Super Epic Cake Of Awesomeness!

Hey Everyone!

So, I figured since it is only 2 more days until my sister Brianna celebrates another birthday, I should post the cake that I made for her LAST year. Haha!

Check out this beast!

Oh my goodness was this a fun cake to make!

It was a 6" 2 layer chocolate cake with a caramel filling, frosted with my homemade buttercream, topped with crushed heath bars, caramel syrup, chocolate syrup, and rolos! WHOOOAAA!!!

 And just look at the mess I made

There was so much heath bar on the counters and... well... everywhere that I just took a broom and swept it all instead of trying to get it with a wash rag or something. Haha! 

And Bri had no idea what she was getting!

 We met her and Ben at a restaurant in Waupaca. 

She was super excited when we brought it out (from under the table. Ha!). 

 I'm not sure that I will ever be able to top this cake! But I shall try!

We are going to Marshfield this weekend to celebrate her birthday, so I will be making a cake to bring for the party! I am bouncing around some ideas that I am pretty excited about! :D You will have to wait and see!

Anyways, hope you have a wonderful rest of your Monday!

Taylor Kay

Random Ramblings Of A Movie Lover - Hunger Games

Hey Everybody!

So today's ramble is about

The Hunger Games!

Wooo! It was bound to happen eventually. Haha!

 I watched it tonight while I was knitting. 

The more times I see it, the more I appreciate it. It is actually a very very good movie in my opinion! And I'm not just saying that because I am a huge fan of the book. This is one book to movie rendition that was pretty much as close as you can get, granted it still had its issues (which I cared more about when I first saw it). Like this:

 "Oh God What Is That?" - Charlie The Unicorn
"It's The Magical Leopluradon! It Will Show Us The Waaay..." 
But seriously... really?... Uuugh. Pretty sure the whole theater laughed when they saw this. I think they could have done better than that. :P

But anyways, I think the music was AAAAAAMAZING! I have the official soundtrack :) I also have that cd called From District 12 And Beyond which is basically a cd of a bunch of artists who did songs for the movie. It's super good, if you haven't listened to it do it now! And there's another cd from the Hunger Games Music Project, which was a group of people who made their own music to go with the book. It is seriously awesome!!! 

CLICK --> HERE <-- TO LISTEN

So, my favorite character from the first book was probably Rue

 SHE'S SO WONDERFUL! I cried so much when I was reading the book when she **SPOILER** died... :( I guess I should have seen it coming... but it was just so SAAAAAAAAAAAD!!! And oh my goodness, her death scene in the movie.... oh my gosh... I can't... *tears* And the music that goes with it??

 ;oiagbnaefiuhvs;oiem...........

:(

But to finish off, the movie was amazing in my opinion. There's just a lot of things that are really neat about it and that are truly accurate to the book. 

I am super excited for the second movie tho!!! Catching Fire was my favorite of the 3 books! AHHH!!! And look at the new poster that was just released!

So beyond excited for this it's crazy.

Me and my friend Liz (who I went to the midnight showing of Hunger Games with) already have it planned to go to the midnight showing of Catching Fire too! YAY!!! November 22nd can't come fast enough!!! :D

Happy Hunger Games

And May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor 

Have a great night! :)

Taylor Kay

What's On YOUR Needles?

So What's On Your Knitting Needles Today?

Well, today I have this lovely little cabled piece that will be part of a project I am knitting for my mom!

 I think I'm going to keep what the project is a secret until I start with the main part of it tho :) You will just have to wait and see! 

Also, mom and I went to JoAnns tonight because there was a Coupon Commotion going on! I had like... 8 50% off coupons!!! SO EXCITING!!!

LOOK WHAT I BOUGHT!!!

 There is nothing better to buy (other than maybe yarn) than your favorite brand of super good needles! HOORAY! Can't really beat 1/2 price, unless of course they were free... Ha! So, since my main interest is knitting hats, I figured I would buy the rest of my circular and double point collection so I have (almost) every needle I would need to make a hat! 

Life Achievement Has Been Reached

... Almost... 

Haha!

There's always more needles! And I love them almost as much as yarn!

Anyways, let me know what you've been knitting lately!

Hope you have a wonderful Monday night! :)

Taylor Kay

 

My Recent Drawings

Hey Everyone!

So I finished that picture that I started drawing yesterday!

It's Dan! 

Yay! I am actually very happy with how this turned out. I have accepted the fact that I will only ever get 1 of the eyes to look right, the other one will always be a little wrong. It has happened with almost all of my drawings of people. :P But I am super proud of the lips in this one! They are the best lips I have ever done! HOORAY! His llama hat is a little small but it still looks ok. If I made it any bigger it wouldn't have fit on my page. 

So tell me, does it look like him?

I will take this opportunity to show you a couple of the other pictures I have done.

Audrey Hepburn

I was super excited to do this picture. I saw the original in a book that I have and it was all shading! There weren't any hard lines anywhere (as you can tell from the drawing). I was going to ask my cousin Jeshua, who is an amazing artist, to draw it for me but then I decided to try it myself. Generally I like it :)

Robert Downey Jr.

This was my first EVER attempt at drawing a man. I saw this picture in the credits of Sherlock Holmes a Game of Shadows and thought it would be perfect for a drawing! And I am very happy with how it turned out! Granted there are a couple mistakes, and it's not shaded very well (because I didn't have good shading pencils at the time), but I like it :)

 So Yeah!

There's my most recent people drawings!

I have decided that I am better at drawing them big like these where you only really see the face and shoulders. They can be more detailed that way. And when I try drawing a body, it's always the wrong size. Ha! 

