Sorry if this offends you...

I apologize if you fall into any of these ahead of time.  I am sure there are plenty of things i say, do, wear or like that drive plenty of other people bonkers but a guy wearing white glasses today made me think of several trends i wish would just go away...

1) white or clear framed glasses.....  they just look silly and its always bald metro guys who wear them.  i do not understand...

2) the obsession with the royal wedding... ENOUGH  already!!! do you know how much of their tax payers money they are spending to pay for all that and how their economy is suffering ( like ours...) its just stupid!  It has taken over pressing news here recently.

3) Guys in girl jeans.... GROSS

4) hello kitty obsession.... i think hello kitty is cute and i do not think there is anything wrong with a grown woman having something hello kitty.  I do however think its retarded to cover your finger nails, wear all pink makeup and hello kitty jewelry all the time when you are over the age of 16.  If you have ever seen the show Married to Rock, one of the rock star's wives, was obsessed.  She wore hello kitty everything, her nails had hello kitty on it and she even decked out the bands bus in hello kitty everything.  I believe she dropped several thousand dollars on hello kitty crap... retarded...and obnoxious

5) grown women in daisy dukes.... i think no matter how nice your legs are, there comes a time when you just dont wear bootie shorts anymore.  You look like an 18 year old girl.  Plus lets face it, 9 times out of 10 the person wearing the short shorts, shouldnt be wearing shorts at all.  A 30 year old woman should not have her stuff hanging out while grocery shopping with her kids.... just sayin....

6) Ed Hardy and Affliction... when i was dating I had a requirement that any guy who wanted to go out with me could not wear any of this.  People of my generation probably understand.  There is a certain stereotype of men who wears these things and I did not want anything to do with that.  Now i joke that these are indicators of who the tool bags are.  So in away, its done us a favor, but its still tacky and just gross....

7) Reality TV stars being STARS.... i am guilty of helping this phenomena.... I hate shows like Jersey Shore and Teen Mom, but i watch them and anytime i see Teen Mom on a gossip magazine i read it right there or buy it.  Its pathetic i hate it, but why should a fat girl who teases her hair, speaks inproperly, wears revealing clothing, and drinks all night and just wants to hook up with guys make over 6 figures when i work my butt off everyday for the actual good of other people.  Its frustrating or maybe i am jealous that i cant get rich doing jack crap.

8) American Idol--- ENOUGH IS ENOUGH>>>>


Ok so since i just complained about a whole lot of things i wish would go away... some things I love and dont think i could ever get tired of.....


1) Vintage looking clothes and jewelry... lately i have really been into owl inspired things :

2) feathered headbands- i wear these ALL THE TIME.  SO PRETTY

3) ipads and apple products- cant wait to get my ipad in a few weeks



4) artist with talent and emotion behind their music... lately my favorite has been adele.  Arcade Fire is another band I have been enjoying lately.  If only all musicians wrote their own music that had some reason and emotion behind it...

5) Flats that dont hurt my feet- i love a good pair of heels, but by the time i get to my office my feet are covered in blisters and hurt so bad i want to cry.  those blisters take forever to heal and sometimes even scar my feet.  A cute pair of flats that can go dressy or casual is my favorite lifesaver.  Makes going on trips easy cus you can pack less shoes!!!!

Ok enough of my Rambles:  Have a good weekend!

Easter Cake balls headache

At Christmas a friend brought cake balls into my office....

I thought they were delicious....

During holidays I get a hankering to be Betty Crocker and I always get in over my head.  I decided to make cake balls.  Little did I know how time consuming and difficult they were to make!!!!
Wednesday night I made 2 cakes.  One was white with funfetti and the other was just a white cake.  If you have never had a cake ball or made them, once the cake is done, you have to break it into tiny crumbs and mix it with icing until its like playdough.  I used butter cream icing and pink vanilla icing.  I split my cakes in 2 so basically each cake had a batch with the two icings.  I let them sit over night in the fridge....
Thursday, I removed the playdough from the fridge and rolled them out and set them in the fridge.  I had gone to the store that day and bought all kinds of stuff to decorate and put them in.....
After an hour or so, I took a few out and put them into the first batch of vanilla coating.  The first 3 came out perfect!  i was so happy.  An online blog suggested keeping the coating in a bowl over a bowl of warm water on the stove so that the coating constantly stayed hot..... well after 3, my coating was scoreched and was basically like sand!

