i heart cupcakes

Yesterday I set out on a mission to try out atleast 4 new cupcake recipes...8 hours, 55 cupcakes, 4 cupcake variations later I ended up with results I was extremely happy with, I found a chocolate cupcake recipe that seemed good, I split the batter into four and added the extra ingredients to create the 4 individual flavours.... ....the toppings were a total improvisation because I realised that I had run out of some essential ingredients....so I made up the toppings from what I thought would taste interesting with the base.... these are photos from last nights cupcakes adventures....

I Would acctually even have to go as far as to say that these were the four best cupcakes I've made to date...I think I will most definitly trying out more recipes from http://www.cupcakeblog.com/

{Chocolate cupcakes with coconut buttercream icing}

{Chocolate cupcakes with fresh strawberries and mint whipped chocolate ganache}

{Chocolate chai tea cupcakes}

{Chocolate and mixed berry cupcakes with cream cheese frosting}

I made mini versions of each cupcake as well;

Photo of the Day
Day 82:

Rocky road

I went on this day trip to Fujairah yesterday; Fujairah is one of the emirates (states) of UAE its nothing at all like Dubai, its mountainous with gorgeous landscapes, in a rocky, barren sort of way, its very small with even smaller broken and cracked buildings its more like a dusty town in comparison to the over-zealous cityness of Dubai. its about 2 hours drive from where I live in Dubai. They have this road side market in the mountains...which are more like high rockyhills than actual mountains per say, where they sell; plants, pottery, fruit n veg, carpets n the sorts,... although I really don't have much interest in any of those things I thought it would be a good photo opp... and a good chance to get out of the house, so I set off with my parents and two of my parent's friends, returned with a trunk full of plants and pottery and 110 new photos on my camera.

Here are a few from the trip....

Day 74
Photo of the day:

Reminising....

So I might have missed a few days of blogging the last few days... I have been surprisingly busy the last few days I was meant to write the blog yesterday but I was out all day annd when I did finally get home I was too exhausted from being out all day...
well that and my brother just bought Resisdent Evil 5 for the PSII and ive been sitting around the last few days playing that and in spare moment I have...

I don't actually have much to report but; today I dug though my trunk of memories ( yes I need to come up with a less gay name for it)… I’ve had this trunk since early highschool….I've always been abit of a horder in the sense I keep everything…cards, notes made in class, doodles by friends... anything memory related, it was so great going back and reminising on my highschool days i found sooo much junk in there..... I loved it...there were stories i had written in year5 and a diary me and cousin wrote when we were 7...

Its strange though I seem to be living in the past lately I keep thinking about things that were, people im no longer friends with, friends I shouldn’t have made friends with, people I wish I was more than friends with…. I suppose cuz there isn’t anything happening in my present and the future isn’t looking like much either I feel like all I have is the past to hold on to even though I should let go…I should have let go already…
But oh well see where the future takes us…

On exciting news I had my second driving class the other which was fun…38 more lessons to go and I can take test ..i seriously can’t wait to drive will save soo much money from taxis…but im starting to bleieve my intructor is a little flaky out of she cancelled my lesson today so that out of 3 lessons shes cancelled two and one shes changed the time for...
Also I found some really cool shops here that has really cool fashion I pretty much wanted to buy every single piece of clothing there I also found this other shop where I found this ultra ultra cute dress which I intend on going back and buying before it gets sold out seeing as it was the last piece…

Shiza
x

Photo of the day
Day 66

Because I love the poloriod queen...

So yesterday I was talking to Kirstie and she linked me to the most awesome site in the world...its essentially a programme that you download and it converts your regular JPEG photo into a digital poloroid...and if, like myself, your a massive fan of poloriods this is the coolest thing..well ever!! so thank you soo much kirstie to introducing me to this programme :D
And after spending, without exageration, the ENTIRE day converting pretty much my entire photo collection (which is enormous) into poloroid I thought I'd post up some of the images up on this blog....

I entitle this collection 'Because I love...'

http://www.poladroid.net/ is where to go to download the program...