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;

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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
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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
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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...

brunch-eon!!

[your blog is here kirstie no need to panic :P]

We had this really cute brunch today with my mum’s high school friends and their daughters it was interesting to see my mother with her friends especially after finding old black and white photos of her and her friends in high school….its odd imagining your mothering being silly imbition-less just laughing with friends like I used to do…

photos of my mother:

[in the right-hand side corner is my mum in black and white]

The brunch was great though it was an all ladies brunch and the food was ultra yum…
I made blueberry muffins and peanut butter kisses but due to time contraints, I can't really claim the fame for either of them I had a little help from Betty crocker….
I am totally in love with this variation on the peanut butter cookie recipe… I'm pretty sure you can use any standard plain peanut butter cookie recipe…all you do is is roll the batter into an 1inch ball roll in sugar and put bake them till they're pretty much done (still a little soft inside) and immediately push a Hershey kiss on top on the cookie…then move it to a wire rack to cool…..they're pretty much best to eat immediately as although the kiss holds it shape its completely melted from the inside so the second you put it in your mouth it the chocolate collapses in a medley of peanut butter cookie covered in melted chocolate… tres awesomeness...

oh also my baby got back from the fix-ers he's all better now...i promise not to drop u again

:(.....

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Day 58

Microphone Abuser

Hello humans
So after recently trolling to some seriously awesome blog sites I have made my peace with the fact that in comparative mine will not be as cool or artsy or interesting. As cute, quirky, interesting, haught couture are not words used to describe my dress sense, I don’t have empecable taste for things in life I don’t even have amazing stories to tell about my action packed days….

Im just someone who has moved to dubai and is in the process of trying to sink my teeth into this place and readjusting and trying to get bearings in this new life…not as easy as I thought it was going to be…

Dubai is an awesome place whether or not it’s a place a person can truly settle down and live for a long duration of time is up for debate but its certainly is interesting…its very different to Sydney where…I don’t know what it was about that place. A place, I felt where inspiration was oozing out of every pore and was around every corner here its a lot harder to find such inspiration its highly commercialised and mainstream it lacks personality, and character and for a place that has such potential to be rich in heritage and culture it seriously lacks and what culture they do portray just seems fake and staged used more as a tourist gimmick than actually being intouch with their history and heritage….which is sad….

In saying that it does its job …to unaware onlookers it all really does look fascinating intriguing and its definitely a place you want to experience…and there are definitely some awesome places you want to check out.. Over the last two months I’ve been keeping a mental note of places to take kirstie to when she comes to visit me I thought I’d document them down pictures and all in my next blog because there are still a few places I want to go to and try out to determine whether they go on the list or not…

That’s all from me today

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Day 56

I just like this photo cuz it perfectly represents my day so far watching old school Buffy (as seen being burnt at the stake above) in my monkey pajamas ^-^

First blog...

So..my first blog...seems kinda exciting and scary at the same time...im not sure how many people can see this...and if it really is accessible to everyone and anyone in the whole world i feel mildly obligated to write something of actual substance here...

But knowing me and my life at the moment, i wont...

Im just going to use this as a platform to rant/post up anything interesting and upload me photos...so essentially now that I've moved to new country my minions in sydney can keep tabs on me and what i get up to..... :)

shiza

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day 54: