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Oh, Holy Cake Balls!

11/10/2010 in Chocolate, Gifts, Guilty Pleasures, Vendors, Where we're Eating by Lindsay | 3 comments

Our friend college friend/ sorority sister/ Atlanta buddy, Jen, has been VERY busy lately…

cake ball queen!

B/c she recently started an amazing cake ball company (with the cutest name I’ve ever heard)!

Look – just look – what she’s been baking!

These babies don’t just LOOK gorgeous – they taste incredible!

Here’s the Q+DD on Holy Cake Balls! from its adorable website:

Whether you refer to them as cake balls, cake truffles, cake bites or cake bon-bons, these itty-bitty decadences are the latest trend in sophisticated dessert.  A combination of baked cake, frosting and a velvety exterior, cake balls are a melt-in-your-mouth, bite-sized craze.  Cake balls have elevated dessert to the next level.  Indulge in them at your next birthday party, wedding, anniversary celebration, baby shower or corporate event!  Our cake balls are also a great way to show your clients how appreciative you are.

We make custom orders!  If there is a flavor combination that you don’t see, please make your special request.

Please note:  The Holy Cake Balls! inventory is not stockpiled.  All cake balls are made-to-order, so please allow seven days advance notice when placing an order.

We are now accepting holiday pre-orders!

Find the Menu + Pricing Info here:  GIMME CAKE BALLS!

Oh Oh Oh!!  Almost forgot!  Holy Cake Balls! offers a Q+DD cake ball on their menu!  How awesome is THAT?!

The Quick + Dirty Dirty
It’s no secret that the Q+DD girls were voted by Creative Loafing as Atlanta’s “Best Local Bloggers” AND that their blog was voted Atlanta’s “Best Local Blog”… but who knew their accomplishments would inspire a Q+DD-themed cake ball?!  These hot pink and black treats are made in their honor!

We LOOOOOVE cake balls!  :)

For some reason, though, ours don’t turn out nearly as amazing as Jen’s…  Order from Holy Cake Balls! today!

Website: www.holycakeballs.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/HolyCakeBalls
Twitter: @HolyCakeBalls

xx, L

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LOST…and gone forever.

05/25/2010 in PSAs, Random Musings, What we're Watching by Lindsay | 1 comment

 They say that all good things must come to an end…

Sunday evening was the series finale of LOST, a show I’ve watched for six years.  It’s one of the longest relationships I’ve ever had – and today I’m in full blown mourning for the show. 

Slick and I were in Ann Arbor until yesterday morning for a Sunday evening wedding – so we missed the finale in real time.  (If that isn’t friendship, I don’t know what is.)  All day yesterday, I avoided Facebook and Perez Hilton so that I wouldn’t find out even a morsel of what happened.  The USA Today I was reading in the Detroit terminal almost ruined it for me, but thankfully I dramatically tossed it as soon as I saw a picture of Jack and Hurley running through the island.  I was in agony all day, worried that someone would accidentally spill the beans. 

Jen B had a big LOST finale party on Sunday night, but her husband – also an avid LOSTie – was at the wedding w/ us, so she had us over to watch the finale (second time for her) last night. Thank you, Jen! 

Jen's island cake

Oceanic 815 airplane cookies

Dharma Food
Dharma food
Aaron + plane + numbers

Jen making the smoke monster!!

Although many LOST bloggers disagree, I thought the two hour finale was really great!  It was incredibly confusing, but it finally answered most of my questions (not nearly all of them, though). 

SPOILER ALERT!  Here’s the Q+DD on the LOST finale: http://snipurl.com/wreeq

Aaron Karo’s Ruminations re. LOST ending: http://www.ruminations.com/column/171

I can’t help but feel deflated today.  I’ve watched the show from the very first episode of the first season – longer than I’ve watched any other.  We had good times (seasons 1, 2, 6) and bad times (seaons 3, 4, 5) - but we made it throught it all.  As Jen put it, “it’s like Friends ending all over again…”  I think this is worse. 

R.I.P. old friend.  From the bottom of my pop-culture-lovin’ heart, I deeply thank you for the past six years of quality entertainment.

xx, L

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I’m an Artist!

03/30/2010 in Dunwoody, Parties, What we're Doing by Lindsay | 3 comments

(Not really.  Well, not at all…)  But I pretended that I was on Friday!

monet has nothing on me...

I was outside of the Perimeter almost all weekend.  I get disoriented OTP and I’m not obsessed with driving behind slow-moving minivans, but I will tell you WHAT – I would go back to Dunwoody absolutely anytime for Sips n Strokes!  We went for Loren (not Lauren’s) birthday and it was so much fun!

the birthday girl

Sips n Strokes is an instructional painting class.  Picture Bob Ross minus serious afro minus just sitting and watching him paint on TV plus a classroom full of women (and man – there was a singular man present) plus BYO wine + beer + snacks plus you leave with your very own work of art! 

Here’s the Q+DD on Sips n Strokes:

All you need to do to attend a class is visit the Sips n Strokes website @ www.sipsnstrokes.com.  Peruse the calendar and select a class you’d like to attend, keeping in mind that you paint something different in each class.  I attended a class where we were shown how to draw a pink flower.  You reserve a spot in the class (the Dunwoody location can fit up to 55 people) with your credit card.  Classes range in cost from $25 – $45.  You can cancel your reservation without being charged if you do it more than 24 hours in advance.  You pay for the class when you arrive for it.  You are instructed to select paints and sit at a stool in front of an easel with a canvas.  As you sit and watch the instructor, you following along with your paints on your canvas.  At the end of the class, you take your creation home with you!  It’s pretty simple.

Still not getting it?  Our night in pictures will help…











If you are looking at these pictures and think that what we did looks difficult at all, you couldn’t be more incorrect.  I went into the class with zero confidence in my artistic ability to reproduce what the instructor was doing on stage.  Believe me, it’s so much easier than it looks!  The instructor really walks you, step by step, through the process and Sips n Strokes employees canvas the store ready to help you if you need a bit more direction or assistance with your artwork.

Sips n Strokes is perfect for a girl’s night out, as part of a bachelorette party or shower, birthday party or for no other purpose than to just paint with friends!

Here’s the best news of all: They are opening a location in Buckhead soon!  So, throw on an apron + harness your inner Georgia O’Keefe and head over to Sips n Strokes for a class ASAP!  :)

xx, L

Sips n Strokes
Dunwoody Village Shopping Center
5525 Chamblee Dunwoody Road
Dunwoody, GA  30338
678.954.8399
www.sipsnstrokes.com

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