Cupcake Fight!!

It's official, The Mustache will have an Official Annual Cupcake Fight. We'll donate the proceeds to some awesome charity, too. (Ya, know, when we open one day. That day is yet to come. I just needed to get the idea out there so I can remember it in days to come.)


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Taking Care of Myself

Lately I have been battling with myself. I have become a person who hates herself when she makes the smallest mistake, like forgetting my phone at home. Terrible words go through my head about me. Things I would never, ever think of another human being. I never thought I could be so hard on myself. And it hurts. It hurts more than when others say mean things to me. It's back and forth, "You're terrible Amanda," "Stop being mean You. You don't belong in my head, saying those things," "But you know you're worthless." It gets even worse. And like I said all of this over something as small as forgetting a few things. And I forget a lot of things, so imagine how terrible it is. I have come to realize that it's very much about control. Controlling myself. It's suffocating.

But at this very moment, right now and 1:02 am on April 30th, 2010, I love myself just the way I am. Absolutely. I love how forgetful I am. I love all of my mistakes. I love the way I am changing and growing everyday, out of girlhood and into this beautiful womanhood. I love that I swear when I get mad. I love that I cry when I am upset. I cry so easily sometimes. And I love it. I love that I want to good grades in school and I love that I do not always get perfect grades. I love that I sometimes I get B's. I will even love myself if I get a C. I love all the great things about me too, like how easily I can be a kid, and how good I am at drawing and being creative and making things. I love how much love I am capable of giving others. I love that I hate feet and squirrels and that I love sweets and dancing in the shower. I love everything!

My beautiful mom lent me a book called "Finding Joy: 101 Ways to Free Your Spirit and Dance with Life" and it says to remember that you have the capacity to feel joy. Right now I am writing this so that I remember that I have the capacity to love myself for all that I am.

Pretty Cupcakes

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I am sick. My throat is swollen and feels like someone poured the Sahara Desert down it. It feels terrible.  In other news only two and a half weeks of school left. Then I get a week off before my three online summer classes start. Ugh.

Anyways, I hope you have a great day! This weeks cupcakes will be posted Friday after I make them (and maybe after I've eaten them all too.)

Love,

Amanda

Aprons!

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I am on a search for some sweet vintage aprons. Etsy has some great selections. Here are a few of my favorites I found.

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Or you can make your own!

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I watched Whip It today. It is probably one of my new favorite girl power flicks. So much fun. Also, I would seriously love to eat cupcakes with these two girls.

<3

Amanda

My Daddy's 44th Birthday Cake

This cake isn't the best looking, but let me tell you that it tasted amazing. I am craving some right now.

It also wasn't the most stable cake.

But the dinosaur didn't mind. It made a great little hide-a-way for him.

Happy birthday to my Daddio! He's awesome! And so is the rest of my family, how good-looking are they?

Love,

Amanda

Pretty Cupcakes

Pretty little girl

Pretty sprinkles

Pretty berries

Pretty packages

Pretty nerdy! (I am so making these soon!)

Pretty awesome.

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I know the last one is not cupcakes, but how awesome would those look on cupcakes? The Mustache special anyone?

I am going to start posting pretty cupcakes every Wednesday. It will be a weekly thing. So fun!

Have a great, great weekend! I'll have a delicious cake for you on Sunday which is my Daddy's birthday. Yay for Daddy!

Busy me!

I have been a busy busy girl this week and I haven't felt like I have had much to blog about. I keep meaning to post pretty pictures of pretty cupcakes but I keep having other things I need to get done. Hopefully I'll get to that tomorrow before I have to get off to work (which is where I am right now.)

I have been drawing a lot this week. I have a sketchbook that I need to fill up by the fifth and its only 3/4 full. And I have been working on a Paddington bear charcoal drawing.

It's a blurry phone picture, but you can see it mostly. I really hate charcoal. I am not sure why, but I do. This, however, is kinda fun. He isn't done at all. His legs are missing and the bottom left of his coat and he definitely needs some darker darks and maybe some lighter lights. I like lots of contrast. It is fun though.

I actually found out that I have perfect scores on all of my drawing assignments and perfect attendence (don't ask me how that happened, I know I've missed at least one class.) which according to my teacher has not happened in awhile. This, of course, has me wondering why the heck I am not in art school, but I know the answer that God has plans for me in this beautiful world of business that I still love very much. It doesn't help that I was at CCS with Angelo today and wow, that place is just full of inspiration. I want to draw, draw, and draw some more right now. My creativity is bursting and I was only there for an hour! I wish I could have gone to school there. Oh well, I will still be an artist no matter what I am studying or what school I go to. I sure can't waste the talent God gave me.

oh, yes, I should admit that I haven't walked at all the past two days...I really need to start that back up, but probably not until next Monday. I really need to get some shoes other than my chucks. They really are not working.

Well I will have some pretty cupcakes for you tomorrow and an outrageously delicious cake for you on sunday. Be very, very excited! (I sure am!)

Amanda

I'm Making Muffins Asbestos I Can!

I did not make these babies from scratch(it's okay to cheat sometimes, especially when you are waking up at 7:00 am to make muffins for breakfast), but I did change out the oil for applesauce (the not-homemade-by-my-grandma kind) and added some extra cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla. I did make the icing from scratch though and added it on top. Yummy.

I made some of the muffins minus the strudel topping for my diabetic Momma and Papa.

Sadly I over-baked them a bit. But they were still good mostly. I just took the very bottom off.

