Fashion show! Fashion show! Fashion show at lunch

Well, 2 weeks ago I was given the opportunity to do hair for a REAL fashion show. One of the designers was a girl named Devani Weaver, a designer from AZ I believe. I guess she got designer of the year at Scottsdale Fashion Week. But anyways, her stuff was crazy! Here's her Etsy site if you'd like to check it out http://www.etsy.com/shop/devaniweaver. I only have pictures of 2/4 models I did. I couldn't remember who the other 2 were so I have nothing to show for them. I wish I had a few more views of their hair but I guess the event was about clothes and not about the hair. Buuut, I had so much fun doing it! It was a great experience and gave me a lot of practice on how to whip out a 20 minute up-do.




And just another update, my niece is world wide famous now. Yeup, that's right. She is the official Dillard's 2010 baby girl/infant Spring model poster baby thing. So if you happen to be in a Dillard's, make sure you look for this little cutie

And, by the end of this week we should have a new nephew! My sister is already having baby #2! I can't believe it's already time. I'm so excited for her and her family. Love you Bree!!!
Anyways, that's it for now. I'll update again when I have pictures of Bree's little boy. Good night.

Gah! Nothing to blog about...

Well,I don't really have anything to blog about at the moment, so I figured I would just share a few of my favorite clips from some of my favorite shows. Hope you guys like them too :)

Tosh.0
Fire In The Hole
www.comedycentral.com
Web Redemption 2 Girls, 1 Cup Reaction Demi Moore Picture

On this next one...I'm sorry for the 2 bleeps. Please don't be offended.

Tosh.0
Web Redemption - Home Shopping Fail
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Web Redemption 2 Girls, 1 Cup Reaction Demi Moore Picture

And lastly...this.

Happy "fatty"tines day

Valentine's Day is officially known as Fatty Fatty Fattytine's Day to me. I'm not a huge fan of this day but I do love and will accept any excuse to go out to dinner. We celebrated early Friday evening by going to my favorite restaurant ever...Cheesecake Factory! I got the spicy cashew chicken and a strawberry lemonade to drink. It was to die for! But as usual, I was too full for cheesecake by the end of our meal. After dinner we headed back home and just relaxed. Then Saturday, we ended up "splurging" on our favorite treats which would include, Diet Coke, Dr. Pepper, salt and vinegar chips and mini cadbury eggs. We then proceeded to watch a lame ninja movie and a surprising even lamer New Moon. I have come to the conclusion that the Twilight series is completely over rated and Vampire Diaries dominates. I have an obsession with this show. It's actually kind of sad. I feel like I'm back in high school by watching it, but I don't even care. I LOVE it! But anyways, that was pretty much the highlights of our day. And then Sunday morning we woke up and the Hubby surprised me with this super cute box of chocolates. We told each other we weren't going to get each other ANYTHING so I kind of felt bad that I really didn't get him anything. Whoops! But he was so cute. He picked out this specific box of chocolates because its wrapping paper had the same colors as our wedding. SO presh. But I guess I made it up to him by making his favorite breakfast meal, biscuits and gravy...and all from scratch :) It was a good, hearty, FATTY meal. SO I guess all in all, it was a good weekend but I now need to step onto that elliptical and start working it all off.
Here are my cute heart shaped biscuites...



And my first attempt at making fortune cookies...

And some heart shaped sugar cookies...

And by the way, I have the BEST sugar cookie recipe if any of you are interested. It calls for a small amount of ingredients and requires no "chilling" time.
And lastly, here is Dezzi passed out on the hubby's face. So adorable.

LOVE this song!

For those of you who are watching American Idol may remember the contestant Didi something. Well she sang this song last week and I loved it. But they only have the 30 seconds that she sang so I decided to find the original version by judge, Kara Dioguardi. And I had no idea that I would actually enjoy listening to her singing, but I loved it! So, I thought I would share it. I hope you like it :) Oh and I would skip the first 1:45 because it's just them rambling on about something.

Crafty nights

Last night I was "inspired" to learn how to make those cute fabric rosettes. I've been wanting to figure it out for awhile now but I have been too lazy to actually do it. So I spent a lot of last night, through trial and error, figuring out the cutest way to make these roses. And I did it! I was so proud of myself. I hand stitched them and everything! And okay, so this may be ghetto, but because I decided to do this at like 10:30 pm I didn't have time to get fabric so I ended up just cutting some old shirts that I never wore. And 2 hours later I had a "new" cardigan and new headband :) And I've always wanted to make my own headbands and sell them but never had the guts to do it.So I'm hoping now that I'll actually be able to do it and be successful at it. But anyways, I thought I'd post my pictures of creations. Sorry about the quality of the pic. My Iphone camera isn't the best quality but it gets the job done. And I'd like to get your opinions if making/selling headbands would even be worth it or if they're even cute enough to sell. I'd like to hear what you have to say. Thanks!

Rolo Cookies...So yum!

A few of you have been asking for my rolo cookie recipe, so I've decided to FINALLY post it and share it with the world :). You must be warned though...these are HIGHLY addicting! So here goes.
Rolo Cookies
2 1/2 C flour
3/4 C unsweetened cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1 C sugar
1 C brown sugar, firmly packed
1 C butter
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
48 Rolo candies

Extra: 1/4 cup sugar for rolling
Non-stick cooking spray

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Combine flour, cocoa & baking soda. Blend well.
In a large bowl beat 1 C sugar, brown sugar & butter until light & fluffy. Add vanilla & eggs. Beat well. Add Flour mixture. Blend well.
Roll 1 tablespoon cookie dough into a ball; flatten with the palm of your hand. (it's a very sticky dough, so it helps if you spray some non-stick spray on your hands/fingers while working with it) Then place 1 Rolo in the center of dough; bring sides together and roll into ball. Roll ball in the remaining ¼ cup white sugar. Bake on parchment lined, or sil pat, baking sheet and bake for 7-10 minutes. Cool on tray for about 5 minutes to let the ooey, gooey caramel inside to set and then move to a cooling rack.

*1 tablespoon batter may not seem like a lot, but trust me, you don't want a lot of excess dough. You want just the right amount of cookie for the caramely goodness to fill the inside. Does that make any sense?? I hope so*

Hope you guys enjoy making/eating these! They are delicious. And if you don't agree with me, then you're crazy and we can no longer be friends :)

Becoming more domestic.

Lately I've been feeling that my domestic-ness (yes, I do believe I've made up this word) has been improving. I actually enjoy cooking, a lot! But I do still need a lot of work on "enjoying" the cleaning part of domestic-ness but maybe someday I'll get there, or at least our cleaning lady will :) I also love to bake, but I've loved baking since forever. So I just thought since there really isn't anything big going on in our lives right now, I would post some of my cooking/baking accomplishments. Enjoy!
Homemade BBQ Chicken pizza

Cooked but not "crisped" pierogies

Crisped pierogies

Chicken dumpling soup (one of my new favs, never had it before until I made it)

Creamy veggie and wild rice soup

And the last of my cook book story book is...Rolo cookies! YUM!
Here's the sweet, gooey, delicious, cookies uncooked, but still lookin mighty fine!

And baked Rolo cookies. Probably one of my favorite cookies ever.

And the inside goodness

Well that's it for now. Sorry it's not very exciting stuff but it sure is yummy stuff!