Their hands will break all the beauty in you

Chai Tea

So, us fruitcakes at BDBPR have just discovered Chai Tea!
My oh my.
It is incredible, possibly my new second favourite tea! After y'know, traditional classic irish tea with milk. No sugar, please and thank you. 
It's like black tea, but with that extra umph. And it's lovely with milk, which gives it an advantage over all those other fruity and herbal teas. 
So yeah, no angsty/drunken/ranting post this time, just some nice Chai Tea ♥.
Aoife. 

a golden 2011

So, like Aoife said. Christmas is over and for me that means I have to think about what to do/wear/stay on New Year’s Eve. I and lots of my friends are invited to a big New Year’s party with the Theme: Gold. Gooold….to be honest except from a necklace and a few bracelets I don’t own anything in Gold.so I started looking in various Online Shops, problem only that in Germany there are only half of the Shops that you would find in Dublin, no Topshop, River Island, Miss Selfridge…it is a miracle that I survived here for all those years.  So in the end I decided for this dress by Scarlett Johansson for Mango: 

Along with some of my Jewelery and High Heels it looks good, not great, but at least I don’t have to go in a black dress and wrap golden paper around me, like my parents suggested. No Thank you.

In all the Party is 3 days long, starting tomorrow with drinks and hanging out in a bar, than New Years Eve and than a big Hangover Breakfast on the 1^st of January. So now I just have to think about what to wear on the other 2 Days….I have no Idea.

Today I decided to do a Detox Day like me and Aoife did at the end of summer. Do some Face and Hair Mask (Never ever make your own hair mask, Trust me…Aoife and me had some really bad experience…especially with Banana Hair masks) and drink lots and lots of Green Tea. 

Love,

Bene

Chillboy

Feeling blue? Put on your pyjamas, light some candles and plug in some fairy lights, sip some herbal tea and just chill. 

It's the best, cherry-scented candles and Lime Blossom tea and internet stalking really helped me relax, i feel great. 

Fucking hippy.

Peace and love,

Aoife ♥

Fuck this adolescence

I like boys with nice hands and good grammar.
 I like to climb inside the duvet cover and pretend that nowhere else exists, I like jumpers with holes in the sleeves for my thumbs.
 I like to feel loved and not lonely, i like long car journeys and staring out windows.
 I like cold weather and city lights, drinking tea and feeling OK. 
I like the smell of the people i love and i like to dance, dance, dance.
I'd like to leave school and run away to California, and i'd like if oneday the world made sense.


Aoife ♥

there is a light that never goes out

Hello my dearests,
Raya the Rebel is back in School! Came back yesterday afternoon, getting dirty looks from all the teachers and curious ones from the students today. Sounds so much cooler when you say she got suspended for drinking tea.
Only 3 days till midterm break, i am so excited!
Going to fly home Friday morning and stay there for a week and be back for Halloween in Dublin. I really want to be a Bunny for Halloween, like the ones in Mean Girls. So everyone is goint to say: "You're a slut?!" and then I'll say:"I am a mouse, DUH!" Lovee, Benny

Hello everyone its raya on bennys laptop. i was supposed to blog yesterday but...well....yeah...sorry im making up for it now just like i promised myself! school's been weird since i came back all the looks off the teachers and everyone coming up to me asking what the suspension was for. i'm THE biggest reb at school at the moment. its the last week of school before midterm so everyones planning like mad for the holidays. i'm off to wales for a while so i'll just drown myself in tea and eat apple crumble, watch breakfast at tiffanys. (i love you audrey) oh and go charity shop shopping because the town where my mum lives is so small and there's no proper shops. im serious here. no proper clothes shops. (thankfully im pretty much always here in dublin) but it does force me to be creative and i find some great old people jumpers and granny bags and hats and blazers and old records and pretty jam jars and just great stuff!

for halloween im in a bit of dillema when it comes to costumes. im stuck between pikatchu and minnie mouse. i have the pickatchu suit already but i dont want to turn up with benny and aoife looking all sexy in their cat and bunny costumes and i'm there in a big yellow suit...

minnie mouse it is!

i think if you looked inside my head it would be like looking under the sea. everything just floats around. heres a bit of an insight as to whats going on in the depths of my mind

why do you just not bother; glitter; polka dots; which type of milk tastes best with yorkshire tea; tire swings; the mountain im going to climb when i get to wales; why i cant have a kettle as a boyfriend; how much i miss my cat Morrisey (after the amazing frontman of the smiths)  and finally how much i love the movie JUNO.

need to watch it. soon.

i hope you all have a great halloween and tryyyyy to be creative with your costumes. EVERYONE goes to primark and buys a load of fluro stuff. 

love always, RAYA

10 Reasons why a kettle is better than a boyfriend

We had a kettle called Russell. He was the apple of our eye, the cherry on our cake, the salt in our Tequila. However, he was cruelly ripped from our loving embrace by our housemistress.
We will be re-united one day, Russell.

