A Healthy Advice.

With all the road accidents happening right now, it really pays to be extremely cautious and to pray for guidance. In line with this, I'd like to share something with you. Something that will help you be cautious of what you are eating.

I have been keeping this brochure given to me by my doctor. She told me that even people like me (who is underweight) could develop problems with cholesterol level. Adding that it does not hurt to live healthy. I agree.
 
*Note: Click the images to see smaller details of the brochure.

I also keep this one for my parents and BF.

'til next post!

Ciao,

Maddie

TBS: Tea Tree Concealer.

I am gifted with a wrinkle-free face until I get old. Therefore, I have very oily (to the nth power) face. But with this gift also comes a curse. Yes. A curse. I have so much blemishes and break-outs even I am already way past my puberty days. Reading various articles, I know that this really happens. BUT I just wish it was not me. Instead of sulking around, I turned to concealers. Actually, I have a derma that I can run to whenever my face acts weird. Sadly, I cannot financially keep up with constant consultation and facial (Good thing I will be working already soooon :) Yey! For my first!).

My first experience with concealer was way back during high school. I bought Careline Concealer because it was the first thing I saw in Mercury drugstore. It looked promising for me who does not know anything about make-up and skincare during that time. However, soon enough I realized that it did not work for me. It aggravated my pimples more and did not conceal my blemishes. That was my first and last try with concealers.

Until, I met The Body Shop Tea Tree Oil concealer.

*NOTE: The details below are from my personal experience and not from any official website of The Body Shop or any blogger. This type of review will continue in any of my up-coming beauty reviews.

To give you a quick estimate on how small this concealer is :)

Can you see the swipes? It looks natural. L-1 swipe; R-2 swipes

I hope you could now see the swatches.

**Note: The photos are taken under natural light, to give you an idea of how it really looks. Any other up-coming swatches shall be done under natural light as well.

Product Description: A matte concealer with thick consistency and has a drying effect in the long run. Light and handy for touch-ups on the go. It has no distinct smell; only a faint scent of tea tree oil.

Product Performance: On the almost one month (3 weeks and 3 days) I am road-testing this concealer, it performed what it really claims to do - hide blemishes and as a bonus, it evens out the discoloration on my face. But I have to apply at least two coats before the blemishes disappear and it does not hide protruding and large cystic pimples. The drying effect I mentioned earlier was because of the dry patches around my forehead, cheeks and nose I saw after three hours. It was like I had a facial peel which I found odd since without any make-up on me, I had no peelings or whatsoever. But I guess the crazy hot and the humid cool weather of our country makes my face react like this. In the end, I am happy with the product because it does not irritate my pimples and the shade no. 2 matches my skin tone. I directly apply this on my face; afterwards I blend this with my fingers or for better and flawless look, I use a flat top brush.

Price and Placement: At any The Body Shop branches for around 550Php. But I got this on a 40% discount. Yey! (Sorry I can't remember anymore how much I got this concealer.)

'til next post!

Ciao,

Maddie

Home office fetish.

Sounds daring? Quite. But before you get any dirty thoughts, think of the word this way - obsession. I could not get enough of home office designs for small areas. Contemporary, minimalist or the in-between; all of them would appeal to me.

I have a small room which is still unfurnished since it lacks many aspects. One, is a corner for my home office or workstation. I am really, really, really, really into the idea of transforming my room where there is a corner for work/creativity, vanity and a center of comfort. After I acquired my room, I vowed to make it into a dream space - function, comfort and style all co-exist.

Alas! I relied on Google to see some design inspiration. And boy was I not disappointed. Below are some of the home office designs I'm eyeing (Photos from Designsponge.com & Designsponge.com):

Loovee the table and the drawer :)

Controlled clutter. Yes, please?

Paint me freshness!

I need to find this type of table here in the country.

My type of sexy. Chic and couture!

 Do you agree with my choices? Or you found better designs? Please do share!

'til next post.

Ciao,

Maddie <3

Smiling while reminiscing.

In this day and age, it is no wonder how things have changed. Smart phones, consoles and medical advances are already at our hands. But sometimes I feel nostalgic for the things I used to play with, see and EAT haha! On random days, I find myself daydreaming of those childhood things and wonder if they are still around or if they evolved into something better.

