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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! ;)

Craft Dash | Uncategorized

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!

Craft Dash

Exclusive Look at Craft Dash #10

Are you ready? TOMORROW will start the first 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge of 2013! Do you remember back in December when a lucky winner had the opportunity to pick an upcoming color palette? This will be the challenge where you can see the colors she chose! Not only that, I have a fantastic sponsor, along with quite a few special guests AND rumor has it there may be a video somewhere in the mix.

If you are interested in getting a head start on your project, I have the colors that will be featured on the Pretty Pink Posh Facebook page. This is EXCLUSIVE to those who like my page. If you go there and click on “exclusives”, you get to see the next 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge colors a day early!

I hope that you all will join me for the challenge tomorrow. After a little break for the challenge, it’ll be so awesome to get back into a normal routine again!

Misc. | My Life

Saving Money in 2013

It’s not a secret to those around me that I like to spend money. One of my love languages is gift giving, which can include presents for holidays, unexpected gifts or buying a coffee or meal for someone I’m meeting with. None of these are bad things, but it’s also not great when these things prevent you from saving for your future.

I was talking with my sister recently and she asked if I wanted to do a money challenge with her. I hesitantly asked what exactly she was talking about. She said she had found a chart on Pinterest about a “new” way to save and by the end of the year, you would have over $1300. I was interested, for sure.

Back story: my sister has ALWAYS been good about saving money, even growing up. She lived minimally and this has helped her as she recently got married. On the other hand, if I were to get married tomorrow {don’t worry, I’m not}, I would be in trouble.

I took a look at my sister’s pin, but unfortunately, it doesn’t link to the original person who started this. Upon looking all over Google, I still wasn’t able to find the direct source. I did, however, find the less busy chart below.

Since I enjoy sharing the different aspects of my life, I thought I would share this with you. Yes, I do have a savings account and I will still be setting funds aside there. However, I love the idea of having another place for savings that involves small increments each week.

We are on the third week in 2013, so I have $6 in my savings jar. It makes me excited to see those little dollars bills adding up and knowing I’ll have accumulated more than $1300 by the end of the year.

Want to take on this challenge with me? With a new year in full gear, let’s make it a year of GOOD habits and bettering ourselves. :)

Blog Hop | Cards

Wonderful Washi Blog Hop

Good morning!

It’s time for the DeNami Design monthly blog hop. If you have started the hop from the beginning, you should be coming from Diana’s blog. You definitely want to be sure you visit all 19 stops; there’s bound to be lots of amazing washi tape inspiration!

I know that many of my readers are familiar with washi tape- it’s the hottest thing in blogging land right now! It took me a little while to dip my feet into this bandwagon, but now I am obsessed with it. Dozens of designs and colors and yet I’m still always on the lookout for new ones!

With Valentine’s Day coming up quickly, I thought I would create a card all about this sweet day. I have an abundance of red washi tape, so I decided to put them to use and create a washi tape heart. It’s SUPER easy to do, too! I placed stripes of washi tape on white paper, used a heart die cut and voila!

Did you happen to notice the red doily in the background? I first tried using a standard white one and it didn’t pop as much as I liked. Enter in a red ink pad and I immediately had a matching RED doily!

It’s time to head off to the next stop on the blog hop- Barbara Murphy’s blog! Barb is such a sweetie pie who is always so supportive and has great ideas- I can’t wait to see what she creates using washi tape!

Have fun with the rest of the hop, I hope you were inspired by my card. Don’t forget to leave comments on each stop for your highest chance of snagging one of the $20 gift certificates!

Hugs & Kisses	Elegant Square Frame	Teeny Heart Background	White cardstock	Red cardstock	Red Stripes Washi Tape	Lg. Red Hearts Washi Tape
Red Graph Washi Tape	Red/ White Hearts Washi Tape	White/ Red Dots Washi Tape	Satin Red Versafine	Sea Breeze Versamagic	Rich Cocoa Momento	EK Dotted Scallop border

InLinkz.com NOT LISTED: aqua paper & pearls, doily

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Uncategorized

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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Cards

Folk Art Friendship

Do you ever buy a stamp {or set} and then forget to use it for months? I am guilty of this occasionally. I have gotten a LOT better about my spending habits, but sometimes I’ll forget about something I purchased. This card features the set that fell into this category, Folk Art Florals by WPlus9.

I have loved this set from the moment I saw it, but didn’t want to make an impulse purchase. Since it had been about 11 months since it released and I still wanted it, I decided to go ahead and buy it. It’s not my usual style {hence the hesitancy}, but sometimes you just have to buy sets that you long for.

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Sadly, most of my light colored inks are getting dried out, so I had to reach for my bold inks this time around. The beauty of this set? It looks great with all sorts of colors!

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Have you heard of WPlus9 Design Studio before? If so, I’d love to hear what your favorite sets are! I recently picked up another set, along with some dies, that I’ll be featuring soon. Can’t wait to play with those new goodies!

Until next time…..

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Cards

Bright & Embossed

You know the feeling that you get when a huge project is almost completed? I have that right now. For the past few months, I’ve been busy working on a new stamp release at work {ie DeNami Design} and tomorrow is the day it officially launches. Months of organizing, planning and preparing and it is almost completed. Come Friday, I’ll be breathing a huge sigh of relief.

In honor of the new release, I have a card featuring some of the new stamps! I simply adore all of these images- they are so versatile and easy to use. I recently purchased my very first ZING embossing powders and I am in love. The colors are so vibrant and they work fabulously with solid images.

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I only picked up three, since I wasn’t sure if I would like them or not. Now I’m kicking myself for not getting more! You can be sure I’ll be getting more soon! Here are the links to the colors I got:

ZING Embossing {Lavender}

ZING Embossing {Leaf}

ZING Embossing {Grapefruit}

Note: I am an Amazon affiliate, so I’ll receive a small commission for anything purchased with these links {or on my sidebar on the right}.

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Have you tried ZING embossing powders before? If so, I’d love to see what other colors I *must* add to my collection.

In closing, I want to point you in the direction of the DeNami blog for a look at the new Spring/ Summer 2013 release. We had all sorts of fun things happening over there this week- giveaways, videos and cards- I hope you’ll check it out!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you have a fabulous day!

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Craft Dash

10 Minute Craft Dash #9 Highlights

You all have made me one happy girl. I’m so thrilled that one of my 2013 goals was accomplished in the last 10 Minute Craft Dash. We reached a whopping 100 entries in that one challenge! THANK YOU to every single person who submitted and helped get to this monumental number.

Well, it’s time to announce the 10 Minute Craft Dash #9 Highlights. Boy, oh boy, this was a tough decision. I sincerely wish I could pick every single entry- you all did a great job using the “holiday” theme for this challenge. Alas, there can only be one winner.

Please give a warm congratulations to the winner, along with the favorites!

Congratulations to Julie Hoffman!

Please email me with your contact info to claim your prize. Also, you get to grab the badge below and proudly display it on your blog!

I honestly couldn’t just pick five entries as favorites this time around. Here are the eight cards that caught my eye. Be sure to stop by each of the blogs to take a look at the beautiful cards! {Ladies, feel free to grab the badge below and put it on your blogs!}

There will be a BRAND NEW 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge coming next Wednesday, January 16th. I have a fantastic sponsor lined up, along with some special guests. I hope you all will be able to join me in the first challenge of 2013!

In closing, I want to remind you all there are five days left to submit your application for the 10 Minute Craft Dash DT. I’ve received applications from all over the world-have you sent YOURS in yet?