Style Tips -- 5th October 2009

[ 4 October 2009 ]

Style Tips
I made these on Friday — recipe here!
(Highly recommended, A++, would trade again!)

<3 Monday 5th October:
Bake cupcakes while listening to White Zombie! (Food tastes better if you dance while you prepare it…)

<3 Tuesday 6th October:
Cover your arms in butterfly temporary tattoos — from the tips of your fingers to the crest of your shoulder.

<3 Wednesday 7th October:
Use Moroccan tea glasses as vases, & fill with tiny flowers. Put a different coloured glass in every room of your house.

<3 Thursday 8th October:
Buy & repaint a big doll-house in psychedelic colours. Turquoise with white trim & pink doors? Violet with tangerine accents? Put tealight candles inside & place it on your dining table. (But don’t set your entire house ablaze, okay?)

<3 Friday 9th October:
Go out & take photos of fairies.

<3 Saturday 10th October:
Wrap yourself up in Christmas lights for your lover to discover when they get home.

<3 Sunday 11th October:
Hang a canopy over your bed & have dedicated You time beneath it every Sunday. Tea, biscuits & a good book should be part of the regime!


Love letters & feather headdresses,

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Comment

  1. r u on drugs?

    <3 naileen · Oct 4, 04:54 PM · #

  2. HAHAHAHAHA ^

    best. comment. ever.

    They look yummy xo

    <3 Bev · Oct 4, 04:57 PM · #

  3. cake looks delish!

    <3 kate · Oct 4, 05:01 PM · #

  4. Best style tips EVER

    <3 Vanessa M. · Oct 4, 05:09 PM · #

  5. Tea & biscuits every Sunday morning sound divine. I’ll have to restructure my reading list and canopy my bed :)

    <3 Alzy · Oct 4, 05:10 PM · #

  6. Hahahahah!

    <3 Gala · Oct 4, 05:11 PM · #

  7. Thanks for the link!

    <3 Hilary · Oct 4, 05:25 PM · #

  8. Oh my god, those cupcakes..they look divine! I must make them.

    <3 Becky · Oct 4, 05:26 PM · #

  9. I love your brilliant ideas for every day of the week xD You should do this more often! ___

    <3 Liz · Oct 4, 05:59 PM · #

  10. Liz, I’m planning on it! I love the idea of having a calendar full of fun stuff as opposed to “pay bill” or “take test”!

    <3 Gala · Oct 4, 06:02 PM · #

  11. Oooh, tea and biscuits every sunday? I should have thought to do that today while reading the new FLB book!

    <3 Lorelle · Oct 4, 06:05 PM · #

  12. this makes me actually look forward to the week!
    whoo go GALA!

    oh…now i want to make a Team Gala shirt! hahaha!!
    too much sugar today…:D

    <3 Taz · Oct 4, 06:06 PM · #

  13. Some of these are amazing and now I’m hungry! D:

    <3 Valentine · Oct 4, 06:07 PM · #

  14. Yay for cupcakes! Red velvet reminds me of home (I’m from GA).

    <3 Treacle · Oct 4, 06:19 PM · #

  15. Baking, cooking, housework, anything is always better with some loud rock’n‘roll. Why, this very morning I was ironing to Midnight Youth (with breaks for dancing).

    <3 Nadine · Oct 4, 06:22 PM · #

  16. I love this :)

    This has just made me very happy and I’m really excited about the week ahead now! And I’m going to make a big cake tomorrow (friends birthday!)

    Awesome idea for a calender, especially the tea, biscuits and book every Sunday.

    This site just keeps getting better!

    <3 Lizzie · Oct 4, 06:29 PM · #

  17. I love this list :3

    <3 Victoria Suzane · Oct 4, 06:52 PM · #

  18. That cupcake recipe looks so yummy (and baking while dancing is ALWAYS better)! I’m also loving Sunday’s tea, book, and biscuits tip. Fabulous.

    Thanks for brightening my day, Gala!

    <3 Meaghan · Oct 4, 06:54 PM · #

  19. best comment ever award has already been accomplished.

    tea and biscuits and books should be on the calendar every day.

