Clean Kitchen

My family came in town to visit a few weeks ago, and my mom offered this very motherly piece of advice: "You know, sweetie, it's a lot easier to clean up the kitchen if you go ahead and do it as soon as you get done cooking." So, here I sit, kitchen cleaned, ready to start blogging.

Er...already blogging....

First things first:

That's my very strange dog sitting/laying on the couch in a very...awkward...looking position. I think he has issues.

Second things second: CUPCAKES!

This week I got to combine 2 things I love very dearly. Baking and sewing. Woo-hoo! Two dozen strawberry cupcakes with strawberry icing, decorated with needle and thread. The strawberry on strawberry is a bit too much for my personal tastes, but they smelled wonderful, and the recipient was very pleased. I got to buy new tools (toys) for this order.

I got this really cool extruder thingy that looks like what you used to use to make "tea cookies" out of play-do...except it was actually made for icing. It was only ten dollars, and it has a bunch of different caps you can put on it to create all different shapes.

With that tool we were able to make the needle and thread you see sitting on top of these cupcakes:

Everything here is edible...except of course the box or the paper cupcake liners, but come on people, let's apply some common sense....

Stay tuned, because next you'll see: STRAWBERRY LIMEADE CHEESECAKE! (**yum is the word you're looking for**)