Imagine to my surprise I saw one of my favorites when I was kid. Actually, I was looking for sweets when we spotted this:

Sorry guys. I already ate it without thinking of taking a picture first :))

There is still a vivid image of me hoarding (Yes! Hoarding is the term LOL) back in my elementary days. However, the only difference now is that we bought it for 15Php when before it was only 4Php (Changes, huh?). Well, even if a piece is priced unreasonably (For me it is haha), sweets are a necessity for me so I still bought it (Though somebody paid for it haha!). Anyway, the flavor of this Airhead is something new to me or maybe I forgot about it. So, I would like to know what is the exact fruit flavor of this one.

How about you guys. What is the recent thing that made you nostalgic of your younger years?

'til next post!

Ciao,

Maddie <3

Testing 1, 2, 3.

Hi guys!

I guess you have noticed that I did some modification on my blog. The cute pink flower, the clean background, and nice lay-out. In short, I tweaked my blog site. I was thinking of doing it for some time already, starting with removing other tags and stick with lesser but more organized tags. Then I looked on Google for some templates which is suitable for blogger and I came across this design. And it was pure attraction at first sight (Yes, I fell head-over-heels with this design LOL) .I love how it presents this delicate and clean interface to my readers.

Unfortunately, it still is in a testing stage. I have to know whether this template would work for all browsers. And I do mean ALL. From the basics IE, Chrome, Firefox and to the much complicated ones like Opera, Netscape (Okay, so I said it's complicated because I never tried using them haha!). At the end of the testing stage which is in two weeks time, I have to evaluate if this would prove beneficial to those who wish to read my posts. It would completely be a dismay if people would be able to view properly my blog. Heck that is why I started this blog - to connect in some way to other people.

So, if you find this new template faulty, please do leave some comments below :) I would also ask my friends to view this on the browsers they have to see if this really works.

In the meantime, please wait for an upcoming beauty review on a product I started using just this month.

'til next post!

Ciao,

Maddie <3

Satin and purple.

I'd like to show you a dress which I recently bought. As of the moment, it is among the top girliest dresses I have. Ironically, my love for cute and girly stuff does not explain why I have only a few dresses in my closest (To do: Buy more dresses in the future). Before, I never saw dresses in the light of it-actually-works-for-me thing, but now things do change. Thinking that I have already reached the age where I could not call myself a teen, dresses still have a chance that look appropriate for me (But please, let me clarify. I'm. not. that. old. LOL!).

I pictured this dress on one lone evening, when I could not fall asleep even after my bedtime a.k.a beauty rest. I just wish this is not insomnia, because I have been restless for some nights already. Anyway, sorry for the way I pictured the dress. I was planning to make it look like an editorial shot, but it turned out as some dress just thrown in bed hahaha! So much for my vogue-ish idea :))

Loving the peek-a-boo effect on the embroidery.

The dress exudes femininity and makes you feel dainty. However, the dress is really simple and does not have that ohhhlala factor to it, so the main reason why I agreed to buy this one because it was 70% off from the original price at the Blue Navy store in Megamall.. Not 30%, not 50% but a whooping 70% . Yeah I easily fall for this kind of seduction hahaha!

What is your latest fahion buy? Do share :)

'til next post!

Ciao,

Maddie :)

Penny for your thoughts.

Even rockstars know when to rest.

Storing and organizing.

When I have nothing to do during my college years, I will immediately go straight to the library and browse through the magazines available for reading. I am fortunate that our school library allows Cosmopolitan in their rack. Yes oh yes :) I would spend hours just reading magazines (Newsweek, Science magazine, AdAge and so on), and when an article catches my fancy I would grab my camera and click away. It already became a habit of mine through the years I have stayed in the university - taking pictures of the articles I read. For me, it has become a way to build up a depository of useful readings. Adding to the fact that the magazines I read are not my own copies; it was a practical idea.

Now I would like to share with you this article from Better Homes and Gardens, January 2011 Issue.

NOTE: The article is pictures directly from the magazine. All credits for the information and tips goes to Better Homes and Gardens magazine.

 

 

 So have you found anything that could solve your storage woes?

'til next post.

Ciao,

Maddie

The 'Perfect' Idea.

This is a flawed world we live in. Nobody is perfect; each and every one of us has some flaw which makes us unique. We can excel and perform our best in every task we do but we cannot simply be perfect as a person. because even if we avoid it mistakes are inevitable. And so does failure.

