made my thanksgiving cupcakes!

yes, i did make my cute thanksgiving cupcakes in time for this past thursday :)

unfortunately, they didn't turn out quite as cute as i wanted :(

mashed potatoes with gravy (just extra frosting and melted caramels):

corn on the cob made from jelly beans:
pies-- pecan with actual pecans, cherry/apple made with red hots, and two pumpkins made from orange colored frosting:
cranberry sauce, made from black cherry preserves:
turkey. this one i'm mad about, because when i made it on wednesday, it was ADORABLE. looked like the pictures i found. made from melted caramel, Pringles wheat sticks, pieces of pecan for stuffing, and green Fruity Pebbles as lettuce. but then when i got them to put out on thursday, the caramel had melted a bunch, the legs sliding off :( i put it back together the best i could:

cupcakes are pumpkin flavored, with maple cream cheese frosting. it's a good combination, very fall-like.

LESSON: when making intricate cupcakes, store in refrigerator at all times.

new fav video!

pumpkin pie cupcakes!

still inspired by the thanksgiving cupcakes i put up a few posts ago. i'm gonna try to make some too. i lilke this idea for pumpkin pie ones:

this is also adorable, but the topper is fondant/marzipan etc., and i don't really like using those.

this is also amazing-- a baby pumpkin pie inside a cupcakes!

cool games

found a cool game site:

http://www.flash-game.com/

only tried the candy cane game so far (yes, i love christmas) which was fun, but others look cool too.

rabbit series, updike

the past few months i have had to be in the car a lot, driving to various appointments and what-not. so i have started listening to books on tape to pass the time. i always wanted to read john updike's rabbit series, so i have been listening to those. in some ways, i feel like i'm not actually reading the books... i almost feel like it's cheating to listen to them rather than read. but it also makes me appreciate each word more, like when the person reads them out loud pronoucing each syllable and phrase. and each sentence of updike's is really beautiful-- it's definitely a good author to listen to on tape.

anyways, the reason i'm writing this post is today i finished the third book, rabbit is rich, and started the fourth and final one (although there is rabbit remembered, not sure if that's actually part of the series...), rabbit at rest. and it was really interesting to find out that rabbit at rest was published in 1990, the same year i was born. i thought that was kind of ironic/an odd coincidence/kind of cool .....

O.M.G. SO CUTE.

ahhh!!!! love these miniature thanksgiving food cupcakes!!!!!!!!!!

after i saw that turkey one i posted a few blogs back i was thinking of doing something like this. love it!!

"distinct basketball points system"

so i've been looking around online trying to find somewhere to play pick-up soccer or basketball, and a lot of gym/sports clubs have leagues you can join. i was just reading about one that's co-ed, and it was saying that it has "distinct points system" so men's baskets are 1-2 points and women's are 2-3..... i dunno i found this a little insulting and wierd.... maybe i'm just being naive, i mean i know that men are naturally stronger etc. etc. but i still feel this is a sexist policy

fun babysitting

been babysitting for this girl for a couple weeks now, here and there, and she is adorable. but yesterday, we did the funnest thing: she got out a bunch of play-dough and was like, "let's make little things and let them harden." so of course knowing me i made a mini cupcake and she loved it! then we started doing tons of little foods (pizza, hamburger, watermelon, spaghetti...) and she even did sushi! it was adorable. i wanted to take pics but she probably would have thought i was weird..... anyways, it reminded me of when i was little and we used to make miniature food out of sculpey clay and then cook it to harden, and used the food for our Playmobiles. some of the food turned out really good! we were legit, like used a garlic press to make spaghetti lol.

woo!!!

yay contest winning!!!!

see the announcement on lunchtaker's twitter here

I WON THE LUNCH CONTEST!

a few posts back i wrote about this back to school lunch costume at lunchtaker.com, and i ended up submitting this cauliflower Indian-curry inspired recipe my aunt gave me. just got an email today that i was won of two winners! i get a lunchbox and cute little bento box things :) yay!!!!! they didn't announce the winners on the site yet, i'm hoping they will and if so i'll put a link here. but in the meantime, here's the link to my recipe . be warned, it doesn't necessarily look that good but it is delicious.

