Which cartoon land do you belong in? Take the quiz to find out! Feel free to post the result image to your profile or website! Just save the image and upload it via your favorite file/image sharer. Let me know what results you get here~
Watch the very first My Little Pony movie after popping some kettle corn and grabbing a drink! If you enjoy it and have some memories you’d like to share, please do!
Pony Souvenirs
Shrinking Violet, the unique clothing shop in Bristol, has quite an adorable miseducated team and message. They have fun wherever they go and the gorgeous clothes they sell and wear have to add tons of extra smiles to the day. When I’m wearing something extremely cute I feel like I radiate rainbows and maybe that impacts the world around you!
“Shrinking Violet is a shop created because of the lack of braveness in the alternative fashion scene, we started it because everything that was “alternative” just looked the same to us and we wanted to be different! We want people to feel happy and bright in there clothes because we believe that wearing something fabulous puts you in a great mood :)! Most of our clothes are handmade and fair trade and designed by us! Don’t be afraid to be different girls and boys! The world needs more people like you!!”
xxx, Shrinking Violet to Miseducated ladies
Of course the girls of Shrinking Violet have colorful, loud and lovely personal spaces!~ Miseducated mayhem!
All photos by Shrinking Violet, designed and manipulated by Amber Renee.
Hello, welcome to Nostalgia Lane, the new 80s kiddie pop culture spot for you to mosey around and reminisce. Watch the first episode of Strawberry Shortcake here (my all time favorite, my kitchen is actually Strawberry Shortcake mayhem) and don’t forget to leave a review for us all to read below!
These lovely cakes are created with intricate layers of alternate color, flavor and texture. The name, which is Malaysian, translates to layer cakes. These cakes are not always sweet and many times have very creative flavor combinations.
The bases of these cakes are usually made from rice flour, glutinous rice flour, tapioca flour and green bean flour. These flours give the cakes a firm pudding-like texture.
If you do take the Kueh Lapis feat and bake a layer cake, please submit a photo and it will be added here~
Instructions
1. Boil 225ml coconut milk with sugar & pandan leave until sugar dissolves
2. Separate mixture into two portions
3. Add red coloring to one portion
4. Pour a thin layer of batter into aluminium tray and steam till set
5. Pour into a bamboo steamer
6. Alternate the colors and steam until batter almost finished
7. When last layer is to be poured in, add a little more coloring into batter to give it a deep red color, pour this over as the last layer and steam
Cake
160g rice flour
20g green bean flour (lek tau hoon)
150ml water
Syrup
190g powdered sugar
300ml water
2-3 pandan leaves (if none, green food coloring)
250ml thick coconut milk
1/4 tsp salt
A few drops red coloring
Method
Combine sugar, water and pandan leaves (food coloring) in a saucepan. Bring to a boil to dissolve the sugar. Strain and set aside to cool.
Put rice flour and green bean flour into a large mixing bowl. Pour in water gradually and leave aside to soak for 40–45 minutes.
Add coconut milk and salt to the rice flour and mix well. Stir in syrup. Strain the batter to ensure it is free from lumps.
Divide batter into two. Leave half a portion white and add coloring to the other half.
Place a greased 20cm tray in the steamer and heat up for 4–5 minutes. Pour half cup of the white batter on the heated tray.
Cover and steam over medium heat for 5–6 minutes or until set.
Pour half cup of the pink batter over the white layer and steam covered for 5 minutes.
Repeat the procedure, alternating white and pink batter until all the batter is used up.
To the very last layer add a little more color to make it a deeper shade of pink.
After the final layer is set, steam the kuih for a further 12–15 minutes. Halfway through open the lid to release the steam, then cover again until the end of the steaming process.
Serve
Make sure the kuih lapis cools completely before attempting to cut (will break apart if cut when warm); cut into diamond shapes.
Back by popular demand. To join, save a badge and link it to https://www.miseducated.com. Also, don’t forget to reply below with your website so the gal community can grow!
* Photos thanks to egg & Cawaii magazine scans!
You may have noticed the heavily magical and saturated imagery in Amelie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It was an eye candy carousel for my mind and I can’t watch it enough. It actually started me on a kick of running to Mass Ave Video to rent every cute, feminine, French film I could find in hopes to see more of this style. I found a few gems and one of them actually is a bit like this, magical and sweet: Love Me if you Dare.
Below I’ve captured some delightful interior shots from the film Amelie. Enjoy the quaint decor and be inspired by the tiny interiors of Paris radiating huge personality.
Find the article above in this month’s issue of Domino magazine. We get a glimpse into once of Gwen’s spaces here and an inspiration board. I can see these inspirations show themselves throughout her work! Can you?
How exciting! Our Animal Crossing days are back. I got it before it sold out in a cute mall I found in my neighborhood this afternoon. I hope you got it also.. and if so, let’s exchange friend codes!
Town Atsugi
Character Lamb
Friend Code 1676 7177 2856
So let’s have a picnic! Maybe you’ll pop up on the next update?
.. but wait.. CITY Folk? it wouldn’t be called CITY FOLK unless…
Not to jump on the bandwagon with cutie Stitches, but I was definately hankering for some cotton candy!
A Wii mic channel is coming for Animal Crossing in December! Keep your eyes peeled! 😉
Tailored especially for you.
I graduated from Le Cordon Blue in Tokyo. My major was French cake making and my teachers were french chefs whom taught me a lot of details. My teacher’s actions, skills, techniques, designs, chocolates, all kinds of sweets, everything really impressed me very much. They inspired me a lot and are still living in the bottom of my heart. Those experiences made me improve myself.
Since then I have been working at a french cake shop (a shop of long standing), the head office is in France. I wanted to study more and more so I decided to study many subjects in a correspondence course while working at the same time. I finally got a license. I wanted to get it, really. My wish was to broaden my horizon.
I think sweets are art. A chocolate is a jewel, cake is love. I love seeing people think about cakes a lot, which cake they will get (maybe for oneself? or for parents? or for a special person?). I have seen a lot of wonderful things in my life. A thousand broad smiles spread over everyone’s face. It’s like a magic.
Story: Erika Yoshida
Photos: Erika Yoshida