Cupcakes are too awesome to be left for kitchen admiration alone.
These soap-tastic cupcakes will bring some bubbles and bathtub fizz in your life and bathroom.
Bubble on with a yummy smelling black cherry cupcake soap. Because smelling great and embracing the cupcake world shouldn't have to be separate.
Ever wish your cupcakes had more purpose than just fulfilling your innermost cupcake cravings?
Okay, probably not - but you just might after seeing these whimsical cupcake jewelry boxes. A totally valid excuse to house a cupcake menagerie without social repercussions or ants. Huzzah!
Talk about a great potluck idea! These cookie cupcakes are a fast and easy treat that maintains the cupcake structural integrity - but features a heartier cookie texture.
I love that this recipe incorporates a bunch of different candies, giving you extra flexibility with flavors and homemade icings. Nom.
Need a cookie recipe for these snazzy cookie cupcakes?
Behold the cupcake stuffed strawberry, a hereto undiscovered wonder of the known cupcake universe.
Ogle it, make it, share it, eat it. Think cake pops, but better. Much, much better.
You're welcome. Photo thanks to Jasmin at 1 Fine Cookie.
All this weekend, I've been thinking 'one week ago right now I was...':
We spent Easter weekend in Marfa with 1800 other desert travelers for one of the most amazing concerts I have ever, ever, ever been to: the Railroad Revival Tour with Mumford and Sons, The Old Crow Medicine Show and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
It was weird to see the tiny city so swollen with visitors - when you double the population of a small, middle-of-nowhere town things are bound to be change energy, feel and movement. But strangely enough, Marfa didn't change at all. Everyone accepted us openly, graciously and things truly went off without a hitch (seriously, even David Beebe thought so - how happy this makes me).
Marfa remained... well, Marfa-lous. As if it could be anything else.
It was a tough decision to travel on Easter weekend without our short person, but she was there in spirit :)
And our regular haunts were still as wonderful as always (ahem, FRAMA and Padres).
El Cosmico did a marvellous job of keeping thousands of music loving desert travelers safe, happy and comfy - we arrived to a growing a sea of tents and got to pitch our new giant 8-person tent / mini house for the first time ever.
It was a little tough not getting to bring in our own beer, but we survived.
Then it was time for the big show - and what a show it was. The train pulled into town (literally), and we were all on our way.
The Old Crow Medicine Show kicked it off with boot kicking style.
Mumford and Sons made that gorgeous big sound come alive, they were perfect perfect perfect. Smiling, singing, swaying and shouting along with us.
Fun was had in the desert sun with some amazing Houston folks that made the beautiful trek too.
Monica and Joey (with cracked Easter confetti egg).
Imelda (hiyeee!).
And a few more of the crew (Aimee, Jessica, Karl, JJ, Courtenay and moi).
And best of all, my partner in crime Adam :) <hug>
Every second was perfect.
Even the non-concerty parts :)
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros filled the night with something truly special. I love those shows where there is an undeniable audience-performer bound. A lotta' love flowing from those speakers.
And then, far too soon, it was over. But we kept dancing. And singing. And dancing. And singing.
And haven't really stopped since.
Here are some other amazing Railroad Revival Tour stories to connect you with some more of the desert magic:
Don’t try to be liked.
Find out how you’re different.
Then be that.
That’s where the power is.
That’s what’s new.
From CST Advertising blog - photo thanks to Flickr user Dirk Dallas
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of someone’s life with perfection”
~The Baghavad Gita
As humans, in the face of natural disaster, we look for rationlizations. Science is the singular rationalization, and we express science via models and data. From the NOAA tsunami site:
Filled colors show maximum computed tsunami amplitude in cm during 24 hours of wave propagation. Black contours show computed tsunami arrival time.
Note the elevated amplitude channel that crosses the Pacific to California.
How quickly the entire world shifts, changes, swells and shrinks...
