...you see something that needs to be a little bit more special and you add some sparkle! Whatever it is, it can "Be" "Dazzled!" (btw I heart snap bracelets, Polly Pocket, trolls, Alf, care bears and all things eighties nostalgia)A time of innocence.
Then I spoke with some girl friends about the newest trend to hit Jennifer Love Hewitt since Party of Five, it's called Vajazzling. You see, the concept is exactly the same, it's just a different canvas for the art. The canvas is your vagina. I'm no saint but I do plan on wearing white for my wedding, so from here on in I'll be referring to this zone as "gits" or girl-bits. So JLH was interviewed recently and spoke about her own vajazzling experience and how it was somewhat of a cathartic experience for her...she loved it. The process begins with a tub of hot wax. After some very thorough landscaping Swarovsky crystals are applied to the gits and they will remain there for several days before falling off on their own...
I don't get it... I'm not letting anyone glue anything to my gits. I really don't care how cool a B-list celebrity thinks it is. My fiance has lead me to believe that my gits are just fine without Little Mermaid stickers, bedazzling or any other embellishments.
My cupcakes however crave a little something special. Two weeks ago I got a cake decorating kit that includes 2 ici
ng bags, 24 icing tips, a coupler, a flower nail, and a tip cleaner. I know nothing about any of these things...probably less then any you fine readers...but my cakes needed some vajazzling, and by George, I'm going to figure this out! First things first, I once again turned to the mystical interweb and clicked to YouTube and searched "cake decorating." Lemme tell you, there are some weird and totally unhelpful videos...I don't need to know how to make a cake into an old fashioned carousel...I need to know how to make roses and daisies and all things purty. I whipped up a batch of vanilla icing and got to it. In most of the videos the decorator will make roses (the most common demo) on the icing nail. It is a post with a wide slightly convex top. It actually looks less like a nail and more like an over sized thumbtack. Once the flower is finished being shaped you can use a pair of scissors to lift the flower off of the raised surface.
ng bags, 24 icing tips, a coupler, a flower nail, and a tip cleaner. I know nothing about any of these things...probably less then any you fine readers...but my cakes needed some vajazzling, and by George, I'm going to figure this out! First things first, I once again turned to the mystical interweb and clicked to YouTube and searched "cake decorating." Lemme tell you, there are some weird and totally unhelpful videos...I don't need to know how to make a cake into an old fashioned carousel...I need to know how to make roses and daisies and all things purty. I whipped up a batch of vanilla icing and got to it. In most of the videos the decorator will make roses (the most common demo) on the icing nail. It is a post with a wide slightly convex top. It actually looks less like a nail and more like an over sized thumbtack. Once the flower is finished being shaped you can use a pair of scissors to lift the flower off of the raised surface.
I decided that I don't really have the skill yet to maintain even bag pressure with one hand while spinning the nail in the other so I practiced some more mundane designs and managed to master swirls, shell borders and a basic flower or two. I need to rework my icing recipe before I start on anything more complicated but for now I think I'm doing pretty good. I would try to describe them but seriously...just YouTube it. Anyhoo, there have been specific requests for more personal pictures and teaching cake decorating so I'm definitely going to work on both but you'll have to be patient, I'm learning right along with you. Let me know what you think of my blog or any topic suggestions...right now I kinda feel like I'm talking to myself so let me know that you're out there.
~The Cupcake Queen
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