First Communion Cookies

Continuing on with the sacrament cookie motif ;)... (Remember the confirmation cookies earlier this week?  These are for the same sweet family.)


I was really looking forward to making these cookies again.  The last time I made them was for kiddo's First Communion....FOUR years ago.

{That picture on the left is one of my favorites ever.  Rockin' the powder blue suit, yo. Maybe we can find a blue tux for prom in a few years.}

OK...thanks for letting me reminisce.

These cookies start out with the perfect cutter.  I love this cutter...it's pricey because it's copper, but so worth it.


For the cookies, you'll need:

• chalice and host cookies
• royal icing tinted with AmeriColor Gold, Bright White, Regal Purple and Leaf Green
• disposable icing bags
• squeeze bottles
• decorating tips (#1 & #2) and couplers
• gold luster dust
• vodka (yep.)
• small paintbrush

With a #2 tip, outline the chalice.


With another #2 tip, outline the host.

Thin the white & gold icings (reserve a bit for later) with water, a little at a time, until it is the consistency of thick syrup.  Cover with a damp dishtowel and let sit several minutes.

Stir gently with a rubber spatula to pop any large air bubbles that have formed. Transfer to squeeze bottles.


Fill in the chalice with the thinned gold icing.  Use a toothpick to guide into corners.


Fill in the host with the thinned  white icing.  Use a toothpick to guide into corners.

Let dry at least one hour.


Add the detail with the reserved white and gold piping icing.

Let dry overnight, or at least 6 hours.


Get out your luster dust supplies:  Luster dust, small ramekin, small paintbrush and vodka (a good excuse to always have vodka in the house).

This is "Golden Charm" luster dust.  I LOVE it and bought it at a little shop in Houston.  Can't seem to find it online, but any gold luster dust will do.


Mix up your luster dust with a few drops of the vodka and brush it on. (The alcohol will evaporate, leaving just the gold sheen.)  Add a few drops of vodka to the ramekin as you're working if it starts to get clumpy on you.  A little goes a long way, so don't worry about using all of the container in one shot.  (Here's a video about applying luster dust...)


Then, with #1 tips, add the grapes and leaf/stem detail.

All ready for First Communion!

Priyanka Chopra strictly unwilling to show her skin!

Priyanka Chopra strictly unwilling to show her skin!: Priyanka Chopra could have played striking elements in films, but she's strictly unwilling to demonstrating her skin past a breaking point on picture clicker. Nakedness, she declares, is not her thing.

“Nakedness is something that I wouldn't be pleasing with. Yet depending on if I play the most complex and irregular which are uncouth or whatever it needs to be, the depiction of an element is to a focus where it is tastefully done. It needs to be something that I won't be disinclined to indicating my folks. I need to have the ability to sit with them and look at it,” Priyanka, who was part of a young discussion organised by MTV, told columnists.

Reviewing her striking scenes in films like 7 Khoon Maaf, Priyanka expressed they were shot stylishly.

“Yet depending on if its a film prefer 'Saat Khoon Maaf', the musing of the scenes was a part something greater than what was as a matter of fact perceived. But also that is artistically well done,” Priyanka expressed.

Priyanka in the blink of an eye has an engaging intermingle of films in her kitty-Don 2, Agneepath, Barfee and Krrish 2.

The actress stated that however nakedness is out of concern, she won’t brain kissing a female co-star if the function requested it.

“In the event that it was in a part that I was totally excited to do, I could still regard it but as of now, nothing has made me do that. In addition an essential is that she needs to be sweltering,” stated Priyanka.

Film 'Chalo Dilli' Review

Film 'Chalo Dilli' Review: An elevated-profile, overall-heeled financing banker (Lara Dutta) and an awkward, uncouth, boulevard-savvy saree trader (Vinay Pathak) make the unlikeliest of voyaging friendlies. Be that as it may it is through their remarkable adventure via moffusil India--its roadside dhabas and dusty towns--that the viewer encounters this part-entertaining part-uneven ride called Chalo Dilli.

