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Red Velvet Mini Donuts

I’m so glad that you liked my first post on the DIY Gumball Machine. Paulina has keeping me informed on the comments and has passed along the news that many of you have created one. It makes me happy to hear you tried it out!

Valentine’s day is coming soon… so I have a delicious and easy recipe for mini donuts that you can make for special someone! It’s so easy to make, Paulina can make it! :)

Red Velvet Mini Donuts

Recipe Type: Dessert

Author: Krista Nakamura

Serves: 2 dozen

Ingredients

12oz. All-purpose Flour
10oz. Granulated Sugar
3/4 oz. Baking Powder
1/8 cup Cocoa Powder
1T Salt
9.5oz. Buttermilk
3oz. Melted Butter
1T Vanilla
3 Eggs
1 Yolk
Red Food Coloring

Instructions

Mix all dry ingredients together in a metal bowl
Mix all wet ingredients together (excluding the food coloring) using a mixer
Combine dry ingredients with wet ingredients. Add food coloring to desired redness.
After combined, roll out dough onto a cutting board (that is dusted with flour) to a 1/2″ thickness
Cut to desired shape (using a cookie cutter)
Heat fryer at 375 degrees. Fry mini donuts for 3 minutes per side
Allow to cool. Dust with powdered sugar, granulated sugar, or sugar glaze (recipe above).

Sugar Glaze

1 cup Powdered Sugar

2T Water

1T Lemon Juice

Mix all dry ingredients together in a metal bowl

Mix all wet ingredients together (excluding the food coloring) using a mixer

Combine dry ingredients with wet ingredients. Add food coloring to desired redness.

After combined, roll out dough onto a cutting board (that is dusted with flour) to a 1/2″ thickness

Cut to desired shape(using a cookie cutter)

Heat fryer at 375 degrees. Fry mini donuts for 3 minutes per side

Allow to cool. Dust with powdered sugar, granulated sugar, or sugar glaze (recipe above).

I hope you enjoyed these little nuggets of tastiness! If you try them out or are planning to, post a comment! I thrive on comments… no seriously, I do! ;)

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10 Minute Craft Dash #10

Ready for a brand new 10 Minute Craft Dash? I am so glad that you joined me today- not only is this the first challenge of 2013, it’s also the color palette that a previous 10 Minute Craft Dash winner picked!

Seeing as we are less than a month away from Valentine’s Day, I thought I would create a lovey dovey card with these colors. I just love how versatile these colors are together! I could see all sorts of cards being made with these colors- birthday, thinking of you, wedding, baby….. the list could go on and on!

Time it took to create: 8 minutes 43 seconds

I’m so thrilled to have WPlus9 Design Studio sponsoring a prize. Not only that, I also have a lot of the WPlus9 DT joining in this challenge! These gals blow me away with their talent and I’m glad that you were able to join along today!

Dawn Woleslagle (owner)

Cristina Kowalczyk

Elise Durenberger

Jinny Newlin

Kerrianne Gwin

Sarah Martina Parker

Savitri Wilder

Now onto the fun prize! Dawn has graciously offered up a $20 gift certificate to the WPlus9 website. With a large assortment of stamp sets, dies and different accessories, you will have so much fun shopping!

How to Play

Create a card/craft project within 10 minutes using the color palette above
Post the time it took to create
Be sure to include the challenge graphic in your post and link to the challenge
You may combine a total of three challenges with your entry. You may enter the challenge a maximum of two times.
Challenge ends January 26, 2013 at 11:59pm, PST.

You can pull out your supplies before your timer starts!

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Last Call for DT Applications!

Hi all!

I wanted to send out a little reminder about the 10 Minute Craft Dash DT call. While I’ve received enough entries to last me quite a while, I didn’t want to leave anyone out. If YOU would like to submit your application, the deadline to submit is TOMORROW, January 13th, 12 pm PST!

Remember, those who are accepted will get to be a part of the very FIRST DT for the 10 Minute Craft Dash. How fun would that look on your design resume?

