The Life of Mrs Magoo

Inspiration: Cupcakes

Hi everybody!! How was your weekend?! Mine was good, got lots of work done and spent some time with family yesterday. Time with the nieces is always welcome.

So, I thought I would share some of my fave things to bale. Cupcakes!! I love to bake them and eat them too of course. I have a whole list of  blogs on my Google Reader dedicated to cupcakes. I get lots of ideas and inspiration from there.

These were my Easter cupcakes this year, how do you like my grass? It was hard to make and a little tricky. These are Devil's Food Chocolate cupcakes with Buttercream frosting.

 

I made these ones this past weekend for lunch at my parent's house yesterday. They're Chai cupcakes with Condensed Milk Icing...delicious. Chai tea is one of my faves.

 

These are Peppermint Mocha cupcakes with Cream Cheese frosting. I helped my sister make these to give away to friends this past Christmas. YUM!!

 

These are Strawberry cupcakes with Cream Cheese frosting. These are my Mama's faves.

 

Did I make your mouth water a little? I have to remember to start taking more photos of my Cupcakes before they're devoured!!

Thanks for stopping by!! Happy Monday!!

Inspiration: Cars

Sorry my Inspiration post is a little late. My mind has been elsewhere and haven't really had a chance to blog. But it's been dealt with and I still wanted to post my Inspiration for the week. Usually I do it on Monday's but that's okay.

So, if you can guess my stress for the past couple of days has been my car. I have had my car for 9 years it is also still my first car and I feel very emotionally attached to it sometimes even though the poor thing is almost done.  And I keep getting mechanical surprises. It will be hard to part with it when that day comes, it will be soon I know. I drive a VW Golf, I love it. I have always loved VW. I love European cars, what can I say I have expensive taste. I will most likely be getting another VW but I have also thought about getting a Mini Cooper, I love those too they are so cute. And Jared when looking did find me a bubblegum pink Mini. How cute would I look driving in a pink Mini?! We'll see...

Enjoy!!

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And in pink. I <3

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Have a good Thursday!!

Inspiration: Easter

How was your Easter long weekend?! Mine has been good. I still have today off. And just baking some cupcakes in the oven right now. I have my family's dinner tonight over at my sister's house and I said I would bring some cupcakes, which as most of you know I love to make. I will have to post a photo later in the week of them.

So, for my Inspiration I thought I would share some Easter-inspired photos. Super cute!!

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This one is one of my fave...I love ducks!!

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This one is super cool, I might have to try doing this when I start my seeds...soon!!

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I hope the photos inspired you!! I better get back to my cupcakes, have a good Monday!!

Inspiration: Earth Hour

How was the rest of your weekend?! Mine was good. Relaxed. It's back to work today for, Spring Break is done. I'm sad. The good thing is it's a short week and a long weekend!! YAY!!

So, how did you all do for Earth Hour?! I had my candles lit and I tried to do some scrapbooking. It was hard to see my page and what I was doing. Kind of romantic. It was only me though, Jared was at a soccer fundraiser. I am a little disappointed by the results of our province our electricity was doen to onl 1 %. That sucks. Some people are saying that it has to do with the hocky game that was going on here in Vancouver. At least I can say that I participated.

I wanted to share some inpsiration today of Earth Hour. It's kind of cool to see what other people and cities did.

These are mine...

And all of these photos are from we heart it

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I think my fave one if of the Eiffel Tower. Hope you have a good Monday!!

Inspiration: Spring Flowers

In honor of the beginning of Spring I had to do my inspiration post of all things Spring which to me is all about flowers. Enjoy!!

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Aren't they all so pretty?! Have a good Monday!!

Thursday

Happy Thursday!! It's almost Friday and then I am on Spring Break, I cannot wait. Super excited. I have so many things I want to do and need to do. I have to start a list and slowly start checking things off.

Aren't you impressed with me and my blogging? I've blogged pretty much almost everyday. I'm trying to keep it to almost everyday. It was one of my goals for 2010 to blog more often.

Just wanted to share a couple of things. In my quest to find inspiration for decorating I stumbled upon this new online magazine Nesting Newbies. It has lots of ideas and inspiration for the home and some cooking recipes as well that look delicious. They only have two issues out now and the first one has some delicious recipes for the slow cooker which I always find hard to find good ones. So, I will have to try some out soon too. But go take a peek.

Okay and this I am pretty excited for. I love this book. I've read it twice and I just may need to read it again now before the movie comes out in the Summer.

Have a good day!!

take me away...

How was your weekend?! Mine was okay. Nothing too exciting. I was meaning to blog the rest of last week but, I did have a couple of melt downs over the state of our house. I hate our house. Too much stuff. I have been cleaning and purging but it does take awhile. And on top of that we have no bathroom, we'll we do but we don't. There was a leak, and instead of using the landlords cheap carpenter Jared is fixing it. He took all the dry wall down, and we had bare walls for a couple of days to see if there were any other leaks. Luckily no. So, yesterday Jared started putting the dry wall back but because nothing in this house is done properly it took Jared longer than it should have.

We're still debating if we are going to move. I kind of want to and kind of no. We'll see.

So, while Jared was working on the bathroom, I actually scrapped. Made two pages and two cards. I was quite happy, it felt good. Will have to do it again. Luckily Spring Break is coming up in 4 1/2 days...lots of stuff I will do and create!!

I also finally watched New Moon on Friday night with my sister. LOVED it. OMG Jacob, he's delish. I am definetly on Team Jacob. The whole time my sister and I were saying she should totally choose Jacob over Edward, no?

 I was looking over at we heart it, it's my new fave place, lots of inspiration and found a couple of inspiring and pretty bathrooms to hold me over a bit...
 
 

I love all the claw foot tubs. And with this photo can you imagine soaking in the tub with the fireplace on.

And I love the two different vintage mirrors in this one.

And this one is so calming with the blue paint.

 
  Hope you have a good day!!

Monday

How was your weekend? Mine was good. Did a bit of work on Saturday over at Tanya's. It was good. Some grocery shopping and then I got sucked into playing my new DS game. Yes, I'm a geek. I have been obsessed playing Farmville over on Facebook and I'm trying to stop playing so, to fill my fix I bought My Farm Around the World. It's kind of similar to Farmville on Facebook but at least I don't sit in front of the computer playing the game. And I also started reading The Time Traveler's Wife, I like it so far.

Saturday night we had an overflow in the bathroom. Not fun. Cleaning at 11pm on a Saturday night is not my cup of tea. I got mad.  Over the past little while my house has been bugging me. Just not happy with it. Too much stuff, not pretty enough. And I've complained a bit. Poor Jared. So, yesterday I did some cleaning and purging, started to anyway. Started with the bathroom. It's about 3/4 of the way done. I have one more cupboard to tackle but my towels look so pretty, rolled up in a line.

This morning I started cleaning a bit the tv room and all I have to say is I have too many magazines. I have to stop buying them. I have started some piles to go through and tear whatever I want to keep, but I know I need to cut back on my magazine spending.

Didn't do any craftyness this weekend either. Did clean my crafty desk a little bit. Hopefully soon.

I did want to share some cool photos I found over at we heart it. I'm probably one of the last people to discover this website but there are so many inspiring photos. makes you think and some are so pretty too. Here are some that I have recently heart.

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Aren't the photos so pretty? Inspiring me tons for the major Spring cleaning happening over here.  Tell me some blogs or websites that you find inspiring!!

Have a good Monday!!