Cupcakes with Extra Icing January 10, 2012
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I’m not the biggest cupcake fan, but I really liked this idea.
This morning on the news (NPR to be precise) they mentioned a guy at an airport with a cupcake in a jar. I thought the idea was to put the cupcake into a tall jar and then fill the rest of the jar with icing. That way you’d get like 3 times more icing than even a mile-high frosted cupcake. (I personally would prefer whipped cream instead of icing though.) But then I Googled it, and I found something way more fun:
A new trend called Cupcake in a Jar!
In case you can’t tell, you’re basically making a two-layer cake out of cupcakes and using a jar so it stays all together. And the possibilities sound fun to me! Can you imagine it with cream cheese, or raspberry jam, or a cupcake-sized lush cake?
What are some of your ideas? What other things can we stack in a jar for a tasty, individual-sized treat?
Why I DIY: January 3, 2012
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Many people look at stamping and bead stringing and say “I can do that.”
I look at making my own 3D printer and say “I CAN do that, and just you watch me!!!”
Adventures with a Cathedral Ceiling January 2, 2012
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The age-old question: What to do with that big blank wall?
My cousins recently moved into a house with a living room with a massively tall 18′ wall. Since they’re both engineers all they could come up with was an un-color-coordinated periodic table, so they begged for ideas. They also miss their old Alaskan home (they’re now in Louisiana), so they wanted something to bring the cool and beauty to their new home.
At first I was thinking a massive 4′x6′ picture of a mountain, but man would that be expensive! Then it hit me: A montage.
Simply create a montage of small, medium, and large pictures that together would create the effect of a mountain. For example, start with a picture of a mountain road, add a snow capped peak, pictures of trees and animals, and you could even include pictures of clouds and a sun above.
Get the kids involved (and save some dough) by having them draw some of the things they enjoyed and miss from their old home. You can even tie in their new home by asking them to include things they like about the new location.