Spark from Hollywood films regardless, Chalo Dilli is additionally the bheja broiled mess of Jab We Met and Dil Hai Ki Maanta Nahin. A street movie spinning around several strangers who stay as one unit for an adventure from Jaipur to Delhi, it begins off quite well as Lara Dutta, playing a snooty, snobbish banker on her direction Delhi, misses her flight and hits the way amidst the night just to chance upon the burping, gutka-biting, spitting, gali-retching Vinay Pathak who's likewise headed to Delhi.

Along these lines starts the outing that sees the aforementioned a few chalk-and-cheddar emotional makeups holding progressively and uncovering the sport that would be there in gallivanting and trundling through the heartland of the nation that occasional makes for the pin-up of Incredible India.

Director Shashant Shah weaves an occupying tale but doesn’t know where to bring it for a hefty part of the second part. The peak does lift the film's chart up a touch.

Credit to both Lara Dutta and Vinay Pathak for implanting existence into their elements. She's each bit the heightened public order braggart who grimaces at the sight of a hair in her dhaba nourishment, but he releases it with a smile and mark discourse “kaun si badi baat ho gayi” (no major ordeal!). The supporting actors who sneak lock stock and done of scenes do put their particular flavour in the movie.

Set aside a few minutes for Chalo Dilli assuming that you need some joyous pleasure that parties about humble town India.

Film Naughty @ 40 Review

Film Naughty @ 40 Review: Govinda Ala Re!, playing his experience for the first time and yet a kid on a basic level. Whoopee! Mischievous @ 40 guided by Jagmohan Mundra irrevocably releases and carries to you the same light and bubbly Govinda of yore. However the movie is newfangled, and Govinda depicts an element who is attempting to lose his virginity at the time period characterized by 40 with the assistance of a few oddballs. In this way, could you get a kick out of any chance to know what this insidious man at 40 is dependent upon?

First things first. How on earth might a 40-year-old man remain a virgin? Does it ring a ringer with you? Yes, the movie is inspired from the Hollywood hit Forty year old virgin, but following its a Bollywood film things are a bit contrasting here. Govinda is not the man with whom the gathering could get a kick out of any chance to sympathize, but he is an insidious man and preferences to be disgusting as opposed to powerless.

The storyline-In his drive to be a complete man, he possesses his father Anupam Kher and a supporter Shakti Kapoor as the encountered controls; the several affection to gadget each sort of shrewd set-up for Govinda, but what transpires makes be a bit sad for our champion. He is still far from his essence's objective. Then a minor clan excursion in Manali causes the man to work toward getting married to a much younger kid, played by Yuvika Chaudhary. However the youngster is sweet her adolescently devious ways make Govinda feel bored of marriage. So our wicked man gets physical to a firang angelface. Yes, his biwi does approach have prior knowledge regarding this. A knotty scenario for this underhanded man.

Not again! -The second part of the film is a tad comparable to a large portion of Govinda's prior films where he is demonstrated effortlessly juggling the several darlings. The tunes of the film absence the punch, and the jokes at times might be tagged person on foot if not terrible. Too much of Govinda can in addition make you feel tired, generally similar to a forty someone feeling twice his or her experience.

The agreeable instants! -When the movie comes buzzing with a splatter of enlivened grown-up jokes, but you need to scan for those instants in the pile of the plot. Govinda's marvelous with his funny timing particularly when he breaks into noisy chuckle. Gosh! The man still blasts with vim and vigour; he is colored-in-fleece performer, undoubtedly a charmer and he still moves his direction to the crowd's heart. Easy!

Appearances-Nothing is off with Govinda-virgin at 40, he is crazy, foolish and pure, all in this movie. Yuvika Chaudhary, who is viewed for the first time as a lead actress, attempts to be like one of Govinda's model. She does leave an impression with her acting, signals and bubbly onscreen persona. But also what to anticipate from the actors such as Anupam Kher, Shakti Kapoor and Sanjay Mishra, who are instinctive and spontaneous.