halloween gingerbread house

so here it is, my halloween gingerbread house :)

front (notice the graveyard on the left, pumpkin patch on right, gingerbread kids wearing what i tried to make look like costumes):

back:

side(nice view of the pumpkin patch and the chimney):

fav new site

omg new addiction! http://play.typeracer.com/

a type racing site where you can practice, try to beat your own time, and race other people. SO FUN lol

ahhhh!!!!! :D

my future babies' halloween costume. enough said.

baking contests

ok, so i've come across a bunch of different baking/cooking contests recently, and i want to post all the links here to remind myself of them/make me get started!!

the contests:

chocolate adventure contest

back to school lunch contest

...... i thought there were more but those are the only two i can remember right now... lolz

I WANT TO MAKE THESE

yes i love mini things, yes i love holidays, yes i love cupcakes, yes i love baking..... ahhhh i really want to make something like these little turkey cupcakes!!

chilean miners to play soccer game against their rescuers??

i love soccer, and i love that all the miners have been safely rescued. i think it's cool they're doing this :) ...but i also thought the presidents joke ("The winners will get La Moneda [the presidential palace], and the losers will have to go back into the mine") was a little too soon.....

read the article here

baby fig newtons!!!

lately have started to really like the whole grain fig newtons. i asked my mom to pick some up, and she brought home these adorable little baby fig newtons!!!! :)

just some stuff i have been doing while trapped in boston.

went to an ok go concert at brandeis. i love ok go, and they were awesome live. it just was kinda wierd cuz the crowd was not that fun.... like the whole place wasn't filled up and not that many people were dancing. i felt bad cuz i had dragged my sis along with me, but oh well.

cool guitars!
they had these light up letters on their backs
confetti
main singer went out in the crowd
random cow bell/i dunno what instruments they were

cool background images
i think this was the opening band.... forget who it was

plants

ok finally! long awaited update of my plants.

to recap, planted adorable mini flower pots with some seeds, they grew a ton, fast, had to be moved outside, i was worried about cold weather setting in, but they're doing ok. no flowers or buds or anything, but still growing.

i think these are the basil i planted last minute... got the seeds from pierce last year lol.

these are strawberries i think:
the sunflowers! so tall:
and these are (can't remember what order....whoops) lemon basil, daisies, and forget-me-nots:
tomatoes:

internship

thankfully, though i have to take the semester off, i was able to find a really great internship. it's at an internet domain company, and i do computery/internety stuff all day long which is quite easy and sometimes fun. and it's a paid internship!!! wooooo (plus it's kinda cool working in the office-- the place is really nice and everyone is so friendly)

it's really funny, too, some of the stuff i overhear in the office. first of all, my cubicle is kind of near the guys who answer the phones for people trying to buy internet domains, and so many of them are from other countries. so the guys practically always having to ask, "do you speak english?" and repeating everything. i also hear a lot of, "you've got the wrong number" or "um....this is buydomains.com....".

then in the cubicle right next to me, this guy often talks to someone on the phone (i presume his wife), and one time he went on and on about his kids teeth. he was talking about dentist appointments and saying how "he drinks a lot of juice, it's bad for his teeth." in the same vein, this other women near also every day, without fail, talks to someone on the phone in the afternoon about what her son ate that day. "he ate all the pancakes?! that's great!" or "make sure he eats all his lunch." or "if he doesn't eat the lunch i packed a can of babyfood in the front pocket." lol

and then of course, it's pretty amusing some of the domains i have to edit. "foxygrandpa" was one i got today, "electroniccatdoor" was a classic... the list goes on. i'll keep updating when i find more funny ones

my plants

at the beginning of this summer, i bought these adorable miniature flower pot/kits from target only a dollar each... so of course i had to buy one of each kind lol. but i finally got around to planting them about two weeks ago i think, and i have been amazed how much they've grown! it's actually been really fun to watch. but now, they're getting too big for their adorable pots, so i transplanted them to bigger pots outside. i know it's getting cold already, and they may not last, but it was worth a shot.

