Interesting photos..

So... Katie took this photo of her eye...



I thought it would be fun to play around with... and even my old as crap Microsoft Picture it came up with some cool effects!!




Kinda cool huh? Wonser what Katie will think? LOL

Quartet Competition

So this year's competition.. no surprise. The girls took 2nd place again. I am so proud of them all, but they walked away very frustrated! I just think they were gorgeous!!!

Here's Katie before we went...



And here are the girls with their medals...

***WINNERS***

Yes I said Winners, Plural!!


I have had so much fun this past week with the cupcake craze! Thanks everyone for leaving comments!!!

So, I have numbered all the comments (one per person Beffy..LOL) and put you all in a hat. Here is are the winners and their comments:



Casie said...
Those look sooooo good!! I'm still resisting the urge to make some though... must stay away from the cupcakes... must try!!! Hee hee...



And.....ironically......


cakescraps said...
Your cuppyckakes look sooo good! Well, I mainly want the icing. And i'm trying really hard not to just go make a batch and eat it with a spoon right now!


SO Casie, and Carla.. PM me your addresses and when your super duper giftie gets to me, I will mail it to you. It may take awhile, but I want you to know I picked out the most special gift you could imagine... want a peek??? this is just a sneaky peeky...




And just to make it more exciting, cause there is enough for THREE winners, well, I chose one special person to also send the giftie too.. so it'll be a big ole surprise!!!

Adventures in Cupcakes

So, for days I had been wanting a cupcake. Kristin over on Scrapfreak had the cutest cupcakes made for her by her sister for her birthday. This started my obsession. Then the Pioneer Woman site posted the most awesome looking cupcakes ever. That really got my obsession going. So much so that I knew I had to have a cupcake.

The tragedy struck. I received a letter in the mail from my doctor and lo and behold my cholesterol was high. Bye bye cupcakes... you don't belong here.

After that, it seemed everywhere I turned, all I saw were cupcakes, people making cupcakes, eating cupcakes... it was pure torture! All of my friends over on Scrapfreak added to the torture by teasing me. All I saw were threads with my name and a cupcake somewhere there... whether it was avitar cuppy cakes or pictures!


What's a girl to do? Well, I will tell you.... you run to the store and you buy the fixings for cup cakes! That's right, I am not strong... I have no will power. I needed my cuppy cake!!!

It was a joyous process from start to finish... I cheated, I will admit it. I used a box mix for the cup cake itself. But I mean really, they are just as good right?



They came out so goldenly, perfectly, yummily delicious looking!


So, next the icing. Well, after reading the ingredients in the Pioneer Woman's chocolate icing recipe, I knew there could be no other icing to make. I mean come on, did you see the ingredients in that stuff??



I will say this was about the easiest icing ever made... but I do understand now why she made mini cuppy cakes. That stuff has enough sweet in it to send you into a diabetic coma!!! Oh and it thickens really quick, so frost them fast!



In conclusion, I will say THANK YOU to all my FREAKY friends for pushing me to make these yummy cup cakes!!! (and on Friday, when weigh in day rolls around, you owe me...but we'll discuss that later! LOL)

So if you're now wanting a cup cake, I will invite you to come on over and have one... I have a few left!

And for everyone of my friends who leave a comment here... I will add your name to a hat for a nice RAK from me! You have until Friday AM to get your comments in!!!

Some February Pages!

Seems like I am on a roll so far this month! Hope I can keep up and get all my pictures scrapped (that I have printed...) Here are three I did this week!