Candle Feature - Friday Favourites

We at The Amazing Blog love nothing more than relaxing at home surrounded by wonderful aromas. There are all kinds of ways to achieve this, including diffusers, aromatherapy oils, and room sprays, but nothing is more satisfying than lighting a fresh candle. Now that we’re approaching spring, it’s time to switch to some new fresh, rejuvenating scented candles. Here’s a few of our favourites!

This Morris & Co. Golden Lily Scented Candle by Heathcote & Ivory is the perfect way to brighten up your home. The beautiful blue bespoke glass is patterned with a traditional floral Morris & Co. design that will look absolutely stunning on your bedside table. This gorgeous candle features notes of Tangerine, Cedarwood, and Bergamot, and will burn for up to 50 hours!

Pick up the delightfully citrusy candle here for £22.

Breathing in the scents of the Sperience Aromatherapy Candle Vitality by Germaine de Capuccini is a truly relaxing and soothing experience. Made with 100% pure essential oils, this candle is infused with scents of Mandarin, Nutmeg, Lime, and Lemon to create a full spa experience for up to 40 hours of burn time. The stylish frosted glass and box make it a perfect present for a loved one or a treat for yourself!

Revitalise the mind, body, and spirit with the Sperience Aromatherapy Candle Vitality here for £27.35.

The brand-new Cloudburst scented candle by La Montaña is reminiscent of the Spanish mountainside after a summer rainstorm. The dewy, fresh fragrance features notes of from herb gardens mingling with fresh citruses, along with the enticing scent of wild mountain fennel and rockrose. This gorgeous candle will burn for at least 40 hours, leaving your home smelling like mountain mist.

Close your eyes and let the scents of nature envelope you with the Cloudburst scented candle by La Montaña here for £35.

Want your home to smell luxurious? Then try Natural Soy Candle by ARK Skincare. British beauty brand ARK Skincare launches a new collection of luxury home fragrance products this month, designed to reflect the elegance and serenity of the ARK London Spa. A sensuous fragrance of sun-drenched Fig balanced with a breeze of sparkling citrus. Softly reveals a delicate heart of soothing Rose and calming Geranium to balance your mood for blissful tranquillity. The cocooning scent is harmonized with soothing base notes of earthy woods and warm Amber. The 100% Soy Wax Candle is hand poured in the UK and it can burn up to 50 hours.

 The heavenly scent of Fig, Geranium and Rose can be enjoyed even when unlit for £37, here.

London Craft Week 2016

Do you like arts and crafts? We at The Amazing Blog sure do, and we are definitely going to attend London Craft Week. Join us at Craft Central and experience the magic of craftsmanship and true creativity.

From 3rd to 7th of May, Craft Central will be showcasing exceptional craftsmanship from around the world through a journey-of-discovery program, featuring hidden workshops and unknown makers alongside celebrated masters, famous studios, galleries, shops and luxury brands. Discover and witness how world’s most respected makers and artists develop scents of famous fragrances, polish and cut diamonds, hand paint porcelain and shape silver. Meet renowned ceramics, glass engravers, violin makers and see Chinese calligraphy being performed live!

All arts and crafts enthusiasts are surely going to enjoy five days full of imagination,individuality and passion being performed live across Central London from 3rd to 7th of May for free! . For more information on the event visit London Craft Week's website.

Chelsea Art Fair

The Chelsea Art Fair is turning 21 this year! We at The Amazing Blog are quite big fans of the arts, so we will definitely be making our way over to Chelsea Old Town Hall between the 21st and 24th of April.

The fair will feature 30 UK and International galleries showcasing the works of leading and emerging artists including paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and ceramics. With no ceiling on the price of the works, this fair is sure to have the most exceptional pieces.

If you’re looking for a special new piece for your home or a limited edition print, head over to Chelsea Old Town Hall. Admission tickets are priced at £6. Be sure to see their website for more information!  

Cookbook Feature - Friday Favourites

We at The Amazing Blog love to experiment in the kitchen. Whether it’s for entertaining dinner party guests or making treats for our loved ones, we’re always trying to improve our repertoire. For those of you who love to cook and bake just as much as we do, we’ve come up with a few exciting new recipe books for you to take a look at!

