Paper crafts

I am in love with this cute little owl. He is just the most adorable thing ever. And the best thing about it is that a Wallpaper and note-paper with his gorgeous face on them is downloadable for free from  here.

 Paper and lights i guess don't really mix well. Well people don't tend to think they do. If you're paranoid it may be the intense fear that the paper will catch on fire. But i just adore these.

I'm pretty sure that i found these on My Owl Barn Blog that i've told you about before. But i'm not 100% certain. Anyway, i love the heart shaped doilies in a chain with cute fairy lights wrapped around them. Perfect for Christmas decos, christenings, weddings or just my bedroom!

I guess it's a paper theme today then. (I create my blog titles, and half of what's in each entry after the first few pictures. I search for a theme. apparently these two have paper in common. Go me!)

More doilies. Has anyone seen cupcake wrappers before. Or am i just totally cupcake obsessed and thus know about these things? Well you can make them with doilies! I can't believe i've never seen this idea before. It's actually genius.
Here are some real ones.

When i was thinking what else i could possibly add to this blog post one thing instantly came to mind. Origami. I love it. I even have origami crane chains hanging from my window. I love the shadows when the light shines through them. Truly gorgeous.
Anyway check out this origami cupcake!

I love the flower on top. so cute.
And how about these bad boys.

It's owls! I am in love with the bottom left one. Now i found these picture on Google. So don't know where i can find instructions on how to make them. But trust me i will. Fingers crossed my end result looks just as cute!



Now to go completely off topic, i found this amazing game. Well my boyfriend did. And i love him for it. Remember how i said that Nyan Cat and Robot Unicorn Attacks match so well. Because of the mythical creature, rainbows and squeeness. Well now they have merged to become one. Not in a creepy mutant animal way. But Nyan cat now features in a robot unicorn attack-like game. It can be found here nyanicorn. Yes the graphics aren't as good, and rainbows only show up when you dash. But you jump around collecting junk food, and dashing through leeks to destroy them! Yay.

Hope you had a lovely long weekend (in the UK anyway. Monday was a bank holiday!)

uni, it's pretty awesome.

One of the best things i love about university is the pranks. Light hearted humor is amazing. Well, as long as it's not directed at me!
That's why i love the website college humor so much. It's full of things like these.

Yes, that is a room full of cups of, well, whatever you want really. It would take a long time to set this prank up. And unluckily for the recipient, just as long to dismantle. Try walking through a room full of cups of liquid... impossible.

Another i like, that i've semi-tried is this one.

Wrapping someones entire room in whatever you have available really. Me and my housemates used free university newspapers and magazines for our prank. We covered everything. Each pencil, penny and pillows inside the pillow cases. Lets just say getting dressed turned into a chore. Trying to find matching socks must of taken a while.
You get to unwrap all of your stuff. But it's not exciting like Christmas, because well, you already own it.

Another big part of university is the work, and where there's work there is procrastination. I'm pretty sure most of you out there must of played angrybirds at some point in your life on a smart phone. Well it's now available on-line. No word of a lie. Here it is Angry birds online. Go ahead, love me. I know you do.

And here's your dose of funny pictures. Enjoy. I hope you all have amazing weekends.

Got to love Mario paint composer :)

And just because i love owls. Maybe a little too much.

Bento and creative meals

There is one way to make your kids eat more healthy food. And that is by making it look cute and fun. One lady who does this perfectly is Jill Dubien. I recently discovered her blog Meet the Dubiens and i love it. She's got a page for crafts, one for general recipes and another for fun food. Which i have to admit is my favourite.

Another thing i love about her blog is that she has some recipes that are owls. Here's a glimpse at a few of my favourites.

They're rice crispy treats! Anything chocolate does it for me.

And a savoury sandwich, it's so simple to make it and because you use the entire slice of bread there's no waste.

Her's one of her creative projects that i liked.

It's one of those IKEA tables. She just took of the legs, stapled on some Owl fabric, then just screwed the legs back on. Perfect for her little daughters tea parties.

Cute food also includes characters like this guy i told you about a few days ago.

I would eat those cookies right up. Well if you can remember i also said that he features in a lot of Bentos. When i was little if all food came in bento form i would have no trouble eating it. And because it's supposed to look nice that means a lot of colours. For lots of colours you need a lot of fresh vegetables. So so healthy and kawaii!

I found both of these images on Flickr. The diversity of bento boxes is amazing. Like the first one you can have a base of food, like a sandwich, rice, pasta, salad. You name it anything. Then just place an adorable character on top and a cute side. Simple.
For those who are more creative you can shape rice and eggs even! These are some of my favourites!

One of my favourite bento makers on Flickr has to be Sheree She makes the most adorable bento boxes ever.