You may think this post emanates the pessimistic view about life. Well, I suggest you read this summary made by my friend Monica about a book entitled "Failing Forward" by J.C. Maxwell.

Hi loves, this inspired me!haha summary lang yan ng book. Hanap pa ako ng complete e-book. Love you all. 
Failing Forward 
Turning Mistakes into Stepping-Stones for 
Success 


  By  
John C. Maxwell 


The Big Idea 

Failing forward tells you how to look at life’s setbacks and learn from your mistakes. If you haven’t 
failed at anything, it means you haven’t really taken a risk at anything. Failures are only as bad as 
you perceive them to be. Life is much better when you live, and try, and fail. Living requires failing 
every now and then. The basic steps to moving on and failing forward are: 

• Realize there is one major difference between average people and achievers. The 
difference is in how they respond to failure. 
• Learn a new definition of failure. 
• Remove the “you” from failure. Don’t take it personally. 
• Take action and reduce your fear. 
• Change your response to failure by accepting responsibility. 
• Don’t let failure from outside get inside you. 
• Say good-bye to yesterday. 
• Change yourself, and your world changes. 
• Get over yourself and start giving yourself. 
• Find the benefit in every bad experience. 
• If at first you do succeed, try something harder. 
• Learn from a bad experience and make it a good experience. 
• Work on the weakness that weakens you. 
• Understand there’s not much difference between failure and success. 
• Get up, get over it, get going. 



What’s the main difference between average people and people who 
achieve? 

Regardless of family background, wealth, opportunities, morality, or hardships and trials, it is 
people’s perception of and response to failures that sets achievers apart from the mediocre. 

People are training for success when they should be training for failure. Disappointments are 
more prevalent and life is full of them. The question is not if you will have problems, but how you 
are going to deal with them. 

Mary Kay cosmetics is a company with more than 1 billion dollars in annual sales, employs 3,500 
people, and empowers 500,000 direct-sales consultants worldwide. Mary Kay Ash survived her 
husband’s untimely death, right before the opening of her business in 1963. She had taken a risk 
on her $5,000 life savings to start her own company, and despite her personal tragedy, she 
launched the business that is now a leading beauty company. 

Read through these two lists and determine which one describes your approach to failure: 

Failing Backward 

Blaming others, repeating the same mistakes, expecting never to fail again, expecting to 
continually fail, accepting tradition blindly, being limited by past mistakes, thinking I am a failure, 
quitting. 

Failing Forward 

Taking responsibility, learning from each mistake, knowing failure is a part of progress, 
maintaining a positive attitude, challenging outdated assumptions, taking new risks, believing 
something didn’t work, persevering. 


Redefining failure 

• Failure is unavoidable.  

You will learn lessons from each mistake. A lesson is repeated until it is learned, and if you don’t 
learn the easy lessons, they get harder. Pain is one way the universe gets your attention. You 
know you’ve learned your lesson when your actions change. 

• Failure is not an event. 
Success is not a destination. It is a journey. Failure and success work the same way. 

• You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Give yourself permission to 
fail as well as to succeed. 

• Failure is not irreversible. Spill the milk as much as you can, but don’t lose the cow. 
The average failure rate for entrepreneurs before they finally make it in business is 3.8 failures 

• Failure is not final. 
Think of mistakes in a whole new light. As you approach your next big project, give yourself a 
reasonable mistake quotient. Give yourself a quota and expect to hit it before the project reaches 
completion. Remember, mistakes don’t define failure. They are merely the price you pay for 
achievement on the success journey. 

The Seven Abilities Needed to Fail Forward: 
• Achievers reject rejection. People who don’t give up keep trying because they don’t base 
their self-esteem on their performance. Take responsibility for your actions, but don’t take 
failure personally. 
• Achievers see failure as temporary. 
• Achievers see failures as isolated incidents. 
• Achievers keep expectations realistic. 
• Achievers focus on strengths. 
• Achievers vary approaches to achievement. In other words, they keep trying different 
things until something works for them. 
• Achievers bounce back. They don’t take their mistakes personally. 

