The Girl With A Curl

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83377124700479848132012-02-16T07:30:05.484-08:00The Girl With A CurlCurrent crafty constructionsThe Girl With A Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580614128015137588noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337712470047984813.post-80909887676079916362008-04-03T11:10:00.001-07:002008-04-04T00:11:48.836-07:00I've Moved!

Follow me over to a new home!(Forgive the funny drawing. For lack of a better visual I tried to make one myself with good 'ol pencil 'n paper. She's pulling along her KitchenAid stand mixer on a cart! Haha.)My new address: www.thegirlwithacurl.comThank you to Noel for helping with Moving Day and for bearing with all of my Wordpress wonderings.I love how April's starting off bright, shiny and new.

The Girl With A Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580614128015137588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337712470047984813.post-28921609623523496782008-03-31T12:20:00.001-07:002008-03-31T14:20:18.835-07:00April, Fool!

Tomorrow is April 1st. I thought it would be fun to share these Fruit Fool ideas so you can celebrate your own pun-y, foolish Tuesday.The Fool is a classic British dessert that’s genius in its simplicity. You puree fresh fruit, sweeten it and fold it into whipped cream. (At least that’s what my memory tells me). The end product is a lovely bowl of fruited cream that’s simple and easy to make. I

The Girl With A Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580614128015137588noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337712470047984813.post-11152662561659128182008-03-28T12:14:00.001-07:002008-03-29T20:24:30.469-07:00If I Could Eat A Book

I would eat this.Many chefs and foodies consider Larousse Gastronomique the definitive compendium of the many mouthwatering aspects of French cuisine. It includes recipes, ingredients and cooking techniques. It must have many yummy things mentioned in it, like full cream milk and European butter. Oh, heaven.I love reading cookbooks. I’ll sometimes pick one out to read in bed when I can’t sleep. (

The Girl With A Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580614128015137588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337712470047984813.post-70688839090032499622008-03-27T12:16:00.001-07:002008-03-27T15:12:49.093-07:00Know When To Fold 'Em*

When I discovered these new ways of folding everyday items, I knew I had to share them. They’re the neatest things.A TEE IN TWOHow to fold a t-shirt in under two minutes (or is it two seconds?), from the ingenious Japanese. They invented Origami after all. After you watch this, you’ll say, “Why didn’t I think of that?”FINELY FITTEDThis is something I learned from cousins on my dad’s side. (They’

The Girl With A Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580614128015137588noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337712470047984813.post-54295286599686755342008-03-26T12:20:00.001-07:002008-03-26T13:02:01.029-07:00Good Golly, My Lolly

So, I was actually intrigued when I found out about these Absinthe Lollipops.And then, I became slightly disgusted by these Maple-Bacon ones, though I think I’d try them at least once.And, however fascinated I am by the strange tastes that people’s palettes demand, I am too grossed out by this Tequilalix Lollipop to even consider it.First two lollipops from lollyphile.com, the rest are from

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These ABC (Already Been Chewed) Cookie Cutters by Fred are morbidly cute. I think these would work great with your standard Gingerbread, Sugar or Snickerdoodle recipe!Cut-outs can actually be a bit laborious, but I’ve found that chilling the dough makes for more defined and easier-to-handle cookies.Here are some sugar cookie ones with royal icing that I made for a godson’s birthday last year. I

The Girl With A Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580614128015137588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337712470047984813.post-79899893651496721572008-03-24T19:53:00.000-07:002008-12-11T07:55:53.249-08:00Huli Ka! (The Luxe: A Guilty Confession)

Anna Godbersen's Young Adult (YA) offering, The Luxe, is a fun read that I admittedly couldn't put down. I say admittedly because it's a YA book and my choice of it was partly driven by the book cover. (Aren’t those colors scrumptious? That dress looks like she’s been swallowed by a big pink cupcake, but I actually like it!) My brother went on and on about how the cover may be appealing to me

The Girl With A Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580614128015137588noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337712470047984813.post-25179285775823245932008-03-24T13:34:00.000-07:002008-12-11T07:55:53.521-08:00How Much Is A Cupcake Worth?

Flour prices in the US more than doubled in the past month. This means that all types of baked goods—from cupcakes to pizza—are going to cost you more per bite.Heard this all on CNN yesterday and was quite dismayed by the news. This impacts home bakers like me who will find pricier flour on grocery shelves.This is all because of rising wheat prices in the US, owing partly to the increased demand

The Girl With A Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580614128015137588noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337712470047984813.post-6236377453892159672008-03-23T10:11:00.001-07:002008-12-11T07:55:53.845-08:00So That's Where All The Peeps Go

Apparently, The Washington Post has an annual Peeps Show (how I love puns) where readers send in dioramas using marshmallow Peeps. I've always wondered what happened to all of those. I, for one, don't eat the pink bunny ones because they taste like sugar-crusted plastic puffs. I would eat the yellow chick ones, except I think they're too cute and worry that I'm crushing their little peep lives as

The Girl With A Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580614128015137588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337712470047984813.post-52642470117350675132008-03-22T22:32:00.000-07:002008-12-11T07:55:55.847-08:00Peach Be With You Cupcakes

I've been lurking on Wifely Steps for over three months now. Toni used to be my blockmate in college and I found her blog through Via. I like reading her blog because it reminds me that the quest for good homemaking is alive in Manila. I know that sounds corny, but I'd like to think that if I still lived there, I would be taking the steps to carve my own corner in that pocket of the world with

The Girl With A Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580614128015137588noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337712470047984813.post-31178887896169039342008-03-22T22:25:00.000-07:002008-12-11T07:55:58.143-08:00Pop(s) Goes My Heart

These Red Velvet Cake Lollipops took a lot of time to make, but they were a fun project.Cakes on a stick, covered with white chocolate, tinted with different spring colors, in celebration of Easter.

The Girl With A Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580614128015137588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337712470047984813.post-83887722685661992582008-03-22T22:20:00.001-07:002008-12-11T07:55:58.946-08:00Dondie's Turtle Pull-Apart Cupcake Cake

That was a mouthful!Made this cake last weekend for a nephew. The thing is, I was told his younger brother was the one celebrating a birthday--turns out Dondie is actually, well, 16 years old now. If I was 16, I wouldn't really appreciate a turtle cake, but he's a sweet kid and didn't seem to mind.Made with cupcakes frosted as one to look like a happy Mr. Turtle. Who would eventually be eaten.

The Girl With A Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580614128015137588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337712470047984813.post-14164220835929928902008-03-22T16:46:00.000-07:002008-12-11T07:56:00.034-08:00A Commentary On Color

I've never been good with colors. For the longest time, I was stuck in the whole matchy-matchy color mode, where I was on the eternal quest to match my shoes with my purse. Hence, I could only make quilts that were the standard white and pink, blue and white, red and white, etc. Orange and blue? WHY?!?! But over the past three years or so, I actually started discovering colors I never considered

The Girl With A Curlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580614128015137588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337712470047984813.post-18581221194864181052008-03-19T21:23:00.001-07:002008-12-11T07:56:00.346-08:00Hello There

The crafting and cooking life is a crazy life if you don't have an outlet for it. Ideas crowd your brain like the mosh pit at a Pearl Jam concert. The more obvious thing to do is to MAKE all of these ideas but there are only 24 hours in a day, and you only have two hands.So you bide your time. You let the ideas pile up into big mounds of colored silk in your brain. You get by. But then you find

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