Osheaga Packing List:

8 DAYS AWAY!!
My brain is just absolutely buzzing with festival fashion inspiration and my list of things to DIY and pack before I get there is getting longer and longer.  So I thought I'd break down some of the most important ones here.

1 First off, hair chalk.
Now you can buy the temporary hair colour chalks or you can just buy soft chalk pastels from your local craft store.

Similar at Walmart. $10

There are many different brands of the temporary colours made just for hair colour, ranging in price.

I mean... I never would of though Crayola had some but I am going to pick these up ASAP.

Walmart. $6

On the pricier side of things are these TINT ones....

Karmaloop. $12

And then there's good old Forever21 with the cheapest option, although I can't find these on the Canadian website... and there is only blue left.

Forever21. $3.80

2   Henna Tattoos.

I have one friend coming who is unreal at drawing and designs tattoos in her spare time for no one to see... and I just want her to cover me in henna.

I can't find it on the website, but I've seen this at Michael's for $12

3 This painted feathers DIY from Free People:

It'd be fun to add these into your hair some way or tie them onto your bag for added colour.

4 FLOWER CROWNS

I have DIYed quite a few and have been selling them at my local farmer's market.... I hope to get some up on my etsy in the very near future (like this week), but here are some I looked at for inspiration.

5  High Waisted Denim Shorts, from yours truly OneBrokeStudent.

And I will leave you with some Macklemore and Ryan Lewis:

Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

Bacon.... Chocolate.... Cookie.
I mean where could you go wrong?
I have wanted to put bacon into a dessert... I always thought it would be a cupcake first but once I saw this recipe on trusty Pintrest I knew I had to try them.  I am a huge fan of salty and sweet so I knew I would love these.  And of course I sent some in a package to my long lost starving boyfriend in Northern Manitoba and he seems to be pretty pleased with them as well.

For the candied bacon:

• 8 slices of thick cut bacon (I used more)
• 1/2 cup brown sugar

For the cookies:

• 2 1/4 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup melted butter, slightly cooled
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 whole egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 cups chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350F.
Place bacon on a tinfoil-lined baking sheet (if you have one with a lip I would suggest that because otherwise the bacon grease will drip EVERYWHERE).
Sprinkle bacon with brown sugar and bake for 18-25 minutes, flipping after 10 minutes.
Remove from oven and place on wire rack for cooling.

Reduce the oven to 325F for the cookies.
Sift flour and baking soda, set aside.
Cream together butter, eggs and sugar.
Add vanilla and beat until light a creamy.
Add flour and baking soda and mis well.
Stir in chocolate chip and broken up bacon.
Bake for 13-15 minutes.

Next up... Bacon Cupcakes of some sort or Bacon Maple Ice cream !!!


Oh and next on the countdown to Osheaga playlist:

Ben Howard - The Fear

Manicure and Music Monday

I've decided to start a new (well my first ever) weekly special post (I don't know what you call it actually).  Anyway, the point is, every monday from now on I will share my favourite mani from the week and my current song obsession (old or new).

First up, the mani....

Using the usual scotch tape technique, I made these cute little gold vertical lines.  The coral base is OPI Guy Meets Gal-veston and the gold is OPI Golden Eye.

And next up the music...
Since Osheaga is officially only 10 days away I am going to share a video of the band I am most excited to see.  Which is obviously none other than Mumford and Sons....

I am also hoping to share some DIYs and Festival Fashion looks in the next ten days as a countdown to Osheaga !!!  Fingers crossed that I can manage to find the time!

Cranberry White Chocolate Granola Bars

I've wanted to try to make granola bars on my own for a very long time now.  Something I knew would  be fairly simple but just never got around to doing.  But now I am very glad I did.

These bars start with a very simple base of ingredients and then you can add in whatever else you would like.

Start with:

• 1 cup rice cereal 
• 2 cups of QUICK rolled oats
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 tsp. vanilla

You combine the honey, butter and brown sugar in a pot over the stove and heat it until boiling.  Meanwhile, mix the rice cereal and rolled oats in a large bowl.  Once the honey/butter/sugar has started to boil, you may remove it from the heat and pour it over the cereal and rolled oats.  Stir until evenly coated and then this is when you add any of your add-ons that will not melt (dried fruit, nuts, coconut, etc.).  You pour this mixture while it is still warm over wax or parchment paper and begin to press it down as hard as you can into a flat rectangle.  Once it has partially cooled, you can press chocolate chips on the top.  Leave this until completely cooled and then cut into bars of desired size.

I can't wait to make a dark chocolate and coconut version.  Or maybe a s'mores version like I used to eat when I was a little kid.
I think it would also be neat to do a chocolate drizzle or dunk the bottom in melted chocolate.

Can't wait to mess around with this recipe to make a bunch of different variations!