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Blue Champagne Cupcakes!

Sarah — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:30:15 +0000

I received the April/May 2010 Betty Crocker Cupcakes, Cakes & More magazine in the mail and immediately went to make the Pink Champagne Cupcakes. I changed the color to blue since I didn’t have pink food coloring, but the result was fabulous! I added on some multicolored sugar sprinkles and some silver edible ball sprinkles as a last touch. Very tasty!

The recipe can be found here on the Betty Crocker website.

They were almost too pretty to eat! Almost…

My Fruits Basket pink, brown, and cream yarn!

Sarah — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:25:50 +0000

So one of my earliest posts was about spinning on my spinning wheel that I had just received as a gift. Well, that yarn that was discussing is now officially done and for sale on Etsy! Woo hoo! This yarn is 204 yards and handspun and handdyed by myself. It went from this:

To this:

With the finished product looking like this:

I am very happy with how it turned out! If you want to buy it, please check out my Etsy shop. Thanks!

Spinning Madness

Sarah — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:01:40 +0000

Just so there isn’t any confusion, I actually do have other hobbies aside from cooking and canning as my website title would suggest. Currently, when I’m not tearing up the kitchen and driving my husband nuts, I am spinning wool. And not just any wool, merino top to be precise. Merino is the type of wool and top is how the wool has been combed. Yes, this does make a big difference in the world of spinning. Here is the pink, cream, and brown fluffy mass after I have drafted the top. I hand-dyed this myself. The color will look slightly different because the first was shot with natural light and the second wasn’t.

After spinning it the result looks like this on the wheel:

I’ll be sure to post pictures of the yarn once I am done spinning and plying it.