With that pound of fondant that I bought there was more than enough left over from the cupcakes. So, these bored hands decided to take a try at fondant roses before it was pushed to the back of the pantry to go rancid and hard.
The petals were a bit thick. It was tricky trying to keep them from wilting over and falling off. But for a the first flower, it’s pretty decent. I’ll just have to keep practicing.
It was easier than I expected, but I took a rather simple approach at decorating this lovely batch of vegan strawberry cupcakes (that came out good for once).
I did the plain and the flowers while my sister went all out and made the stars. Before I topped the cupcakes off with the white playdough I filled the cupcakes with strawberry jam. Even my parents liked them. They didn’t even know they were vegan (but they don’t care, really).
I’m excited about the upcoming Blythe doll, Milky Way Sugar. Just look at those eye chips!
And, she resembles me a lot, clothing style and all.
The Hunter’s Moon by O.R. Melling
rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the third book I’ve read this month where the guy gives up/loses his immortality to spend the remainder of his life as a normal, mortal human. With the love of his life, I might add.
Hunter’s Moon tried my patience and halfway through the book I hated it. Melling’s style of writing involves loads of Irish culture, language, mannerisms, etc. and many occurrences that don’t seem to have anything to do with each other (at first). The only thing that kept this book in my hands was the faeries. Because I’m a sucker for the faeries.
In the end, I liked it. It had death and rebirth hand in hand, and a new faerie king, whom I here appears in the next book. Another trilogy to get warpped into.
Frankly, I care more about my ipod geting scratched than my feet blistering up.
Is it possible to become addicted to writing reviews?
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black
rating: 5 of 5 stars
Holly Black introduced me to the intoxicating world of Faerie and it has since to leave my mind, as if I too had been there and been polluted by its ethereality. This was one of those books I picked up randomly at Borders when I began high school, and quickly became a favorite and a quick go-to in times of need for satifying fantasy.
Kaye is a typical girl, a teenager with her problems and with a single mom who rarely does her given task of parenting. Then she meets Roiben on a rainy night in the middle of the woods, saves his life by taking an arrow out from his chest and she can’t get him out of her head, still like a typical lovesick girl. Then her skin starts to fall off, revealing green skin beneath that. And her faerie buddies come back, only not so playful or nice as they once were. Halloween’s coming, and for the faeries it means a Tithe must be paid to hell.
A classic that all teens should read.
