AuthorVictoria

Paint Night

Well some of you might know that the new craze all around town is there Paint and Pinot nights at local bars and restaurants. My friends and I saw one advertised for one of the local breweries and we decided to give it a try! Well let me start off by saying I have absolutely NO artistic experience but I have done this once before when I lived in Key West and my turtle actually looked like a turtle once I was done. This night we were supposed to be painting Koi fish … simple enough right? No this is the story of how I started out trying to paint some fish and ended with something that you would use for a funny meme or firewood … I might go for the firewood part. The beer was good and they kept it flowing … maybe one of my other problems…. but I was not the only person with a not so cute painting to take home. I can say that I would go back to the brewery but maybe just to try some beers and I will leave the painting to the professionals.

 

I guess ya’ll would like to see the finished product huh … I warned you!

Backpacking Adventure

Since we now live in the Pacific Northwest I think this might be a good time to start planning a backpacking adventure for this summer. So far I am off to a good start with the awesome REI pack I found. Now I just need to figure out what to put in it … Or what to take out that I wont need … I think one of my biggest questions is will I want – need my camera. I LOVE my little SLR but I am not sure if its worth all the extra weight … am I really going to stop … take my pack off and pull it out? Guess we shall see…

If you would like to find your own checklist check this one out here. http://www.backpacking.net/cheklist.html

Happy Trails! Hope to see you out there!

Birthday Cup Cakes

A friend of mine had a birthday last week and I decided to break out some of my baking and decorating skills. In the past I have taken the Wilton classes for cake decorating but have not used the tools in a really long time! I decided to try and make some cute cup cakes for my friend Talia and I think they came out pretty cool! I used super simple funfetti box cake mix and just bought the matching icing. I colored the icing with the Wilton gel and a toothpick. Note to self the pink I bought is really pink! My friend and I were joking that I made cupcakes for Barbie with how bright the pink was. I had a mold for some mini cakes and they ended up being really small so I cut the top off the cupcakes to make them level and used the star tip and an icing bag to pipe on a little design.

I had some left over batter and had already used what I needed for my mini cakes and cup cakes. I decided to try and make a small cake with a flower cookie cutter that I had in a cabinet. I put down some aluminum foil just in case the batter was going to leak out of the bottom and make a huge mess but it stayed in there very well to my surprise. I peeled off the foil and I had a cute little flower to decorate. Note to self if you are going to try this I would use some kind of nonstick spray on the cookie cutter to make it easier to get the mini cake out.