All things Pretty! ♥

OK real quick wanted to throw this out to anyone who may read this, But I do love anything that teaches you how to apply make-up or wear something fashionable, I never had an older sister to teach me these things, and though I'm 26 yrs old there's is so much I don't know about fashion make up and hair, but I'm so open to learning. Anyways, I came crossed this website www.livedress.com and this correspondent
Teresa Ulrich has her own YouTube channel, she's super fun to watch and gives great tips for everything you can think of! Here's her channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/juicytuesday?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/19/-Xvqk3WPFRw  Check it out, get inspired and feel beautiful!

          Also Clip-in extensions! I don't know how may girls, around here anyways, actually use them. But I love them! If I had the money I would have all kinds to play with, If you've ever thought about it but not really sure I know alot of videos you can find on the web that fill you in on how to's and stuff!

this is just from a video clip I found at http://sport-with-you.ru/index.php?key=clip. its just crazy the possibilities of adding lenght and volume to your own natural hair! lol

Makin Doughnuts @ Home!

Its actually way easier than you'd think. I remember doing this with my mom when I was little. We lived on a farm in Iowa away from town and really didn't have the money to go out and splurge on such treats. So my mom would buy a can of Pillsbury Grands and cut out the centers and fry em' up! For kicks I thought my kids and I would do it. So I put my helpers to work! Here's the easy steps how to do it yourself!

1. If its your first time I recommend buying 2 cans of Pillsbury Grands! rolls Flaky layers. pop the can. Just cause you might end up burning the first few! lol  As I did.
2. I have actual center cutters but use a medicine measuring cup or something along that size to cut out the centers, Don't throw them away! They'll become doughnut holes!
3. In a med. sauce pan heat up about 3 cups of oil. This is the tricky part the first few I usually burn till i get the heat just right that it cooks evenly.
Drop a few holes in to test. it should bubble and turn golden turn in over with a fork or skewer.

4. One by one drop the formed dough in and watch for it to get golden turn it to the other side, wait. And then room and toss in a bowl of sugar, or a bowl of cinnamon sugar like we do. let it cool a few mins and enjoy!

I had my 5 yr old cutting out the middles, and my 3 yr old covering them in cinnamon sugar! And I (the Adult ;-) Fried the dough. Its a great way to include them in the kitchen and the get a huge sense of achievement for making breakfast!

A new Playdough? Oh yes!!

As a cake decorator rice crispy treats are offtend used on cakes, ice and covered in fondant, molding them is fun because they stay in the shape you mold them. My kids are always begging me to get their playdough down so they can make a crumbly messy mess! I decided to give this a try. and they had a blast! Afterwards, they gobbled up their creations and threw the wax paper away! Gotta admit I had a good time too!

Here's a great recipe

Ingredients:
6 cups Rice Krispies

3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons margarine

1 (10 ounce) packageregular marshmallows or 4 cups miniature marshmallows


1 Melt butter in a large saucepan over low heat.
2 Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted.

3 Remove from heat.

4 (It would be perfect to be measuring out all of the cereal at this time, having it ready in a large bowl.).

5 Working quickly, add rice krispies cereal, and stir until the cereal is well coated.

6 Using a buttered spatula or waxed paper, press the mixture evenly into a greased 13 by 9 by 2 inch pan (or whatever pan you have on hand).

French Toast Cupcake A'La Am!♥

The best cupcakes Ive ever had? Easy, french toast cuppies! Heres a great link to life with cake, it works great but I know a short cut!
  http://lifewithcake.com/2009/05/french-toast-and-bacon-cupcakes/

 Start with a box mix of french vanilla cake. make it as it says on the box. Only add cinnamon as you would to french toast, enough that you smell it and see it well in the mix. pour into liners, Now for the frosting, follow my instructions on my last post. add real syrup or immitation maple extract to the frosting, you may need to add more powder sugar after that to thicken it up a bit. Now the crown jewel! Candied bacon! Fry up some maple bacon, pat the extra grease off and drain the pan. Dont wipe it down, its good to keep some grease for flavor. Now return the bacon to the pan. Cover it in sugar cook on low heat until sugar has melted to a carmel. once completely cover in carmel remove and place on a plastic plate. Carmel will harden thus creating the candy bacon. Once harden you can leave in large chunks or cut it in bits as a sprinkle, either way this treat is amazing anytime of day! Especially breakfast!! Mmmm Enjoy!

Divine Cupcakes

Sarah and I went on this Girls day, We stopped at Papa's Pizza in Eugene, It was so dead in there I joked we must have walked into the wrong building, there were," Do not Touch!" signs on all the railings because they had just been painted. We'll anyone who knows me knows I dont listen. Unless its going to hurt me, lol. Anywho's, the rails didnt look wet so while waiting for our pizza we played a game of "Who can touch the rail longest before getting spotted!" Ya pretty intense! But the pizza came, we stuffed ourselves and wow! Anyone who has never had their BBQ Chicken pizza, You gotta try it! Nice thin crispy crust, sweet bbq sauce with the sharp chesse. Mmmm. My stomach just rumbled.
                          Our next stop was Divine Cupcakes. Its a Vegan Cupcakery in Eugene on 11th St. When you walk in, it does have that small hole in the wall place feeling. But when you start looking around and taking things in, it was really fun. They had lots of small trinkets and shirts you can buy, at fair prices too! then in front of you is this display case packed of all sorts of CUPCAKES! I choose the Chocolate Coma one, while Sarah got a Chai cupcake. I also picked one up to take home to my Husband Bobby, It was chocolate peanutbutter, We were served them on lil white saucers and sat at a bar they had and indulged in our super moist chocolately cupcake! Hands down it was the best cupcake I've had around! and it was Vegan. I learned you dont have to be vegan to eat vegan but it was an extra bonus to know everything I was eating was healthy and humane. Lol The chocolate peanut butter one tasted just like a reeses peanut butter cup! So if you ever find yourself heading down to Valley River or that area, take the extra mins to go out of your way and induldge in a little diviness!

http://divinecupcake.com/

Booth Time!

