I may have to take some inspiration from these confections:
Yoga cookie cutters are available here. And there are more yoga cupcakes here.
Cupcake To-Do List
Sunday, February 10th, 2013 2 Comments
Apparently, there’s a huge backlog of people awaiting promised cupcakes. This is no doubt due to the fact that I haven’t baked any in quite some time. Which is subsequently at least partially because of the fact that I burned half of the batch I baked at Christmas.
So, because I am a glutton for punishment, I present to you, in no particular order, my list:
- Sharon
- Kimberly
- Heather S.
- Erica
- Heather H.
- Brooke
- Kat
- Zach
- Gemma
Please feel free to remind me if I’ve promised you cupcakes and you don’t think you’re on this list. Or if you are incredibly patient, I’m happy to add you to the list. Be forewarned that my current track record has people waiting an average of six months¹ and if I have to mail you cupcakes they very likely will be a box of tasty crumbs when they arrive.
1. As it stands half of this list has been waiting even longer than that, but such is the problem when you (a.) live very far away from me and (b.) very much want a box of intact cupcakes.
Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures
Saturday, December 29th, 2012 7 Comments
I had already planned to do a photo recap post before seeing this week’s photo challenge as I’d done something similar last year. Except that I didn’t exclusively use my personal photographs last time since I went a few months with little or no pictures taken. (And, let’s face it, that one of Uschi standing on her head had to be on the list!) Anyway, let’s get on to a smattering of my favorite photos from the last year:
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- Uschi enjoying the remnants of the Leap Day snowstorm
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- A day of fun at the park ended in a broken Uschi
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- The dishwasher was quite a surprise, especially since it arrived more than a month before my birthday!
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- Uschi’s short-lived love affair with Mr. Horsey
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- The beginnings of my potential life of crime. . . .
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- Uschi’s superpower: weapons grade cuteness
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- Dog-sitting for Shadow
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- Beautiful summer day out in the back field
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- Dog faming: Uschi in a down-stay
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- Schenectady Rose Garden in full bloom
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- Still learning the ins-and-outs of this thing, but it’s very shiny!
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- Been a dry year on the cupcake front, but these were particularly yummy
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- Me and my German shadow
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- Week at Dad’s leaves Yara needing her own vacation
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- So long as she doesn’t become as obsessed with babies and small children as Yara we should be good
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- Holiday decorating is one of my favorite things; also penguins
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- Obligatory Uschi in front of a Christmas tree shot ;-)
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- Yara came for a short visit!
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- My dad always has the most beautifully decorated tree
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- The perfect bookend to the year — for Uschi — out in the snow-covered back field!
The last year was much the same in terms of photographic activity, though, the last few months I have been striving to be more proactive with my camera. I won’t go so far as to boast about my skills as a photographer because I still very much think of myself as a beginner. However, I do admit that there have been more than a handful I’ve taken over the last year that I am not only quite fond of but actually have some pride in and I have learned a great deal more about the technical aspects of taking photos. I’m still debating which specifically I think is the absolute best photo to submit to BorrowLenses’ Best of 2012 project.
In any case, I expect I’ll be nattering on about photography more in the new year as I work my way through some projects I intend to participate in and learn more about that shiny red camera pictured above.
Randomized
Monday, December 3rd, 2012 Leave a Comment
- I don’t really do the New Year’s resolution thing, but I think I need to consciously get myself back into a blogging routine. This year has been really . . . well, lacking I guess. And I can only blame so much of it on the pain issues.
- I have been busy, busy, busy with the website design thing. And by that I mean I had a few projects that I thought were going to be relatively quick and combined they took the better part of a week. As always such projects are a wealth of learning opportunities for me and, in fact, I discovered a few things about the theme powering this blog that I didn’t even know.
- And now I’m free to work on my neglected websites. I’m really itching to redesign this blog, but there are so many other more pressing things I probably should do. Except, of course, my back is having none of that and is very much letting me know this sitting at a desk thing is not acceptable. Have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow where I intend to complain mightily about this.
- My mother made me a surprise lunch today. I can’t begin to tell you how touched I am by this.
- Uschi was very happy to see snow this weekend. I was even more happy to see it all melt away with today’s mild temps. I am not looking forward to the return of the white stuff.
- I had fully intended to decorate the house for the holidays, but the weekend went by and none of that happened. I also haven’t written a single holiday card yet. But I’ve a little wiggle room with my self-imposed extension. I figure I’ll start freaking out about that when I actually start receiving cards myself.
- I have a cupcake backlog again. You all know what that means. ;-)
Wake Up
Sunday, November 11th, 2012 Leave a Comment
I mentioned yesterday that my to-do list was ridiculously long. Not surprisingly I didn’t accomplish all the things I supposedly had to.
So, I woke up this morning at 5 a.m. and I figure even if I still don’t get everything done, I did manage to get in my hour of yoga!
My other top priorities today include baking and decorating cupcakes for Thanksgiving #1′s dessert tonight and watching the Firefly marathon and anniversary special on Science Channel. Less important items on the infinite to-do list include cleaning up the house, grooming the dog, buying toilet paper, and finding the dining room table underneath the mountain of random crap currently on top of it.
EDIT: It was brought to my attention that LiveJournal suspended the syndicated feed for this blog. I contacted them and they got it working again. Apologies to the handful of readers there for the backlog of posts that spewed onto your friends page.