I guess you never forget your first love...

Anyway, we compiled a list of reasons why a kettle is better than a boyfriend:

A kettle will never stand you up

A kettle will never change your plans last-minute

A kettle will never ditch you to go hang out with the guys

A kettle will never tell you you look fat in your favourite dress

A kettle won't flirt with your best friend

A kettle won't check out other girls when it thinks you're not looking

A kettle will make you lovely hot cups of tea and never complain about it

A kettle will always be there waiting for you when you get home

A kettle will keep you warm on cold nights

A kettle won't forget your birthday or anniversary 

Well there's 10 we came up with, tell us if you have any more.

Russell is the only man we could ever truly rely on.

We love you Russell.

Always, Aoife ♥

a sunday smile

Hi my lovelies, it's Raya reporting from what's sure to be another interesting sunday from the boarding house. I think I can safely say that Aoife and Benny are by far the most interesting roomates to live with and we share a mutual love of tea.

My tea choice these past few weeks has been Yorkshire which is so lovely on a sunday morning when all you want to do is live underneath your bedcovers.

While Aoife and I are stuck here in rainy Ireland, Benny is on holiday with her family in Crete, getting a tan and sipping cocktails by the sea...tan is overrated anyway. I've been living off cheese toasties recently due to the lack of edible food here in the boarding house. I think I might just eat at least three a day. And a cup of tea (or two) with each!

I'm off to the seaside this afternoon with a friend so I'll put up some pictures when I get back; but until then I've been surfing http://www.modcloth.com/ (if you love all things quirky and retro check it out) and I'm thinking of ordering these beauts!





 I'll probably end up spending all of this months allowence on this stuff but I can live with pot noodles and cheap tea until then if I can have these!

Love always..

We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain

Hello everyone, it's Raya. As Aoife mentioned in her last post the weekend was a great one! Oktoberfest was absolutely amazing and we managed to get into the main tent nice and early so we missed the long lines and the ID checks. We ''raved it up'' and drank far too much but it was definatly a good'un.

We also stopped by a house party (Aoife put up that minging picture of me!) and that was so great aswell. We ended the night at tesco; where all good nights should end and stocked up on cheap chocolate and jelly snakes.

Incase you're wondering who we are, I'll explain. This blog is run by me and two other lovely ladies.

Aoife (pronounced ee-fah for those of you who are unfamiliar to irish vocab) who has the largest and lovely-ist collection of crazy grandad jumpers

Benny who's on holiday in Crete at the moment but will be back soon. Her heart has been stolen by a pair of vintage cowboy boots

And myself. Raya. (pronounced ray to rhyme with cry and ah. so cry-ah//ray-ah) 

That's it for now my lovelies. Love always.

Audrey Kitching

Well call me a scene kid but i've basically had a huge girl-crush on Audrey Kitching since i was about 14 years old. 

For those of you who weren't aware she ditched the whole scene-queen thing a long time ago, and she has really amazing style now. 

I wanted me hair pink for the longest time because of her, but my school's a bitch so sadly no bubblegum hair for me ):

Her Buzznet blog is really interesting and she's always posting tons of interesting things and beautiful clothes and drop-dead gorgeous pictures of herself, click here to have a look. 
So, when she's not busy being like, the hottest woman in the world she also has two clothing lines, Cocodecoeur and Tokyolux.

Here are some looks from her Tokyolux line:

I like all the crosses and the last two tops are my favourites, and the picture of the rose dress is just beautiful.
Personally though, I prefer her Cocodecoeur line and the photography in these first two pictures is amazing:

I really love that HELL YEAH one and I think the Somebody, somewhere is sick of your shit one is pure genius! Sorry I couldn't get the first two any bigger, But you can check them out for yourself on the Cocodecoeur site. 
Audrey has been an idol of mine for years and is just amazing not to mention ridiculously gorgeous. As you can see in the second picture, she also has the cutest. Cat. Ever. Called Waffle.
Anyways, just thought i'd share some Audrey Appreciation (:
Peace out, Aoife ♥