Saturday, July 18, 2009

Lemon Muffins


No, I am NOT vegan yet.But these babies look delish By Chris on www.vegalicious.org.
Yield: 12 muffins

Ingredients:

1/2 cup plain soy yogurt
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 egg replacer
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
grated zest of 2 lemons
for the tops:
1/4 lemon juice
1/4 cup melted vegan margarine
1 cup sugar

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Line a cupcake tin with paper liners, spray the papers with a spray baking oil.
In a large bowl, mix together the soy yogurt, oil, lemon juice and egg replacer.
In a separate bowl, stir together the flour, 3/4 cup sugar, baking powder, salt, and lemon zest.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry, and mix until just blended.
Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared muffin cups.
Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the top springs back when lightly touched.
Cool muffins in the tin on a wire rack.
Dipping the Tops:
When the muffins are cool, dip each muffin in the lemon juice, then the vegan margarine followed by the sugar sugar.
Let set.

Notes:

adapted from All Recipes

Filled Carrot Cake Cupcakes


Of playinghouseblog.com

Carrot Cake Cupcakes
Adapted from Cathy
Makes 24

1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
3 cups grated carrots
1 cup chopped walnuts

1. Preheat oven to 300F. Mix oil and sugar together in a large bowl. When it's blended well, add the eggs one at a time, beating after each one.

2. In a smaller bowl mix together flour, salt, baking soda and cinnamon. Slowly add to egg mixture and when blended add carrots and walnut and mix well.

3. Use a 1/4 cup measure to portion batter into well-greased cupcake tin. Bake for 25-27 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Cool completely before frosting.


Cream Cheese Frosting
Makes enough to frost a bazillion cupcakes (i.e. I had lots left over after frosting 24)

8 oz cream cheese
1/2 stick butter, room temperature
1 1 lb box of powered sugar
2 tsp lemon juice
2 tsp vanilla

Blend cream cheese and butter until creamy. Slowly add sugar, mixing well after each addition. Add lemon juice and vanilla and beat just until blended in. Spread on cooled cupcakes.


It really looks yummy!!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Gagalicous



Lady Gaga how-to make up, and even things to buy to look like her!


American Apparel- Liquid black leggings, and big unisex tee shirt in black! Poker Face make up! Watch this vid by Make up mogul Michelle Phan!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFMaLuI1uxc&feature=channel_page

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Outfit of today.





Pair some solid skirts and dresses with neon shirts, or cool graphic tees and sneakers.
This black tulip skirt will look great with a neon pink shirt and silver baubles.
Add cool chetah print flats.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Cheap DIY with Alaya!





Today's DIY! Cheap and chic!
SUNLESS TAN!

Today, guys and girls spend tons of money getting tacky, orange tans. Spray tans are gross and too tangerine like, and UV beds make your skin age super quick. Get a perfect shade.

*Items can be found at a drugstore, prices here from Walgreens/drugstore.com*


First, for your body apply a cocoa butter to add a golden glow to the skin.
WALGREENS- Palmers Cocoa butter with Vitamin E. (5.29)

For the legs, more daring can apply Sally Hansen spray Airbush Legs in your skin tone. WALGREENS(13.49)

For the eyes, apply a copper colored eyeshadow to add a glow to the face.
CoverGirl, WALGREENS, 3 KIT EYE ENHANCERS METALICS (4.99) Line the creamy stick to the inner corners of the eyes. DRUGSTORES-(2.00) Apply two coats of eye brightening mascara by Neurtrogena, Healthy volume in a chocolate brown. (9.00)

To finish it out, apply a medium amount of Bonnebell Lip Lites in Angel food Cake
(4.00), and dust Maybeliine Finishing Veil bronzer Powder (9.49).

NOTES-Keep the bronze look a shade darker then your skin (Vanessa)or risk tacky tans!
(Brooke)

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Jodie"VenetianPrincess"

Jodie, or known mostly as Venetian Princess, is the #1 subsribed female on YouTube! Born as Jodie Amy Rivera, a Swedish and Italian beauty born Febuary 22,1984. Highly influenced by Weird Al, she is famous for parodies, spoof songs and musicals. On Samsung Behold cell phones, in December 2008 one of her videos were included in the videos. She studied opera at the New England Conservatory of Music, in Boston. Her biography includes her most recent title of Miss Massachusetts State Queen. She has an album, music played over radios, and appeared in HBO web shows. In 2009, Jodie won the title of Miss Youtube. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Princess
VISIT HER WEBSITES!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2766085/ http://www.youtube.com/user/VenetianPrincess
http://www.youtube.com/skydiamondz http://www.myspace.com/venetianprincess
http://twitter.com/vprincess
http://www.vprincess.com/Site/Home.html

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Beautiful creativity

Flippin' through a photo set on surrealism on flickr. The gal who does these AMAZING photographs had one that really caught my attention. She has her rights, so sadly I cannot show this AMAZING photo, so I had an AMAZING creativity burst and an AMAZING idea popped in my head. Actually two, cause yeh just do...
1. OMFG! I should make a poem!!
2. I need to stop saying AMAZING!
Lemme get it out- AMAZING! AMAZING! AMAZING! AMAZING! AMAZING! AMAZING!
Rehka is her name. She has a photo called I need myself to survive, so I look at it and go. "Wow! Poem time!"
Here it goes...

medicine

Struggling, pulling myself
together.
I realize I stand in my
own way.
I face my reflection
whom I realize
that it is reacting
diffrently
My reflection opens my mouth
Rehka, pull it together
and wipes away my tears with
a thumb
I see her grab my hands
and realize
I am the poison at times
yet always
I am
the
medicine.

Child

Yeah, I feel like a little child. A toddler.
A few days ago I went to a local lake. I dug in the mud, collected feathers and made ugly mounds of mud with feathers stuck on the top, called a sand castle.
We watched Canadian geese dive and nibble on grass and mud beetles. We bought a box of 200 Otter Pops. I think were going to eat all of them pretty soon.
I'm not sure if the blog life is for me. I mean, I have alot to say, but no one
is even reading these.

Friday, July 3, 2009

lolz!



Don't youse luv dose lolanimals? Teh quoot animal pekshures with bahd grammars?
Deh are so awesomez! I has some peksures of dem too.

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A little jumbled...


Hey...
I don't think I have any readers, but still...
I haven't been posting for awhile.
I really have been busy, and I'm also trying to convince my family to allow me to go vegetarian. Pretty serious about it too. I can't go full on with no meat, I still have to eat fish... After that I'll go Lacto-Ovo-(eggs and milk) then maybe head on to full frontal. I guess after that, vegan, fruitatarian, then raw foodist...
Think I'll stop at Lacto-Ovo.
I really don't have anyone to enertain... so I'm feeling really stupid.
Oh! Has anyone seen the new Marc by Marc Jacobs summer collection! I haven't yet, and can't find it either. He's a GENIUS.