Sprinkles!!

My Party People!! I made Sprinkles cupcakes today with a mix that Mr. Paul got me from the Beverly hills store on our recent venture to CA. They are awesome. I am including some shots of the actual store and cupcakes from LA so you can see the sweet, modern coolness. And for those who don't know, Sprinkles is a famous cupcakery with awesome design- and cupcakes too!!

Store front

Dark Chocolate, Coconut lemon, Red velvet (like the ones I made today!!), and Strawberry. Mmmm.

Here is my batter. When you cream butter, crumblize the mix, add eggies, and add a milk/ vinegar combo...this is what you get.

Then, I smile.

Scoops.

Puffs.

Mmmm. Nothing like cream cheese, butter and sugar BABY! oh, and a pinch of salt and splash of vanilla.

I was practicing my 'Sprinkles swirl' in the bowl.

Red velvet color coded toppings.

I only had 12 tops, but I had 15 cakes, so I dipped the others in fine chocolate sprinkles.

I DID IT!!!!!!!!!

And just for fun- a picture of a cute thing we have in the backyard.

And the most horrific, baby-carrying, furry, beast-like, tragic, disgusting, terrible, life-threatening, worst ever, thing we have in our backyard.

Yo Yo Yo!!!

I just finished embellishing a dress I bought yesterday :D

Yesterday, after work, I went to target looking for a sweater or nice cardigan to add fabric flowers (aka yo- yo's) too. I could not find anything I liked to save my life..except for this navy blue, simple tee- dress. I decided it would work.

After leaving target, I headed over to Joann fabrics to pick up some fat quarters to use as the flower fabric. I found so many combinations that I LOVED but I had to pick just one :( (While i was there there was this scary man with tattoos everywhere and he turned and i saw a big Nazi flag tattooed on his arm...like 6" x 8" and i his shirt said 'SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SKINHEAD" AHH!) anyways. back to the pretty things. So i picked up this fabulous set that had a gradation from dark blue-purple to light pink.

I also picked up some sweet buttons for the centers of the flowers...

Then I got home and sewed until but butt was numb, my back spasmed and my fingers bled. (choose only one of those descriptions...)

I called it quits around midnight so I could get ready for work in the morning...I was in love.

Now the next day (after work) I sewed my sweet littles onto the dress. This was somewhat complex. I sewed things through every wrong layer you could imagine. I had flowers sewed through 6 layers. How, you may ask. I don't know, i just did.

Well here are some final shots. This took me approx. 6 hours to create. That might seem a bit lengthy- deal with it, I'm slow.

Oh! I forgot to mention- Paul brought me a cupcake from Dozens to keep me goin'

Idn't he sweet?

Cali Pics 1

In- N- Out!!

Mmmm, fresh fast food. wow.

Double- double, Animal style. Paul enjoys.

Venice Beach!

THE CUTEST animal in the world.

A chinese chihuahua.
and he wanted to sell it to us for whatever we had in our wallets.

20 bucks??? Ill take it!

Cool signage at an organic grocer

Big houses in Malibu

Mandies neighborhood

the pool at her place

Paul made carmel chocolate lattes for me and the sis

I made funfetti cuppy truffles

We went for a hike. and it was hard.

But we made it to the TOP!

Check the view! pretty...

Californiaaaa

Paul and I took a trip out to Cali to visit my sister. We left early Friday morning and I had intentions to post everyday- however that was hindered by the fact that my sister didn't have her password for her wireless...Well we finally found it out today, Tuesday morning. So now I will post some pics we have taken. Real quickly here is a recap of what we have done.

Friday- went to PIT airport at 6am, got to LAX 2pm LA time. We then went to Venice beach and witnessed weirdos- AND THE CUTEST DOG! Then we went grocery shopping, made a cake for cupcake truffles!! After that we watched some TV and went to bed- like midnight here (3am in pit)

Saturday- Got up reasonably early, went to the outlet mall, got some sweet stuff from American apparel, then went for a *difficult* hike. After that we came home, had the BEST pizza ever (Gruyere, prosciutto and caramelized onion). We went to bed semi early.

Sunday- Woke up early, went to cardio barre class. almost died.

Monday- Woke up bright and early, went to the dock a half hour drive away. Got on the boat and then began the worst trip of my life. The boat ride itself was AWESOME. It was really rough waters so the boat ride was insane and so much fun. I spent the first half hour of the ride on the very front of the boat, getting soaked by the huge waves. Then I came into the cabin area and witnessed the horrors. It was filled with old people that were going whale watching...and the ride was way to rough, so they started dropping like flies. Puke was flyin' left and right. I cornered myself while my sister and Paul were on pule watch. My ears were SORE from plugging them for so long...

Anyways I will post pictures later...we are leaving for the price is right...so I gotta go!!!!

Bunny.

Well. I couldn't quite wait. I had to tell this story...

My mom, Paul and I were eating some yummy coconut curry chicken, organic veggies and rice I had made when everyone had split up and gone their separate directions. I was still sitting in the den (which is now the only room with furniture to eat in...) and was looking out of the window, when I spotted a tiiiiny baby bunny. I called my mom over and we were watching it eat and hop around. All the while I was calling paul over to see this littlest creature. Just when paul reached the window to look out at its littleness, it hopped right behind a big bush in the front yard. Well, needless to say, we had to go out to see it. When we got close to it, I prepared myself for its cute glossy eyes, when my eyes met a void on its head...Nothing, no eye. So then I immediately panicked, "This baby is missing its eye!!!" just as i spoke those very words, Paul (on the other side of the bunny) yells, "the Bunny's EYE!!!" when I went over to see its other eye, (still hoping it would be a beady black cute) it was a red crusty mess........THE POOR BABY WAS BLIND! So then I could not just walk away, I called my mom out to help us and after about 20 minutes, some poop and pee (on the Bunny's part, you weirdo), and running around in the neighbors garage...haha, we captured it. I placed it in our cat carrier with a soft towel, a shallow dish of water and some organic veggies (pretty awesome timing that i made those veggies with dinner, eh!). I placed it in my closet in my room overnight, then the next day- after some research- took it to a wildlife rehabilitation center. YAY

WE SAVED ITS BLIND LIFE!!!

It wouldnt turn to the camera- this is probably for the best, it wasnt a pretty sight...
Veggies!

Oh, yes, and it really snacked on those by the way!

Go ahead, Ill allow it, you can look at how small...

...you can...

time to post

Well so many things have happened since the last post...but I shall just give you an update of today, the others will come shortly.

Today Paul and I went downtown to the arts festival and met up with Lauren H. and her bf Toby (he has an art stand down there). It was a good time catching up with an ol' friend and hanging out in the beautiful weather. After we got done with the arts festivities, we went back and got the car (free parking!!!) and got the GPS ready to take us to our next endeavor, Dozens Cupcakes in squirrel hill. We made it to the street it was on pretty easy and I spotted a parking spot, so I snatched it up...well stupid me, Dozens was a good mile away, extremely UP HILL (with tons of parking spots in between...)- so, eh, we got a lil workout on our way to engorge ourselves with sweet delights. Once we got to Dozens, we were quite sweaty and we decided to get 4 cupcakes, the como, mostess (vegan), east end chocolate stout, and diva delicious red velvet ($10 for 4). Upon entering the store I realized...we had not put money in the parking meter- CRAAAP! so then we booked it back to the car, doubletime, and panicked the whole way- but no worries, there was no ticket :D We decided to eat them once we got home so we could really dedicate time to enjoying the cuppys. And baby- WE DID!!!

the box

OoOoOo, so sweet!

The lineup: east end chocolate stout, mostess, red velevet, cosmo

The lineup: nothin babe.

I was thouroghly enjoying the experience

:)

Can I do this everyday please?

Oooo. Funfetti :D

Here is the funfetti version. my love...

dry

wet

baked

crumbled

mixed

sprinkled

shaped

dressed