Currently, I am sitting in a Barnes and Nobles two and a half hours away from my house. My family drove up to Midland today. As soon as we walked in I picked out about ten cupcake cookbooks. I found a few that I really like and am currently picking out a few good ideas from them. Cupcakes are so the best things ever. Its quite funny because my Papa (grandpa) is sitting across from me drinking hot chocolate and for a moment I thought I was smelling chocolate cupcakes from these books. Good thing I left all of my money and debit cards at home or I'd be buying all these books up!

They're backwards, but these are my two favorites..."cupcakes!" by Elinor Klivan, and "500 cupcakes" by Fergal Connolly.

Car Accident

I got into an accident on I-94 today. It was scary. I am okay and my car is drivable, but even now, after six hours, I am shaken up.  I really do not want to think about it.

In other news, I drove a race car today!

This one I did not crash.

I also came up with cupcake combinations that I am going to work on over the next nine weeks. I am sure there will be some very happy people who will have to eat them. There is at least one a week and two (maybe I'll even try three) on the weeks I have no school or less school. This week is my Daddy's birthday cake. It's the only whole cake I will be making for a while since my Momma, who's birthday is a few weeks from now, requested super peanut butter cupcakes. I am really looking forward to eating this cake next weekend though, my plan sounds to delicious. :) I would post the entire list, but I want to keep you guessing and surprised.

Tomorrow I am going with mi familia to Midland to meet with our lovely family members who live in the northern part of the state. It should be a fun-filled day of chilling in a Barnes and Nobles. It's what we do. <3

Best sleep ever.

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I slept in my new memory foam mattress for the first time last night. My friend Maddie and I moved it from her house all the way to my house. (she originally bought it, but decided she didn't want it. The company can't resell it so they reimbursed her and now she is selling it to me.) It was quite the adventure. We had to take apart the wooden box thing it sits on then get this full size floppy memory foam mattress into the back of my mom's van. There was a lot of me falling over seats like a ninja. My brother, thankfully, helped us bring it back in. I was very glad. I then proceeded to try to get every one of my family members to come downstairs and have a cuddle. My sister stopped by and my mom tried it out too. Everyone else was too tired. I do have to get some really nice new sheets, though, since I am going from a twin to a full. This bed definitely deserves the best sheets.

In other news, I have a paper to write this morning and I think I am going to walk early and grab a coffee and bagel. Today's weather is supposed to be absolutely amazing and I am so excited for 80 degrees. (Minus the fact that I have to work tonight, of course)

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Late Easter Gift

My mom bought me this adorable apron from Avon for Easter. It was back-ordered but it finally came in the mail today, along with an awesome cupcake stand which I will show you later. I gotta make some awesome cupcakes soon so I can get some use out of these things.

I also decided that I hate buttercream frosting. Its just too much for me, which is saying a lot. I need to find a frosting recipe like the kind that comes in the plastic jar from the grocery store. I will keep searching. It's weird because my from-scratch chocolate frosting is so delicious, and *sigh* I love my cream cheese frosting. I'll have to ask some friends what they use.

Today's walk went well. I was feeling absolutely terrible last night. My legs are hurting and I was suffering from some terrible pms and I felt sure that I was going to try to make excuses not to go out today. But I woke up and I walked. I think for the next few weeks I am going to just be power walking and then I will start running. It's easier on this out of shape body of mine and I don't want to push it too much.

I am bogged down with homework for the rest of the night and even more so this weekend. I have half of a sketchbook to fill in two weeks. I should not have procrastinated on that. So adios.

Amanda

Glee is Back!

Glee is back on today! Yay! My sister and I are having some pals over for the big event and I made these tasty treats. (None of Sandy's marijuana in these ones though.)

I got back out jogging today. I can't make it around the entire neighborhood jogging though, so I mostly walked. I'm still getting out there though, even despite the drizzle (which would so make a great baby name), so I am proud of myself.

-Amanda

These I made for Madison's 13th birthday. I cannot believe my baby sister is 13 already. Its crazy. Good thing my little baby sister won't be that age for another eleven years. Madie loves music. She is in musicals and band and choir. She is awesome.

This is the very first cake I have ever completely covered in fondant. I did what I have watched those fabulous people at Charm City Cakes do on Ace of Cakes. That is pretty much all the training I have in cake decorating. This turned out pretty decent though. Not perfect, but decent. I have one more cake to make this month (for mi padre) and I still owe Maddie (my oldest friend, not my sister) some chocolate cupcakes. So those will be coming soon.

I am re-opening this blog.

I have not written here in a very long time, but I think the forces in my life are encouraging me to start once again. This time we have some focus though.

First, I recently found an amazing personal blog and I love how she writes and shares her life with others. Everything. Not that I want to share everything, but I just really love the idea of getting personal. We'll see what happens.

Second, I am going to be baking a lot more. Mostly cupcakes I think, but birthday cakes for my family as well. I want to have a place to post pictures and talk about them, so this will function a lot as my cupcake blog. For that reason I am going to be re-naming the blog. I am thinking that I will stick with my future business name and call it: The Mustache Cupcakes. I don't know, any ideas?

And last, but not least, I am starting a work out regimen. GASP! Did I really just say workout regimen. I am the laziest girl, but I really want to be healthy and I would love to see this beautiful body of mine in tip-top shape. I will be waking up at 9am on weekdays to go jogging/walking and then I am going to run after work on Saturdays. Sundays are my only day off. I will probably add some yoga or pilates in soon, but for now I am going to just be jogging/walking.

In fact, today was my first jog/walk. It didn't go very well. Silly me, I forgot to drink water before hand and half way around my block started to feel that lack of water. So I walked until I got home where I am sitting right now drinking a large cup of water and eating some of my grandma's amazing apple sauce.

This is going to be a very interesting process I think and I hope I stay commited to it. Cupcake post to follow.