A cupcake parade!

A cupcake parade!!

Last winter I taught a class about color mixing using frosting...I made up red, yellow and blue frosting for each student and let them mix the colors on a plate and then spread the frosting on to wafer cookies. It was super fun!!

When I got home I had a bunch of left over frosting so I decided to make some cupcakes. And then I had a fun photo shoot!!

Wouldn't these be great for a party?

Here are a few that I added text using Picnik. Feel free to print them on cardstock for a quick and easy card!

Hope you have a great week!
Nellie

Diet/Light - Grilled Chicken and Green Salad

Hello everyone!


Well, as all know I'm trying to get rid of some Kilos that are really bugging me a lot! Find about more in my 'out-body experience' at THIS IS NOT ME post. lol


So, I started - in my own way - a new diet: eat less, try to cut off the sugar and sweet stuff (this is the difficult one!) and eat more healthy food. In theory it seams very easy but believe me, it's not.


There are some Scientific explanation now about Caloric Food and I always believed that it was true even they didn't had all the tests done, as I'm a completely 'addicted' to Junk Food in general.


Anyway... Let's jump for our new weekly recipe:

Grilled Peri-Peri Chicken with Green Salad (for 1 portion)
Ingredients:
Chicken
1 breast of boneless chicken
Peri-Peri sauce (I used the powder one with the liquid one - all together)
Salad
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Onions
Green Olives
Feta Cheese
Cucumber
Olive Oil and lemon juice (just to give some taste)
How to Prepare:
Chicken
Cover the whole breast chicken with the Peri-Peri sauce and put it on the oven (200C) for about 1/2 hour but keep eye on it - it depends how potent it's your oven.
Salad
Cut in pieces and mix all the ingredients together, seasoning with the olive oil and lemon juice.
It's done!!!

I'll hope that you all have a wonderful weekend and a nice/warm SPRING time all around the world!


For next week, I propose a challenge: send me (by Twitter, Facebook, Google Wave, Email, my Personal Blog or simply leave a comment) about your favourite type of food and I will 'perform' your dish (your recipe or my 'own way' of doing it), I will make a quick video of 'your dish impact' on others (my neighbours, friends, family...) and we can decided if you could be a winner and your recipe will be the a 'guest post'! :D


So, the challenge is ON and I'll give 2 week from now (it ends 8th of May). Bring it on! :P


I can't eat but I can watch! Just something to put water in your mouth this Friday:




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Quick Spring Freebie! :D

Hi everyone!

Well, my favorite thing about spring is the cute, fun pastel colors! And I also love flowers, and cupcakes, so I thought I'd offer up these cute cupcakes toppers that I drew up for you all to download! (Yes, these are the same ones I posted awhile back on Katie's blog, Punk Projects, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to give them to you all, too!)

So here they are! Download the PDF here at Mediafire, and then you can follow my tutorial to turn the little images into cupcake toppers!

I hope you have fun with these! Make sure you post pictures of your cupcakes in our Flickr if you use them! :D

Easter & DIY -flowers part 1-

Hi :) I can't believe that it's almost Easter already :) The question of the week is: What's your favorite way to eat your Easter egg? Quite boring ha ha just boiled or scrambled with some salt on a baked baguette hot from the oven, yummie! I love the Easter breakfast with my sweet husband or with my family. We ususally brunch together at my parents house. I also love love love eating chocolate eggs. My fav's are: cappucino, white or dark chocolate with some orange pieces in them :)

When we were little, my parents hid the easter eggs everywhere in the house & it was always so much fun finding them! I hope to do this in the future with my own kids ;)

As promised i would show you ways to make flowers with different materials! Easter, spring and flowers all belong together in my opinion. That's why i made a mixed post today that i hope you like :)

DIY -flowers part 1- Make your own flower t-shirt

You will need:

a t-shirt,

ribbon with flowers,

embroidery thread

and needle.

I bought my ribbon with flowers at the market. If you can't find any you can also use a pompom ribbon or any other cute ribbon that you might find! By hand you will be adding it to your t-shirt. Make sure that you work only through the ribbon part and not through the flowers! Just make sure that it's secure. I also made a little hairpiece with my leftover flower. I made two leaves from green felt and sewed them together with the flower. Then i used my hot glue gun to add it to my hairclip :)

ta da... your outfit is ready!

I found lovely photos on wehearit for just a little more flower and Easter inspiration :)

Wishing you a happy Easter!

Love,

Vera