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I SO WANT THIS – Cake Edition!

Feb 6th, 2010 Posted in Tech, baking, food, review | one comment »

I love to decorate cakes!  The bigger the better in my eyes.  Unfortunately I do not make many cakes because if I did I would be the size of a house.  Cupcakes are fun too but I can’t just make cupcakes because I want something to decorate.

Gum-paste and fondant decorations can be stunning, even on the simplest of cup cakes but they take a lot of time to make.  I feel that they are worth the effort for the beauty of the cake.  I still remember the hours I spent making hand made daises for my sister in law’s bridal shower cake.

And now I found the most amazing cake decorating tool EVER!  The Circut Cake is a new product (by Circut) that utilizes the precision die cut of the Circut machines that you may know from scrap booking and beautiful cake decorations that are almost fool proof.  Over at their site there is a great video that shows how easy it is to make and apply the decorations.

I have always loved the Circut machines even thought I am not a scrapbooker (but I wish I was).  Die cut paper makes me drool and custom die cut paper is amazing.  Because I am not a scrap booker, I have never seen the point in getting one of these machines.

Now that they have them for cake decorates, I so want one.  The only two things keeping me from running out and getting one right now is 1) It’s not out yet and 2) the price tag of $399.99 MSRP.  The good thing is, it uses both the Circut Cake cartridges AND the regular Circut cartridges.

Note:  I do not represent or have any relationship with Circut.  If they want to send me one for a testimonial, I will be more than happy to help them out. (Bats eyes and says “pretty please”).

Circut – Circut Cake

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Avatar Review

Jan 5th, 2010 Posted in review, sci fi | no comment »

This weekend we took the older two kids to see Avatar.

We drove half an hour or so to the only true IMAX 3D theater in the area to see it and I feel that it was worth all the effort to see it.  Sure we had to get our tickets on Tuesday to see it on Sunday and buy them over the Internet (and pay the stupid Fandango service fee… heck that’s worse than the old Ticketmaster fees.)

First of all, we had to wear the same kind of 3D glasses you have to at Disney World for their 3D shows.  They aren’t bad but I was left with a red mark on the bridge of my nose.  My oldest, who just had to start wearing glasses for near-sightedness full time, had some issues with getting a bit queasy.  But my daughter, who is notorious for getting motion sickness was unaffected.

I hate writing reviews because I am too afraid of ruining the movie for those who have not seen it so here is the summary from IMDB:  “When his brother is killed in battle, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge’s intentions of driving off the native humanoid “Na’vi” in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na’vi people with the use of an “avatar” identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand – and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora. > Written by The Massie Twins<

Ok, with that said… yes, it is a pretty simple story line.  The best way I could come to describe it is that its Fern Gully meets Dances with Wolves.  I mean, come on people, this is a James Cameron movie, not Shakespeare.

This is a visually STUNNING movie!   One of the local morning DJ’s described it basically as a basic story line to let you enjoy the visuals.  After hearing that, I knew exactly what I was expecting and was not disappointed.  Sure many/most of the plot points were predictable but I didn’t care because the IMAX 3-D got me as close I could be to being in the movie to make up for it.

I for one is someone who can throw themselves into the story and let the less than major plot holes fall to the way side.  If you can do that, then this is a movie for you.  I enjoyed getting transported away from the real world for a few hours (yes hours – run time is a whopping 162 minutes).  Hubby also enjoyed it but also acknowledged that this was not a unique story but a cool way of telling a story.

As a mother, bringing her kids to see this, first of all the movie is rated PG-13.  There are graphic battle sequences but no major amounts of blood or gore at all.  There is one, um…. mating scene but its more kissing than anything.  (Top Gun’s major love scene was worse.)  There is some nudity but its GC nudity and appropriate since they are the locals and not in need of real clothing, just the “important” parts.  We did not bring our 4 year old but our 9 and 3/4 year old was fine with it, battle scenes and all.

I’m glad I went to see it and it was a nice outing with my kiddies.  I am looking forward to getting this on Blue Ray when it comes out.

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