Pinterest and my obsession.

Well, this last week has been full of changes. Mostly because of Pinterest. (I AM SOOOO ADDICTED.) The only thing wrong with Pinterest is that there is a no, Project completed button. (And for that matter a place to put up a photo or 2 of the completed happiness ;) ) So My blog will be where it is posted.


So, my most recent pinterest experiments. The first was a tutorial on Bokeh photography. Which is an art of photography where you are essentially out of focus, and you put a cover over your camera lens which has a cut out of a shape that you want to be shown. I chose to do a heart. (the tutorial basically was a picture showing you what your cover should look like and the difference between the before and after.) I didn't have a hole puncher and to be honest I didn't quite understand how to do it.
So instead of googling it, I attempted to do it similar to how the pictures in the tutorial showed how to do it. Luckily when I was messing around with it, I figured it out. I will say it is in no way my kind of "art". I will be sticking to taking photos of my friends (and random people.) It was fun to try, and maybe if I get bored I will try and do it again.

My next Project was the Soda Can Cupcakes. OH MY GOODNESS!!! BEST tutorial, recipe, idea, EVER invented! So yummy!!!! I had originally planned to make funfetti cupcakes with Cherry 7-up. Well, much to my surprise SOMEONE had taken and used the last of my stock piled funfetti mix. (Yes, I stockpile funfetti mix... it's just so yummy.) So the instructions are : take cake mix, add soda. Bake. and enjoy. So Simple, so perfect, so me. I ended up using white cake. (not a bad idea, was a great idea for a first try.) I used from the can whipped white icing. I don't have fancy pipping bags. But from many years of girl scout camping and making womp'ems, I just put the icing in a bag and cut the tip of the bag and used it that way.[For those of you who don't know what womp'ems are you need to experience the bliss of taking biscuits and putting it on a stick over a campfire, then filling it with pudding and jellies and any other yummy food that comes to your hearts desire.]
The way I frosted it looked kind of like a rose. Which I loved. When I took them to church, everyone wanted one. (Cupcakes never survive church) Everyone really enjoyed them (from what I heard, and some people got really offended that I didn't have enough to feed every single person that was at church. (More than one person made a comment on how it wasn't fair that they didn't get a cupcake. But I guess I am being kinda snobby about it. Then again, I did only have 12 cupcakes. 9 of which were going to certain people.)

Okay and the FINAL project for today: Rag Curls. (picture above on the right hand side.)

This is a way of doing hair that I have done quite a few times in my life. Each time usually inspired by Shirley Temple. (She is amazing.)
The picture that I saw for it didn't look quite like a full rag curl to me, but I ended up doing full rag curls. I enjoyed it regardless. And am dying to try out new hairstyles. (None of which are going to include CUTTING my hair, maybe dying, but definitely no cutting!)

Well, Hopefully I can have some more projects completed soon enough. For sure I will post when I do my Superhero vs. Villain party. (Which will be the best.)