    <3 Laura · Oct 4, 07:07 PM · #

  20. i love your little tips! they’re always so creative and inspiring.

    <3 jameson ruth. · Oct 4, 08:43 PM · #

  21. i’m in LA & drove by a flower shoppe called “Darling’s Flower’s.” There’s also one in Berkeley.

    I spent the afternoon having the best breakfast ever on Melrose, marvelling at the Angeles i forgot (stripper heels for breakfee?!), disassembling a giant banana, sweeping through a field of marigolds that left my skin scented & walking through corn as tall as a small skyscraper in the late afternoon light.

    I needed the day off. my marie antoinette wig was exceptionally heavy last night, the wings were cutting into my armpits.

    So, after all of this sensory input deliciousness, the wind whipping my hair, the LA river full of egrets, impending manicure,

    your tips were perfect.

    votre abeille.

    <3 mary bee · Oct 4, 08:51 PM · #

  22. Your posts are such a breath of fresh air at the end of my mundane corporate job that I hate more than I loathe ccockroaches. Thank you Gala for the fabulousness you bring into my life everyday. It is much, much needed.

    <3 Autumn · Oct 4, 09:20 PM · #

  23. I’m going to make my own weekly assignments- but totally awesome ones instead of “Vocab Test Fri.” Thanks, Gala!

    <3 Luinae · Oct 4, 09:37 PM · #

  24. Gala your hair looks so good in that video
    i feel like those cup cakes SOOOO bad right now oh my god

    <3 jennie · Oct 4, 10:40 PM · #

  25. I’ve got to try these cupcakes!

    <3 Vanessa · Oct 4, 11:22 PM · #

  26. ... now that’s what I’m talking about, BB.

    (I’ve been craving cupcakes like whoa the last week or so, so I picked up the ingredients the other day… now I just need to get around to it. I expect to have many more cupcakes than I can eat in a sitting or two and am trying to figure out whether or not I want to freeze them… maybe give them to the neighbors?)

    <3 M.E. · Oct 4, 11:28 PM · #

  27. Bloody hell! I was just considering doing some baking this week. While listening to Hellbilly Deluxe. 0_o Universe – You freak me out sometimes! x

    <3 Lise · Oct 5, 12:10 AM · #

  28. Gala! Saw you watching Trinny & Susanna at the Hutt today. You were too far away for me to say hello, and you were busy taking notes. I’m going to try those cupcakes very soon. Keep up the awesome work on this site, always brightens my day

    <3 Nic in Welly · Oct 5, 01:33 AM · #

  29. Gorgeous tips and beautiful imagery!
    Now I wanna make cupcakes. Well, really I just want to eat cupcakes. Does anyone want to mail me some sweet treats? Please?

    yumyumyumyum.

    <3 Beatrix Bonheur · Oct 5, 01:45 AM · #

  30. Personally, I like to stick on a bit of Architecture In Helsinki while baking cupcakes. It’s cute, and makes my butt wiggle!

    <3 Stella · Oct 5, 02:34 AM · #

  31. This is a lovely list!

    <3 Alice · Oct 5, 03:09 AM · #

  32. Autumn — Big kisses!

    jennie — I should bring you some as a lunchtime snack! xo

    Nic in Welly — Aw! Yeah I was pretty engaged in what I was doing! Did you enjoy the demonstration? I think they did a really good job.

    Beatrix Bonheur — The reason I ended up making them is because the two girls I wanted to make me some couldn’t ship them to me! (Jess of Sugadeaux in Melbourne & City in Auckland!) Couriering cupcakes is apparently not as easy as it sounds ;D So I decided to do it myself & actually, they turned out really, really well.

    <3 Gala · Oct 5, 04:00 AM · #

  33. ohhh! a bed canopy sounds nice alright!

    <3 Magatha may · Oct 5, 05:59 AM · #

  34. i find that post so peaceful and full of serenity

    i just love it

    <3 Cinderella · Oct 5, 06:10 AM · #

  35. I once so badly wanted to bring cupcakes home from Sydney to Melbourne that I flew them with me on a plane. A box of 24 of them!!!