Remove the “you” from failure 

Break out of your negative pattern of thinking. Look at an area of your life where you have 
repeatedly failed, and do the following: 

• Examine your expectations for that area. Adjust your expectations to make them more 
realistic. Expect to make your quota of mistakes. 
• Find new ways to do your work. Brainstorm at least 20 new ways and try at least half. 
• Focus on your strengths. How can you use your best skills and personal strengths to 
maximize your effort? 
• Vow to bounce back.  

Fear of failure stops forward progress 

• A fear of failure can bring on Paralysis and nothing can be achieved if you let this 
paralysis take over. 

• Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin. The risk and cost of action is always 
less than the risk and cost of inaction. 

• Purposelessness. When you don’t take a risk and go for your dream, you go about life 
without any sense of direction or purpose. Self-pity, excuses, misused energy, and 
hopelessness are the symptoms of a purposeless life.  

• Motivation is a by-product of action. Just do it. 

“A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent 
doing nothing.” 

-Playwright George Bernard Shaw 


Take action and reduce your fear. 

George Frederick Handel faced success as a musical prodigy early in life. At age 56, he ended 
up in debt and thoroughly disappointed with the changing times, feeling his music was 
unappreciated by fickle audiences. A friend gave him a libretto based on the life of Jesus Christ, 
and the work so inspired Handel that he wrote almost non-stop for 21 days, creating “Messiah”, a 
musical masterpiece that is considered one of the greatest of all time. If Handel had wallowed in 
self-pity over previous failures, he would never have had the energy to write another composition 
and try again. 

So ask yourself, what objective essential to you success are you most afraid of tackling right 
now?  Face your fears and act. Examine your fears and determine what is the first step you can 
take to get started on your objective. Keep trying to achieve the first step. Then go on to the next 
step. You must act and from this action springs motivation and courage. 

Blow-ups, cover ups, speeding up, backing up, and giving up on the failure 
freeway 

Failure can cause unchecked anger in people. We often take out our frustrations on others when 
we have failed.  Learn to check and control your temper. 
If you think covering up your mistakes is a way out of failure, remember Nicholas Leeson, who 
single-handedly brought down Barings bank because of his unwillingness to stop covering up his 
losses. 

Speeding up is what happens on the failure freeway when people race in hard and fast, in the 
wrong direction. They don’t stop and think what they really should be doing with their lives. 

Backing up on the failure freeway means not looking at where you should go, making a mistake, 
and then backing up dangerously against traffic, to the exit you missed. You end up looking silly 
trying to justify your mistake. Own up to it and then change your ways. 

Giving up or quitting happens when you are already close to success. The achievers know they 
have to pass the breaking point, the point where others give up. 

Wake up! Get off the failure freeway.  

The piece that follows is one of the most-requested pieces from people attending John Maxwell’s 
speaking engagements. 

Autobiography in five short chapters by Portia Nelson: 

Chapter 1 
I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost. I am helpless. It 
isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. 

Chapter 2 
I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don’t see it. I fall in again. 
I can’t believe I am in the same place, but it isn’t my fault. It still takes a long time to get out. 

Chapter 3 
I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in. It’s 
a habit. My eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately. 

Chapter 4  
I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it. 

Chapter 5 
I walk down another street. 


Change your response to failure by accepting responsibility. Take a hard look at a recent failure 
you considered not to be your fault. Look for anything negative in the failure that you should claim 
responsibility for. Then own it.  

No matter what happens to you, what matters is what happens in you. 

First you need to take on a positive attitude. You can cultivate optimism by learning the secret of 
contentment.  

Contentment means not containing your emotions. Don’t be in denial and try to bury your 
emotions. Contentment means not maintaining your current situation, but maintaining a good 
attitude as you work your way out of the situation. Contentment means not looking to power, 
position or possessions for your satisfaction.  

Contentment means expecting the best and not the worst, remaining upbeat even when you’ve 
been beaten up. Contentment means you see solutions while others see only problems. 
Contentment means believing in yourself even when others believe you’ve failed. Contentment 
means holding on to hope even when others say it’s hopeless. 

Learn to accept things considered a fact of life. You cannot control the weather, or any natural 
disaster, a sudden tragedy, or mishap. You CAN take positive action and work to solve problems 
that occur because of these facts of life. It’s all a state of mind. Think of Helen Keller, born blind and deaf, she was able to overcome her disabilities and achieve more than people who are born 
with sight and hearing. 

List down all your sources of frustration and failure, heartaches, and pains. See which one was a 
fact of life, and what action you need to take. Then do it cheerfully. 

