L's Cake Kabobs

So recently in Anime Club at school we were watching The Death Note live Action movie. While watching the movie my friend Stacey (who run's her own blog babytealeafs) stated that it would be awesome to make cake kabobs. At first I was very confused. However, to my surprise when I directed my attention towards the screen I saw the most wonderful site.

I saw L (played by the  extremely cute and very talented Matsuyama Kenichi ) sitting in his rather unusual crouched position eating what Stacey had referred to as a cake kabob. Though I knew L had a love for sweets and ate them all the time in many fun and interesting ways, I just couldn't let the cake kabob thing go. And so I was determined to make some with Stacey. Due to my determination I had Stacey come over that Saturday to make cake kabobs with me. They were lot's of fun so now I felt the need to share them with you.  ^.^



How to make Cake Kabobs:

First you need your kabob stick, in our case we used chop sticks to stack our food on. Next, you just need to pick out random sweet items that you like and place them on the stick. In our case we used a chunk of cotton candy, a slice of sour cream cake, a Swiss cake roll and a gummy worm tied in a knot for our cake kabobs and later went back to shove cookies n' cream chocolate into our cake on the kabobs. Lastly, you need to sit back and enjoy your creation L style.

And remember to have fun with it. :3 RAWR.
 PS: If your like me and really love Kenichi Matsuyama than here's a special treat of an extra picture of him. (SO ADORABLE!!!) I wanted to place a bunch of them but unfortunately I think it would draw to far from what the post was about.

History could never be more exciting ~Hetalia~

School is often one of the many things in a teenagers life that feels like it requires way to much effort. Especially when studying is involved. However, what if there was a fun alternative to studying that didn't require you to flip through the pages of your history book, or even made you really want to. Well guess what there is, There's and Anime/Manga called Hetalia; where every country is depicted as a character (Even though each character is a country and their country name is usually used when talking to each other, they do each have names). The main storyline of the Anime revolves around World War II, but most of the Manga takes place during other historical events, modern holidays, or nothing specific. The series uses satire and comedy to reinterpret well-known events and less commonly known historical and cultural trivia. Through the series you'll learn about historical, political, economic, and military interaction between countries through the characters in social and romantic interactions and misunderstandings. In other words it's a great source of fun and learning combined, and believe it or not I actually watch it to help my self study. So I just thought that maybe you would want to give it a try too.


Below is a picture of some of the character with their flags to define which country they are.

Candy review: Strawberry and Cream flavoured Candy

Recently my friend gave me this cute little treat, so I decided that it might be nice to share it with all of you. It's a Strawberry and Cream flavoured Candy LOLLIPOP made by Alpenliebe. As you can see the package alone draws you in with the cute mountain scenery and storybook village set far off behind the lollipop. Not to mention the super cute strawberry with a face that's taking a splash in some cream.

Right away the first thing you will notice when you open the package is the sweet fruity fragrance of strawberry. It smells simply delicious.

Aside from that I noticed that on the package cover it looks as thought the cream is raised, or in other words drizzled over the top of the lollipop.(Giving it a more 3D effect). However this is not the case, upon taking it out of the package I found it to actually be marbled. Although very pretty it left me a bit unimpressed. I also saw that the bottom of the lollipop was kind of flat and didn't look as round as it did in the picture. (If you turn it side ways though it looks like a bouncy ball.)

The lollipop did out do it's self in the taste category for me though. Despite it smelling super sweet and of strawberries, it actually had quite a simple creamy taste. It was not over sweet like most, and tasted just barely sweetened. 

It's something that I, for one would buy.

Tako Plushie

So the other day I decided that I wanted to make a plushie after I saw this Brain-Slug-Plushie. It gave me an idea, which was to make a tako. If you don't know what a tako is, it's just the Japanese word for octopus. Any so I made one and left some instructions for you to make one as well. Go on and start crafting your very own Tako you know you want too, he's just to adorable to pass up.


So here's how you can make one as well.

You will need some type of stuffing (I used cotton balls), buttons, a marker, a needle, thread, scissors, things you can use to trace for circles, and two fabrics.






1st Step: Making a mouth.


 Set your trace item down and go around it with a black marker to make a small circle. Then cut it out and leave it for later.

 2nd Step: Tackling the tentacles

 First on a piece of paper drawl and cut out a thumb shaped template. Then double your fabric (set one sheet on top of the other) and begin tracing eight of these.






Then cut the eight traces out. You should end
up with sixteen of them. This is because of doubling the fabric.










3rd Step: Tackling tentacles pt.2

  Take two of your thumb shapes and sew them together.
 -DO NOT sew the straight part of your tentacle that is where you will fill it later. -

 Then flip it inside out so that the stitching no longer shows.



Finally stuff you tentacle.
*Continue this step until all eight of your tentacles have been made.*

 4th Step:  The bottom 

 Find something circular and make sure that your tentacles fit around it. If they do trace it and cut it out.

5th Step: The front & back

 

Next, double your fabric and make another thumb shape. This time use your large cut out circle to know how big the top should be. (You should have two of them because of doubling).




6th Step: Fantastic Faces
The last thing you are going to do before final construction is to give him a face, and maybe a name too while your at it.

Sew on two buttons for eyes, then sew on your small circle from earlier with a button over it for his mouth.




<Mr. Octo/ Mr. Tako is starting to look Kawaii Desu to me. :3



7th Step: Putting him together

Finally sandwich his little feets in between his bottom and the bottom of either his front side of back side. (Doesn't matter because you will be doing this step with both sides.) Stitch everything into place.






Once all of his legs and both his front and back sides are stitched on sew his sides together but leave an opening on the top.






Now use the opening on the top to put your stuffing into him then sew up the top of his head and .....

.....Tada you have your Tako <3  isn't he cute!!!