here's the plants in their adorable pots (top picture is from left to right lemon-basil, daisies, strawberries, forget-me-nots, bottom picture is sunflowers and tomatoes)

and their new homes!

they didn't really do so well in the move..... lol but hopefully they'll perk up with the sun tomorrow.

ah they're so small you can hardly see them in these giant pots!

more updates to come :)

MOST AMAZING THING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN

omg this is officially the funniest thing i have ever seen. i don't think i have laughed out loud at something, by myself, in soooo long. too many fav quotes i can't even start......

alright top fav quotes:

1. "guess what i use for a hat?" "what?" "a lentil"

2. "guess what i use for a beanbag?" "what?" "a raisin"

3. "guess what i use to tie my skiis to my car?" "what?" "a hair..... guess what i use as skis?" "what?" "a man's toe-nail clippings"

4. "my biggest regret in life is not having a dog...... sometimes, i tie a piece of lint to a hair and drag it around."

lol and the guys "whats" in the background are wicked funny too.

this is genius.

now a slightly happier post

this past summer, i had an internship at the phoenix, a media communications company in boston that owns the radio station fnx, the newspaper the phoenix, and the magazine stuff. it's a pretty cool company, focusing on night life and entertainment and music and boston which is prety cool. for my internship, at one point i got to work at the door letting people in to one of these parties that they hold sometime (at trendy hotels, with famous dj's, and free food and drinks). normally they have people called "street team" members do it. so, now that i'm home this fall, in addition to my new internship that i've gotten, i decided to also be an actual street team member.

anyways, worked my first "event" this past thursday. i basically had to wear a tee-shirt and a hat with the client's name (metro pcs) and hand out the phoenix newspaper to people getting off the train at south station, along with another street team member. it actually turned out to be quite fun! it was so crazy because obviously all these people are in bad moods, on their way to work and stressed out, and i was just like prancing around with a smile saying "good morning, would you like a phoenix?!" and when people didn't take one i just said, "have a nice day!" i don't know why, there was just something fun about being so cheerful when everyone else was so not cheerful. one lady also said, "i'll take a paper from the beautiful phoenix lady" haha.

we had to take pics of ourselves to prove to the client we actually did it, so thought i'd post them for kicks:

slightly sad post

haven't posted in while, and quite frankly, now that i'm stuck at home for a semester, i have no excuse. so i will try to update more often, with random things i find that are cool, etc. and i have been told by one friend that they enjoy reading my blog, so that also gives me motivation :) i really didn't think anyone read this... i have one person, so there!

and it september now. so weird. i still can't really believe i'm at home right now. UGH.

wierd!!! robot warfare

This kinda scares me, not gonna lie.




read the article about the robot soldiers:
http://www.metro.us/us/article/2010/07/14/05/5920-82/index.xml

found on a cute baking blog. adorable!

no. way.

omg omg omg archie comics is doing a twilight parody-- hilarious.

picture of the cover:

amazing pancake art!

check out this cheeseburger and fries made out of pancakes!

see more of pancake art here. def best part of this guy's blog is the tagline: "just trying to make some cool pancakes for my daughter." lol

ah love it!

chocolate mustaches on a stick!!! hahahah gotta love it.

check out the site here. also, look at the companies other chocolate stuff... wicked cool.

adorable website

just found this adorable website with eco-friendly and pretty cheap clothes, accessories, etc. here's one of my favorites:

check out the site here: shopruche

ahh amazing miniature artist!

omg adorable. this artist makes these miniature, incredibly realistic dollhouse stuff.

see more here.

other people make easter gingerbread houses too, okay?!

so some people made fun of me for making an easter-themed gingerbread house... but other people make them too! evidence=kits i saw in various stores for spring/easter houses:

from walmart i believe:

wal-mart example:

another walmart kit:

from world market, this one's adorable: