Crawfish Cake and other baking adventures

The cake is a red velvet with a almond buttercream icing. I think everyone loved it.

Also, my sister and I made some Easter cookies

... a lot of Easter cookies...

This weekend we also tried a few new recipes.

First we tried the Devil's Food Cupcakes from Magnolia's Bakery book

Here is ours:

And finally... S and I finally tried to make macarons. I was a little skeptical from all of the things I have read but I think we had beginners luck. I used this recipe. I thought they tasted great. I can't wait to try some different flavors.

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its crawfish time

Crawfish are now in season(ish).

My lovely friend, K, is turning 21 on Tuesday. So naturally we are going to eat crawfish. I made her a crawfish cake for the celebration. I'll post pictures once she has seen the cake. I want it to be a surprise. This may be my favorite cake yet.

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A quarter saved is a quarter earned.

I have finished another quarter of college. Winter quarter is the hardest. While spring and fall quarters each last 3 months, winter quarter drags on through 4 months. Four endless months. Well now they are over, and I can look forward to spring.

Last weekend, I took a trip to Canton. This was the most lovely day. The weather was perfect (sunny and 60). I found everything I was looking for. I wanted to find a few globes to place on top of my bookshelf. My (very) small collection started with two globe bookends that my grandmother gave me. Here is a picture of my bookshelves with the new globes.

When I go to Canton Trade Days, I always have a list of hopeful finds. I love how there are items that cannot be found anywhere but Canton it seems. For instance, crocheted doilies. I have been wanting to complete this project but could not find vintage lace doilies anywhere. I went to Canton and found HUNDREDS. I purchased 4 or 5 for 50 cents each. Now that spring break is here, I can finally work on my to-do list of projects.

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Mitten Giveaway

Enter here to win the coveted olympic mittens

Giveaway!

A nan lawson giveaway at oh hello friend!

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Real snowflakes

real snowflake images. magical.

I love Christmastime

Birthdays and breaks

Fall break went by so quickly; however, it was wonderful. Two birthdays in two weeks. I'm glad I had the time off from school to prepare.

First came Stacey's on the 18th.

Here is the cake I made and the decorations.

And then Thanksgiving came and went along with black friday

The Dad's birthday was the 30th of November. I asked him what he would like his cake to be (and I told him to make it challenging), and he asked for his guitar.

Here is the guitar....

and the cake... Good thing Stacey and I teamed up for this one.

oh. and I made another owl quilt