Its that time again that we get excited about! Setting up booths and selling our creations! this is our latest vareity pack, Starting top left we have strawberry lemonade, red velvet, our newest Blackout, M'n'M, Gingerbread cake with eggnog buttercream frosting and a hand made chocolate gingerbread man, and a vanilla cake Blue buttervream and hot pink sprinkles. Looks like Bubblegum huh?

Mini personal Cakes♥

                                                        This one has about 7 layers of cake
                                            Alternating between vanilla and chocolate with
                                                    vanilla bean buttercream frosting,
                                               And a hand made ediable gerbra Daisy

                                   Say hi to Natalie, She's Co-Owner Sarah's youngest daughter.

                                                                 Matching Cupcakes

                                                                Custom Hello Kitty Cake

Stayin Busy, Gettin Creative!♥

Who knew the weather would turn on us so fast? Rain even snow today? The good news is when its so cold and yucky outside, it makes it a blessing to be inside! I enjoy opening the oven and having it help warm the house! We dreaded it in the summer cause it made being indoors miserable until we got A/C. Lately we've been baking outside the box. Instead of our normal Confetti or smores cupcakes, we've been making Black Bottom cheese cake cupcakes and Chocolate strawberry cupcakes. Its always fun to make these new flavors that make your mouth water! heres a few pics of our latest creations!

Happy Halloween

Halloween cupcakes!

Our newest flavor!

Moist Chocolate cake with bits of Stawberries through-out. and a chocolate cream cheese frosting!

Happy Teeth!

We made these for a localk dentist office a few weeks back!

Healthy teeth are Happy teeth!

Caramel Apple Cider Cuppies

With Fall here it only feels right to expand our menu to acommidate more appropreiate tasting cupcakes. So tonight  Sarah and I played around with a few everyday recipes that we use. And When we finished we found ourselves eye to ehhh cupcake top with the freshest apple cinnamon cupcakes around! we paired it  with a sweet smooth apple buttercream and drizzeled warm caramel all over the top, after we frosted the first one I couldnt help but stop what I was doing and eat it right then and there. So so so GOOD!

Ocean themed Cuppies!

Check out the Ocean themed cupcakes we're working on today! super Adorable! We Also made some For Pure Romance.... We wont post those pictures!!!!

What a great day!

What a great day!

Tiki Island!

Wow, Today was fun, We had a last minute order come in for a lil girls 10th Bday, So we Busted our Bums, Pulled an all nighter and Created this master piece!

Sesame Street Cake!

                                 I think Im not scared of covering cakes with fondant anymore! I actually like making small cakes now! We made this late last night for a lil boys 1st birthday, and what beautiul weather for a party!

The Girls Are going to Camp!

We're so excited! we're going to be spending the weekend in Newport, surrounded by famous pastry chefs. Learning and picking up tips! We can't wait!♥

Art And Air Festival

  Our prized deli case! We made over 600 cupcakes for this Festival, Some of our highlights were Sellin Cupcakes to the Band America! You know the song "Horse with no name"!?! Crazy exciting! It was a good learning curve! We figured out what we needed what we didnt, I was excited to see what would be popular as far as the cupcakes, but they all sold really well, Cotton Candy ones were flying off the shelves and so were our A.Ms. All in all it was a fun time watching hot air ballons and looking at all the booths! Excited for next year!

Gone Fishin!

                                         For those that enjoy a good giggle! These fishing cupcakes bring a smile to anyones face, Hmmmm wonder why the yellow one looks so paranoid?!!! lol

Carnival Cupcakes

             After a full week of prepping we created 2 dozen carnival inspried Cupcakes for a birthday paty last week, Its so much fun when you get to use your imagination to think outside the box! Everyday its something new! I love my job!♥

Faith's Bday Cuppies!

Had so much fun hand painting these cupcakes for our good friend Faiths Bday! Most of the cupcakes represent the tattoos that she herself has!♥

more of the jungle cuppies!♥

Cohan's 1st Bday

Saturday We made Jungle Cupcakes to match the party decorations. Its always easier when i get an invitation or something that has the colrs and themes on it! I can pull ideas off of them easily! I had fun making these, especially the zebra print, I hand painted them with ediable black paint. Hope you like!♥

Tinkerbell Cake and ToyStory Cake

So with doing cupcakes sometimes I was coming across the random people asking if I did cakes, Ummm... Have I ever? Sure. But they were always the single layered and frosted lol. So For my sons 3rd Birthday I thought Id take a shot in the dark and see how well i did, It takes mistakes to learn and Id rather make all mistakes on my own cake, then a customers! My first cake turned out really well! So I moved on to doing Ava's 1st Birthday cake, I swear I was sweating bullets the whole time! But it turn out reall well to! Heres pics of them! I just had to think of them as really big cupcakes, lol minus the liners!♥

Pond Cupcakes

I made these today, the weather was awsome, wish I had a pond like these to sit by, Lol

Com'mon Summer time!

I love when the warm weather starts to come back, it always brings out the fun cupcake orders! Today Im doing Ladybugs and Soccer Balls, I think after the 50th Ladybug Im starting to get in the Groove!