Sign

Decided to go for a run today and find a good picture for today's photo a day! It resulted in a great picture, and I got a good workout too!!

Close Up

Photo a day is close up, so of course I had to take a picture of my favorite subject when he woke up first thing in the morning! LOVE my little dude!!

On your plate

The subject fir today's photo a day June is "on your plate". I meant to take it if breakfast, seeing as we had gone out...but of course I forgot, so a picture of dinner us what it turned out to be! Spaghetti Alfredo with garlic loaf! YUMMO!!!

Empty

Today's photo for photo a day is "Empty". We had an impromptu birthday party for my friends little girl, so we had a small group over for the celebration. We had many empty things to choose from once dinner was finished, but seeing as I am the cupcake whisperer, I thought that the empty cupcake wrappers photo seemed the most fitting!

Evening

As mentioned in the previous post, today's photo should have been a morning subject, but when I work the early shift, mornings are rushed and hectic, so I decided to modify it to and evening shot. Doug has been wanting to go to five guys for dinner, and today seemed like the perfect day to do it. We had never been before, and like most restaurants, Fridays are super busy. Unfortunately the cashier punched in every one of our burgers wrong, and me being stubborn, was the only one who made them redo mine. I am glad they did because it was a super delicious burger, and the amount of fries you get it is ridiculous. Of course my photo subject was Xander, while he waited for our food!

Photo a day June challenge

Every month there seems to be a photo a day challenge, where someone writes a list of 1 photo to take a day. Well this month I have decided to accept this challenge. I may vary a little from the list that I have found, like today was supposed to be a photo of the morning, but airing as this morning was rushed, I decided to to it from this evening. Anyways, hopefully it will help me become more creative with the pictures that I take! I hope you enjoy them!

100 cupcakes!

So as you all are already aware, I am obsessed with cupcakes, and Mike thinks that we should start up a business.  He was checking out my blog at work one day after I made a post, and his works office manager happened to walk by and saw the pictures, and she and Mike set it up for me to make 100 cupcakes this month for their monthly staff birthdays. I was really nervous because I wanted to e able to pull it off and have them look and taste like professional cupcakes. 

This past Wednesday I started by baking.  She wanted at least 3 flavors, so the staff had some choice.  I decided to make 5, Chocolate Fudge, Devils food cake, French Vanilla, Lemon, and Cherry Chip.  By the end of the night I had 110 cupcakes baked, and 3 batches of icing ready. 

Thursday night was decorating night.  I wasn’t sure how exactly I wanted to decorate the cupcakes, but I did know that I wanted to make them all look different.  I decided to start with the chocolate ones, seeing as I was just going to do a basic chocolate buttercream icing with sprinkles.  I decorated the 2 types slightly different so that they would be easy to see they were in fact different.  Once those were some I did the Cherry Chip.  I decided on tinting the buttercream pink and do a simple round swirl with some clear red sprinkles. 

The Lemon was next with a light yellow star swirl with white sprinkles.  The plain French Vanilla ended up with plain white icing with multi colored sprinkles, and last but not least my signature fun multi colored French vanilla cupcakes. 

 I was not as happy with the way the decorating turned out on them.  I found they looked like they didn’t fit in with the clean and simple theme I did with the other flavors.  


All in all though I am very happy with the way they turned out and I hope that they were just as happy, and hopefully this will turn into a monthly venture for us.  Finger crossed!