice
7. Danielle
8. Carrie
9. Hannah
10. Jenny
11. Matilda

NYC haul

I don’t think anyone who is not from the US can travel there and come back home empty-handed. And I wasn’t going to be the exception.
No creo que nadie que no sea de Estados Unidos pueda viajar allí y volver a casa con las manos vacías. Y yo no iba a ser la excepción.

I personally don’t think I bough that much, but for those who may think I did, you should know that I’d been waiting for this trip for a pretty long time and Spain is kind of trashy and I always want things I can’t have here so I made a shopping list with the main things I wanted from the US and I bought mostly everything! Yay!

Sinceramente, no creo que haya comprado tanto, pero por si alguen piensa que sí, que sepáis que llevaba mucho tiempo esperando este viaje y que España es un poco… una caquita y siempre quiero cosas que no hay aquí. Así que me hice una lista con todas esas cosas y la verdad es que compré casi todo. Wee!

We have none of the stores I shopped at in Spain. In fact, the only thing I bough there that I could buy here are the toms but they’re literally trice their american price here so I just had to.

En España, no hay ninguna de las tiendas en las que compré. De hecho, lo único que podría haber comprado aquí son los toms, pero cuestan literalmente el doble que allí, así que… no podía evitarlo.

Lauren Conrad's books

American Eagle

Aeropostale

Forever 21

(ok. there is one Forever 21 in Spain. But it's not in my city and it would take me like 5 or 6 hours to get there so it doesn't count)

Old Navy

Toms

Bath&body works

EOS and babylips

Yankee candles

Victoria's secret

By this time, some of you may be freaking out that there are so many stores/products that we don’t have here. But what can I say? Some are lucky, some are not.

Back from NYC

Hey everyone!

I'm back from NYC (which is obvious, if you read the post title). I've actually been back for a week but, unfortunately, I don't have wi-fi or a very good signal where I am now so I haven't used my computer a lot.
Ya he vuelto de NYC. De hecho, hace una semana que volví, pero no he ternido wi-fi ni una cobertura especialmente buena, así que no podido usar casi el ordenador.

I had such an amazing time there (which is also obvious, I mean, it's New York!). I think everyone who knows me knows that New York is my favorite city/place in the whole world - although, as someone once said "New York is not a city, it's a world" - so it just had to be amazing (if you know who said that, please let me know in the comments). Nobody can go to that city and not enjoy it.
Me lo he pasado genial allí (aunque, es obvio. Quiero decir, ¡Es Nueva York!) Creo que todas las personas que me conocen saben que Nueva York es mi ciudad/lugar favorita de todo el mundo. Aunque, como dijo alguien alguna vez, "Nueva York no es una ciudad... es un mundo" (Si alguien sabe de quién es esa frase, que me lo diga en los comentarios). Así que... tenía que ser genial. No se puede ir a Nueva York y no disfrutar.

I also wanted to share with you some of the pictures I took there...
También quería compartir algunas de las fotos que hicé allí.

You can see more photos in my flickr.

Podéis ver más fotos en mi flickr.