I need to practice that.

 Anywho, I hope you are all having a good Friday! 

HOORAY FOR THE ALMOST WEEKEND!

Taylor Kay

Hooray For... Accomplishing... Things......... Yeah!

So, I am feeling slightly accomplished today!

Seeing as days off usually aren't so productive, 

today is a rarity. Haha!

I had some "me time" this morning. I feel like if you have a day off, you should always take a chunk out an do something for yourself! Me, I watched some YouTube and then watched 3:10 To Yuma. 

(Great movie btw, I might do a ramble about it).

Then after your "you time", you should try and do something productive. For example, I called the dress shop in Marshfield to pay for my bridesmaid dress for my cousin Rebekah's wedding in July! And after freaking out about being the LAST PERSON to pay for their dress, therefore I am the reason why they weren't ordered sooner, I decided not to worry about it now cuz there isn't really anything I can do about it. By the way, I am the Maid of Honor! Bekah was born literally 2 days before me. We call ourselves the "almost-twins". Haha! She is amazing, I love her :)

What else makes today rare? Well, I did TWO productive things! After that call I loaded the dishwasher, washed everything that wouldn't fit, and then started running the dishwasher! AHHH!!! Mom will be so happy :)

Today is so full of rarities it's crazy.

Want to know why?

Cuz I am actually feeling slightly inspired to do some drawing!!! :D So I am going to go dig for my art book and pencils and try and do some artwork! WOO!!! And I have tomorrow off too, so if I start something that I actually like I can prolly work on it tomorrow too! YAY!!! 

Ok, now I am officially excited! :)

Gotta find time somewhere in here to eat tho... Ha! 

Shouldn't be a problem.

I LOVE FOOD!!!

 That is me trying to figure out how to take a picture with the webcam thingy... Haha! I am a fail at technology...

Hope you have a wonderfully productive day too! :D

Taylor Kay

 

A Returning Customer!

Hey Everybody!

Ok, so before we get into the real reason for this post, let's just take a minute to appreciate these ADORABLE bunny marshmallows!

 AREN'T THEY THE CUTEST??

Anyways, so last week I got a message from a friend on facebook who I had made a cake for back in... September was it? I don't remember. It was late last year sometime. Ha!

She had gotten married and asked me to make the cake for her! :D It was really exciting. It was just a little cake for her and her husband and then cupcakes for all their guests

 The cake was chocolate with a chocolate pudding filling and it was decorated with my homemade buttercream. I personally LOVED how this cake turned out, and so did she :)

The cupcakes were chocolate and vanilla and were decorated with a chocolate 'K' (for their last name)

 So yeah! She was very happy with how it all turned out! So happy in fact that she wanted me to make her another cake! It would be for her daughter's 21st birthday. I was actually good friends with her daughter in school, so that's how she knows me. Haha! Just to clarify. 

 She wanted it to be marble, so my mom came up with this cool idea to try and make the inside look like zebra print! Now, I am a great lover of zebras so ooobviously this idea was pure brilliance!

The cake itself, no kidding, was chocolate and vanilla with a buttercream layer in the middle then frosted and decorated with my homemade buttercream! This was actually something really different for me because I had never free handed the writing on a cake before, and I've never done the ruffles down the side. I'm just happy it turned out! And so was she! And I hear it tasted pretty good too :)

So that was all exciting!

It felt good to make a cake again!

I didn't like baking it tho... I don't like baking... and yet everyone thinks I'm this amazing baker because of my cakes. They ask how I make them and I'm like...

"Uhhh... Duncan Hines has amazing box mixes that are really easy to use... *derp*" Ha!

UGH! Look what happened right before I tried to do this post today...

This is seriously like the WORST screen to pop up on your computer... I died a little inside... :( 

Oh but that's ok, it only took

20 MINUTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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...Taylor is not impressed...
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Well, on that happy note, Hope you all have a wonderful night! :) 

 Taylor Kay 

 

Wasting Life... Like A Pro

So, I have been wanting to do a post for the last couple days, but I couldn't think of what to do a post about.

Sure I could do it about knitting or one of the other things on Taylor's List Of Daily Doings... which just consists of eat, sleep, and work...

But, I haven't been knitting...

What have I been doing you may ask?

Well, let me introduce you to

Dan And Phil!

 They are a couple of British YouTubers who have taken up all of my spare time.

I've been subscribed to them for a while but haven't seen everything. So basically I have been re-watching ALL of their YouTube videos... 

And debating on whether or not to buy this shirt...

 The shirt is pretty much awesomesaucetastic. 

It sums up basically everything. Haha!

Their YouTube names are danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil

 Yup, so there's my life.

And just when you think you've seen all their videos, you find more!!! 

And they are really funny too!

They like to draw cat whiskers on their faces! So that automatically makes them awesome

Basically I would like to meet them.

But the likelihood of that happening is very extra slim to none. Which I guess is ok. Cuz even if I did meet them, I would just be completely awkward as usual and just be like...

... Hi... *walks away*

Plus they are in London (which I will probably never go there), and when they come to the US they are always in places like Florida or California. 

Wisconsin is too far north.

Ah well, such is life.

I will just go on watching their videos.

And listening to their show on BBC Radio 1. 

I might get something done in the next week...

Maybe... ;)  

Ooo! Something exciting!

I am shipping my giveaway hat tomorrow! YAY!

Sorry if you came to my blog today to read something that would be worthwhile... But I just felt like blogging and this was the only thing. Haha! But now you can't say that you've never heard of Dan and Phil! So I guess it was good for something ;)

Have a GREAT night!

  

Taylor Kay