Here are some pictures of the process and the result.
Readin' the recipe thoroughly
Mixing the good stuff
Tataa! Looks like a cupcake already
Making baby-pink frosting stuff
The result! Cute aren't they?
I used the book 'Cupcakes' by Jane Smith. It has all kinds of different recipes for the dough and for several toppings. I think for the first time, I did alright!
This time not someone, but something won me over. The love for it existed already but one of my christmas presents has really done the trick.
I am absolutely head over heels with
Cupcakes
The ultimate dream would ofcourse be to open my own cupcake bakery. Move over Magnolia Bakery! Here comes my hot to trot cupcake shop. The Cupcake Girl! To be really able to do that I better start practicing.
I will post the pictures of my debut as cupcake baker here in my next post. I'm considering chocolate cupcakes with pastel colored frosting. Sounds yummy, right?
So what have I been up to?
Just say hello! I had my meet and greet with Paramore! They were so nice and they totally loved my present: wooden shoe slippers! It's so Dutch but still comfi so I choose well.
This is our picture!
Working 9 to 5 I was hired as the new intern for Dutch Mountain Movies in Amsterdam! Yay! So I will be working there from February.
'Pas avec toi' I found the band 'Plasticines'. It's a French girl-rockband. The people who know me that I am all girl power and rock music so this is a great combo. Their new album is called 'About Love' and it has English and French songs on it, it's great!
That's it for now! Next blog will be the result of my awesome (hopefully) cupcakes! xoxo
To find perfection in my pride, to see nothing in the light.
I found a new love and I want to share it with you! Enjoy
Paramore - Turn it off Lyrics I scraped my knees while I was praying And found a demon in my safest haven, seems like It's getting harder to believe in anything Then just to get lost in all my selfish thoughts I wanna know what it'd be like To find perfection in my pride To see nothing in the light But turn it off In all my spite In all my spite I'll turn it off
And the worst part is Before it gets any better We're headed for a cliff And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom
The tragedy, it seems unending I'm watching everyone I look up to break and bending We're taking shortcuts and false solutions Just to come out the hero Well I can see behind the curtain (I can see, yeah yeah) The wheels are craking, turning, so wrong the way we're working Towards a goal, that's not existent It's not existent, but we just keep believing
And the worst part is Before it gets any better We're headed for a cliff And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom
I wanna know what it'd be like To find perfection in my pride To see nothing in the light But turn it off In all my spite In all my spite I'll turn it off Just turn it off
Again Again
And the worst part is Before it gets any better We're headed for a cliff And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom And the worst part is Before it gets any better We're headed for a cliff And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom
The way I see it? Is that Paramore made an incredible new album! I took my time on the way to school to listen carfully to all the songs and the whole album is pure honesty. Of course everyone has it's favorites but I already have more than just one favorite. Hereby I will give you a small piece of lyrics from each song, my favorite parts. The official date of release is the 29th of September but I hope my deluxe box will be here earlier, I'm in love.
Careful You can't be to careful anymore, When all that is waiting for you. Won't come any closer, You've got to reach a little more.
Ignorance Where's your gavel? Your jury? What's my offence this time? You're not a judge but if you're gonna judge me Well, sentence me to another life.
Playing god You don't have to believe me but the way I, way I see it Next time you point your finger I might have to bend it back or break it, break it off! Next time you point your finger, I'll point you to the mirror.
Brick by boring brick Well she lives in a fairytale, somewhere too far for us to find. Forgotten the taste and smell of a world that she's behind. It's all about the exposure, the lens, I told her. The angles were all wrong now, She's ripping wings off of butterflies.
Turn it off I wanna know what it would be like To find perfection in my pride to see nothing in the light. But turn it off in all my spite, in all my spite I'll turn it off.
The only exception My momma swore that she would never let herself forget And that was the day I promised Id never sing of love If it does not exist But darlin, You are the only exception
Feeling sorry I feel no sympathy, You lived inside a cave! You barely get by the rest of us, You're trying, there's no need to apologize, I've got no time for feeling sorry!
Looking up Honestly, can you believe we crossed the world while it's asleep? I'd never trade it in, cuz I've always wanted this! It's not a dream anymore! Oh It's not a dream anymore! It’s worth fighting for!
Where the lines overlap Give me attention, I need it now Too much distance, to measure it out, out loud Tracing patterns, across a personal map And making pictures, where the lines overlap Where the lines overlap
Misguided ghosts Misguided ghosts Traveling endlessly The ones we trusted the most Pushed us far away And there's no one role We should not be the same I'm just a ghost And still they echo me They echo me in circles
All I wanted Think of me when you're out, when you're out there I'll beg you nice from my knees When the world treats you way too fairly It's a shame i'm a dream All I wanted was you..
Get that album as soon as you can! You are crazy if you don't.
Some guys are just hopeless, and Katy Perry understands that exactly. Go Katy!
I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf While jacking off listening to Mozart You bitch and moan about LA Wishing you were in the rain reading Hemingway You don’t eat meat And drive electrical cars You’re so indie rock it’s almost an art You need SPF 45 just to stay alive
You’re so gay and you don’t even like boys No you don’t even like No you don’t even like No you don’t even like boys You’re so gay and you don’t even like boys No you don’t even like No you don’t even like No you don’t even like…
You’re so sad maybe you should buy a happy meal You’re so skinny you should really Super Size the deal Secretly you’re so amused That nobody understands you I’m so mean cause I cannot get you outta your head I’m so angry cause you’d rather MySpace instead I can’t believe I fell in love with someone that wears more makeup than…
Chorus
You walk around like you’re oh so debonair You pull ‘em down and there’s really nothing there I wish you would just be real with me
You’re so gay and you don’t even like boys No you don’t even like No you don’t even like No you don’t even like boys You’re so gay and you don’t even like boys No you don’t even like No you don’t even like No you don’t even like… PENIS
Yes, it is true. Head over heels, dazzled, swept of my feet and almost crazy in love if I would know him for real.
Jasper who?
Well he is known by many names: Jasper Hale, Jasper Whitlock or Jasper Cullen.
Still don't know who I am talking about? Then first take a look at this
The character Jasper, from the Twilight Saga, is not as well known as characters as Edward Cullen, Bella Swan or Jacob Black. But if you really forgot about him, you are clearly missing my point.
Jasper, who is the the partner of Alice Cullen, has a better part and background history than you might think. No one is really sure if he is married to Alice, since this is not stated in the book clearly, but he found his 'soulmate' in her, as far as that is possible for vampires. Jaspers' history starts around the civil war, this was also the point where he was changed. His ability is to control emotions, which I think is the coolest thing ever, and from his history of war he knows all about making strategies to win from the opponent. To me that's not a little thing either. His owns his ability because he already had a lot of charisma in his human time.
Jaspers' part in the first movie and book was not a big one, but as the story continues he will step into the picture more often. Of course, that's a thing I love because no one has a better 'shocked face' than Jasper. He probably looks that way because he is amongst humans almost all of the time, and since he is the latests member of the Cullen family to give up drinking human blood, that's a struggle. As you can see in the trailer for the new movie, New Moon, Jasper attacks Bella when she cuts herself on paper. Bad thing? Well, people say it is. But, as bad as the saying sounds in this situation: the guy is only human. Of course he actually is not, but he still feels needs like humans do and he needs to stop those. I can imagine that it would be very hard having human blood shoved under your nose.
Imagine yourself following a very strict diet and someone else waving chocolate cake or a big mac in front of your face. Challanging? Yes clearly. Dear Jazz, I don't judge you and until Bella finds her way to protect herself from it, you can bite me anytime.
You do not need to tell me Jasper does not exist. I am old enough to stop believing in farytales and horror movies (well, some at least), so my dreamprince on the white horse who drinks blood (detail!) will not show up at my door. But the real person who takes his part is pretty amazing too!
Of course I will miss his shocked look and his blond hair, but Jackson Rathbone is a winner to me!
In the following movies he tells something more about himself and Jasper to MTV.
Clearly, my baby is not a beach bunny. But no stress! I would love to stay inside with you all day. Or we can take a holiday at night times, pretty sexy.
Here for you to read, the complete interview with Jackson Rathbone. Because I like it for sure.
August 20, 2008
'Twilight' Tuesday: Jackson Rathbone Explains Jasper's Angst And Edward's Attraction
By Larry Carroll (MTV.com)
Lately, we've been doing a lot of talking about "Breaking Dawn," the best-selling latest novel from Stephenie Meyer - which seems only right, since the eyes of Twilight Nation have been buried deep in its pages for the past few weeks.
But with the recent announcement that the Twilight movie has slipped into the high-profile release date that Harry Potter left wide open, this week's Twilight Tuesday returns the focus where it belongs: the eagerly anticipated film that is now only 94 (!) days away.
Since I began meeting the cast, I can't shake the thought that Twilight might become one of those Breakfast Club, Diner or Dazed and Confused - type movies that launch the careers of numerous young stars and then leave us all looking back, amazed that they all once acted together. Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson obviously have big-time acting chops, and actors like Mike Welch, Taylor Lautner and Kellan Lutz are just a few of the others who seem like they could similarly explode if given the right project.
If I were a betting man, however, I'd place my money on Jackson Rathbone, a 23-year-old actor who also plays several musical instruments and has lived all over the world. In person, he's a cool customer with an Elvis-like twang, radiating the kind of charisma that could make George Clooney look like McLovin. While speaking with him, I found a disarmingly intelligent star who took the Twilight world as seriously as any super-fan.
MTV: Tell us about your character.
Jackson Rathbone: Well, I play Jasper Hale, also called Jasper Whitlock, or Jasper Cullen; I've got a lot of names. [Laughs.] Jasper's from the Civil War [era], and that's when he became a vampire. Since then, he's been sort of wandering around; he's got a great back story, but that takes place in the later books. In this movie, Jasper is very angry, and still very reticent about his lifestyle of not eating humans.
MTV: Every year, it seems, Hollywood gives us a ton of vampire movies. What's going to make the Twilight movie different?
Rathbone: Well, most vampire movies are all about the gore and the action and the violence. This movie's about the heart. It's about what moves us as humans, and what is so moving to us that it is even encompassed beyond humanity. These are creatures - they're not people, they're not humans, they're kind of the decrepit side of everything. They're dead; there's no oxygen. They can't feel cold, they can't feel anything, but they can feel emotions and what those emotions lead us to do. You can choose morality, or you can choose the life that nature has provided for you, which is death. It's kind of a life-versus-death-story, but not so much in the realm of "you're going to get killed or get to do some killing," but whether you're going to choose to love life and choose love.
MTV: Why, after all these decades of storytelling, do we still care about vampires?
Rathbone: Well, I think everybody wants to be a vampire. I used to want to be a vampire [when I was young]. It'd be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life!
MTV: Yeah, but is there more to it than just being able to live in a horror movie?
Rathbone: I think the appeal is the mysticism of it all. We're searching for something beyond ourselves, and we find it in a lot of folklore, and a lot of these old stories that get tossed around about living forever and always being beautiful and young. That's the allure of the vampire: You don't age, you don't have to worry about getting old, or never accomplishing something. Time is not a factor, and I think that most people, especially these days, are caught up in time.
MTV: And then, at the center of Twilight, is this great Romeo and Juliet - caliber love story. What can we expect to see from the work that Robert and Kristen have been doing?
Rathbone: Edward and Bella have the greatest sadistic, masochistic relationship there probably is, because Edward is putting himself through hell by being around her; all he wants to do is eat her. But he can't, because of his morality. ... Bella knows what she's getting into, and Edward knows what he's putting her through. So, you get these great characters who are so concerned about each other that they're not concerned about themselves.
MTV: What is it, exactly, that makes them so enamored with each other?
Rathbone: It's a love that is bred out of interest, almost. I mean, he can't read her thoughts, which is something so beyond him and so beyond anything he's come across in his life, so he's intrigued. He's so attracted to her. And she's attracted to him and his ability to coast through everything and be so respected and admired. It's like he doesn't even try. ... What Rob and Kristen have brought to these parts is this amazing lifelike [quality]; it's never fake. It's never put on. There's this weight behind them, and you can see it the moment they call action.
MTV: Your character was a Confederate soldier back in the day. Have you done research into the period?
Rathbone: Yeah, I did a bit of research about the Civil War. I was always interested in it, and I did spend a bit of time [living] in Texas, so whenever I took Texas history, I learned a lot about the Civil War. I was lucky enough to have that background around me already. What I've focused on was the stoicism. ... I never really grew up in the South, I grew up all over, but for my family values and all the Southern values: You don't speak unless you're spoken to; you keep a very calm demeanor; you try to keep everything as light as possible, but if things get heavy, it's not like you're not going to step up. But it's weird to talk about the actual character elements of (Jasper), because it's all so intertwined with the story of the third book, which is where Jasper begins to expand on his heritage and how he was turned and how he lived.
MTV: So, are you planting little seeds in Twilight that will pay off in the sequels?
Rathbone: Yeah, I'm putting it in, here and there. It's nice. I can't do too much with Jasper's power. Jasper has the power to manipulate emotions. There's a danger in that. There's a danger in having that ability, because if you're constantly manipulating emotions around you, there's no reality around you. And because Jasper is able to distort reality, I wanted to steer away from that. I wanted everything to be as real as possible. So I've tried to make the choice for him not to use the power [for now], to be as stoic as possible, be as still and just concentrate on keeping himself at bay, especially in terms of the hunger.
MTV: I can't help but notice that you've naturally got a Southern twang in your voice. Are you keeping that for the character, to show his roots?
Rathbone: I try to keep it as light as possible, because he's been around for 200 years. He hasn't been in Texas that entire time. ... With Jasper, it would be too much to have that accent, especially when you're pretending to be a normal kid. If he had a Texas accent in Washington, in Forks, I think people would tend to notice him a little bit more.
MTV: Are you signed on for the next two sequels?
Rathbone: Yes, I'm signed up to do all three. So, hopefully, all the fans like me in this one.
MTV: What's the coolest thing about being a vampire?
Rathbone: The singular coolest thing, to me, would have to be the ability to just stay out of the sun. I'm not really a sun person; I'm not a beach bunny. I'm more of an indoor-sports kind of guy. You know, just sitting at home with a guitar, very simple. I'm all about nightlife. I live during the night, so that would have to be the coolest aspect for me.
That's my crush until so far. You know you love me... and Jasper... and Jackson! xoxo Noes
Yes, sometimes that is just the case. Nothing more, nothing less... Kate Nash wrote an awesome song about it and it's called: Pumpkin Soup
My favorite song at the moment! Whoo Whoo
You're chatting to me like we connect But I don't even know if we're still friends It's so confusing understanding you is making me not want to do The things that I know that I should do But I trip fast and then I lose And I hate looking like a fool
I just want your kiss, boy (kiss boy, kiss boy) I just want your kiss I just want your kiss, boy (kiss boy, kiss boy) I just want your kiss
The lights are on and someone's home But I'm not sure if they're alone There's someone else inside my head Living there to fill me with thread This paranoia is distressing And I spend most of my nights guessing Are we not are we together Will this make our lives much better
I'm not in love I just want to be touched
I just want your kiss, boy (kiss boy, kiss boy) I just want your kiss I just want your kiss, boy (kiss boy, kiss boy) I just want your kiss
Whoops I think I got too close 'Cause now he's telling me I'm the girl that he likes most Now I'm messed up It's not the first time I'm not saying you're not on my mind I hope that you don't think I'm unkind
I just want your kiss, boy (kiss boy, kiss boy) I just want your kiss I just want your kiss, boy (kiss boy, kiss boy) I just want your kiss and so on, and so on
For a course at school we got the assignment to write a radio column, so hereby I proudly present my debut as a columnnist!
Like many other people, I like day dreaming once in a while. Think over your career, childhood dreams or fantasies you secretly would like to come true. My perfect combination of these three? Becoming a real rock chick.
For me, and probably many other girls, this seems the best lifestyle you can think of. Imagine yourself using all your creativity to write lyrics and music, tour around the world and see the crowd go crazy over your gigs. But does the life of a rock chick come that easy?
Let’s start with popularity of rock bands. Even now rock music already exists for a long time, men are the ones dominating. ACDC, The Rolling Stones, Linkin Park and Metallica are examples of bands that will be mentioned when you ask people; what is the best rock band?
Are female rockers taken seriously? Do people think also women can be amazing drummers, guitar players and are they tough and edgy? Because rock music was made big in a time where feminism was not an issue yet, the men set the standard. Rock music is hard work, cigarettes and leather, dark rooms and screaming guitars.
In my opinion leather looks more hot on women than it does on men and so do dark rooms, but what about the rest? Life on the road means hard work and long days, so the rock chick needs to show her muscles. In the music scenes there is no time to wine over a broken nail, show those men what you are made of. Of course moving around speakers is not your main job, you need to blow your fans away, but while woman have smaller hands to cherish that guitar and have higher voices, that start is made.
Still not convinced? So you are a tough cookie, but no worries because I have a successful rock chick for you.
After this column, open Google for her picture, but for now I proudly represent my favorite chick ever, Allison Robertson.
Allison Rae Robertson, born in 1979 is the ultimate example of a successful rock chick. As guitarist of the band The Donnas she has been playing shows since 1993 with growing success. The band, including only girls, released 7 albums and a dozen of singles and soundtracks. As the crown of her success Allison won the title of best female guitar player of the well known magazine Guitar Player in October 2008.
For me, Allison Robertson is the living proof that it is still possible. That is why I will not give up on my dreams. I’ve got the leather jacket, eyeliner and electric guitar… now let the fame kick in.
