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March 15, 2006
Can You Handle This, Cupcake?
Sometimes I'm totally impressed by just how cool Noel and I are. You see, at the end of February we threw a cupcake party for Paige's birthday.
Oh. Perhaps the concepts of "cool" and "cupcake party" are creating some cognitive dissonance. This would not be the case if you had read a recent article in The Pulse about the growing popularity of, well, cupcakes. Even the Real Simple issue that I received a week after Paige's party jumped on the bandwagon, highlighting cupcake decorating techniques.
What made us even more hip, however, was the democratization of the decorated cupcake. Almost everyone who came concocted edible wonders from the provided frosting and candy.
Creations ranged from the simple echoes of nature...
...to slightly more elaborate representations...
...to attempts at portraiture...
...and trompe l'oeil...
It was fun. But don't believe the people that say that eating cupcakes is a delicate, dainty affair.
It's not.
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Why was I not invited? Have I been banned from all ensuing Paige parties after last year's heartfelt poem?
Weep for the delectable MC Escher/HR Geiger inspired cupcake that you shall never neither see nor nibble!
--RD Macey
Posted by: macey at March 15, 2006 08:43 PM
macey, i don't know how to tell you this but... yes, you have been banned. after that poem last year, things are just way too risky...
i am sorry about not seeing the escher/geiger cupcake, though. maybe we can have a mini cupcake party when you come up to visit.
Posted by: elissa at March 16, 2006 06:40 PM
that was the most intimidating cup cake ever created. and i conquered it, even though it took a lot out of me. i'm alright now though.
Posted by: matthew gillikin at March 17, 2006 12:11 AM
So relying on the power of the almightly Google, I found this blog. And I'm assuming it belongs to my long lost friend 'lissa. Who is actually long lost twice now...
If it happens to really be you.. and you happen to actually read your blog comments.. email me! Its been way too long :)
Posted by: David Ellis at March 17, 2006 12:29 AM
Yes, you did overcome, Gilli. I was proud.
Hi, Davey. :) It's me. I'll e-mail you...
Posted by: elissa at March 17, 2006 02:52 PM