By now you should have grasped that Naughty@ 40 is strictly a Govinda undertaking, and if its all the same to you don’t let move toward getting boggled by senseless-wally off color jokes, you could probably get a charge out of this film. Jagmohan Mundra of Provoked popularity has attempted to go astray from socially pertinent film and concocts an excellent rib-tickler.

Stimulating in parts and fits, Naughty@ 40 is for those who are either resolute Govinda buffs or are looking for some shrewd pleasure this weekend.

Film 'I Am' Review

Film 'I Am' Review: For every last trace of the idealist amusement stirred out by Bollywood each Friday, a biting measurements of authenticity sometimes is consistently welcome. Director Onir's film I Am keeps out that channeled, summons the tales that wax eloquent regarding things a significant number of could rather have stowed where no one will think to look. At the same time Onir drags them exposed to the harsh elements of reality light of day, and expects out for us to remember see solidly in the eye.

The film tells four offbeat tales in as a large number of urban areas and every last trace of the stories are bound as a single unit by the topic of embracing one's distinction and self as it is, warts and all, then afterward declaring it with the trust this is reflected in the film's somewhat zen title.

I Am Omar is about how being a gay in a publicly accepted norms as straitjacketed as our own is well-nigh likened to a wrongdoing. The inserted unexpectedness in the tale is that its the cops and sex hawkers that adventure the gays. Rahul Bose plays a storage room gay, Abhimanyu Singh an exploitative cop and Arjun Mathur a yearning actor.

In I Am Abhimanyu, Sanjay Suri plays a director who was sodomised in adolescence by his stride-father (Anurag Kashyap verily into the skin of the paedophile) and is now dealing with his vexed past. This one is the most exceptionally exasperating of the four tales although there's no realistic delineation of the sexual misuse of the adolescent Abhimanyu (played by Zain Salam).

I Am Afia has Nandita Das playing a lady who settles on manual sperm injection to have an infant on account of her spouse isn’t in favour of beginning a tribe, incompletely since he's got a different lady on the side. So Afia takes the choice most ladies could flinch at. Not simply that, she chooses to meet and know the giver (Purab Kohli) of the sperm.

In I Am Megha, Juhi Chawla plays a uprooted Kashmiri intellectual coming back to Kashmir following several decades. It's the story that carries to light the predicament of ladies who have suffered at the hands of insurrection, mutual prejudice, and the iron clench hand of the state. The view of the Muslim ladies is introduced through the element of Megha's adolescence partner played by Manisha Koirala.

The director doesn’t wander out to tie the perfect hitches and close the quartet of stories with an absolute redemption of the elements. For the most part, the stories remain somewhat open-finished, giving every viewer the space for their translation.

It's an excellent endeavor by Onir to construct a socially correlated film and plentifully powered by exhibitions that make you sit up and observe. Nandita Das, Rahul Bose, Abhimanyu Singh, Juhi Chawla and Sanjay Suri bear their roles with conviction.

Since you are looking for a solemn, sensible, suspected-inciting film, I Am is the address.

Shane Warne kisses Liz Hurley's lips!

Shane Warne kisses Liz Hurley's lips!: With the English model and actress Elizabeth Hurley and her son Damien applauding from the stands, a Shane Warne-spearheaded Rajasthan Royals put up a gutsy appearance to trounce the in-frame Mumbai Indians at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Friday. No prizes for speculating how Liz and Shane partied about the win.

As the competition advances, the display of Warne's kids has started to top, with them now sitting all in all at the third put in the focuses table of IPL 4 competition in which ten groups are playing.

But also perceived essentially unavoidably by Warne's side is his English mate, the 45-year-old Elizabeth Hurley who is vacating her marriage with Indian representative Arun Nayar.

Liz and her son Damien have been voyaging with the group, staying on top of Warne and have been cheering the Royals in the final few matches. But also when the Royals have gone on to win, Liz and Shane have wound up parting about with a kiss.

