Mourning time

I just wanted to pay my respects at the lovely writer Diana Wynne Jones, who died, as I just heard, this March. I'm really sad at these news, for I have become a steady fan of her, and have been feeling like I knew her through her lovely books.
I must say that Diana's fantasy worlds, filled with magic and color have been a recent and marvellous discovery, they have transported me to my childhood in a most wonderful way, and have satiated my desire for magic in a way no other book nor movie has ever done before. I am feeling her death deeply, and I want to loudly declare that the world needed her more than she could have suspected...

Thank you Diana, for all those hours of pleasure and enterteinment, for your kind english lessons and for the great inspiration that your marvelous stories have given and keep on giving to me.

When I was a skinhead and my cupcakes :)

Today, the photos come directly from my cell phone, so that crazy looking girl with a bald head is actually me, and no, I've never actually been a skinhead, and I don't think I'll ever be, thank you for the vote of trust, but YES I cut my hair off quite a while ago, and that's how I looked when I came off the beauty parlor and at the end of this post you'll see how I look now.
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Did you look at it already?
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Ok, then I can continue.
As you may have noticed on the bottom picture, I have a sweet looking pastry on my hand, and I must say, most proudly, that that little pastry is one of the first stack of cupcakes I have ever made.


And Even though I shouldn't, I must say that they looked adorable, and tasted delicious! The only thing was that my papers were average white ones, and that they came out of the oven stained and transparent, as you can see. The recipee and decoration, by the way, are a step by step copy of those Alma does, at her fabulous blog: http://www.objetivocupcake.com/, at the sundae cupcakes entry.

Then I made a cake with the same recipee (less the chocolate cover and plus a berries' jam filling) that I didn't even bother to photograph, because I screw up the decoration big time (even thou it came out just as delicious as the cupcakes), and with the remains I made a secon stack:


Finally, I used the remaining icing on these mini-cupcakes I made for a visit from my sister:

As you can see, there's a lot of them, but I made them this afternoon, and there are now 7 left... and I believe those seven won't survive till tomorrow (Of course I gave some to my sister and some to my cousin, who came afterwards and emphatically specified that his fiancée wouldn't even get to see them), but as I write the mini cupcakes are slowly disapiearing into my and my mum's stomach hehehe.

So, my beautiful phantoms (that's right, one of the good things of being imaginary followers and readers of my blog is that you all get to be beautiful), I'll leave you with the promised photo that shows my scruffy look, and my cute cupcake :)

Hugs and kisses (and that's the other good thing of being my followers ;)