Fudgey Dark Chocolate Cupcakes

Cupcakes are way more fun to make than big cakes. Plus, they are totally cute!

I made this batch of cupcakes for a baby shower. I made the cake and the icing from scratch. I found the recipes online.

The icing ended up being very thick and hard. I used a chocolate topping recipe but messed up on the ingredients and ended up mixing in a ton of extra dark chocolate chunks. As a result I ended up with dark chocolate fudge on top of cake. No complaints here!

I found the gold foil cups at a craft store as well as the light blue sprinkle balls. For winter I think I will make some white-frosted cupcakes and use the blue sprinkles for a festive snowy look.

Rini's Logo

I want to start making my cosplay photos pop more, like adding a boarder, adding an artistic stamp (Logo), and or doing so photo shopping to change lightening effects of the photo.

So this is what I came up with for the Logo.  It's transparent so I will only have the lines stamped onto a photo.  The line colors will change according to the look and feel of the picture it will be stamped on.

I have two versions, I like vesion one better because I think it's cooler and easier to maintain and add to pictures, but version two is more clear when it gets shrunk

Version 1


Version 2

HAPPY KINECT DAY

As a developer on the Xbox Live team I would like to take this opportunity to advertise about Kinect. Today it Launches!!!! The first Gaming Console to bring you Controller-less gaming. Wait that's incorrect. There is a controler and that's YOU, the human.

GO PLAY AND DANCE

Somewhere to Stick Those Needles

I discovered that needles get lost very easily when I just toss them on my magnetic pin catch-all.
That's why I decided to make this beauty:



This little emery was made entirely of scrap fabric I had lying around - some white felt (which I hope is wool, but probably polyester) some pink wool felt, and green linen. Ideally in making something like this you would want to use natural fabrics since fabric like polyester could dull your needles.

The button was leftover from a quilting project, and I used it to pull all of the layers together.