The sun is an egg with a cheese ring around it. The rainbow is peppers and the clouds are white cheese with apple skin cheeks. I love the way she uses food picks too. Just look at the cherry tomato in the back transformed into an apple.

She can also form rice, like these cute bears and chick. They're characters from a show i think. Don't remember which one though. Using stamps also helps decorate your food, like the ham stars. The pink circles are Japanese fish cake (Kamaboko). It always seems to be pink. Yay.

I want one of these piggy bentos! very very badly, they're just so squee!

Looking at all of this creative food makes me want to get creative. And one of the things i think i'll be good at is puddings. I found one that i'm pretty sure i could copy without messing it up too badly.

It a mini banana split! How kawaii is that! Whoever thought of it is a genius. The only thing it's missing is icecream but it makes up for that with the squirty cream on top.

Now off i go to have lunch. And feel like my food is totally inadequate in comparison.

Gifts, make the world go round

 Everyone likes getting a gift, if you try to deny it you're a liar. It's always awesome to know that someone cares about you enough to think of something to buy you. That they think you're like. In a way a gift that matches your personality. One way of adding to that is through the gift wrap and if i get any presents soon i want them to be wrapped in this.

It's Owl wrapping paper. One is just owls, and the other is owls with antlers. Perfect for hunters, or Christmas or whatever else includes deer.
Both of them are downloadable courtesy of My owl barn, the links to the downloadable print are below :)
download owl giftwrap here
download owl with antlers giftwrap here

When wrapping presents you need a number of things including tape and scissors. And just check out these adorable scissors which look like the eyes of an owl!

Or how about this tape dispenser!

And for the OCD gift wrapper, this measuring tape.

Change of topic, i do quite like doing that. But just look at how amazingly cute these cupcakes are!

 They're chocolate cupcakes, in terracotta pots, with some frosting leaves on them. Perfect for your budding gardener friend.
The Garden is so lovely, especially at this time of year with all the flowers out and the nice weather (fingers crossed!)
It's lovely just to sit outside and take in the view, on an easy to move around/store away chair.

And this is the best light-weight/outdoor chair ever. When folded closed it looks as if the owl is sitting on a perch! So Kawaii.

As you know i change my mind on what is my favourite thing every so often. Recently i found this website, well it's a newspaper. A fake newspaper. Best fake newspaper ever: the onion. It reports on news in a deadly serious way and it's so easy to trick your friends with it. If they're slightly slow that is. I love trolling! :)

Hahaha, Americans are pretty hilarious anyway. I know that this is fake but i recon they should actually make one. Making abortion more efficient, cheaper, and safer. Who wouldn't want that?

Speaking of trolling. Next time i access secret information i really want to do this:

Trololololololo

i appologise for adding that video, i actually hate that guy so much. It gets in your head and is really annoying. But it just fitted in so well!

And that's how the cookie crumbles

This will never get old, seriously click this link. I giggled. Hard. I love mums, especially my mum. She is amazing. And today is her Birthday. Sadly I'm a failure of a daughter because apparently studying for exams = forgetting all other information, including her birthday. I'll make up for it somehow, i just don't know how yet.
A good idea would be cookies right? But i don't think my mum is such a big fan of cookies. Well not sugar cookies anyway. If they're chocolate she'd definitely go for them though.

My mum also likes flowers, but i don't know how well they would fare in the post. Wilt and die, is the most likely consequence.

How about these Rose Sugar cookies from i am baker. They look like they'd be pretty simple to make, apart from the fact that i don't have an icing piping bag.
I am baker Amanda is literally a goddess at icing. She does this technique where she draws a thick icing outline of the area, then she fills it in with a more free flowing icing. The overall look is stunning.

I mean just check out how thick that icing layer is, with not even a sign of it wanting to run over the edge. I want her to teach me everything about cookies.
Now if i want to make cookies for my mum they have to travel well in the post right? Well apparently some bakers are amazing at sending the most ridiculously shaped cookies in the post.

These cookies were sent to bakerella in the post, how did the flowers not fall out of the pots? It's literally a miracle, the amount of padding she must of used makes my brain squee. Think of all the bubble wrap. *pop* *pop* *pop*. Anyway Sweet Sugar Belle thought she may need some cheering up, as she's in desperate need of a kidney so not feeling so good. She even has a tutorial on her website here.

Right what else do mums like? i stumbled across this the other day during my internet wanderings and absolutely love it.

It's a little pill tin that you can fill with whatever pills get you going, tictacs, viagra, benzodiazepines, E, happy pills, The pill, literally anything you want.
I think my mum would just fill hers with painkillers though.
Although i did forget her birthday (until i saw my sisters facebook status) it could be worse. I could be one of these kids.

