Childhood Memories

Do you ever just wish you could be a kid again? Some days I do. Thinking about how everything was so much more simple! No cell phones, video games, or facebook. Kids actually went out to play...which consisted of hide and seek outside, riding bikes and catching fireflies! Man how I miss those days! Kids these days don't know what the meaning of "go out and play" means! They say "play what?" USE YOUR IMAGINATION! There's tag, redrover, play in a tree house, have a lemonade stand! My mom and I were going through some of my baby pictures and we came across a few funny pictures of me! I LOVED bubblegum and wanted nothing more than to blow bubbles! How in the world gum ended up in places it did I will never know. Im so glad I had my dad at those times and some peanut butter. I will just explain with a few pictures!

Look at that huge wad in my bangs! I was crying
cause I thought I was in trouble!

A better up close picture of it!

Well what a character was I... nonchalantly picking
my nose waiting for my dad to get this gum out!

Haha my dad basically still looks that same. He
just has a huge beard and NO BANGS! lol
Peanut butter works wonders on gum in
your hair, somehow the oils break down the gum!

YEAH!!!! Now there's a happy girl gum free!

Ya know another thing that I loved and still loved as a kid....SLEEPING! I can sleep anywhere, floor, car, bed, salon chair (I used to take naps in between clients) there can be tv's on radios blaring and blow dryers blowin it doesn't matter I will sleep!

On the floor at my parents house with our old cat Mesha
keeping watch. She was probably planning her attack
on me....because when I was awake I would
torment her, putting clothes in her pulling her tail and
chasing her with a dumptruck!

This was and still is one of my favorite places to sleep. Believe
it or not we still have these chairs! I don't quit fit in it
like this anymore. LOL

And apparently I loved big gaudy jewelry even
when I was young!

Its so much fun watching home movies( on VHS) and looking at old photos(actually printed on photo paper) to remember how things used to be. I just hope one day some of these simple thing in life come back and I can actually teach my kids how to "play!"

Have a great childlike day and remember Keep you gum in your mouth, or carry some peanut butter.

xoxox

Hayley

Cleaning Fruit and a Giant Strawberry

At least a few times a year I go through a phase where I'm extra germaphobic. I am a germaphobe anyway but sometime it gets worse! Right now is that time. While I was at the grocery store the other day I picked up a cucumber and it was really sticky and waxy, all of the sudden I thought to myself HOW IN THE WORLD DO I CLEAN THIS! Ewww what is on this? Gross! Just washing with water won't do, washing with soap...do i really want to eat soap? NO! A few days later on Dr. Oz he had a special on how to wash fruit and veggies!!!!! Yea my Godsend I can eat that sticky waxy cucumber! But this post is about washing strawberries..yummy! You can use this wash to clean any fruit or veggie. The things you will need is...

• 1 cup vinegar
• 1 cup water
• 1 TBSP baking soda
• lemon juice

Combine all together in a big bowl. With the lemon juice I just poured a little bit. Now I am completely repulsed by the smell of vinegar but I promise it does not change the taste of your food! The baking soda and vinegar combo will fizz up a little, just like the volcano project from my 7th grade science project! I just threw all my strawberries in the bowl. I didnt take a pic of that part but I took a pic of the dirty water after.

Gross! Look how nasty that is!

Have a clean bowl of water and transfer strawberries
to that bowl to rinse off the wash

I put them on a paper towel to dry, so that I could put them
back into the container they came in *make sure you wash
that good with soap and water too*

And your done. You can enjoy your strawberries a little less germy! Do you see that mutant looking strawberry in the pic above? It was HUGE!

I've never seen anything like this before! It's like 5 or 6
strawberries stuck together

Just look how big it looks compared to my hand!

Hope you all have a great day it is BEAUTIFUL outside! Off to enjoy the day and run some errands with my best friend Sarah!

xoxo

Hayley

April Fools!!!!!!

So I'm not in to playing jokes or pulling pranks on April Fools day, but this year I decided for play a little trick. Making April Fools Cupcakes!!!! Oh yuuuuuuuummmy! You know me and my cupcakes. If theres a reason to make them I will!


Lo Mein and Spaghetti Cupcakes!

