Showing posts with label pinterest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pinterest. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Coffee and Hair

Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin America and the Caribbean (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Red Pinterest logo
English: Red Pinterest logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Whelp, it has been a week since I first started rubbing coffee and baking soda into my skin in order to remove hair.  This was suggested by a post on Pinterest and I decided to try it out for the Pinterest Movement.  It totally works, my leg is now hair free.... Ha, yeah no. I still am furry and am in need of a shave.

I spent the last several days working on a essay about Pre-Hispanic Latin America.  There is some really interesting stories about the different cultures.  I suggest you look up Lady Six Monkey.  Also, the Aztec were way bloodier than I had thought.  I knew about the human sacrifice but was not expecting to learn some of the gruesome details.

I have also started a new blog to keep track and review work outs.  Please check it out.

https://fitfatstrive.wordpress.com/
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Pintester Movement

 As you may have seen on my last post that I am a fan of the Pintester. Well she has decided to try to get the rest of us bloggers/pinners motivated to actually do some of the pins that we pin.

 http://pintester.com/2013/05/the-pintester-movement-craft-all-the-things

I have actually done a number of pins before, but there were still some that I would like to do.  I picked two two ingredient recipes and one thing I am pretty sure will fail. There was another pin that I wanted to do but was not able to find the time to do, so maybe later.

The pin that I think will fail is the pin floating around about how rubbing coffee grounds and baking soda onto your skin will remove hair anywhere after just 1 week.  I felt that it was bs from the start but hey I'm willing to undergo waxing in order to remove hair, surely I can give this a try.  It has been three days and all I can say is that it makes your skin feel softer. Check back next Tuesday to see if it has somehow magically worked.

The other pins I decided to try were pumpkin muffins and ice cream bread. The pumpkin muffins are supposed to be Weight Watcher friendly but I don't know since I have never done Weight Watchers.  The muffins were made using 1 box of yellow cake mix and 1 can of pumpkin.
It was difficult to mix by hand. It took quite a bit of work to get it to blend.  I baked it for less than the recommended time because the tops were getting burned.  As a result the middle parts were done but very dense. The flavor was very pumpkiny.  They aren't bad but you really have to like pumpkin.

The ice cream bread turned out pretty good if a bit dry. It was made with 1 pint of Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia and 1 1/2 cups of self rising flour. The original pin used a chocolate ice cream but I thought the cherry would make a nice addition.  The ice cream gave the bread a pleasant but not strong flavor.  I might actually make it again sometime.

The pin I want to try was painting the inside of my bookcase, but I have been busy with work and classes.  Some of the other pins that I have done can be found here,

http://pinterest.com/kwill81/done-stamp/

All in all this was a fun chance to get to be part of a larger movement. heh.