Successful people never dwell on past difficulties. Moving on and failing forward is the key. 

Getting over it 

The signs of breakdown are when a person thinks he has it harder than anyone else, 
(comparison) he rationalizes and makes excuses for himself (rationalization) withdraws from 
society (isolation), and at the end of his life, is filled with regret and bitterness. 

Every major difficulty in life is a fork in the road. You make a choice to either break through or 
break down. Learn to let go of your past. First, acknowledge the pain, let yourself grieve, forgive 
the other person, forgive yourself, and then finally - MOVE ON. 

You are your greatest enemy.  

John James Audubon, the man for whom the National Audubon Society was named, went 
through many years of failures at trading businesses before finally realizing his weekend hobby 
would be his ticket to financial security. His hobby was hunting and painting pictures of birds in 
their natural habitat. In 1820, he had a big idea. He would collect all his paintings of birds and go 
to England to find a publisher for a book. Today, the collector’s item Birds of America, a series of 
100 color plates on large 29 x 39 inch format in the original first edition of 200 copies costs $5 
million. If James Audubon kept trying to make it as a businessman, he would never have become 
such a huge success. 

So clearly, there is nothing wrong with changing your mind, or changing your course of action. 

To change your world, first change your self. 

The process of change and looking at your mistakes: 

• See yourself clearly. Look at both your good and bad aspects. 
• Admit your flaws honestly. 
• Discover your strengths joyfully. 
• Build on those strengths passionately. 

Ask people closest to you to make observations about your weaknesses and strengths. What are 
your gifts, opportunities, resources, and skills? 

Develop a plan that allows you to build on these strengths and maximize your potential. 



People who struggle with chronic failure often think of no one but 
themselves. 


Here’s a flash. The world does not need you to exist. The world does not revolve around you, and 
the world doesn’t owe you anything.  

Get over yourself –everyone else has. If you feel a nervous breakdown coming on, get out of your 
house and go do something for those who are less fortunate. 

It’s about what you give, and not what you get. This applies to relationships as well as business. 

So stop taking yourself so seriously and lighten up. Put the team goals ahead of your own ego. 
Go the extra mile for a friend. Be generous and put others first and you will soon forget how 
pathetically self-absorbed you’ve been. 

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream 
occurred because of dedication to a process. 

If you’re not failing, you probably aren’t moving forward. Prepare yourself to pay the price of the 
occasional setback in exchange for the progress you’re making. 

Remember that adversity creates resilience, develops maturity, builds character, pushes you to 
give your best performance, provides greater opportunities, prompts innovation, and reveals 
unexpected benefits. Sometimes a mistake can be the million-dollar idea or invention like Ivory 
soap or Kellogg’s Corn flakes, products which were both created by accident. 

Adversity motivates. Lose your job once and bounce back by finding a new and better one. Lose 
that new job and start your own business. The business fails and you move to another town and 
find a wonderful new job in a different field. It just takes a positive, optimistic attitude to get 
through the bad times, because these things too will pass. Work hard at your action plan and 
think ahead. 

Learn from all your experiences whether good or bad. Nothing can teach you better than a bad 
experience.  

Take a risk. There’s no other way to fail forward. 

Think of Amelia Earhart. She was a pioneer in aviation, breaking new ground for women and 
commercial flying. She has a list of ‘firsts’ that ended with her final big adventure, a trip around 
the equator, the longest by a pilot ever – at 29,000 miles. She took off from New Guinea with her 
navigator Frederick Noonan, to cover the last 7,000 miles of her journey on July 2, 1937. They 
were never seen again. US navy ships combed the seas in search of the missing plane but 
nothing was ever found. Amelia Earhart was a great risk-taker and adventurer, but even ordinary 
people like you can go about your work in a quiet way and achieve extraordinary things. 

Look for opportunities, finish your responsibilities, and challenge yourself to take on larger and 
larger tasks. Face your weaknesses, lose your fear of failure, and fulfill your commitments. It is so 
much better to try something great and fail than try nothing great and succeed. 

So what if you embarrass yourself whenever you fail? Get over it. Regret for the things you did 
not do at the end of your life will haunt you.  Life is not easy and not fair. It takes hard work. 

