Daily life and travel with food and cupcakes as a common theme.
Posted in Crafts, Holidays, Recipe, Reuse, birthday on May 17th, 2009
A few weeks ago I made it downtown to see a screening of a documentary called Handmade Nation, a complimentary film to the book by the same name from Fayth Levine. For me the film made me think about the difference between crafters, makers and artists.
I’ve said before that I know I’m not an artist, [...]
Posted in Cupcakes, Desserts, Food, Holidays, Pumpkin and Squash, Recipe, birthday on Oct 19th, 2008
I’ve got a bottle of Jim Beam Rye Whiskey sitting on my counter. It’s a little misplaced between my mixer, my canister of whisks and spatulas and jars of flour and sugar. But I kinda like it there. I can imagine someone walking into my kitchen, seeing a bottle of whiskey and thinking: “Ohh, she’s [...]
Posted in Crafts, Knitting, Stamping, birthday, stationary on Sep 28th, 2008
It’s birthday week for my family. Starting September 20 and running through October 16, we have a ton of birthdays. Most notably, the girls in my family all celebrate birthdays within a 3 week window. I love having a fall birthday, because people start to buzz this time of year getting ready for Holidays, parties [...]
I started baking a lot when I moved to Arizona, so when I was home in Texas, and my dad said, “I’ve never had a cupcake prepared by the famous PrissyCook,” I paused and was was shocked. Poor guy, right?!? How has my own father never had an opportunity to have a freshly baked item [...]
Posted in Cupcakes, Life, Recipe, birthday on Jun 22nd, 2008
I was born in Dallas and before my dad and I moved to Central Texas, we were mostly in East Dallas. As an adult when I moved to Dallas for work, I would see things around town and have deja vous moments. I would see a building or a street corner and know that I [...]
Posted in Candies and Treats, Cupcakes, Shopping, birthday on May 3rd, 2008
There are all sorts of carbonated food products popping up according to the May 08 issue of Everyday with Rachael Ray. The article highlighed one product that caught my eye, carbonated sprinkles from a company named Pop’rs.
Their website is nice and simple. It features cute shots of kids eating their vegetables with Pop’rs sprinkled on [...]
You know she’ll pull out the rock fist at her wedding. That’s a given. I wanted to do something special for Karrin’s birthday and I had this grand idea of making rock fist fondant cupcakes with sparklers and they were going to be the most rad cupcakes ever.
One problem…I’m not really a cupcake artist…I’m just [...]
Wow! There’s so much about these cupcakes that I love. My awesome aunts gave me the cutest gift bag for my birthday. It was stuffed with new silicone cupcake liners, cupcake caddy, sprinkles, sprinkles and a pastry bag. Gosh, I can’t remember if there was anything else. I was just so excited. So, to me, [...]
Posted in Desserts, Life, birthday, ice cream on Sep 28th, 2007
Huzzah! That interjection of joy was given by yours truly when Blue Bell ice cream came to Arizona and the fact that we’re celebrating Blue Bell’s centennial it’s even better. I can remember my first tour of the Blue Bell factory with my BFF Sara.
Sara and I ran a lot in high school. Not only [...]
What do you get the girl who has everything? More Stuff (and world peace). I’m approaching the last year in my twenties; Oye! Here’s some things that are on my list for this year.
GreenAppleKitchen.com is an environmentally friendly kitchen company. I found them featured on my companies Web site. I’ve [...]
Keesha oversees recruiting and training programs for GoDaddy.com. She is responsible for building programs that attract and retain amazing employees.
Keesha loves food and photography and is passionate about community volunteering. She sat on the board of directors for the Junior League of Phoenix and is on the Children's Museum of Phoenix committee. She attended Blinn College and Texas A&M University. Her most private cupcake confession? She doesn't like frosting!