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wow! it looks like it’s made of metal – so cool!!
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!I had to end the auction for “Gilded Sky” because my mother decided she wanted to keep him 😀
I did relist my Flame Phoenix at 25 dollars lower than his original cost too – he’s now up for $200.00 plus $15.00 shipping if anyone is interested!
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!I already said it in your Ebay thread, but that unicorn is so cool!! I love the coloring and the patterns.
Your work reminds me of colored pencil drawings – very soft and subtle. That’s really hard to achieve with paints, great job!
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!WOW purpleturtle!! That’s stunning, and totally my style! Too bad I don’t have any money ><
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!Kujacker wrote:Here is my WIP Phoenix. He obviously needs a lot more done, but I figured why not. I’ve been putting him off since painting a sculpt for the first time is kind of intimidating. You don’t know where to start or how to go about it!
I always love seeing how people go about painting things – On both of the phoenixes I’ve done I’ve done from the bottom up, but I can never tell if it’s the best way to go as far as not having to repaint over areas that I’ll inevitably get some other stray paint. 😀 I’ve thought about taking progress shots of my pieces but I never think of it. This time when I was painting my second dragon I actually took some with my cell phone so maybe I’ll put them up when I get some good finished pics. In any case, if you feel like taking some progress shots as you’re painting your phoenix, I’d love to see them!
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!Jasmine wrote:Yeral wrote:Hehe.. thanks guys! I wish I didn’t love eating them as much as I love making them too 😆
Also, thanks Pegasi and twindragonsmum for the links! I’m running out the door right now but I’ll definitely be checking them out later 🙂They look so good…do you have an easy chocolate recipe?? I was going to make some for our family Christmas gathering.
The only chocolate cupcake recipe that I have any hands-on experience with is the Chocolate Guinness. It’s really not a hard recipe as long as you don’t mind working with the Guinness. And I promise they taste nothing like beer! 😆
I can type up the recipe on here if you’re interested though 🙂
I was thinking of making some cupcakes for a dessert choice on Thanksgiving too – my brother’s fiancee suggested I find a Pumpkin Cupcake recipe and I think I may take up the challenge!
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!Hehe.. thanks guys! I wish I didn’t love eating them as much as I love making them too 😆
Also, thanks Pegasi and twindragonsmum for the links! I’m running out the door right now but I’ll definitely be checking them out later 🙂Commission spots are currently closed! Please message me for details.
Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!skeeterdeee wrote:Hee hee! Lokie, I was typing the same idea while you were typing! You just typed it faster than me! 😆 I stopped to take a Pop Tart break 😆
Skeeter you just made me laugh out loud! 😆
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!I feel ya, I had to seriously scrounge to justify getting one Kirin. And in my haste I also got the wrong eye color! 😆 Oh well. Sent an email to Susie, but if it’s too late I’m sure there will be more Kirins later that I can do the scheme I had planned on 🙂
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!I love baking, which I only realized quite recently in the grand scheme of things – about a year ago I decided that I wanted to learn how to make cakes from scratch that tasted better than boxed mix, topped with my own homemade frosting, and I even taught myself how to make fondant. My first cake was a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting and topped with homemade fondant.
I didn’t think it was half bad, given it was my first try. Still, my new love of baking easily and quickly turned into a love of baking cupcakes. I made a batch with fondant on top and decided that it wasn’t worth the effort to try to do that to cupcakes when you can just pipe the icing on to make it look great. Also, people were mistaking the fondant for the icing itself, and were surprised by the layer of REAL icing underneath! This is kind of a good thing, since it meant that the fondant tasted good, but bad because I wanted the taste to come from the true icing and cake and not the fondant!
By the way, forgive the images, they’re all from my cell phone and from well before I started using my father’s HD camera 😀 I’ll get better glamor shots of my cupcakes around the holidays because I plan on making lots of them!
If anyone would like recipes I will gladly post them, but for now I just wanted to enthuse about cupcake making 😀
Also, if some of the cupcakes look small, it’s because they are! I often make mini cupcakes because they bake and cool faster than regular sized cupcakes (and I get impatient!), but I also get complaints from friends and family that they aren’t big enough, so I sometimes make both small and large.
Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
These were the first recipe I made, and are still by far everyone’s favorite. The Guinness gives them a milder chocolate flavor – you can taste the stout but just barely. They taste great with the homemade cream cheese frosting. My sister has demanded that I make these for her when she comes home for Christmas because she’s a huge Guinness fan 😀 You may notice on the frosting of a few cupcakes in front is an almost yellowish looking bit – this is actually edible gold dust that I tried applying by sprinkling onto the frosting. It ended up clumping too much to look good.
Vanilla Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Buttercream
These were supposed to be made as Almond cupcakes, but my brother is allergic to anything almond-y so I tried my hand at making homemade vanilla cake instead. The cake alone reminds me of the taste of a sugar cookie, I love it! The Salted Caramel Buttercream is some of the richest, most delicious icing I’ve ever had – no joke! That’s not boasting either, I didn’t make the recipe up XD It calls for you to hand make the caramel that you put in, and trust me, it’s worth it. It’s so sweet and delicious. If you’re a fan of caramel, you’d love it! Some people find it too sweet though. I sprinkled the top with edible glitter – it kind of reminds me of that fake snow stuff that you can get for miniature towns – it’s really cute and doesn’t detract at all from the taste.
Vanilla Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Possibly the quickest and easiest cupcakes to make. A friend was leaving town and requested some cupcakes at the last minute and I figured this would be a good pair! I sprinkled these cupcakes with some plain old white granulated sugar.
Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Can you tell I like cream cheese frosting yet? XD Oh, I forgot to mention as well that my brother is getting married this upcoming June and his fiancee and him decided to ask me to bake them cupcakes for their wedding “cake”! This is why a lot of the cupcakes are white or pink and have sparkley decorations on them. For these guys I tried sprinkling yellow sugar on top, but I ended up not really liking the look. I wanted orange sugar since they were for Carrot Cake Cupcakes, but the local grocery store didn’t have any 😆
And finally, for my favorites…
Mocha Cupcakes with Peppermint Cream Cheese Frosting
These are the most delicious cupcakes ever if you like rich chocolate and mint flavors. However – a warning – they are easily THE MOST fussy cupcakes I’ve ever made! The recipe calls for freshly brewed coffee which is just fine in itself, but the addition of which tends to make the cupcakes very fragile after baking them. I’ve made them twice and both times they have sunk – instead of creating a nice dome like most cupcakes, these dome and then sink back into themselves just a little, creating a flat top. If they bake over the edge of the cupcake wrapper you have to VERY carefully pry them off of the muffin tin and pray that the top itself doesn’t come off in the process! The best way I’ve found to make them is to make them purposely small in the wrappers so that they don’t bake over at all, and stay completely within the confines of their little cupcake wrapper prison 😛 Still, even though they are a royal pain, they are a seriously rich and moist cake and the frosting ties it all together perfectly. I’m definitely making these again for christmas. I topped them off with some crunched up peppermints 🙂
Anyway, if anyone wants any of these recipes, PM me or just hollar in this thread and I’ll post it 🙂
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!Now I want some tea.. but it’s much too late for it! Going to have to make some with breakfast 😀
My favorite herbal tea has always been Tension Tamer by Celestial Seasonings. It’s always cracked me up that it has catnip in it 😆
I also love any lemon tea – I Love Lemon Tea, Lemon Zinger, you name it! I love it.Chai is fantastic with a little bit of milk and just the right amount of sweet, and Earl Gray is great when it tastes more fruity than herby.. I don’t know how to explain it well but I do know that Stash Earl Gray tastes more.. what I think of as “herby”, and Tazo (I think) tastes more fruity.
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!twindragonsmum wrote:My flat neighbors were horrified when I put ketchup on my fries – they were strictly ‘malt vinegar’ folks…
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I couldn’t live without ketchup on my french fries!
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I got a Kirin, hooray!
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!Can’t have a latte without espresso! I would never drink espresso alone, but there are too many awesome coffee drinks that involve it for me to shun it 🙂
Lattes are my favorite though – half milk, half espresso, just a leetle bit of sweetie added.
Also, this isn’t coffee, but the coffee shop serves a thing called a Steamer which is just steamed milk with flavored syrup added. It’s so delicious and it’s great for when you want something hot but don’t want the caffeine. I like mine with irish cream flavor 😀
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