 I'm going to show you the process of how to make these. They are super fun and pretty easy! I've included A LOT of pictures because pictures are fun to look at!!!! I did chocolate and vanilla cupcakes.

I only took a pic of the vanilla cupcakes

I took alot of pictures of the Lo Mein cupcakes because they have alot more detail to them. These are the things you are going to need to make them.

• 1 can of vanilla icing
• green sprinkles
• green Laffy Taffy or chewy Jolly Ranchers (I used Laffy Taffy's)
• Twizzlers (the fruit flavors because you need the green one)
• any kind of pink chewy candy (I used Laffy Taffy's)
• yellow and green food coloring

 

Green Apple LaffyTaffy



cut the LaffyTaffy in half



squish one end of the square to look like a "broccoli stalk"

take a knife and cut to look like this.



The next things you will need is a little bag of green frosting and a small bowl of green sprinkles



cut a small part of the corner to let the frosting come out

  

squiggle it to make a few floret on the end



dip it into the sprinkles



it should look like this



heres all the "broccoli" done



Now you need to make the "scallions and meat"





cut twizzlers in to little thin pieces

cut the "meat" in to little chunks

Place your cupcakes on a plate or in my case I used a box. Better for transpertation. Make sure that your cupcakes are touching, it makes it looks more realistic and easier to ice. Tint the rest of your vanilla frosting with 3 drops of yellow and put into a pipeing bag. I use tips when decorating but if you dont have any tips you can just cut the corner of your bag. You want to pipe noodle like frosting on your cupcakes.

look its me!

it should look somthing like this

Start placing one piece of broccoli on each cupcake and randomly sprinkle your "meat and scallions"

TA'DA your done! Doesn't that look yummy and nasty at the same time!

Now for the Spaghetti cupcakes I was so exhausted I did not take any pictures but you put your cupcakes together the same way so they are touching and frost them the same with vanilla icing with 3 drops of yellow food coloring. The other things you will need for your spaghetti cupcakes are....

• Hazelnut chocolate balls (Ferrero Rocher is what I used)
• Strawberry Jam

In a bowl place your chocolate "meatballs" and put a scoop of strawberry jam in and toss to coat the "meatball." Place a tiny dollop of jam on top of your cupcake and then place the "meatball" on top of that! and WA'LA your done! Super easy for those.

YUMMY! All I need now is some garlic bread!

 *Funny Pictures*

I opened the eggs and saw this! One brown egg! I thought we
bought it like that but my dad told me that he got it from my cousin.
It was like second egg layed by his chickens!! LOL Looks
like we'll be getting FRESH eggs!

This is my little(BIG) bubba. He loves frosting too! Please
disreguard the wood carpet in the background! YES thats right
I said CARPET. My kitchen has wood carpet!

I hope this post wasn't so long I lost you 5 mins ago lol I just wanted to give as much detail so if you want to trick someone today with foody fun cupcakes you could! Please let me know if you have any request and I will see what I could come up with.

Have a Happy April Fools and Cuppycake Day

xoxo

Hayley

SNOW DAY!!!

Well I woke up today to a freezing apartment! It was only 3 degrees out! Holy moly thats cold for Kansas! I think they said the windchill was like -20! So let me just show you why my apartment was so cold when I woke up!

There was snow IN THE APARTMENT!!!! Seriously what the heck! My boyfriend Chase called the apartment office and they said there was nothing they could do about it until the weather became warmer....hello by then we won't really need it! So I don't know what we are going to do maybe put a towel down for now.

Here I am in the car! I will just show you some of what I saw today on my drive to work!

See my weather thingy in my car! Its says 5!!!! Blah!

Look how far you can see in front of me! I just love how the snow looks being blown across road, it looks so pretty!



I got stuck behind the snow plow guy! I was kinda happy knowing that the road would be clear for me to drive on. We were going pretty slow!

This is how much the snow was blown up against the side wall of the highway! You can barely see it!

Even the porch at my Mom and Dad's were covered in snow! Can you see the shovel burried in the snow? what good is it there! LOL

I hope everyone has a good day and stays warm! Chase just got a call that he doesnt have to go in to work tonight! Yeah its a good night to cuddle on the couch with some hot chocolate and a good movie! I do have a few haircuts today, which I need to call and see if they are still coming out. I wouldnt want to drive all that way and not have them show up!

