This is Connor’s birthday Caboodle, and it’s filled with jewelry and makeup. 🙂
Can somebody please explain the hold that Caboodles have on us? Well, at least the hold Caboodles have on me, ha ha ha!
I know technically it’s just a cute plastic box to hold makeup and miscellaneous doo-dads, but for some reason I feel a strong emotional grip whenever one is around. Maybe it’s because my Caboodle was such a big part of my formative years.
Ahh, makeup. I put some on today because I had a video meeting to present a big marketing deck (yup, I wrote it!), and nothing seems to soothe my nerves like a little bit of face paint.
I’m wearing taupe, brown, bronze and peach shades from the Sunkissed Getaway Eye and Face Palette by Wander Beauty. It has a bunch of eyeshadows and cheek powders for breezy bronze looks. If you’re the type of person who likes shadows that don’t make you work too hard, you might like it.
Please note the chocolate brown liner on my water lines, which is Cave gel liner by Hourglass. Pretty, yeah? I like the richness of the pigment, and how it’s not too red. Stays on all day, too. I think I found a new staple!
I have a number of deadlines on Friday, so I gotta get back to it. Before I head out though, these are the cupcakes I made for Connor’s cat-themed birthday party at the Marin Humane society.
The girls kept asking of the cats were edible, LOL! (They totally were, by the way.)
I debated long and hard between frosting them the night before or the morning of the party, which by the way, started at 10:30. Side note, if you have to plan a two hour party for a child, and they give you a choice between a morning or afternoon slot, morning is the way to go IMHO. I prefer taking Connor to morning parties because that way we still have the rest of the day to do other things, and if she’s still hungry after the party, we can go directly to lunch.
Where was I? Oh, frosting. I wasn’t sure when to frost because the frosting was buttercream which I made from scratch, and it contained heavy whipping cream and butter, so I wasn’t sure if I could leave them out overnight.
I asked my buddy Allison from my bakery days what to do, and she suggested frosting them the night before, popping them into the fridge, and then taking them out in the morning first thing so they could come to room temperature before serving, which is what I ended up doing.
Just some cupcake FYI for ya from a professional baker!
Happy Wednesday to you, and I hope the rest of the week treats you kindly.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
The cat cupcakes are cute and look yummy! I was hoping we would see a picture of the finished product!
Thanks, Marcia! I had a fun time making them. 🙂
Hope this week has been treating you kindly so far.
Your cupcakes look so awesome and professional! Were the cats made out of fondant? I’m glad Connor Claire has been indoctrinated into the Caboodle-verse. Welcome to the club, girl!
Yes, I used fondant! I rolled and cut them out with cookie cutters a day before so that they’d have time to dry out. It was so funny how the kids were fascinated by the fact that they could eat the cats!