In The Kitchen: Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes

Happy Fourth of July, everyone! I hope you're celebrating exactly how YOU want to. Me? I'm celebrating the 238-year-old rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of cupcakes.

So, let's get down to business. I started off with a delicious-looking lemon blueberry cake from Cooking Classy.  To prepare the cake batter and decadent lemon cream cheese frosting, pop over there for the recipe. I found it on Pinterest while hunting for something to use up all the fresh blueberries I harvested yesterday. 

Sadly, I had no reasonable excuse to bake and decorate a beautiful three layer cake. Cupcakes, on the other hand?

As I said before, please go to the real recipe here  to make your batter and frosting.

For me, the batter made 32 cupcakes, which I baked at 350* for 17 minutes.

I used a Wilton 1M tip for the frosting, then added some blue sugar sprinkles and a blueberry.

Don't they look positively patriotic? Enjoy!

fave free fonts: cursive edition

Branboll Smal (1), Clementine Sketch (2), cursive standard (3), eight fifteen (4), homemade apple (5), never let go (6), stars from our eyes (7)

Stop-Motion

Stop motion things are super incredible. It's amazing that people can make entire movies like this! 

This one stars Allison Sudol of A Fine Frenzy with her song Sleepwalking.

And this one is Kina Grannis singing In Your Arms, which I adore. Plus, the entire video is made out of jellybeans. 

Nails: Gold and Turquoise

I love the idea of accent nails, but I can never decide what design to do! For this color scheme, I was inspired by my new journal. Isn't it gorgeous?

Anyways, for the nice metallic color, I used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear's Golden-I. The minty blue is my favorite Essie, Turquoise and Caicos.

Lovely!

Love, Kendall

fawning over fonts

Autumn Playlist

Someone tweeted this picture today, and I've been excited to play it all day. I've only made it through the first two songs, but I sense that this is going to be great. I took the liberty of compiling them into a Grooveshark playlist, ie, doing all the work for you. You're welcome.

PS: if some of the songs are lame I'm really sorry.

Things I Like (2)

Source: Etsy

This quote, which I think is totally going to happen to me. (It probably already has, to some extent.) “One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.”

It's almost fall. And that means BOOT WEATHER.

This excellent Hank Green quote. 

Autumn bucket lists of all kinds. (This particular one is from Yes and Yes)

This fantastic Gingerdoodle recipe will come in handy this holiday season. They just look so yummy!