ummm cakepops?

Ok, so I saw these cute little Cake Pops over at Bakerella's blog a while ago and kept it in my little "to do" file in my brain. She had me at cake on a stick :)

Now being fair I didn't have an exact recipe. I eyeballed it from the video and tried it. I didn't want to do anything fancy, I am thrifty so wasting ingredients is BAD!

I decided to show you first hand my opinion of said balls :)

So... final verdict.

They were ok.

I am going to try another batch, and I would change a few things.
1. Use white cake
2. Don't use Cream Cheese frosting out of a can
3. Don't use a whole can of frosting in a can (it was too squishy)
4. Keep my candy coating chocolate a little warmer to get a thinner covering
5. Make them smaller
6. Not show you a picture of me eating a cake pop

These have potential, I can see a styrofoam tray filled with barnyard animals at a birthday party. I think kids would get a hoot out of these, but right now I am going to go lay down. One of these bad boys was enough for me.

Monkey see...

Ok so I realized the other day that Poppy may possibly be copying me.

Duh right?.. Monkey see, Monkey do.

It wasn't until Poppy decided she was going to cover up my ouchies that I realized how many visible ouchies I actually had.

I bite my nails.

There I said it.

I bite my nails, Mark hates it, and now I think that Poppy might me coping me, and this breaks my heart.

You wanna know the stupider part of the whole thing is that I LOVE nail polish! I hoard it... I buy it, and I can't use it because my nails are so short and sore.

I have been reading all about this Fabulous new nail polish called Essie, and when went to search for it I thought I would have to order it online, so I didn't pursue it.

Last night while I was at my local drug store filling a prescription Poppy and I went to look at nail poilish and there it was! Not the best selection, but... Now being the nail polish aficionado that I am I was stoked! (Does anyone say that anymore!?) until I saw the price... $11 ouch. Now I might like nail polish, but I don't have nails so I really don't like to pay more than $5. However the cosmetic lady was there and she must have heard my jaw hit the floor. She pointed me to the sale bin. I was like "lady! this is a new super cool product! There is NO WAY that this stuff is one sale!" but it WAS!!!

I couldn't help myself... it was $7, I bought three.

Little Brown Dress

Sew Psyched

Merino Cool

For some reason I am especially excited about the Sew Psyched. I plan on putting this on my little stubbs tonight. I will give a full report on it's quality later tonight!  So far so good! No chips, it did require two coats, but it's holding strong!

Hopefully this will finally inspire me to stop biting, and in that show Poppy that it's not such a great idea.