Also, the best time to start is Now. The difference between an amateur and a professional writer, 
as Oscar Wilde said, is that the amateur writes only when he feels like it, and the professional 
writes regardless of how he feels. 

Take a risk especially if it means what you come up with will benefit many people long after 
you’re gone. 

If Dr. Joseph Lister did not defy the medical conventions of his time, we would all still be dying of 
severe infections because doctors would perform their surgeries without cleaning their 
instruments, sanitizing surgical rooms, and other things which seem like common sense to us 
today. 

Do not wait until you suffer a heart attack or face a near-death experience to start changing your 
ways. Analyze a recent failure and see what caused it, what did you do to cause the failure and 
what have you learned?  

The top ten reasons people fail 

• Poor people skills 
• A negative attitude 
• A bad fit (Trying to put a square peg in a round hole, or staying in the wrong job/field) 
• Lack of focus  
• A weak commitment 
• An unwillingness to change 
• A shortcut mind-set (cutting corners instead of taking the time to achieve something of 
value) 
• Relying on talent alone (Sans the work ethic, people skills, etc) 
• Poor information-gathering 
• An absence of goals 

People should come before purpose. 
Never underestimate how much you will need people in your life. Your co-workers, friends, clients 
and family are all there to support you, but you need to make it easy for them to do so. It is up to 
you to work with colleagues as a team player. It is up to you to make your marriage work. Nobody 
can do these things for you, so you’ve got to value people before anything else. 

Work on your weaknesses! 
Start improving yourself by talking to a friend. Ask him to evaluate you in your area of weakness. 
Then put yourself on a plan to turn your weakness into strength. Stick to your action plan for 1 
year. 

Macy’s department stores: a story of failure 

R. H. Macy failed at retail six times before he got the formula right. After several attempts at retail 
in different states, and after trying five different professions, Macy opened a fancy dry goods store 
in New York City in 1858 - and the rest is history. Macy invented the concept of the modern 
department store, with fixed prices, and high volume at lower prices, and innovative retail 
advertising. 




The plan 

Find your purpose in life! 

• Surround yourself with people who make things happen.  
• Search for a goal that excites you and invest your time and money into making your goal 
a reality. 
• Visualize yourself enjoying the fruits of your labor.  
• Stop making excuses and procrastinating. 
• Give yourself little rewards and incentives for every achievement along the way. 
• Refuse to give up. 

Are you willing to pay the price? How much are you willing to go through to achieve your dream? 



It’s what you do after you get back up that counts. 

Finalize your goals 
Order your plans 
Risk failing by taking action 
Welcome mistakes 
Advance based on your character 
Reevaluate your strategies and progress continually 
Develop new strategies to succeed 

Now you are ready to face your new goals, knowing you will be making mistakes 
along the way, but getting closer to your dream. Life should not to be wasted 
doing things we are not passionate about. If you need more inspiration visit 
www.injoy.com  

Visit www.injoy.com for more information on John Maxwell’s books. 
Take the Free success assessment at www.failingforward.com and see if past failures are holding 
you back or moving you forward. 

You had thought this post emanated a pessimistic view about life. Well, on the contrary, it does not. I hope this enlightened you that we are not machines but human beings; that mistakes and failures are ingredients to success; and that by reading this it helped you in your wellness and search for inspiration.

'til next post.

Ciao,

Maddie <3

Quick stop.

On the way home from strolling in Bonifacio High Street, we found out we don't have any small bills for the cab. We decided to make a beeline towards the quaint shop of Sonja's Cupcakes. Upon entering, a quick scan of the available cupcakes was enough to help us pick two flavors. Then exit we go. Yes, it was literally a quick stop.

I took a shot of their bakery while waiting.

Out of the stores in Serendra that day, I decided to go with Sonja's Cupcakes because my guy is into their Valrhona Milk Choco-Hazelnut Tart  cupcake. It has the right sweetness for someone who is not into sweets. The other flavor we got was Chocolate Surprise (If I'm not mistaken). Sadly though, I do not like minty flavor mixed with chocolates.

Here are some blurry pics (Sorry for that!) for your visual digestion:

Is this really Chocolate Surprise?

Next time i wanted to stay a little longer while savoring the taste of cupcakes mixed with coffee. Feels like being in Paris :)

For the menu of Sonja's Cupcakes with their prices check out this site :)

'til next post!

Ciao,

Maddie <3