As the weather warms up, so does our sweet tooth! The Clandestine Cake Club: A Year of Cake by Lynn Hill is the perfect way to experiment with a variety of delicious confections.

The drool-worthy cookbook is organized month-by-month and filled with delectable images of cakes that suit every holiday. It also features seasonal ingredients and recipes served with a little slice of history that reveals stories and traditions about the occasions that inspired them. To give you a little taste of what’s included, the book illustrates recipes for traditional cakes like Toffee Apple Gingerbread and Strawberry Pimm’s, but also includes exotic ones like Yogurt & Pecan cake as well as Canadian Maple Syrup & Bacon cake.

Fire up your oven and start practicing for the holidays with “A Year of Cake” here for £20.

If you’re craving some colourful dishes, we would recommend flipping through NOPI: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Ramael Scully—a collection of over 120 recipes from Yotam’s celebrated Soho restaurant.

This spectacular cookbook combines Yotam’s Middle Eastern influences with Scully’s Asian background and delivers a truly unique set of original, flavor-packed dishes. If you’re a fan of the restaurant, you’ll love learning the secrets to your favourite courses, and if you’re a cooking enthusiast, you’ll love discovering new recipes to inspire and delight. This book is chock-full of things for every occasion, from simple starters to complex main courses and puddings. As a bonus, the book itself is absolutely beautiful just to display on your shelf. The hard cover has a creamy white texture and the pages are gilded in gold.

Whether you’re looking to impress a dinner party or serve yourself a quick meal, this book is a gem to add to your collection. It’s available here for £28.

Biscuits are the quintessential English snack, so it’s only fitting that we feature a recipe book focused entirely on biscuits. Introducing Bee’s Brilliant Biscuits, a book filled to the brim with original, colourful, and flavourful unique treats for you and your loved ones.

The recipes range from classic shortbread, to cookies you can bake with your kids, to treats for you pooch, and everything in between! It even includes a page of tear-out templates to add to the fun.

You deserve better than to dunk a plain digestive into your tea. With 80 recipes to choose from, Bee’s Brilliant Biscuits has got you covered. Buy it here for £12.08.

Lip Balm Feature- Friday Favourites

After a long winter, our lips are in desperate need of some TLC. We at The Amazing Blog would love to present you with some of our favourite new options for hydrating lip care products.

Flying Wild shares the healing power of beehives with the world by producing organic beeswax based skincare from their small farm in Ballinderry, Ireland. We were given the opportunity to try the handmade Organic beeswax lip balm with raw Irish honey and rosemary, and we loved how natural and soothing it is. It contains deep moisturising grapeseed oil, protecting beeswax, healing raw Irish honey from their own beehives, refreshing rosemary, and anti-oxidising vitamin E—all of which keep our lips feeling renewed, hydrated, and protected. The creamy texture is lightweight and non-greasy, which means that it’s perfectly suited to wearing underneath other makeup products.

The Organic beeswax lip balm is available here for £3.99.

We recently raved about one of Lacrème Beauté’s bee venom products, but now we would like to introduce the organic rose lip balm. This luxuriously simple product nourishs and protects the lips from harmful UV rays with a blend of Organic Beeswax, organic coco butter, organic shea butter, almond oil, and essential oil of rose otto. The soft rose scent is quite soothing, and the light pink hue adds a slight sheen to brighten a dull complexion. The lightweight formula absorbs quickly so that you’re left with nourished lips all day long.

Purchase your own organic rose lip balm for £12 here.

The new Tinted Luxe Balms from Rouge Bunny Rouge combines an ultra-hydrating lip treatment formula with just the right amount of color. The unique blend of oils, waxes and state-of-the-art pigments create a flattering lip colour with anti-aging properties. It features a powerful active complex derived from sunflower oil designed volumise, smooth, and brighten the lips after four week of continued use. The paraben-free balm is smooth and non-sticky, and it is available in three beautiful hues.

The Rouge Bunny Rouge Tinted Luxe balm is available here for £22.74.