cake truffles

how to dip truffles

Bakerella’s Red Velvet Cake Balls

combine them. create a line of cake truffles? a toughie would be carrot cake, but i think that would go well with the cream cheese frosting involved. chocolate, vanilla, lemon, cinnamon? even red velvet cake, i suppose. i enjoy white chocolate coating and also real chocolate, maybe using a colored drizzle to bely what’s inside? i need candy cups, cake mix, cream cheese, a lot of powdered sugar, and some coatings. i’d also like long thin boxes to package my candy in, and i may have to resort to hand folding boxes from my favorite papercraft site, Canon 3D. i have a Canon printer and absolutely adore the little boxes.

cool beans.

condom use and virginity pledges take that, boyfriend.

what i did for lloyd

julia should buy me this shirt. look at the back. speaking of julie, this shirt is very one zebra six.

skin deep cosmetic safety stuff

oh. my. god. is it the perfect PMS food? potato chip cookies, i WILL make them one day!

amanda needs paperback swap. i shall tell her of it. when i remember.

addictive game to the extreme: music catch

i used to have a book-making thing, and am intrigued by japanese stab binding.

reading and using: irish proverbs. now to learn how to say them. must ask sinead.

and a poem i love

 
i carry your heart with me
  
 
  i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

ee cummings

 

and how perfect is book-a-minute? i didn’t HAVE to suffer through the red bage of courage before freshman year!

bbc virtual garden looked pretty nifty

i long to attempt baked egg cups and am looking for something to do with the dessert shot set i got for my birthday.

a reminder of the gum wrapper bag mari got in mexico: those at ecoist are like that. but trendy. and adorable. and i for serious want one. ooh-la-la, the diva clutch. look at it in green. $92 to save the environment, pricey. but when it looks that fabulous? a definite possibility. however, there is a mini for $36.

an update

yesterday was my birthday. we had a half day, i think i aced the chem final, and andrew came over. we went with my  parents to macaroni grill, watched my favorite movie, went for a walk. alyssa got me flowers because she felt bad for forgetting my birthday. andrew and i got into one of our religious debates. totally perfect day.

today. ryan told me his friend mack died, my dad is mourning poppop as father’s day approaches, my mom may have lyme’s disease and her preventative medication means she can’t be in the sun. i feel completely overwhelmed. i think i bombed both the english and algebra finals. i feel like dirt.  and what does that leave me to? well, it makes me rethink a bunch of things, examine other religions and lifestyles and languages and food as a way of distancing myself from my own life. and with that in mind,

sex is not the enemy, by garbage. you see, i was considering what would happen if i introduced andrew to some of the music i listen to. to some music that i don’t listen to regularly, but that would completely challenge, and maybe offend, his beliefs. for example, if besides this video i showed him androgyny, tainted love [the marilyn manson version], heart shaped glasses, i kissed a girl, et cetera. i wonder if he’d be scared by how much i want to look like shirley manson. or if he saw the actual video for hips don’t lie…
i wish i had more time to spend discussing our beliefs. it would certainly be intriguing. but i think mom would wonder at what i watch and listen to if i showed him this….

oh gloriousness

h2g2’s view on dating

rawr

dinosaur.

i want croissants

chocolate croissants

if nigella lawson says i can do it, then by golly, i can do it!
she’s surprisingly inspirational on the subject.
the recipe

i’ve been remiss in posting

some nifty things i found but didn’t bother to share

instant blossom, why hot girls date ugly guys, sea salt caramels, baked eggs and bacon, olive oil ice cream with honeycomb [i know i'm a bit honeycomb-crazy], DIY moss graffiti, hot cross buns, this lovely cupcake blog, how to make a rag rug via craftzine, making an a-line skirt pattern also via craftzine; and at fred flare, cupcake lipgloss.

kelly! it’s the nerds of the past!

post-prom letdown??

well, i stressed so much
and then it was easy as can be
suffice it to say, my day was excellent

i now have so many fasciniations, some conflicting, and lack the time and commitment to follow through with them.

metal, punk, new wave, steampunk, cyberpunk, objectivism, communism, new romanticism, anti-transcendentalism. i’m fascinated by other people’s ideas, languages, et cetera. things that are extremely alien to me. styles of dress, cuisine, speaking, writing. lifestyles, religions, hair, makeup.

and my mom just said to me, “if you can’t figure out why you’re passing out, you’re not even getting your driver’s license.” i won’t get into space. i won’t ever see the stars from the outside.

she told me every doctor but the cardiologist thinks i’m over stressed and that i need a therapist. they think that’s what causing the fainting. we need a followup from the cardiologist to explain why my blood pressure drops thirty points when i stand up.