Thank you to everyone who has applied so far. I have a special folder for all of my applications and I must say, it’s packed FULL of beautiful creations. This is going to be a tough decision and I’ll definitely have to call in for reinforcements to help me make the final decision.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below, or send me an email! I’m looking forward to seeing YOUR application soon!

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New Contributor to Pretty Pink Posh

2013 will be a year of growth, changes and excitement here at Pretty Pink Posh. If you haven’t already, be sure to Subscribe to Pretty Pink Posh by Email so you don’t miss any posts. I have new sponsors, giveaways, Featured Bloggers and much, much more coming!

One of the things I’m most excited about? My sister will be contributing her amazing crafty creations & food items to this blog occasionally! Now you may be wondering why I’m bringing on someone new to add content to the blog, I know I did before when visiting other blogs. The biggest reason: you get fabulous inspiration from another source with a different style.

Krista majored in Professional Baking at a local community college during high school and graduated with honors and an increasing desire to learn more than just the art of baking and pastry work. She began the Culinary Arts program while taking outside courses to achieve her degree in Applied Sciences. She had the opportunity to compete for the Student Chef of the Year 2010 competition for Washington State and achieved the title “ ACF Student Chef of the Year”. After graduating, she interned at a prestigious restaurant in Seattle and was later hired on and became a sous chef. While working, she was also on the ACF Culinary Youth Team for the United States and competed in Germany for the competition among young chef worldwide. {The team won both gold and silver!} Now she is resting up after her whirlwind adventures to Germany and Japan and planning where she wants to go next.

While Krista has gone into the culinary field professionally, she is EXTREMELY talented in crafting and photography as well. I’m constantly amazed at her talent and skills. It’s not unusual to find her sewing, creating unique decor items, trying out new crafting techniques or doing random photo shoots.

Here’s a peek at some of the things she made in December…..

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I have told Krista about the amazing community of people I have met via blogging and I can’t wait for her to get to know you all {and vice versa}. Please join me in giving her a great big welcome- she’s a little hesitant about this new endeavor.

Thank you so much for joining me today. I hope your new year is off to a great start!

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Pretty Pink Posh via Email

Hi all!

Some of you may have noticed that my blog posts aren’t coming via Google Friend Connect any longer. Unfortunately, with WordPress, they no longer allow non-Google sites to have this feature. However, you can still receive ALL of my new blog posts- this time directly to your email!

Subscribe to Pretty Pink Posh by Email

I hope you all had a very special Christmas. I’ve been enjoying my time off, but I’ll be back with a post sometime soon!

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Christmas Is Not About Gifts…..

I will be the first to admit that I love buying gifts for people, almost to a fault. I love showing the people I hold dear how much they mean to me- in cards, random acts of kindness and gifts. Showing them in tangible ways how much I treasure our relationship is definitely my love language.

It’s so easy during this time of year to get caught up in the busyness of the season. Buying presents, sending out cards, Christmas parties, holiday baking…… I’ll admit, I sometimes find myself getting sucked into all of it as well. This year, since I was relying on everyone else for rides to get presents, I was getting really starting to get stressed out that it all wouldn’t get done. In the craziness, I had to step back and remember what the TRUE meaning of the season is. Sure, it’s fun to take part of the hustle and bustle, but really this season is so much more than this.

TREASURE the precious moments you have with your loved ones and friends. I know that this year has been financially tough on many- DON’T stress about the presents. Those who are around you {who truly care about you} don’t want things, they want quality time and moments to create memories. How do I know? Every loved one around me has said these words to me.

Tomorrow I’ll be posting a list of some special things you can do {with young and old} to create memories. They won’t necessarily be things just for the Christmas season- there will be things that can be done throughout the year as well.

I’m hoping each of you will join me tomorrow- you can help list items that I missed! :) I hope you all are enjoying this special holiday season this year. So glad you decided to spend a little bit of time with me today!

