I just keep turning up costume ideas...
I felt like messing around in the kitchen this morning so I baked chocolate cupcakes. Used a recipe on the back of my cocoa container and it came out pretty well. Light and fluffy. ^_^ Found a copy of the recipe online if anyone else wants to try it out: http://www.hersheys.com/recipes/recipes/detail.asp?id=184&page=9&per=10&category_id=13
I halved the recipe and made a dozen slightly larger cupcakes since there was no way I was going to bake 30 of them in batches of 6 in our toaster oven.
It had been a few weeks so my family wanted to go out for lunch and shopping today. I sat in Borders for a while and read some more Pet Shop of Horrors (have read everything now except for 2 chapters in vol. 8). And I now have another possible outfit to consider for Count D in addition to the ones I listed yesterday. ^_^;
I don’t have a copy of the picture but it’s one of those extra illustrations at the beginning of a chapter in vol. 8. The outfit is similar to a cheongsam (Chinese dress with mandarin collar and slits up the sides) but tailored to fit a guy. (I assume he also has pants underneath like he usually does when he has an outfit with high slits.) There’s a long sleeve with a bit of flare on one side while the other side is cut away at the shoulder and has a long glove instead of a sleeve. And the front is decorated with a large pattern of peacock feathers. *likes peacock feathers* *_* It’d be an interesting challenge to figure out the cut away part. I have the Folkwear cheongsam pattern, too, although I have yet to use it. Wonder how hard it would be to alter it to fit a less curvy figure…
I halved the recipe and made a dozen slightly larger cupcakes since there was no way I was going to bake 30 of them in batches of 6 in our toaster oven.
It had been a few weeks so my family wanted to go out for lunch and shopping today. I sat in Borders for a while and read some more Pet Shop of Horrors (have read everything now except for 2 chapters in vol. 8). And I now have another possible outfit to consider for Count D in addition to the ones I listed yesterday. ^_^;
I don’t have a copy of the picture but it’s one of those extra illustrations at the beginning of a chapter in vol. 8. The outfit is similar to a cheongsam (Chinese dress with mandarin collar and slits up the sides) but tailored to fit a guy. (I assume he also has pants underneath like he usually does when he has an outfit with high slits.) There’s a long sleeve with a bit of flare on one side while the other side is cut away at the shoulder and has a long glove instead of a sleeve. And the front is decorated with a large pattern of peacock feathers. *likes peacock feathers* *_* It’d be an interesting challenge to figure out the cut away part. I have the Folkwear cheongsam pattern, too, although I have yet to use it. Wonder how hard it would be to alter it to fit a less curvy figure…