Just Vlog It...The Final Vote

My little vlog on how to make bath fizzies has made it into the final three for this month's Just Vlog It challenge, so if you enjoyed it, please head over to Notes From Lapland to vote for me now - the voting is only open today!

Thanks x

Just Vlog It... Bathtime

As reigning Just Vlog It champion (the monthly vlogging challenge brought to you by Karin at Cafe Bebe and Heather from Notes from Lapland), I could hardly fail to defend my hard-won title this month. But I've been suffering from Brain Drain this week, and thinking up what to do for April's theme, 'make us something' had me stumped. I'm pretty creative most of the time, but could I think of a decent idea? No. Until I remembered a recipe for some fab and easy-peasy bath fizzies in last year's Ideal Home's Complete Guide to Christmas.

 

So here, ladies and gentlemen, with less than two hours to go until Just Vlog It's midnight deadline, I hope to make you relax, after you've made these bath fizzies.

 

What you need:

• 100g cornflour
• 300g bicarbonate of soda
• 200g citric acid (I get mine from Amazon)
• Essential oil
• Small spray bottle
• Food colouring (optional)
• Ice-cube tray 

This should make around 20-25 fizzies.

Drum roll please.. The Arrival of The Slanket

My prize (a stylish *ahem* Slanket) for winning the first Just Vlog It challenge (the blogging brainchild of Heather at Notes from Lapland and Karin at Cafe Bebe) arrived for me this morning, and in the spirit of vlogging, I thought it best I do a vlog to mark the occasion.

Some notes:

- Yes, the camera is too far away from me according to Karin's vlogging tips, but I wanted you to have the full glory of the full-length Slanket shot.

- And yes, I have forgotten to remove the tag from my new jeggings, which also arrived this morning. All I can say is thank goodness I did this vlog, so I could see it and remove it before I left the house.

- You can also glimpse some balloons that are still up from Young Daddy's birthday yesterday. It's probably time I took those down...

The Slanket may well be making more appearances on Young & Younger in the future, as I think it may have inspired a vlogging series - '101 uses for a Slanket'. So please get in touch with your Slanketeering suggestions and stay tuned!

It's not the winning, but winning is nice!

This morning came the rather exciting news from Cafe Bebe that we have won the first Just Vlog It challenge! One stylish *ahem* slanket is our trophy, so watch out for a vlog of me wearing it very soon (it'll be a 'blink and you'll miss it' vlog, as I'm not sure my slanket will be for public consumption).

I just wanted to say a big well done to Karin at Cafe Bebe, and Heather at Notes from Lapland for making the launch of Just Vlog It such a fantastic success. They started out with an aim to get five entries and ended up with 20, so they kind of blew their target out of the water really. You can check out all 20 entries at the Just Vlog It carnival at Notes from Lapland on Monday.

I would encourage everyone to have a go at a vlog. Our Just Vlog It entry (if you haven't already seen it you can view 'Young & Younger Does Big Brother' by clicking here) shows that if you're camera-shy, you don't have to appear in front of the camera. And it's a great way to get family and friends etc involved in your blog - Young Daddy and I had such fun doing ours together, which makes a nice change from me sat tapping away on the computer on my own. The next Just Vlog It challenge theme will be announced the first full week of April so watch out for it.

Thanks to all those that voted for us, we really are chuffed to bits!

JUST VLOG IT! Young & Younger does Big Brother...

In my first vlog, I appeared in front of the camera. Mr A and Miss E were itching for their five minutes of fame so I gave into their demands this time, and let them taking the starring roles.

We had a lot of fun this weekend creating this vlog for Karin at Cafe Bebe, and Heather at Notes from Lapland's JUST VLOG IT challenge. Blogging is usually quite a solitary activity, so it was great that Young Daddy could get involved in vlogging with me. We got a bit carried away with the video editing programme (Pinnacle Studio) we found online, but are quite proud of our virgin-editing skills in the end.

This month's JUST VLOG IT challenge's theme is 'Teach Us Something!'. I'm not sure how much you'll learn from our entry, but we hope it might make you giggle, just a little bit....