October 12, 2009

because I love contests

Do you? Something about a contest just gets my blood pumping. My favorite contests are trivia. I LOVE taking tests. Seriously. Call me crazy if you want, but I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – if there is a job out there that involves just sitting around and taking tests all day log – sign me up. I’d take the SATs again if they’d let me. Heck, I’ll buy a guidebook and take the Bar Exam or MCATS…I just like the thrill of waiting on the scores. (Did I say too much? Have you left already? I hope not…hang in there.)

So anyway, a few months back I was trolling Twitter when I see Cupcake Rehab. I have no idea who she is, what she’s about, really, no info on her at all. It isn’t like I see her tweet and then stalked over to her blog…she just made me giggle. Her Tweet? Something along the lines of her watching her neighbor across the way, a minister, watch porn on his big screen. It cracked me up. Maybe it was my mood or maybe I was ovulating and my hormones took over. I don’t know. But it made me laugh and so I tweeted her back. Since then, I have frequented her site, we’ve kept in Twitter Touch, and she’s helped me out when I had blog design issues that neither of us could figure out.

So, when she announced a CONTEST on her site to celebrate her Blogiversary, I of course wanted in. She’s giving away cute prizes! I need prizes to feel good about myself! The prizes don’t even need to be REAL, I just like feedback. Good, bad, whichever, it’s like getting your report card and I LOVED that. (I know, I should really stop that kind of talk before I scare all of you away for good.)

What I did for the contest was to make cupcakes based not just on the girl behind the blog, but the LOGO of the girl behind the blog. Her logo is a sweet purple, with cutesie sprinkles, and chocolate chip cookies, and pretty little flowers, and, ummm, skulls. Visit her site, ya’ll, it will all make sense. For flavors, I went with a Vanilla Buttercream, because Vanilla is supposedly her fave, atop a Devils Food (because of the skulls) cupcake stuffed with a chocolate chip cookie, just like in her logo (although you can’t see it, it’s there. Trust me.). As you can see, I decorated it up to mimic her site. Success? I feel okay about it…but there may an overwhelming amount of competition! As long as someone tells me I did a good job, well then, I passed this test.