Easter Treats

Normally on a holiday I get very excited about dessert possibilities. It's a craving as much as it is a gift I want to share.

Now i know Easter has passed, but I wanted to share my adventures in Easter treat making! I had never taken a huge liking to Easter before. It just really wasn't a grand fun holiday like Halloween is to me, but as I've gotten older and "wiser" my sentimentalities have changed. It's obviously a celebration of the Resurrection of Christ, but for me its also an awakening of the Earth from slumber. (as the Pagan's probably would have it) but its something to be mindful of!

Normally I would make some sugar cookies and call it good. This year I noticed my favorite bakery was putting out so many Easter things and i found out that Easter is the chef's favorite holiday to bake for! Well that struck me funny cause i never thought of Easter as being a "favorite"!

Then I started perusing Pinterest and seeing so many cute things I could make (Natasha's are far more advanced, macarons and giant chocolate eggs...) I started putting together the idea of making treats for family and the Sunday school class I was teaching.

I will tell you I am not proud of the cake pops, but they are edible!

I did enough research to learn that I would need a special dye to color the candy coating, but I didn't know enough about the consistency of the coating. I learned you really must make very round smooth balls or the lumps will show, and that it also helps to have the candy at a certain temperature. I found several troubleshooting articles after the fact that explained the process MUCH more thoroughly!

The bunny bait was easy, very much like rice krispies, I followed the recipe fairly closely, but used different candies.

Here's everything looking adorbs!

Easter Sunday was so refreshing. It was a nice day all around! and I had so much energy and motivation the next day to get my place clean, it was just the perfect way to usher in spring! I was running around like a headless chicken, but it was a good renewing kind of energy! I may cuss a little, drink a little, I'm just a little less about hiding it, and a lot more about living the adventure that is my life.

Happy Easter and Spring everyone!

Dream Cycle

Alas, almost another month has passed since getting this going! I’m a busy gal I tell you, and a broke one at that.

So some content that is a little bit different, but it’d be a lie to hide the fact that motorcycles and math are my every-day life

I’ve been focusing on work and math. I have so many ideas for the Harley shop such as a customer survey, incentives, a newsletter, etc. So those are also things i work on in my spare time. always working! but i enjoy it because its the creative side of things to me, along with merchandising product etc. I will probably miss this job a lot when I get into my real career. It’s very laid back, but still busy busy! I just know i can do more with my talents and make more. So I’m studying real hard to get ahead!

I’ve always struggled with math. right now i have a B in College Algebra. It’s pretty much a big deal. The last test only went so-so. hoping to pull through at the end of the semester with a B, and we are done with the two hardest test so hooray!

Here in Dodge the weather will just not commit to spring! we’ve got so many cute tanks in so i am way ready for shorts and flips!

Danny and I have been working extra hard to prep for the biggest open house yet! We’ve got a 16 team BBQ competition, all the food will be served for lunch and the free will donation for the food goes to the Wounded Warriors Projects! on top of that there’s a bikini bike wash with the lovely ladies of the Dodge City Law dance team The Gunpowder Girls, live music, and all of that other fun stuff!

so we are busy bees planning all of that and getting all KINDS of fun product. i seriously love ordering and placing all the clothes! excited to help people this year since i understand the customers better and have more experience with motorcycles.

I am kind of considering taking lessons myself! however if I could ever afford one I wouldn’t have a place to keep it :( BUT where there’s a will there’s a way, and the more I stare and daydream the closer I get to taking the leap! I’d have to leave the fear of being made fun of behind!

Woman on a Breakout.

Woman on a sportster.

I just fully believe in the idea of the freedom of the road, and not being a cliche. If the average non-rider thinks of a femal biker they will probably assume the rough and tumble type, leather skin, no bras. or bimbo girls on the back of the bike. An you know, if you are the type THAT IS FINE, but I see these ads for females and I see myself in that woman more than the traditional assumption of a biker babe. The woman in the pictures above has edge, craves the open road, the muscle of the motorcycle, the effortlessly cool style. and it doesnt require me to hang my boobs out and have missing teeth. I can totally dig that.

Change the status quo if you want. Your life is your adventure.

The one i drool over at work.