Signed Tattoo Life covers!

You can now order a signed copy of my Tattoo Life cover here:

http://houseofwren.bigcartel.com/product/tatto-life-65

I am only selling a very limited amount of these so get one while you can!

Hope everyone is doing good sorry I have been working so much lately and have been a little lazy to blog but I will get back into is asap!

Birthday Treats!

Tomorrow is my dads birthday and we are having a few friends over tonight to celebrate since the rest of our week is jam packed! I made strawberry cupcakes and chocolate dipped strawberries

Since the chocolate dipped strawberries are pretty self explanatory and I don't think anyone needs a recipe for those here is a picture of them:

Here are the cupcakes all done I will post the recipe after (I added some extra chocolate on top that I had left from the strawberries)

Strawberry Puree

(this goes in the batter and the icing)

 Ingredients

• 5 cups fresh strawberries
  
• 2 teasppons lemon juice
  
• 1/4 cup sugar

1. Cut off stems and clean strawberries.
2. Place in blender or food processor.
3. Add lemon juice, and puree.
4. Add in sugar gradually for desired sweetness.

Strawberry Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
  
• 1 cup sugar
  
• 3 egg whites
  
• 2 teaspoons strawberry extract
  
• 2 cups fresh strawberrt pureed
  
• 1/4 cup plain or strawberry yogurt
  
• 1 1/2 cups flour
  
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
  
  Directions
  
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line cupcake tins with foil or paper liners.
  2. In a large bowl beat sugar and butter until fluffy. Add egg whites one at a time, and continue beating  until fluffy.
  3. Add strawberry puree and yogurt.
  4. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
  5. Gradually add batter to flour mixture. and beat until well blended.
  6. Pour batter into cupcake tins until 2/3rds fulls.
  7. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
  8. Cool completely.
    
  Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
  (you will not be able to pipe this icing it will not get thick enough)
  
  Ingredients
  
• 1/4 cup butter softened to room temperature
• 1 8 ounce package of cream cheese softened to room temperature
• 1/2 cup strawberry puree
• 6 cups confectioners sugar
• pink or red food tint or food coloring ( I didn't use any the puree made it a pretty color on its own

Directions

1. Using a large bowl, beat butter and cream cheese until well blended.

2. Add food coloring to make the tint pink or red.
3. Gradually add confectioners sugar, beating until smooth, and obtaining desired frosting consistency.

They taste AMAZING and if you have any extra of the puree it tastes delish over ice cream. The cake part is a litrle more on the muffin side then cupcake side so if you would prefer more of a cupcake flavour use a plain store bought cupcake mix and substitute the water in it with the strawberry puree. Lemme know if anyone of you make them what you think!

Here is a picture of them all set up and pretty for the table (don't mins the other random shit lol)

Alright time to go clean the kitchen and get the rest of dinner ready hope you guys have a great week ahead of you and to all my Canadian followers happy early Canada day!

Busy Week...

Alright so I move within the week and I won't be blogging much till after the 4th.

I've got so much packing, paper work and errands to run before I leave the west coast next Friday. Then I will be hanging with my little sis for the weekend and picking the hubby up from the airport. After all that I should have some fun photo updates for you guys <3

Try not to miss me too much!!!

Rhys Makes Magic!

The amazingly talented comic artist Rhys McDonald has made me feel lucky over the years and has drawn me a few times! His most recent peice of me is pretty awesome and I wanted to share it with you guys!

Here are some pieces he has drawn of me over the years:

The last one is actually a skateboard design which can be purchased HERE. You can find Rhys on this Twitter or on his Website.

Also you guys may have noticed my rad new blog signature! I am super lucky to have a friend who does graphic design and makes all my layouts, banners and such things for me for a very reasonable price! He just made a Twitter account so be sure to add him on there and check out his Facebook by searching Blue Sunset Design!

Hope everyones week is off to a good start and that you're all enjoying the first days of summer!

ATTENTION LURKERS

Alright so I get about 150 views a day on here and 300 on days when I blog. Yet there are maybe only about 3 or 4 of you who comment on a regular basis!

I figured a lot of this might be due to some of you not having google accounts since I recieve lots of emails in response to my blogs. So I made it so that ANYONE can comment on my blogs. I really love the feed back and love to hear what you guys would like to see more of in my blogs and just like the general love!

So please comment on my blogs you that enjoy!

I am thinking in August I will run a contest for my readers. Every time you comment on a blog over the summer you will get a ballot entered into the draw and come August long weekend I will pull a winner from the ballots!

So keep up the lurking and get to commenting!