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Support those in Newtown, CT

As I mentioned in my last post, the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut area has burdened me greatly.While I deal with high schoolers at my church weekly, I have always had a heart for small children as well. As soon as I heard about this horrific ordeal, I knew in my heart that I wanted to do something to help. But what?

I logged onto the computer and saw that my friend, Amber at Damask Love, was also burdened for this community and wanted to do something. I immediately contacted her and asked what she had in mind. While there are so many different ways we can help, I wanted to “team-up” (for lack of a better word) with her and join her idea. Amber is a pediatric psychologist and has an understanding with how to help children dealing with grief and difficult situations. After hearing her idea, I immediately jumped on board and am going to do everything I can to help.

Amber did a great job describing exactly what this specific cause will do, so I’m just going to direct you to her blog- CLICK HERE to view the direct post with all the details.

You all know I don’t ask for much from you– however, whatever you can do to help this cause, I urge you to. Whether it’s donating financially, sending cards, or sending supplies for this cause, we each can help in sharing our love to those in Connecticut.

While I know our words cannot erase the pain and grief, our thoughts & prayers and these actions of love will at the very least show them others are standing behind them. We are grieving with them. We are behind them.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or you can contact Amber at her blog. Thank you, sweet friends, for spreading the word and supporting this cause……

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Busy Week

Can you all believe that there are only 17 days until Christmas? If you follow the Pretty PinkPosh Facebook page, you saw that yesterday I did a little bit of Christmas shopping. While I am far from finished, it was great to get some of it taken care of. Normally I’m on top of it a little bit more, but this year with everything that has happened, it’s taken me a bit longer to get in the shopping mood. Hoping I can finish everything on time!

Last week I started a new feature called the “Week in Review”. It sounds like this might be something you all will enjoy, so we’ll give it a little trial run until 2013.

I want to remind you all that TOMORROW is the last day to enter the giveaway I’m hosting. If you haven’t already, be sure to enter! Click here for the details! Reading your favorite items from the re.Served store has been so fun- now I’m eying even more over there!

Whew, this week has been filled jam packed for me! In between the two blogs I write on, the videos I’ve been filming, work and planning for the first six months of 2013 sponsorships, I haven’t been able to find much time to create things. Hopefully I can knock out quite a bit today; especially since I’m participating in the DeNami Pretty Packaging Blog Hop tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by and for all the sweet comments you’ve left this week. Hope you’ll join me tomorrow for my blog hop project!

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New Feature + Sponsorship Opportunities

Do you ever have a hard time keeping up with all the blogs in your reader? If you’re anything like me, you follow lots of blogs and sometimes, you may accidentally miss a post. While we try to keep up-to-date on everything, it can be easy to miss an important post!

I came up with an idea to help with this- Week in Review. The idea is to post snippets of all the posts from the week and any important info that you all won’t want to miss. I WILL need you help though- can you let me know if this is something you would like? It’ll take a little bit of work on my end, but it’s worth it if it helps you!

Let’s give this feature a whirl….. If you missed any of the posts listed, you can click on the photo to visit the direct link!

Some may have noticed some changes in my blog design recently. As I’ve put in many more hours doing blog posts, whether it be creating projects, lining up sponsorships for the 10 Minute Craft Dash, or working on collaborations, I’ve learned that these things add up.

After doing a lot of thinking, I have decided to become an affiliate with Amazon.com! If you ever need an item from Amazon {gifts, anyone?}, if you use my search bar on the right hand side, I’ll receive credit and a small commission for items you purchase. The small amount of income will help with my hosting costs & crafting supplies and also fund some of the giveaways I’ll be hosting in the future!

Also, another new item on the blog- I’m now offering sponsorship opportunities! If you have a business or blog that you think the Pretty Pink Posh readership might enjoy, consider sponsoring an ad!

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today. Can’t wait to hear what you think of this feature and the opportunity to sponsor Pretty Pink Posh!