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sorry to be back so soon XD but i worked harder on these! take a look~? (o'_______'o)

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( cut for prices and full examples! )

Semi-final block A is up, if you'd like to go vote for your favorite poupee!

http://pupe.ameba.jp/contest/vote/display/ninQsHCuoiNN

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Sorry to keep bothering with simple questions ^^;;;

Is like..."stamping" your photos illegal? I've read so many stories within this community about how people steal other peoples closet photos and yeaaah haha. Would this be illegal? ( Example )Because if not I am sooo stamping everything in my closet...

The Holidays are coming up, which ones? All of them, well the good ones at least. I'm sorry, Earth day keeps letting me down, what can I say? And so that means a few things for those of you who like me, work in an office enviromnment. The short list is greeting cards that nobody reads, holiday baskets of which only 15% is edible, big tins of flavored popcorn that just appear out of nowhere, and depression I mean Holiday Office Potlucks.
This season my office is providing a turkey and we are bringing sides and desserts. I am doing a dessert so good I will not eat any. But that reminds me of many years past with the same types of Office Holiday feasts. The good ones and the bad ones.

Good one. One year when I worked in my first tech support job in an office making real money and living on my own, I volunteerd to do a side dish. I brought some good old yams. When we got to the meal, apparently somebody took the easy way out and just ordered a bunch of sides from Dickies BBQ. Well they had yams as well and so they were set next to mine. At the end of the feasting, my container was empty, and the store bought Dickies was barely touched. I felt pretty good, as well as bloated from ham and turkey.

Bad one. A few years back after the wonderful dot com failures I took a job at a smaller company doing data entry. My team was mainly angry young guys who hated kitchens yet loved Limp Bizkit (hmmm there must be a correlation there somwhere). Again, this company provided a turkey and we brought sides. Well like I said, mostly young guys who didnt know how to cook. So most people went to the Krogers next door and grabbed a tray of cupcakes on the way in to work that night. So we had 1 huge turkey, a huge dish of mac and cheese I made, about three cans of canned cranberry sauce and 7 or 8 trays of store bakery cupcakes with neon orange nuclear frosting and sick candy turkeys. Easily 100 nasty cupcakes. Yeah, we tried to make a turkey breast and cupcake sandwich with expected results.

So Food Porn stars, I know you have some good ones.
Come on and share some good or bad tales of Holiday Potlucks.
It could be at church or at work or at school, wherever. Just tales of how the celebration was a success or failure from Holiday potlucks.

I have been thinking about making these and planning them for weeks. Today I finally managed to make them. I thought that they made a suitable subject for my first post here, I can't help but salivate looking at this pic knowing that beneath the buttercream there's a gooey cherry centre surrounded by chocolate. Black Forest Gateaux may be one of my favourite things but the cupcake incarnation is fast gaining on it!



More pics and the recipe over at AnnaInTheKitchen.

38 Naruto icons :)


here @ discobanana

51 icons total: (34)Naruto and (17) Bleach
*Spoiler warning for recent chapters of Naruto and Bleach. :3

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*Crossposted a lot.

oh yeah, and roast beef, too. And gravy, and peas, and roasted carrots, and garlic mashed potatoes. But most importantly, YORKSHIRE PUDDING.


This was my first attempt at this grand and most favourite meal. I did overcook the meat, which I think is a common issue, but it was still so so tasty. I am currently enjoying cold roast beef sandwiches with mustard.



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My bread fanaticism began when publishers sent me a copy of Andrew Whitley’s new book, Bread Matters: The State of Modern Bread and a Definitive Guide to Baking Your Own. The book makes the case for bread activism -- avoiding possibly harmful and certainly less wholesome mass-produced bread in favor of making your own. Apart from just a political stance, though, Whitley presents breadmaking as an artform -- and one that doesn't have to be too time-consuming, at that. He calculates that a loaf of bread takes about 30-40 minutes of active work punctuated by periods of waiting.

This was my first experience with letting a sponge ferment for days and baking it into a loaf of delicious bread -- and I'm hooked on the experience, from mixing, to kneading, to proofing, to baking, to eating! My boyfriend and I ate our cheese bread with chicken and dumplings, and then used the leftovers for something decidedly more sinister . . . :)




( recipe and photos, including a picture of the PERFECT USE for leftover cheese bread )


To read my review of the book Bread Matters, listen to me waxing poetic about bread, see a photo of how entertaining kneading can be, or just to see more pictures of that amazing breakfast sandwich, please head over to my baking blog, Willow Bird Baking!

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Just post an item from your closet (an alternative too, if you want) for people to suteki. Suteki their item then go to their poupee home and hopefully you'll get a shell!

Good luck and happy hunting, everyone! ♥

Lets have a raffle!

A great way to earn ribbons and have some fun the more people join!

I will choose the number with a random number generator and post a screen cap so no one thinks I'm being unfair.
And everyone else who entered and didn't win has to comment on the winners item within 48 hours- this is an honor system, so please be fair!
Plus I will give 10 comments to the winner!

Time Limit: 1 Hour 30 Minutes@ 02:00pm New York time
If you post after 1 Hour 30 minutes you are not considered a participant.
Schedule: Sun, Tues, Thur: 01:00pm Tokyo time- Mon, Wed: 02:00pm New York time

To participate:
*Post a Link to you’re an item in your closet. Please post legal items only.
*Make sure to include your number in the subject line in chronological order so we don't have repeats
* Reply to your comment with 'Done' when you finish commenting the winner

So lets have some fun!

Congratulations #18 Mariye!

I'm not sure if this would work better with a hat, and even then: which hat?, but I like it just the same.

Show me what you got, poupees!