    They were a hit on the plane and I ended up bribing my air hosts with a cupcake to put them safely in the kitchen part of the plane for me instead of in overhead baggage hehe

    They survived the trip and went down a treat!

    Oh and if you’re wondering, they were from Suga Mama cupcakes in Sydney :)))

    <3 Sea-Cat · Oct 5, 09:36 AM · #

  36. Your style tips are my faav =) and you look totally cute when you dance!
    Much love!

    <3 Kuri. · Oct 5, 11:27 AM · #

  37. Oh, I so want to do that doll house idea. You might could find one at a yard sale or something.

    <3 Poppy · Oct 5, 01:52 PM · #

  38. Gala,
    Thank you so much for the amazing post. It’s articles like these that made me stick with iCiNG for almost a year now. I love all these Style Tips and the Advice is also a favourite. I’ve been wondering when Things Every Girl Should Do In Her Lifetime: Part Two will come.
    Lots of amazing and sparkling good things to you! xoxo

    <3 C · Oct 5, 02:38 PM · #

  39. LOVE your baking vidclip…am baking frantically at the moment for all the birthdays in our family which happen this week – you’ve inspired me to dance while I do it – thanks xoxox

    <3 kathleen · Oct 5, 03:44 PM · #

  40. well. now i know what i’m doing with my boyfriend this week. haha

    <3 Tiffany · Oct 5, 04:26 PM · #

  41. i love this!

    <3 Kat · Oct 5, 04:56 PM · #

  42. I love these posts.

    I have spent the whole weekend painting my room and after re-reading one of your bedroom style suggestions I feel sure I will have the mist stylish bedroom in all the land.

    x

    <3 Jonnieette · Oct 5, 05:14 PM · #

  43. I now SO want temp butterfly tats! Where should I get those at 23.20 on a Monday night?

    <3 V. · Oct 5, 05:20 PM · #

  44. V. — Voilà! ebay.com/

    <3 Gala · Oct 5, 05:31 PM · #

  45. Awesome video,ah,I need to bake!
    I made some cookies on holiday, but a mouse got in the cake tin and jumped out at me when I went to eat them!
    I keep meaning to make Sunday afternoons my StumleUpon afternoons, but events keep taking me over. Bah. Will try and manage tea and crumpets this weekend though :D

    xx

    <3 Amelia · Oct 5, 05:43 PM · #

  46. This really is quite some psychedelic post you wrote! Things I would only come up with after a spliff or two…

    I’ve had a huge craving for cupcakes since a found a jar of cherries in my cupboard. Those sugary sweet ones, you know? I want to decorate some dark chocolate/cherry cupcakes with them!

    <3 Jasmin · Oct 5, 06:40 PM · #

  47. Jasmin — Haha, most of the time my mind is on psychedelic overdrive! But I love those cherries. Cocktail cherries are my favourite though, I like to put them in a glass with Sprite & then gobble them up.

    <3 Gala · Oct 5, 07:14 PM · #

  48. I spent Monday running aroung town with my friend coz it was her birthday :)

    I blew up 18 balloons, her and me wore party hats and we took loads of photos :)

    Best day ever!

    <3 kj · Oct 5, 08:43 PM · #

  49. Ooh, nice addition of dates — What I wouldn’t give for a Gala style-tip-a-day calendar! It’s like your version of the David Horvitz or Notes from the Universe emails. (iCing daily sprinkles, straight to your oven/inbox? That should totally happen.)

    That dollhouse idea is especially priceless! How awesome. I want to do all of these and document accordingly.

    <3 Molly B · Oct 6, 01:10 AM · #

  50. Thats very strange. Wednesday was my birthday and I got lillies and lilacs for my birthday, I did use something strange as a vase, a old melong (thai whiskey) bottle, it worked great

    <3 Christy · Oct 8, 01:49 PM · #

  51. I read this a bit late but butterfly tattoos and dolls houses are now in my plans for next week… I randomly have a bunch of fake tats from a show where I played a heavily tattooed and pierced fallen angel, and they need putting to good use! x

    <3 Smashy · Oct 9, 07:52 AM · #