Sick week - My favourites

Being sick has seriously left me in such a funk. I have had no interest in anything other than sleep for the past week and it has been such a long one as well! I felt like it was a never ending cycle of viruses... honestly I'm over it!

There are a few things I've been enjoying these past week though so I thought that I'd share them with you!

1. Green Tea

I've been asking for it wherever I go including at restaurants while I'm having a meal! I thought I'd change my usual soft drink order for this bad boy! It adds a little flavour to the water, has no sugar, hydrates you and keeps you warm! What more could I ask for?

2. My Keep Cup

I use this cup everyday and everywhere I go! I usually make myself a cup of coffee in the morning before going to work and refill it throughout the day with any kind of beverage I come across! Its double layer glass is perfect for both cold and hot drinks! Thought I'd sneak in a picture of my breakfast as well in there because I've really been loving this in the morning!

I usually scramble two eggs with a handful of baby spinach and sometimes cut up some avocado depending on whether we have any at home - the one in the picture wasn't ripe enough and to be honest tasted quite terrible!

3. Snapchat filters

Being bored in bed or even feeling like your body doesn't want to do any work while you are at work makes you not want to look in the mirror as you often look as bad as you feel. Thankfully there's Snapchat filters that help create that fake glow us sick people are missing at the moment! I honestly can spend hours on that app! It's so entertaining and actually makes my scary sick face look kinda cute!

4. Music

Now we all know that music is the universal symbol of love and no matter what language you speak, music breaks the barrier and reaches out to everyone. So naturally my boredom and lack of ideas of what to do which wouldn't require me moving lead me to dream about leaning to play an instrument again... hmm maybe guitar this time? I do have small fingers... I think I can still make it work though! 

At the same time I thought this would be so cool for a travelling musician - hey maybe that'll be me in a few years! Find out I have some kind of unknown musical talent then once mastered, I take on the road with my trustee guitar and amp! Nah but in all honesty, if there's any musician who do this already, hats off to you and I'd totally recommend the Roland Cube at guitarcenter,com

So this is my week's favourite things. I think I need to go to bed now even though it's only 6pm on a Saturday night! I am so wrecked and feel sick as! 

Hope your week has been a fantastic one! 

Have a lovely weekend :)

Lots of love, 

Karine xx

Musical Chicken

Music has always been a big part of my life. If any of you have gone on my Instagram or Twitter, you would have noticed that my Username is actually "Musical Chicken". Now the question I get asked quite often is how did I come up with that and why did I chose this? To be honest with you, I was either eating chicken while listening to music or thinking of getting chickens while listening to music and came up with it. 

Anyway, I usually let people's imagination run wild when they ask what a musical chicken is so when I come across artists, I often ask them to draw what they think a musical chicken is. I was very impressed and quite speechless when I got given this picture.

HOW CLEVER!!!

This artist put so much time and effort into this! I am so thankful that he has done this for me and I appreciate his kindness so much! 

But as you can tell, I am a massive music lover. It runs in the family with my grandpa being a singer and piano player and my brother a self taught guitar player and singer. I feel like it helps bring people together and there are so many talented individual out there. 

I've grown up playing piano and even though I may not play anymore, I still find myself browsing the internet looking at either instruments or other accessories that could help me with the sound quality of my videos and other ideas I may have for future videos. I've always wondered what kind of PA system YouTubers use to make song covers and so I went on the hunt to find a cool mixer. Anyone who knows me would know that I learn by trying things out rather than doing courses or getting graded. That's how I learnt to use html for my blog.

I would love to have a play with a mixer one day and see what I can come up with but for now I am left browsing the net for ideas. I came across musiciansfriend.com pa system and realised that getting the product I was looking at doesn't necessarily have to cost a fortune! The Gear One PA2400Kustom KPC12 PA Package was what really got my attention! So many great quality products for such a great price! 

Ah just going through their range of products is making so happy and has left me feeling like a little kid in a candy store! I'm going to keep browsing like I have been for the past half hour! 

Happy browsing! You'll thank me later :P 

Lots of love,

Karine xx

Be confident!

Hello chickens!

Self confidence and self belief is a very delicate topic specially amongst young people. We often compare ourselves with others and believe we aren't as good as them.

But I found a song that is oh so perfect! It is by Victoria Justice and promotes self confidence and the fact that many people these days are too busy caring about what others think of them than actually do something that they love to do! It's a very catchy song and has a great message!

"Uh, lately everybody's so self-conscious,
People talk about each other so heartless,
But I don't want to hear those conversations,
I just want to feel the good vibrations"

To watch the music video of Victoria performing ''shake'' click the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc3IYcRjgFU

She really is an inspiration and I absolutely love her new song. I hope this song does inspire you to get out there and be a bit more confident with who you are.

Always remember, You're beautiful and I believe in you <3

Lots of love, Karine xx

Valentine's day playlist!

Hello there!

Well the past couple of days have been... let's say... challenging. I was grumpy and quite annoyed at a few different things and surprise, surprise one of them was school! NO WAY! ha-ha anyways I've been dying to post something on here for days but I had to stop myself from blogging since I wasn't going to blog happy or lovely things. I mean, who wants a sad, dark and angry post on a colourful blog? Makes no sense to me!

So it's nearly Valentine's day and that got me thinking! Who doesn't love those song that describe exactly what you're feeling deep down inside? (even though you don't want to admit it)
I constructed a little playlist of love songs <3 They aren't your usual sweet oldies though. I picked the best new-ish songs They're cute!
Enjoy! ~

· Best love song -Tpain  ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬

·        Had me @ Hello - Olivia Holt  ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬

·   What makes you beautiful - One direction  ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬

·        We found love -Rihanna  ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬

·        Mine- Taylor Swift  ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬

·        As long as you love me - Justin Bieber  ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬

·        They don't know about us- One Direction  ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬

 

·        Teenage dream- Katy Perry  ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬

·        DNA - Lil Mix  ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬

·        Dance with me tonight- Olly Murs  ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬

Hope you liked at least one of those songs! Do leave a comment telling me what you think whether you loved, liked or hated my playlist! :)

~Karine xx