William Wegman

The Mitsuwa Marketplace

 I have had a lazy summer of Netflix binging, annoying the crap out of my parents and spending way to much time on my tiny tower.  And I am proud of all of it.  But now that summer is ending I am getting flustered to do as many activities I can.  What I did yesterday was go to the Mitsuwa Marketplace in New Jersey. I loved it! I got multiple batches of fish waffles, went to the bookstore, supermarket and had FUN!

That's a happy fish!

Hehe.  Doesn't that look cute and inappropriate at the same time? hehe...... he........he.
What I bought there was a Popin Cook'n.  I spent my money right that day. I have been looking for a Popin Cook'n for a long time.  On Amazon it takes a month to ship to where I am.

It basically is a magical box containing candy powders you whip up to create cakes, hamburgers, ramen and many more creations. Here's a video.

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Flowers and Stripes

Today I was spray painting a swing green and my feet turned green. I must have inhaled the the green paint because now the inside of my nose is green too.  Moving on, I changed the look of my blog last night . The background is composed of star fruit. Is it too crazy? Let me know please! Anyway, I got a shirt/dress for $15. I say it was a good deal.  I also got some Ed Hardy sneakers with it at The Buffalo Exchange.

          

I read the label of the shirt and it says the brand is Zara. You can go check Zara out here.  That's a cool website.

           

I added a belt above but it doesn't need it.

No shoe laces on these shoes! Just slip on and go! Here is a website for Ed Hardy shoes. Speaking of shoes, I love these Y.R.U Qloud Athena platforms. Too bad I'm too poor to buy those bad boys.

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Have a great day everybody!

I'm Mad about the Fashion: Archie Comics

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I have read the Archie comics forever and I used to have piles of comics everywhere.  Eventually I had to give them up but I am ready to collect again!  Archie sometimes gets on my nerves, just choose a lady and get your life to together. I wouldn't mind if he chose Veronica and Reggie was with Betty! But that is another story.  Also Oh my god did you ever hear Archie's voice from the 40s radio show?  But anyway I truly love all the characters. They will always be there for me hanging out at Pop Tate's Chocklit Shoppe.  I haven't read the Archie Comics in a long time but tonight I opened a comic and found GOLD.  I thought to myself, Wow I like the look of the fashion and so here I am!  I am going to be showing the GOLD I found from the Archie comics.

Veronica's Fashion:

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Veronica's fashion is bold, spunky and fun.  She has to look good to go out on the town.  She knows how to rock headbands and is not afraid to mix colors.  That's pretty cool, Veronica.

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Betty's Fashion

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Betty may not be rich like Veronica but she still knows how to dress.  Instead of headbands, she rocks  ponytails.

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And here is a bonus for you.  Ethel's style.

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Golden Rum cake

Hey!, this is a how to make a rum cake! Hell YA

An Awesome cake for awesome people

This beautiful golden rum cake has the alcohol baked out so nobody is getting drunk unless you want to add the rum sauce (yeah there is a rum sauce for you) I would suggest you enjoy your cake with vanilla ice cream, nice combo. Alright! Let's get to work.

Get Ingredients!:

• 1 cup walnuts
• 1/2 cup Appleton Estate rum or Bacardi Gold rum 
• yellow cake mix
• Bundt pan
• 1/2 cup canola oil
• 1/2 cup water
• 4 large eggs
• instant vanilla pudding mix

Rum Glaze:

• 1/2 cup rum
• stick of butter
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup water

The nuts are behind the sugar!

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.  Grease the pan and lightly flour it.  Chop the nuts and evenly cover the bottom of the pan .  Combine cake and vanilla pudding mix and add the eggs, canola oil,water and rum.   Mix until it becomes a batter.

I like it like that

OK, pour the the batter in the pan and lick the batter bowl. Bake for 60 minutes.  That was easy!

The Glaze: I would make the glaze while the cake cools since it is fast to make.  Bring the water,sugar and butter to a boil in a saucepan on medium heat.  Keep on for five minutes then remove the mixture and add rum.  Remove the cooled cake from the pan and pour on glaze.  Now eat it.

Santigold Rocks Gold!

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I have respected Santigold since listening to her music.  But after watching this interview, I love her even more.  Having a spotlight over her, she handles it by focusing on her work instead of trying to resemble a "perfect" image in the media.  I mean it is nice to know that she likes fart jokes!  I find her to be incredible, real and cute from just watching this interview.  She doesn't obsess over having a pop hit but that it is enjoyed and listened to by somebody.  I do like the collaborations, keep that thing going Santigold!  She has paired up with the Beastie Boys, Jay Z (well the song used a part of her song Shove it but that was a nice pairing) and M.I.A.  She is unique and herself and this makes me happy that she shows it off including in her music videos. I think is one cool lady. Here is her music video for Disparate Youth and also her song Pirate in the water.

Framing a Butterfly

Don't worry, this  butterfly died of natural causes

The Needed Supplies:

• A shadow box (a display case for your beautiful butterfly)
• pins
• butterfly

I found a shadow box that was big so instead of just putting a butterfly I have added a few personal touches.  You first need to have a dried out butterfly.  After having my butterfly dry out, I stored it pinned in my freezer. Pin the butterfly in the thorax.  Pin the butterfly down on to the shadow box  and feel free to add what you want.  It is optional to  to add whatever you like!! Feel free to make your butterfly to live in a wonderful world.  If you find your butterfly dead with the wings not spread out, there are ways to open them.  What you need to do is rehydrate the butterfly.  Place damp paper towels at the bottom of a container and place the butterfly on top not touching the paper towel (you can place the butterfly on something hard over the paper towels) to moisten the body.  Also add Listerine to the mix to keep your butterfly from molding.  Leave the butterfly in the container for a few days then take it out holding the thorax and use tweezers to gently spread the wings.  Take the butterfly and pin the thorax to cardboard or styrofoam.  Cover the wings by taping wax paper around the wings.  Finally!, wait a week for it dry out in the placed position.

What I did was take a picture and covered the pin-able board (if your shadow box is not able to have pins placed inside, I would put styrofoam or cardboard inside that cover it) with the sketch.  I then placed the butterfly by pinning the thorax.  Some intriguing butterfly facts; Scales are on butterflies wings that reflect light giving its color.  Butterflies sometimes go puddling by drinking from mud puddles.  Here is the finished work!