Cupcakes :g ♥

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Today I’d like to share a cute cupcake recipe ;)

Try it soon !

It won't take a magic spell for these cupcakes to disappear once your guests spot them.

Ingredients

• 1 baked ice cream cone cupcake (see directions, above)
• Skin-tone icing (mix red food coloring and cocoa powder with white icing for fair skin; mix cocoa powder or brown food coloring paste with white icing for dark skin, etc.)
• Sugar eyes (or mini jawbreakers)
• Colored icing in a tube (for hair and details)
• Red shoestring licorice or fruit leather
• Scissors

• Sugar cone
• Candy stars
• Edible glitter or coarse colored sugar
• Mini pretzel sticks
• Star-shaped sugar cake decorations

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Instructions

1. To bake ice-cream-cone cupcakes, use your favorite box mix (not the "add butter" kind). Place flat-bottomed ice cream cones in a cupcake tray and fill three-quarters full. Bake as directed. These cupcakes are best made the same day since they get soggy after 12 hours.
   
2. Place a big scoop of icing on top of the cupcake to make the head, smoothing as much as possible. Add sugar eyes, icing "hair," a licorice or fruit leather "smile" and any other details you like.
   
3. To make the wizard's hat, use scissors to cut a sugar cone down to 2 inches (a parent's job). Coat with icing and decorate with candy stars, edible glitter or colored sugar.
   
4. For the magic wand, coat a mini pretzel stick with icing, sprinkle with edible glitter or colored sugar, and attach the sugar star with a dab of icing. To finish, place the hat on the head, arrange the wand nearby, and, presto, you're done.
   
5. Tip: If you use melted white chocolate rather than icing for the hats and wands, they can be made a week in advance and stored in an airtight container.
   
   

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Source: http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/wizard-cupcakes-686583/

Kusudama Origami ♥

aloha, :D It's been a long time since i last updated my blog :p
Not long ago, I found this Origami tutorial which is very simple and aweeeeesome :D
it's called Kusudama

The Japanese kusudama is a paper ball made out of multiple identical origami shapes glued together. They were traditionally used as a  ball for incense or potpourri but now we see them more for decoration or as a gift.

Here's the steps ! Try it :)

Fold the bottom corner to the top. This will make a triangle

Fold the left and right corners up to the middle corner.  This makes a square

Fold the same points down. The folded edge will line up exactly on top of the outside edge of the square

Open up the flaps you have just created and flatten them

Fold the top triangles towards you so they are level with the edges of the paper

Fold the triangles back using the crease you made earlier and glue the outside triangles together. Now make 5 more of these petals and glue them all together

  

 I've tried it and here's some pictures of it :P