My Favorite Cupcake

Yesterday I made cupcakes and unbelievably enough, forgot to take pictures! Not that they came out super amazing, I mean I did try this new technique of filling the center with chocolate which I thought was awesome but I know it's probably so old hat for an expert.
So anyway, it was a lot of work, work whose proof should have been saved for posterity. I think. Because seriously, a pretty cupcake is an underappreciated art.

In light of that fact here are some of my favorites...

(That last one is a fakie my sis got me from here but I like it.)

I apolagize for not citing my sources; some are from Marthie's cutest cupcake contest, some are from Flickr accounts, others I just don't know.

P.S. When making cupcakes do you always run out of frosting too?

Work in progress

Finally! Well no not really, I actually made it a day or two after the last post. It is still technically unfinished (needs the bottom glued properly, trimming...)

But there it is, part of it anyway. And yes, it's pretty easy.

Mine looks different (fatter!) than the pictures in the book though, but that is always expected. When I finish I want to add it to the Flickr group; there is some pretty nice stuff there.

P.S. Hmm, I can't find a post, I think I may have deleted it!

The Sweater Project

The few sweaters I scrounged up are at last deconstructed and laundered. (And it only took 4 months.)

Not too bad, it looks like a fairly decorative stack.

I'm not sure if getting prints was a good idea but they are just so darn pretty! Especially that one with the roses.

Here is what I want to start with:

But since my sewing is a bit rusty I am most likely going to start with:

The easiest one in the book. Baby steps, baby steps...

Bummer

Bad news + being sick = lack of inspiration to do any good posts.

However, they made it, yay!

Blog neglect

Dear readers, I know I've neglected the blog. Things have been out of sorts for me, the most recent development being that I am considering a name change. (I am up to more things than just my cupcake heads!)
Meanwhile here is a cute lil something to cheer you up.

{Thanks to my Charlie for it :") }

That is the cutest baby and the cutest little accent!

(Oh, just that made me remember how in my high school french class we were watching a documentary about this pre-school for deaf children in France and this girl in my class was so amazed that children that small could speak French...)

Happy Thursdays!

I was contacted today, how about you?

Have you heard about this? Or maybe you heard it here.

I'm sure you have, as it has had the blogging world all aflutter since mid-August.

I was contacted today to be a part of this.

Vintage? Quilts? Donations?

And it's for the children!

Sounds like fun! Plus it's a really sweet thing to do.

I'm in. How about you?

Good day folksies

Nothing to report, just tweaked the FAQ format a bit.

Also found it necessary to tweak Cupcake Heads construction recently, and look forward to sharing the results. Happy weekends!

For Sweet Dreams

I was looking for something else today, but I saw this instead:

{pictures from Target}

Ahem, more specifically, this!

(Sidebar: why are cupcakes always illustrated with cherries or berries on top? I've never made a cupcake like that, but maybe I should start, I mean it seems to be the norm.)

I had this very idea of making myself a giant cupcake pillow to snuggle up with too, but I mean

G I A N T

(this one is 9x9x11 but it looks smallish).

Sweet dreams indeed.

Cupcake Head doggie

Seems to me this towel-headed doggie somewhat resembles something else...