Cupcake Shoes

A friend sent me a picture of some shoes made out of cupcakes and cookies. She asked if I could reproduce it, so my sister and I tried our hand at making them. For design ideas, we went onto the websites for Nordstrom shoes, 6pm.com, and poeticlicence.com (my favorite London shoe brand) and spent two hours coming up with the designs. Then we spent 5 hours from 10pm to 3am to make the shoes.

Easter Cupcakes: matcha green tea cupcakes

Matcha green tea cupcakes
Hersheys chocolate robin eggs
Noodles dipped in dark fondue chocolate
Pretzel sticks dipped in chocolate
Buttercream icing and dark cacao

Easter Cupcakes

These are vanilla cupcakes.

Missouri Botanical Garden

Despite the heat and humidity in the air, people were out in droves walking the Bot Garden. Beautiful skies, cool breezes under the shades, and colorful flowers in bloom... Lifted my spirit a thousandfold!

Preparations are underway for the Lantern Festival later this month... Very exciting.

Longfellow House

No, I am no different. Here I am, reveling in this incredible opportunity to visit an old, falling down, empty house... A mere shell of space where once dwelled the spirit of that great writer.  I, too, must sit in this garden and bask in the sunlit serenity. I, too, must marvel at this house, if only from the outside (the house is closed for this season until June 1). I feel silly, and yet, I cannot help it. I am one more silly person chasing after that momentary glimpse back into history... As if it means something to be here.

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Here comes another visitor, taking pictures. Like me, he is just here, present, with camera in hand. The birds are the only witnesses to our silly rituals of capturing memory.

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Purple tulips and peonies about to bloom.

Just wind and leaves blowing in the yard.