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November 10 is National Vanilla Cupcake Day! So get out and buy some or bake some to celebrate!

 

More info from nationaldaycalendar.com:

  

NATIONAL VANILLA CUPCAKE DAY

 

National Vanilla Cupcake Day is observed annually on November 10. This is a day for dessert lovers across the country to celebrate and indulge.

 

Cupcakes have also been known to be called:

•Fairy Cakes

•Patty Cakes

•Cup Cakes (different from Cupcakes (one-word)

 

Cupcakes can be traced back to 1796 when a recipe notation for a cake to be baked in small cups was written in American Cookery (by Amelia Simmons). The earliest known documentation of the term cupcake was in 1828 in Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook.

 

Cupcakes were originally baked in heavy pottery cups. Today, some bakers still use individual ramekins, small coffee mugs, larger teacups, or other small ovenproof pottery-type dishes for baking their cupcakes.

 

HOW TO OBSERVE

 

To celebrate National Vanilla Cupcake Day, share some cupcakes with your friends and family and watch an episode of the Food Network reality-based competition show, Cupcake Wars. Enjoy one of the following vanilla cupcake recipes.

 

Classic Vanilla Cupcakes

Raspberry Filled Vanilla Cupcakes

Sour Cream Cupcakes

 

Use #VanillaCupcakeDay to post on social media.

 

HISTORY

 

Our research was unable to find the creator of National Cupcake Day.

 

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More fun and games with paper on the light pad - this time with blue crepe paper, a glass Christmas decoration and the stopper from a fancy glass bottle!

Flat Lay / Knolling by the Calendar

March 12th - Plant a Flower Day

 

I found these pretty pansies

I had last year growing in the lavender border ...

Greet each new day with a smile!

 

This Blythe doll is Sea Sailor See, posing for the theme “Sheep” in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr.

Agatha- Soom Breccia, belongs to mara_fox

Flatlay still life

Here’s my comparison picture of Zoe and Her Pet Fish (left) with Mrs. Retro Mama (right). This is also for the theme “Twenty-five” in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr. Their dresses and shoes are included in the count of “things that are yellow” but their hair is not! I made Zoe’s dress; Mama’s dress is vintage Skipper.

“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” —A.A. Milne

 

This Blythe doll is Lovely Katherine’s Corner, posing with a lovely bouquet from our yard for the theme “Weeds” in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr.

Processed and textured in Topaz Studio

Flat Lay / Knolling by the Calendar

May 20th - Pick Strawberries Day

 

Easy and Healthy Breakfast Idea :

whole grain bread with ricotta spread and strawberries

sprinkled with pistachios ...

 

More on my blog

sylviahouben.blogspot.com/2018/05/strawberries.html

Peter Cats legendary Chelo Kebab. That generations of Kolkatans have grown up loving. Buttered rice. Chicken and lamb skewers. A perfect sunny side up. Cold butter on the rice. Bliss.

Juicy olive oil. Azeitonas: qual a sua opinião a respeito? Amor ou horror?

Flat Lay / Knolling by the Calendar

September 22nd

- White Chocolate Day

- Ice Cream Cone Day

 

White chocolate dipped ice cream cones :

 

Melt white chocolate in a bain marie and let it cool down a bit.

Dip cones in chocolate and then immediately into a bowl of chopped pistachio nuts or pecan nuts with milk chocolate.

Put upright in glasses and leave to set ...

 

Oh no ... I forgot to buy ice cream :-o

 

More on my blog

sylviahouben.blogspot.be/2017/09/late-summer-treat.html

Chocolate.

 

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Another shot from my ongoing series of tissue paper abstracts shot on a light pad - here featuring a skeleton leaf

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Another in my occasional series of trying to make something our of flowers on their last legs.

Handbag - Silkstone Fashion Editor, 2001

Scissor - Re-ment My Favorite Stationery #9

Corkscrew - Orcara Art of Red Wine, #3

Crepe paper and winter hydrangea blossoms shot on a light pad diffused with a sheet of tissue paper

121 in 2021

#79 - Rhymes with Dog

 

ODC - Snail Mail

- catalogs and other junk comprise the bulk of my incoming snail mail these days. Most of the important stuff comes by electronic means.

 

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“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” —Diane Von Furstenberg

 

These Blythe dolls are my Candy Carnival twins, wearing their stock dresses. As you can see, one came out of the box with shorter bangs than the other one did. The background is a jigsaw puzzle. It was rather difficult, but I’m glad I stuck with it and finished it, because it looks great!

Following on from the Spring version, as the garden had so many lovely small flowers that are difficult to display in a more traditional vase arrangement. Flowers include blue Echiums, yellow Loosestrife, pink Loosestrife, sweat peas, scarlet Crocosmia and mauve Budlia. Due to the setup, I have to shoot these with the camera's kit lens at its wide angle setting which creates all sorts of issues with warped geometry and objects not appearing in the photo in the position you place them in due to perspective distortion. The top inch or so, of tile, had to be digitally recreated to fit the top of the stick in even though, in reality, it fitted inside the confines of the tile, the fact that it's elevated slightly, combined with the wide angle, cause it to bow away hence the need for a lot of cloning!

Found still life from Newborough Beach. Anglesey, North Wales. Shot as seen.

A classic Singaporean snack, that doesn't burn the wallet

 

Cream crackers with a piping hot instant coffee.

 

Have this for breakfast, tea, supper, anytime.

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