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someone from a cupcake group on flickr invited a billion pictures of mine to their group, so i thought i'd post them here too :)
these are from some birthdays from the last few years, as well as st patrick's day and just a random vegan baking trial. i hope you like them :)
( SUPER COLOURFUL AND VERY MUCH SPRINKLED CUPCAKES!! )
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[08 Jan 2010|08:33am] |
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[07 Jan 2010|04:22pm] |
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Name: Uyuki
Age: 23
Location: Mexico city
Your cupcake history: A friend of mine made me some cupcakes once and ever since then I've loved them, so now I've decided to make them myself.
Why you like cupcakes: Because they are pieces of heaven. They are so cute and so delicious.
Anything to share?: Yes, my very first cupcakes. They are raspberry cupcakes.
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| Free Worldwide Shipping Today Only at aNGrYGiRL Gear |
[07 Jan 2010|11:38am] |
Its time for the first TNT sale of 2010. This week's theme is free/reduced shipping, so I am offering FREE worldwide shipping today only on every item in my Etsy shop. Wanna be a panda, or just look like one?? Hehe... you can, with free shipping today. Click the pic to check it out.
Many other Etsy shops are participating in today's theme. Go to our blog at www.diysceneteam.blogspot.com to check them all out.
Thanks!
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[07 Jan 2010|01:31am] |
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♥ Name: Christina
♥ Age: 25
♥ Location: Los Angeles
♥ Your cupcake history: My mom used to bring cupcakes to school for my birthday when I was in elementary school and I've loved cupcakes since then! :)
♥ Why you like cupcakes: Not only are they cute and tasty, baking them requires a certain focus and a lot of energy.. it's a sort of therapeutic process that comes with a treat at the end LOL
♥ Anything to share?: ( Just a couple of pictures... )
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[07 Jan 2010|11:06pm] |
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[06 Jan 2010|11:56pm] |
Come see the sales, ladies! Half the shop is on a huge sale with prices lower than ever. Snatch it up while you can xox
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[06 Jan 2010|10:28pm] |
Here are a ton of cupcakes Ive made! I hope you like them and if you need ne advice or tips on how I decorated them feel free to ask!
  
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[07 Jan 2010|12:20pm] |
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♥ Name: Rebecca
♥ Age: 24
♥ Location: Sydney, Australia
♥ Your cupcake history: I love to bake. I want to expand my cupcake repertoire from bland to beautiful! My goal this year is to get creative and experiment with decorating. This community will hopefully help with that! :-)
♥ Why you like cupcakes: Who doesn't like cupcakes!? I have a huge sweet tooth and they are so yummy and cute. Plus the possibilites are endless! You can never get bored with making (and eating) cupcakes.
♥ Anything to share?: [cupcake photos, recipes, or other interesting cupcake-related tidbits that you found]
( cupcakes are love! )
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| Wedding cupcake help?? |
[07 Jan 2010|09:11am] |
Good morning everyone :>
My friend just rang to say she's getting married in 10 days (actually I knew that.. I'm going lol!) and ask if I would make a cupcake tower for the reception... of course I can.. I have everything I need right here.. except decoration inspiration :/
Any ideas?? Colour scheme is white and silver, and I really didn't want to do just swirls with silver cachous on top.. these are fun people, both musicians, and its a second marriage for both...
I was thinking maybe silver foil cases, white fondant with hand painted hearts or music notes???
If anyone has pictures or ideas, I would love to hear them, and of course, I will share after the day
Seek peace
Carol
Chief Alchemist
www.outbackpampering.com.au
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[06 Jan 2010|04:59pm] |
Hello! 'Nother newbie alert! Like my icon? I can't believe I didn't make one before! It's so cute!
Name: Jenn or Sky12309 (There's another two-N'd Jen, here, I think)
Age: Not legal! :D *fist pump*
Location: New England, USA (Brr. Chilly, up here.)
Cupcake History: Dude - cupcakes are awesome. They've always been awesome. I'm also great at stealing said bake-goods without others noticing... not, when money's involved; I have parents for that. I'm good at baking so I obviously make cupcakes often.
Why do you like cupcakes?: Well; I hate pie. I really do; can't even stand the homemade stuff and let me tell you, my Mother could make cow's stomach appetizing - still won't touch the stuff. Cake is my absolute favorite dessert, and cupcakes are just a mini-cakes, anyway. Plus, Portal and Jim Gaffigan's Cake rant.
Anything to share?: Hmm... I hope to be known as "That crazy Cupcake chick" not get a hear attack from said fixation, and oh! Making cupcakes for a party in Spanish class - any simple ideas for added zest? Maybe the Spanish alphabet written on the cupcakes. It could be like the Periodic table (Oh yeah, my Dad sent me a picture of that - which was done by a user on here, and then I find this and realize that's where the picture came from! It was my desktop for a few months.)
-Jenn
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| Should I go crazy with color? Or keep it more subdued? |
[06 Jan 2010|02:08pm] |
Hey fellow cupcake lovers! My name is Emma, and I've posted here before. I love to make cupcakes, some of you may remember me as the girl who made the whole periodic table out of full sized cupcakes for her friend.
Anyway...
I have a mini-dilemma about cupcakes that I would love your opinions on!
I was the leader of my school's robotics team last year, a very big program and kind of a big deal to be in charge of. A I'm still close with some of the people on the team so I thought I would come to "Kick-Off" this Saturday with cupcakes!
