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Vlog 14: Welcoming autumn season, and vintage shopping (mini haul)


Good day earthlings! We will have short blog post today and I wish you all a good and fun Halloween!! My Halloween vlog will be uploaded the following week.

I'm really excited to be sharing my first autumn vlog ever. Autumn is one of my favorite seasons because it starts to get colder and I can finally be warm and cozy with my sweaters and boots. I also love the smell of crisp Fall leaves and witnessing the changing of leaves in trees. Although there is not much greenery around the city but I still love it. 

Walnut Carrot Cake Muffins

The recipe "Healthy Carrot Cake Muffins" I made on today's vlog is by Joey Firoben from tasty.co. Please click the link to read the complete instructions for the muffins. I enjoyed making this because it's only a one bowl recipe. Just put all your ingredients in a large bowl and mix all of it. You won't need a stand or hand mixer to do this and the recipe calls for a maple syrup (I haven't tried using white sugar as the sweetener but I think it will be just fine). Maple is one of my favorite Fall flavors. It's really hard for me to like some pumpkin flavored recipes. I didn't really grow up having pumpkin flavored desserts or pies but I do love pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks. 

Even though my vlog didn't feature pumpkin flavored desserts I hope you guys will still enjoy and be encouraged to make these tasty muffins. I personally added chopped raw walnuts and filled the muffins with cream cheese frosting. I love the sweet and crunchy texture to the muffins. 


Got some uneven ones




Miss Peregrine's Date with Mon Amour


"Let me glimpse inside your velvet bones."

- Edgar Allan Poe


What is more exciting thing to do than to start the month watching Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children with mon amour? I started reading the first book five years ago and was jumping out of joy to find out Ransom Riggs was publishing the second sequel and the same year they announced Tim Burton was directing the film. Oh myyyyy! What caught my interest to read Miss Peregrine's were the vintage pictures and the peculiar children. I love children. They never lie and they speak through their hearts. Always happy! I also like stories that took place during the war time. It's when you see how people or the characters develop and get through hard times of life. Just like today. The world is facing big problems and it's sad that one of them are the children they are the ones who have to deal with these terrible things. They deserve a great childhood memories not these bombings, terror and guns. 

I'm glad that Malala Yousafzai exists (she reminds me of Anne Frank - I love her). She is helping the children get the education they truly deserve and doing her best to give inspiration to people. You may want to read my post about it.


Going back to the date with mon amour.

It was October first. 

We went shopping. I bought sweaters in Old Navy and make-up goodies in Sephora. I got Tarte products. I may write a post about it in the future. 

After hearing a mass I told him if we could have soup for lunch and since it's starting to get chilly. We had viet pho. Yummy!! Though I really wish they serve ramen :'(





After roaming around the mall, we stopped at our favourite store, Whole Foods Market, we love their sushi there. Since we don't want to dine in at Japanese buffet like what we used to do last year. We just buy the $12.99 sushi. Not bad at all. Right? 

And ended our night with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.. I have a love-hate rating with the film. The casting was good and Burton didn't fail to establish peculiar ambiance but the plot was a little off. Downside of it was it felt they were rushing the story. This wasn't the best Burton film I would say. I wish they could have focus on making the story sequence better. I don't know it's just my opinion. The first half was great but the rest was like, "Eh? What?". From the person who read the book, they kind of stepped back with plotting the story. (I don't even know if I make sense at all. Lol.) Overall I give the movie a 7/10. Good thing mon amour liked it.