Sunday, April 14, 2013

Quick and easy brownies.


Ever in a hurry and craving something chocolaty? Well, I do on occasion. On such occasions, I may have made these quick and easy brownies. These brownies always hit the spot. The great things about brownies are that they are chocolaty, gooey, and most usually everybody loves them. In my family, they never last more than a day. The other day I made these to go with some homemade chocolate ice cream that I made. 

To make these brownies you will need:
  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup walnut halves (optional)
Directions:
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 9 x 13 pan.
  2. Melt butter. Then mix all ingredients in the order given.
  3. Pour into greased 9 x 13 baking pan and bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes.
Optional: sprinkle a little powder sugar on top for an extra touch.
** I sometimes use a sheet cake pan, instead of a  9 x 13, though you must adjust the time.



As always enjoy.
Peace, love, bake on.
                                   Andrea

 I found the original recipes here, but I made a few changes to make it my own.

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Hairs ideas for PROM-- Part II


Hey everyone! So I promised another post devoted to Prom hairstyles, and I intend to follow through. I have  just been so busy. Among fighting sickness, getting lines memorized, and getting songs down and memorized, I almost forgot about it. To say the least I keep busy, usually. 

So if your prom isn't already here or isn't around the corner, it will be soon. It comes faster than you think. Time really flies by. 

So I have a friend that asked me to help her find a hairstyle for prom for her hair. She has short brown gorgeous hair. She has a strapless gown, so she wants her to be down. And so I had a mission, and on my mission I found that a lot of hair style were similar, especially when  they were hairstyles that were down loose instead of up in an up-do or something. But I learned after realizing that it all depends on the technique in which you style and prep your hair.

So I wanted to give some ideas and pictures to show you some different ideas for short curly hairstyles.

This hair style is super cute and fun. To do this hairstyle, you could either use a 1/2 curling iron or 3/4 inch curling iron. Depends on how short you hair. I can't guarantee the same results, but it should be the type of curl. Here is a good hair tutorial for this type of hairstyle. Looking on YouTube for tutorial is a good source to help you curl your hair.  This would be great if you want something care free and bouncy. 













This hairstyle is very vintage but screams classy! Personally, if I had short hair this is how I would always wear my hair. I feel like it is a timeless hair style. I found a couple great tutorials that I have to share with you because they each go at it with a different technique but they are each so pretty. Here is the first one, my favorite, I think. Another one you find HERE, is also really good. And the last two that I also love are HERE and HERE. I am sure there are even more great ones that are on YouTube, but these are the ones that stood out to me the most. 









There are two other prom hairstyles I found but couldn't find good pictures to depict them. So I am just going to direct you to tutorials. The first is curling you hair with a flat iron. It would give you a unique curl, and you can find a good YouTube tutorial here. It even shows you how to add volume. BONUS! Last but certainly now least, I found this super chic hairstyle tutorial that I just have to share, and you can find it right here. I love it.

All these hairstyles would be great for prom, you just have to dress them up, add volume and a flower or a different accessory. You could even try to incorporate braids. I love braids. And they always look cute. For example you could curl your hair and then do a water fall braid. Just in case you don't know what or how to do a waterfall braid, so here is one that'll teach the basics.  

Those are some ideas, and now just run with it. Be creative. Thanks!


                                                                   Andrea