Posted by Jackie on Feb 4, 2010 in
Baking Fun As I mentioned before, I’ve dipped my fingers in the land of baking and oh my, am I having a BLAST or what! Because I’m such a newbie, I have ZERO clue where to find specialty & novelty goodies in town. My mother says there are tons of stores, but I think she’s wrong. We don’t have a Michaels (or even a Williams-Sonoma).
I get Daily Candy newsletters daily, and I usually scan over them briefly and delete, partly because I’m not so into them, and partly because they’re US based - which is of limited help to Canadian me. Today, though, they had a little ad for Layer Cake Shop. Instant love. Their website is full of amazing novelty treats - from printed baking cups to over a dozen food colorings - if I’d known of them 2 months ago, my birthday cake probably would’ve been a teensy bit more eclectic!!
Truthfully though, their website isn’t so clear when it comes to shipping costs, so I’m more hesitant than not to order stuff. I probably WILL search Montreal a little more thoroughly before I finalize my shopping cart. Until I decide, I made myself a little Layer Cake Shop inspiration board!!
(All images pulled directly from http://www.layercakeshop.com )
Yummy!!!!
Tags: baking, fun stuff, inspirations, kitsch
Posted by Jackie on Feb 4, 2010 in
Accessories Hello Precious readers!
I wanted to share a little piece I wrote for one of my university’s student newspapers. I wrote on some current trends to DIY, taking inspiration from my top 3 DIY reads - http://lovemaegan.com , http://psimadethis.com and of course, http://carboncouture.blogspot.com .
I won’t bore you with double reading, so here’s the link! http://www.theconcordian.com/diy-fashion-update-your-closet-and-save-money-1.1110338 (you can leave comments, too!!!)
It was actually great fun writing my first article for The Concordian - especially since it was on DIY. I’m hoping it’ll be well received, and that I can eventually make a series out of some DIY fashion posts. I will say that it was a completely different experience writing for a newspaper rather than a blog. A challenge, even. I learned that APPARENTLY exclamation marks aren’t so accepted in journalism. Something about how it seems like you’re laughing at your own joke? Who knew! (I almost ALWAYS laugh at my own jokes. Especially the ones that are just untimely and horrible and not funny.) Naturally, of course, full capital lettered words don’t fly. That I already knew.
I brought home for myself approximately 8 copies. I’m a little girl when it comes to things like that, I want EVERYONE to have a copy! I had to sneak copies into the crook of my arm when nobody was looking. I didn’t want other students to think I’m a LOONY TOON. I am pretty sure some of my classmates saw me trying to shove my stack of papers into my bag. Whatever. I am one proud peacock!
And since I know the text won’t stay online forever (or does it? I don’t know how those archive things work), I’ll eventually repost it as its own post!
XOXO
Tags: "press", diy, fun stuff, glue gun, inspirations, my writing, The Concordian
Posted by Jackie on Nov 25, 2009 in
Craft Presents Two points of order:
1. I filmed my first craft this weekend! A girl I know - http://ebwhite.blogspot.com/ - asked me if I could prepare a small craft for a film she’s doing for a journalism class. She wanted a quick cheap unisex craft (that means no feathers or jewels) that could be gifted for the holidays. Right up my alley!! After much pondering (and then running out of time due to an overload of schoolwork), I settled on making a handy-dandy box out of dominoes with a matching picture frame! The clip is right now being edited, but that won’t stop me from showing you the box - the picture frame has since been destroyed. I made the mistake of glueing the dominoes to the glass before sticking a picture in, thus making picture placement impossible.
Here’s the box:
To make it, it’s pretty simple. I used a box of old dominoes and a hot glue gun (but really, a heavy duty tacky glue would be wayyyy better) - and made coaster-looking “walls” out of 8 dominoes. 5 total - one for each side, and then an extra for the base. I then made the cover, which is not necessary, but equally cute. You can vary the height and width of the box, making it a tall pencil cup or a short squat box. Easy!! And, if you don’t happen to have a box of dominoes hanging around, it’s a cheap craft to go out and buy the supplies for: dollar store dominoes ($1) + dollar store glue gun + glue shots ($2). Fun!!!! What I liked the most about this, is that the black and white graphic look of the dominoes ends up looking SUPER TRENDY right now. Everyone loves black & white!! Chic!!
2. Non-craft related, I figured I may as well promote myself a teensy bit. http://maddykweddings.com/blog/2009/11/hello-sunday-this-is-valerie-maddy-ks.html
That’s me! I’m going to be one of the on-site bloggers for Maddy K’s Bridal Boudoir bridal show in 2 weeks! I’m pretty excited. I LOVE weddings and I love blogging, so why not! Rumor has it that the brides who show up get an awesome goody bag. Rumor ALSO has it that volunteers - like me - MIGHT also get said goody basket. YUMMY!! Be sure to check out the Maddy K blog on Dec. 6th - I’ll be there all day writing about all the awesome things I see!
XOXO
Tags: fun stuff, news, recycling