Fairplay though, they are pretty hilarious. Especially that girl on the left, because the other guys. Well not trying to be mean or anything. But they come across as Geeks.
Speaking of obnoxious children...

He would probably be the most difficult child ever, oh how i love misfits.
Anyway as you can probably see this image is from Twinkie Wizard, the link at the top of this post is also from twinkie wizard. So are these glorious images.

 I remember trying to learn that first hand symbol. Took be forever. Kept doing a 'Z' instead.

Just because they're amazing. Perfectly amazing. And i want one. Please?

This last picture, i'll leave you with. He tends to pop up in bentos very very often. i'll show you some cool bentos soon enough i'm sure. Recently i've been more into the sweet treats than the kawaii ones. But i'm sure soon enough my love for Bento boxes will return.
Where was I?.... This character yes.

It Totoro. Don't know who he is? Google it. Simples. This specific Totoro creation is a profiterole, minus the chocolate sauce. But he is made of choux pastry and filled with creme. Yum yum.

This is when it gets 10X worse

So Thursday i said i hadn't found an owl blog. Well this yesterday i did. I only wish i didn't discover it when i'm in the middle of studying for exams. Now my procrastination revolves around scrolling through pages of owl related items. I can't help myself. They're just so Kawaii!
The blog is called My owl barn and has pretty much everything you could ever want to look at. Who knew that owls were this common?

Here are a few of my favourite things so far.

 It's an individual pencil holder, or whatever holder you want really made by putting paper mache on an egg!

 It's an adorable GIANT owl necklace made from silk, because the last thing you want is a great hunk of heavy metal dragging you down all day.

 These are part of a set of alphabet cards, i personally would just download them for this one!

Another reason that i love her website is that you can browse by category. And one of these categories is Something Sweet, it's full of cakes, cupcakes, party ideas and cake toppers in the shape of owls! That fits quite nicely with my cupcake obsession.

I found these recently. They are light switch covers. They are bright colours. They are owls. You can literally decorate anything you can think of now-a-days. I want one. Badly.

Here are a few more pictures that I've stumbled upon this week that have made me chuckle. Or just made me want whatever it is really bad.

This just made me laugh. Parents can be so odd at times. Even weirder when they don't really understand technology. I found this on crazy things parents say.

I want a bedroom like this! Well i did until i realised that it would be impossible to clean, and the fish would be able to see you naked, and doing other things. What if a scuba diver just happens to be passing by? No thank you. It's still pretty cool though. Found on one of the failblog sites. Yes i'm sort of obsessed with that site too. It was on Win.

I love etsy, there are just so many things on it. And they're all amazing. And i love this print. I mean it's a fact. And i do adore art and being creative. Imagine a world without creativity. Eh.

The cupcake blog

This blog is probably one of my favourite blogs in the world. I discovered it this morning.Yes, things become my favourites pretty quickly. But it's just jam packed full of pictures of cupcakes. And as cupcakes are my second favourite thing the only thing which could possibly top it is a blog dedicated to things shaped and decorated like owls. And i have yet to find one of those sadly. But yes thecupcakeblog. It doesn't just have cupcakes either. It's also got lots of cute cupcake toppers so you can decorate away to your hearts content.

These are cupcake toppers. I'm just trying to imagine the size they'd need to be to fit on a cupcake. So detailed and amazing.
The website also features cupcakes grouped together to create a whole image. Like i posted before with the very hungry caterpillar cupcakes.

It's a fish, made of fish... Inception! hehe. Would be crazy if their scales were actually tiny fish. My brain is beginning to hurt. Too much imagining.

They have also created overall images by making cupcake bouquets! These cupcakes are decorated with an Oreo cookie on top and yellow frosting around the outside to make them look like sunflowers. Then some green leaves made out of frosting to fill in the gaps. Want!

Now i've never been a shoe girl. I ruin them too quickly and would forever be buying more. But these shoes i like. I don't know what the heel is made from. But i do know there's a cupcake at the front. And that's all that matters.

Before i leave you to dream of cupcakes, i couldn't do a post without owls. I think i may have a serious problem. Luckily the cupcake blog caters for all needs and they have a search bar on the right side. I just typed in owl, and here is what i got.

Just because there's a bit of an Oreo theme today. Thought i'd show you these guys. Their eyes are actually made from Oreos, opened up so they have the yummy middle showing. The eyebrows are the other side of the Oreo, broken in half then covered in frosting. Yum, and so kawaii!

p.s. i realise this is not a cupcake, but when eating cupcakes you always get a tad thirsty.
And all those Oreo adverts always feature milk as the best drink to have them with. So here is the prettiest glass of milk i could find.

I'm hoping she dunked the edge in melted chocolate then sprinkles. So you'd have to chew it off. Don't be too vigorous though. Don't want broken glass in your mouth.