Macaron Party!

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The past few weeks have been filled with cleaning, unpacking (finally) and painting. All were in preparation for finally having friends over! Woohoo!!!

I’ve been taking macarons to the past few crafternoons Heidi has been hosting. During the first one it was suggested I have a get together and teach everyone how to make them. I kept stalling when it came to picking a date, but finally after some nudging from different directions I picked Saturday, June 23rd!
I invited all of the awesome girls I’ve been meeting at the crafternoons, plus everyone else I’ve known for a bit.
I’ve never hosted anything but family get togethers, so this whole concept was new to me. What do you serve? What kind of drinks? Etc etc? JC helped with picking out fruits, cheeses and crackers since I had no idea. All I could think of was the sweets.

Everyone I invited showed up, which was awesome!!

We talked and joked for so long that we didnt leave much time for the actual macaron baking. So I just set up my mixer on my island and everyone stood around while I instructed… Which was super awkward to do!!! Haha. I felt like I was being filmed for a cooking show!

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The plan was for everyone to bring different flavors and fillings and we would choose a bunch to make. We ended up making one batch, that was split in half. So two flavors. The first were raspberry flavored with lemon curd filling, and the other was pumpkin spice with a chai buttercream filling. Both came out looking good and tasting great!!

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Oh and since macarons only require the egg whites, I had a bunch of egg yolks left over. So I tried my hand at creme brûlée!! I just found a basic recipe on allrecipes.com. They weren’t 100% perfect, a teeny bit gooey in the middle and burnt on the top!! But they tasted right. Ha. I think they should have refrigerated a bit longer to set, bc the ones we had later that night with family were perfect!!

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I don’t know when I’ll have another party, but I hope it’s soon. I really loved having everyone over!! It kept a smile on my face all weekend.

EDIT: you can read a little more about this get together over on Heidi’s and then Katie’s blogs!

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Shop Update: June 8th, 2012

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After two weeks of editing photos (I only worked an hour a night). I finally updated all the new necklaces!

There’s monster necklaces, geometric necklaces and patchwork inspired necklaces!!

Plus I made a few little houses that you can place on a shelf, in a cubicle or anywhere else you’d put something teeny. If you like them, please let me know I’d love to make other styles!

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Time For Some Change…

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I’ve been thinking long and hard about what direction I would like to take Art School Dropout. I realized I really enjoy working on my new pieces and I don’t enjoy working with the older pieces as much anymore. The change has been nice. I even have 20 new pieces coming in from the printers soon!!!

So to jump start the switch over I have started listing lots of un-assembled hand cast plastic pieces as supplies.

Now everyone else can use these pieces for whatever they like! They are flat backed and lightweight! They can be used in collages, as pendants, hairpins or anything else that you can think of!

I like to be prepared for large orders, so I always cast a bunch of each piece. There’s so many it may take me awhile to get them all up. For now you can snag a bunch of various lots, plus some lots of just one color!!

If you’d prefer an assembled piece, I have discounted all of the older designs. 40% off!

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What I’ve Been Up To…

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It’s been super crazy in my house lately!

- My baby sister graduated high school, a whole year early! so there was celebrating that! I’m beyond proud of her.

- Heidi had another crafternoon, though only one of my photos came out! So I decided against a blog post about it. I promise to talk about the next one, which is very soon.

- CT has taken up bouncing as a hobby. Which basically means I’m constantly having to keep an eye on her because it seems bouncing on and around everything is a pretty dangerous hobby. She seems to be getting hurt at least 5 times a day. Were going through a lot of band aids.

- Lots and lots of spring cleaning. I keep bringing all these awesome finds into the house, but I never really put them where their meant to go. So I’ve spent the past two weeks doing just THAT! no more thriftining until I put everything in its place.

- We started painting the house. the ENTIRE HOUSE! We bought ten gallons of paint during Sherwin Williams Memorial sale. I have four rooms, a stairwell, a very tall entryway and a hallway to paint. I’ve only finished the kitchen and half of the living room. I may be painting for awhile.

- During the off time from painting (or when my husband is doing it) I have been slowly getting ready for a shop update!!! finally!! I have several new designs for this update and over TWENTY new pieces for next months update. I’m so excited to finally change things up a bit. Same old colors, brand new designs!

and to end this post off right, here are some sneak peeks of what will be in the update later this week…

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Collections: Cupcake Liners

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So this collection isn’t AS big as the last two, as in it doesn’t take up a lot of space. There’s still a bunch of them…

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Cupcake Liners!
I just love them. I don’t even make cupcakes that often! I’m more of a cookie girl. When I do make some I’m totally  prepared, and I can even make them mismatched. I don’t store all of them year round, I actually pack holiday themed ones away with the decorations. Because really, do I need Halloween liners in July?

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I can’t take credit for the idea of storing them in a huge jar btw. I saw it on Pinterest awhile back and knew it would be the perfect way to protect and show them off. I’ve also seen people use the tall skinny spaghetti containers and stack them inside. I just had too many.

 

 

We’re Back on Etsy!

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After some consideration, and frustration, I have decided to switch the Blythe shop back to Etsy. I don’t know how, but I somehow lost my old shop name. So now we have a new and much shorter etsy address!
www.etsy.com/shop/MiniASD

I apologize for all the moving around over the years! I really wanted it all to be available in my main shop, but there was just too much confusion for non Blythe shoppers. Then I was back and forth about Etsy. I’m hoping this will be the final home for Mini ASD and will make it easier for people to search for us and find exactly what they need.
Currently everything in the shop is from the big cartel shop. I’m taking request for new items. what would you like to see? I’m also working on 3D printed pieces for Blythe along with custom, cast plastic, dress forms and more. I forgot how much fun it was to design little stuff!