Posts from ‘February, 2010’

A while back, the lovely Felicia asked me to make cupcakes for a baby shower. A friend of hers at work was expecting a baby girl, and the whole office wanted to celebrate.
I made 48 cupcakes: two dozen vanilla and two dozen chocolate. The guest of honor loves cream cheese icing, so that was my [...]

After getting a book of her own, Amy asked me to make a similar sketchbook for Taunda: an 8.5 x 11 hard-bound book with blank pages for sketching and journaling.
Taunda’s favorite color is purple, so I started there. I found some pretty cotton fabric in lavender, with a dark purple crackle effect.

It made a perfect [...]

In September of 2009, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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The ingredients for these cupcakes look more like breakfast ingredients than anything, so I suppose the following could also be classified as muffins. And as such, you can eat them for breakfast!
Here are [...]

In September of 2009, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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It’s cupcake post kind of week, and since I used my blog as a virtual birthday treat for my cousin Zoe yesterday, today I’m doing the same for my friend Jacee. Only her birthday will [...]

In September of 2009, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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Today is my cousin Zoe’s birthday. For my entire life, she’s been one of my very best friends. Since she lives in Seattle and I can’t be there to bake her a birthday cake, this [...]

In September of 2009, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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What could malted milk balls….

and bendy straws have to do with cupcakes?

You’re about to find out!
Yet again, I failed to remember to get my camera out at the beginning of the process (oops!) I did [...]

In September of 2009, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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With Valentine’s Day just 48 hours away, why not whip up a batch of these for your sweetheart?

I started by combining all the dry ingredients.

The filling was made from cream cheese, a dab of sugar, [...]

The following is a project I did in college for my Experimental Bookmaking class. We were to use the Venetian Blind binding technique and here’s my result, a book that commemorates all the trips I’d made to different parts of the world at that time.
The covers were made from .5″ foam core board wrapped in [...]

In September of 2009, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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((I know this is a Christmas post and it’s February. I also know some people who just took down their Christmas tree, so at least I’m not that far behind…))

The first step in making Christmas [...]

In September of 2009, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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((I suppose since it’s February I should finally show you the cupcakes I made for Christmas.))

Ahh, fruit cake. It’s about as Christmasy as Rudolph and elves and icicle lights, is it not? So of course [...]