*I DO NOT CONDONE DRIVING AND TAKING PICS! I DO IT AT MY OWN RISK! PLEASE EVERYONE BE VERY CAREFUL IF DOING SO*

Have a great snowy day! Too cold to even go SLEADING!

XOXOXO

Hayley



A Day Of Nails!!!!!

So as everyone knows I LOVE LOVE LOVE nails! Its a great way to express yourself and make your hands look unique and individual! I have seen tons of reviews for the new Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips. But at $8.50 a pop I change my nails to much to commit to that price!!!! So I bought these new ArtClub nail strips that I got at my professional supply store that I get all the things for my salon at. They were only 2.99 a piece!!!!!!!! It came with 15 nails in case you messed up!! I was so excited to try them out!!!.......Total bummer when I found out that my nails were to wide and to long for them! I cant do anything about the width of my nails and I def don't want to cut my nails. So I decided to draw the design on myself free-hand, and I def like them A LOT more!

This is how they came out free-hand! Zebra and gold!

I also just discovered Nail Marbling! I will have to attempt to make a video(bc I've never done one) or I will make a step by step with pictures to show you guys! They are so much fun! I did two different kinds Pink, Black, Grey, White and Silver! You can do them all the same or you can do each one differrent. I personally like each one different!

Heres the pink marble as I call it!

And the other hand!

With the blue ones I think I did a Dark Blue, Light Blue, Black and Sliver! This was my First attempt and I think they came out great for my first time!

Here is the Blue Marble ones!

And the other hand!

I'm not sure what happened to the other Zebra hand! I made both hands look the same! let me know if you guys like these. I will be trying more designs. And I will work on a step by step to the bow rings they are super fun and easy!

Have a great day or night, whenever you reading this! lol

xoxoxo Hayley

Duct Tape Bow Rings and Cheetah Nails!!!!

I love to wear big accessories and I made these rings out of duct tape. They are so much fun to wear because everyone will look at them and try to figure out what its made out of! And then when you tell them DUCT TAPE, they are shocked! lol! The rings are very easy to make and super comfty, if a ring can be comfortable. Its very soft and doesn't pinch you, sometimes my bigger bows get in the way but I love it I say the bigger the better.


Ahhhhhhhhhh how I love Cheetah! I love Zebra too but I think my go to animal print just might be CHEETAH! So these nail and super fun and get tons of complements! oh and my ring is like this bone ring. My boyfriend bought it for me at a garage sale for a $1.00!!! Talk about a steal and super cute find! Anyway these nails are so easy.

• Paint your base coat color any color you choose (I like white with fun bright colors)
• Let that dry
• Pick 3 to 4 other colors (Pastels, Neon, sparkly..etc)
• Make Random dots on your nails (Its ok to be messy a little will look more like cheetah)
• You need Sally Hansen's Nail pens (Walmart, I use black)
• Make squiggly "C" shapes around the colored dots to make cheetah pattern
• Let dry, about 15 min
• Apply top coat!

DONE super cute cheetah nails! I love to do all types of fun things with my nails, if you have any suggestions let me know and I will do them and show you guys! I hope everyone has a great day and don't forget to wear your accessories with a big smile on your face. The bigger the accessory the bigger the smile!!!

xoxox, Hayley

Thanksgiving cupcakes!!!

So since I love to make cupcakes I decided to try and do Thanksgiving themed cupcakes this year! Let me tell you.... They were very fun to make but verrrrrrrrry time consuming!!! omgosh! I worked on the turkey cupcakes for almost 6 hours! My boyfriend Chase helped me by rolling all the caramels together. My mom helped me ice the cupcakes but i thought we were going to run out of icing cause she like to eat it! ( she has her own spoon so we keep in sanitary lol.)

The corn and the mashed potatos were a peice of cake they didnt take long at all and they were a hit at Thanksgiving. They tasted as good as they looked. I know its almost Christmas so i gotta come up with something for that too! yeah Happy cupcake day!

Hayley