Weekend fun!~o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆

Hey everyone! How are you all doing? (◕‿◕✿)  Hopefully everyone is staying warm and safe during this cold weather! :0

Yesterday there was a HUGE snowstorm in Milwaukee. We got almost 7 inches of snow! :O The roads were really bad for a long time and it took me almost two hours to get home. :(

Today the roads still aren't 100%, so I thought I'd stay in and blog about the events of the week and the fun weekend I had! (｀・ω・´)”

I baked, went shopping, saw UFC fights and hung out with Brittany! 

It felt good to do the things I love doing, especially since I rarely get days off from work now. :(

So I'll start of with last Friday's events! ♥ 

My 22nd birthday~~! o(^_^)o (PART 1)

So this is obviously long overddue considering that my birthday was way back on June 19th lol, but my post about my birthday celebration is finally here! 

 

So on June 19th, 2012 I turned a beautiful 22 years old! I'm thankful to have lived for 22 years even though I still feel like I'm 16 sometimes lol xD





My lovely birthday started off with my sweet panda taking me down for an enjoyable day at the lakefront!
I decided to go for a sweet and summery look:

Top: Forever 21
Belt: Rainbow
Shorts: Target
Shoes: Yumetenbo
Purse: Discovery
Hat: Forever  21

My make was also gal and sweet! :

Foundation:  Fashion Fair Fast Finish Foundation stick
Top + bottom lashes: Ebay
Lip color: Random color I found lol :p

My babe looking cute♥ 

Probably the best picture we took!


The lake was absolutely beautiful that day...I loved it so much!:

It was the most perfect day at the lake that day, not too hot at all...I was really happy me and panda went there. ^_^
We climbed on the big rocks and took pictures and even enjoyed yummy lemonade together! I couldn't have asked for a better start to my birthday.




Later that evening I was treated to dinner at Ru-Yi asian restaurant inside of patowatomi casino.
This was my first time EVER going to a casino!!:

Inside the casino (sorry for the blurriness)


It was extremely hot that day, so I decided to do a change of apparel and do something more glamorous:

Hat: Target
Dress: Target
Shoes: Dots
Lace gloves: Claires
Lace choker: Burlington coat factory

I absolutely loved the interior inside the restaurant! Very festive and sexy ♥ 




I was also happy to find that they had bubble tea there!:

Panda had green tea flavor while I enjoyed strawberry of course!



My mom and sister also came along to celebrate:

Love my mom's facial expression, hahaha! 




I enjoyed yummy spring rolls for my appetizer and lo mein with a side of fried tofu for the main course♥ :

Panda had some of the yummy lo mein as well! ヽ(；▽；)ノ

My mom had delicious bulgogi while my sister enjoyed yummy sweet and sour shrimp!

I also played the slot machine for the first time! I was honestly pretty hesitant to play it since I know how horribly those things rip people off, but I figured why not give it a shot?
I only played once because the machine took my dollar, which I didn't like at all. >_<
lol, the experience was still fun though! 


After my eventful night we all went back to my house where we all enjoyed some of my yummy strawberry birthday cake:

Man oh man was it good!!!



I had a pretty enjoyable birthday, it felt good to finally be 22 and spend it with the people I love the most.   

I decided to make this a two-part entry since everything that happened was kinda too long for one entry lol.
So get ready for part two coming up soon!!!

Sewing, Baking, Deco!!♥

   

Yes, as the title says! I've been wanting to create so much lately!!! :3

My biggest urge that I've had is to start baking things again! The last real thing that I baked was some cupcakes and a cake on valentine's day for my panda-man:

These turned out nicely, but now after looking at so many cute kitchen gadgets and all the delicious things you can make with them, I'm ready to try something more challenging!

 

 

One of the first things I want to bake are mini Hello Kitty kasutera cakes!(emote)
For this, I will be buying this silicone baking pan:

Kasutera is basically a Japanese spongecake, which is lighter and less sweet than american ones.
I am going to fill the insides with vanilla cream and fresh strawberries! 

It'll take a lot of work, but I'm pretty positive that it'll turn out the way I am envisioning it!♥ 
I was inspired to create it after visiting this post at i-heart-baking!'s blog:
Her tiramisu cake turned out wonderfully! ^_^

Next on my list will be trying to make macarons, Japanese style parfaits and a two-tier strawberry cake shaped like a heart. There will be lots of strawberry flavored things because I absolutely adore anything strawberry!!   


I also am dying to get this pan as well:


Never seen anything so ridiculously cute AND edible before!!!! Right up my freakin' alley.   

Also I've been creating more deco. This is a mirror I've been working on:


Lawlz this is a crappy picture so it doesn't show the massive array of blingy-ness that I wanted it to xD

I'm kinda excited about deco-ing stuff again too, since the last time I did that was on my camera:


That has since been all cleaned off since I want a new camera, LOL.
But after the mirror I want to deco a case for my ipod, and the new camera that I'll purchase as well!

Aaaannd lastly...I'm trying to learn to sew again...
....which I am nervous about.
...because I am really really terrible at it.

However my mom is excellent at it, so I will shamelessly beg ask her to teach me! (again. T_T)
I wanted to create some stylish and girly shorts to wear this summer with these materials:


I was inspired to go along the same lines as these gyaru shorts that I saw on yumetenbo a while back:


Of course I don't think they'll turn out this cute, but I can certainly try right?? :D
I'm hoping all of this turns out the way I'm hoping it does...I really like to be original and create things that may inspire other people! ^_^

Do you have any creative hobbies you like to do in your spare time? ♥