Fortunately, I had decided to buy a bag of pink coating at Michael's earlier that day.  it worked great, however, my cakeballs were not coming out pretty and smooth like the ones you buy.  Mine looked like little roses, they had texture and werent smooth whatso ever!

several hours later of dipping and freezing and being frustrated, i was out of coating and still had probably 100 cake balls that needed to be dipped!  *SIGH*

I spent an hour cleaning my kitchen and then passed out.

The next day i had to go back to the store and get more coating.  I opted for one chocolate and 2 vanilla in case it scorched again.

The chocolate was definitely smoother and my cake balls came out so much better, but after about half way, the chocolate got real hard.  i had it on low heat on the stove so it wouldnt over heat but too late.  it said not to thin it with anything but vegetable shortening.  well all i had was oil so i decided to try and it worked!  As long as my dipping stuff was warm it was thin and smooth.

When those were done i moved on to the vanilla and things were finally moving faster.  I saved a few extra cake balls for the end and threw in some yellow gel coloring and made a few yellow cake balls.

So i bought 6 small boxes to package them in and decided to make them all have the same components.  I decided to make white bunnies first.  This was the first bunny i made.  I had lots of sprinkles from a cookie kit i did as well, and was able to use them for the eyes and noses.  i used fondent to make bunny tails and ears...

  This little guy was too tall to fit in the box so i just made the balls a bunny.  I went and made white bunnies, brown and white bunnies, chicks, white flowers, yellow flowers and little pink and yellow easter baskets.  Then there were random additional cake balls. 

This was the final product

 All packaged up:

They were a big hit.  even though they werent perfectly round and smooth, everyone loved the decorations.  As frustrating as they were, decorating them was a ton of fun and everyone's reactions was well worth it.  I already started planning making more for next week for mother's day.  i'm thinking flowers out of a watering can....

oh and my easter baskets..... they loved them

Spring Time shenanigans

Well its almost Easter... my favorite holiday and i am super pumped!  In addition to it being Easter this weekend its also one of my best friend's weddings and I am maid of honor.  :) 
We've had a lot of fun with all the parties and planning since last year.  I meant to post pictures of all the party stuff we've done because i secertly wish i could be a party planner.  I love all the little details! Unfortunately i do not have very good photos of them.   For her shower we had a cute little candy bar with diamond rings on the tags (tiffany's rings of course). Her lingerie shower we had a cute clothes line with some paper bras and panties and some cute favors with tags that have lingerie on it.  Thanks to Ana (another bridesmaid) we had the cutest most delicious cupcakes at both parties....

With Easter coming up I cant help but want to cook and make cutsie little things.  I made huge easter baskets for my boyfriends niece and nephew last night.  I only put a few eggs with candy but they got a ton of toys.  For his nephew the basket is green with his name in green and cute little image.  Inside the basket he has a cute brown stuffed lamb, easter coloring book, water guns, a cool bouncy light up caterpillar in yellow, a lego set, dinosaur stickers , a cute brown journal with a giraffe on it.  For his niece its a big purple and pink basket with a white lamb, coloring book, a little girl barbie (barbie's baby sister) with bunny ears on ( it looks like his niece), nail polish and pedicure set, a pink journal with a monkey on it, dora the explorer stickers, and a pink version of the caterpillar in the other one.  I'll have to post pictures later.....

So the rest of the week i am planning on cooking some goodies for our families.  If you havent had a cake ball.  GO GET ONE NOW!  i am making different kind of cake balls.  I am a little nervous because I have never made them before so hopefully they come out well.  In addition I am decorating some easter cookies for everyone.  I'm gonna be busy but its going to be worth it.

I'll post about my cake ball experience later. 

For now.  Happy Easter