I never built robots, I focused on the community outreach aspect of the program, including a program where we read to kids at a local bookstore. Unfortunately there are next to no books about robots, so we wrote our own!
Now... here is the real problem.
I'm going to make little colorful melted white chocolate (with food coloring added) figures of the 4 characters in the books, as well as perhaps some "399"s (the team number), "FIRST"s (the name of the organization), and perhaps the names of the characters to stand up on the cupcakes.
I can't decide if since the little figures are going to be very bright if I should just do white frosting (I'm planning on piping it and making sure it has a lot of volume, not just spreading it on flat) and stick the figure on for color, or if I should make all the cupcakes bright and colorful with my color scheme.
Each of the little robot characters is respectively orange, blue, yellow, and red, so that will be my color scheme. I would only use one color of frosting per cupcake, but there would be all 4 colors represented on separate cupcakes. I would of course put the figures of each color on different colored cupcakes, such as the yellow robot on a red cupcake, not on a yellow one.
What do you think I should do? Less is more? Or go all out?
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[06 Jan 2010|10:20pm] |
♥ Name: Em
♥ Location: Sydney Australia
♥ Your cupcake history: Alwayssss loved cupcakes for being uber cute- im still trying to find tips on really gud buttercream frosting- u got any?
♥ Why you like cupcakes: THEY ARE SO CUTE! and you kno what they say, muffins are just ugly cupcakes :D
♥ Anything to share?: i recently attempted rainbow cupcakes which turned on fairly reasonable and then i made better ones today which were taken with a better camera and were vanilla chocolate marbled cupcakes with choc chips nom nom.
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| Lady Gaga, the 'grotesque' and privilege |
[05 Jan 2010|10:24pm] |
Hope this isn't TL;DR! I came across a really interesting post on Tumblr today and thought i would share/put its subject matter up for discussion. The post talks about a recent interview with Lady Gaga in the LA Times. Here's a couple of extracts from the story:
Her new songs address serious themes like women's shame about their bodies and the need for open communication in relationships; her often physically distorting costumes show that the pursuit of the feminine ideal is far from natural. Her commitment to confront the changing notion of what's "natural" puts Gaga on the same road traveled by artists she admires, such as the photographer Cindy Sherman. Her frank talk about how female artists aren't expected to write their own songs or about how young women are afraid to ask for what they need from their sexual partners inches her toward a new articulation of feminism.
..."The great thing about Gaga is she always want to push for the most extreme option," Card said. "She's brave enough to let herself be a canvas for a designer to go and really express themselves. Nothing is off limits! With Rihanna and Beyoncé there is an end result of desirability and unattainable sexiness, whereas Gaga is a really interesting bridge between the desirable and the grotesque. She's not at all worried about looking ridiculous or hideous; actually, I think she thrives off it."
And here's a couple of extracts from the brilliant post on Tumblr:
i feel like there are limits, maybe, to how “hideous” an extremely skinny blonde white girl can be considered...to put it another way: picture a fat woman, or a black woman, or a Latina woman, or a fat black Latina woman, doing ANYTHING that lady gaga has ever done, and tell me people would still be talking about her as some kind of subversive artiste...tell me 95% of the commentary about her outside maybe the feminist blogosphere wouldn’t be ridicule or disgust.
...or to put it another way: white skinny bodies are allowed to be art. you see this all the fucking time in the twee/hipster zones of the world/internet, soft-focus photos in sepia tones with size 2 AT MOST people standing in for melancholy, or wistfulness, or love, or whatever. you don’t see fat girls lying in a field of daisies wearing fishnets and reading haruki murakami next to a picnic spread under a parasol. because then the viewer, it’s assumed, would get distracted by their fatness. skinny bodies (& white bodies) are allowed to turn themselves into things because they are presumed to be blank slates. they’re neutral. fatness already symbolizes things in our culture - laziness, sloth, greed - so it’s not allowed to symbolize other things.
or another way: lady gaga is allowed to play at being grotesque because it’s understood that she is making a choice to be grotesque; fat, non-white, or otherwise atypical bodies already belong to the realm of the grotesque. the choice is made for them. whether it’s as unfuckable (fat women, women with visible disabilities) or inherently sexualized (black and Latina women) or some weird combination of fuckable but not sexual (asian women) or just grotesque and unworthy (trans women).
I think the critique on Tumblr brings up some really interesting and valid points with particular reference to the way we see things on the internet in terms of body types/ethnicities represented in the art and photography we post on our journals, or write about in our blogs, or favourite on Tumblr.
So discuss if you wish: Lady Gaga and her image, representations of 'controversial' women in pop culture, white/thin bodies v everyone else.
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[05 Jan 2010|11:09am] |
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♥ Name: Gigi
♥ Location: Texas,US
♥ Your cupcake history: I just all the sudden got really into baking!! I love it! Then had a trip to tennesse and got to see a real cupcake shop! It was amazing and then I just started to love cupcakes! They are so much fun and delicious! I usually make them for any thing im invited to! yay!
♥ Why you like cupcakes: They are super fun to make and fun to eat! They look super cute!
♥ Anything to share?: I will be going to culinary school soon! I hope to one day own my own bakery with the most amazing cupcakes you have ever tasted! No pics for now but my friend and i plan on making cupcakes soon and will post pictures asap! Thanks, much love
Gigi!
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