It first happened with the Royals' win in opposition to Kochi Tuskers. It happened again on Friday following Royals frolicked home to a straightforward win over the guests Mumbai Indians.

Shane has additionally been instructing Liz about cricket. He has been giving her tests on her Twitter page and she has been actively reacting.

Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha latest film ‘Rowdy Rathore’

Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha latest film ‘Rowdy Rathore’: Needed director Prabhu Deva is situated to administer Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha in a movement pressed film Rowdy Rathore to be co-generated by Sanjay Bhansali and planner Shabinaa Khan.

Charged as a down to business movement masala flick the film will have ace activity and choreography and will check Akshay's come back to activity kind. With drama not fairing too well for him in his late films, the issue is if Prabhu Deva can weave his enchanting for Akshay as he did for Salman Khan in Wanted?

Rambunctious Rathore will be Shabinaa Khan's first generation and it will likewise check the first cooperation amidst acclaimed director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Akshay Kumar. The part does need Akshay to undergo precise physical developing, so we don’t anticipate filming to start actually yet.

Akshay and Sonakshi Sinha are presently shooting for Joker.

Happy Birthday Card to Wrap Up a Fun Week

What a week it has been!  The only think that could possibly top Cricut's 5th Birthday Party and release of the Expression 2 was a Royal Wedding!  I may need the weekend to recover from this fun, fun week.  I thought I would wrap up the week with a fun birthday card.

The card was created using Imaginesce cardstock and chipboard stickers, the I-Top tool, Stampin' Up stamps, and a Stampin' Up punch.   I really like the bright and festive look of this card.  The cake and present chipboard stickers really pop off of the brown cardstock on the cover, but then I took the card to the next step.  I added a stamped and punch tag, color coordinating flowers, and an I-Top brad. 

I like the fold of the card.  Begin with a 12" strip of cardstock.  Fold the cardstock in half.  Then fold the top half of the card in half again, folding back toward the fold.  You will create an uneven Z fold.  You then attach a small rectangle to the top half of the card.  The photo above shows this fold far better than I could possibly explain it to you.

The top of the card pulls to the left to open.  Inside the card I stamped Happy Birthday again and left plenty of space to write a personalized message.

Rajinikanth released from hospital

Rajinikanth released from hospital: Following being hospitalized previous in the day, south superstar Rajinikanth has now been released from the clinic. He's stated to be doing preferred, but has been exhorted rest by the experts.

The first day of the shoot of his following film Rana assembled be hectic in a unexpected route for Rajinikanth. The superstar participated in the puja and moreover gave the mahurat shot, but later felt unwell and even regurgitated.

He was acceded Isabella Hospital in Mylapore but has now been released following remaining under recognition of experts for a few hours.

Reportedly, the superstar consumed something prior early today that his form responded to. He was treated for stomach tainting and drying out.

Young pencil-meager Anushka Sharma to lose her weight!

Young pencil-meager Anushka Sharma to lose her weight!: Does a pencil-meager young lady like Anushka Sharma ought to lose weight? Well, no, she never had weighty issues! Then, why so! She has been asked to get fit as a fiddle, and preferable toned, before she begins shooting for her film Ladies V/S Ricky Bahl.

The handling house, Yashraj Films, has clearly asked her to lose those extraneous few kilos as there was an extended break when her final a few films Band Baaja Baaraat and Patiala House. Notwithstanding the explanation why Anushka needs to be fit as a fiddle (was she ever flabby!) is on the grounds that while marking the film, her contract specified that she needs to be of ‘certain’ weight and ought to have a ‘specific’ Body Mass Index.

Anushka cherishes to consume and in the midst of the break time her weight control plan tried for a toss. As a root tells a tabloid, “YRF has educated her to go moderate. The actress started working out with her coach and got a toned look.”

This is not the case with actually Anushka. YRF has this set of guidelines for their different actresses moreover. Recall Kareena Kapoor's estimate zero in Tashan, or Aishwarya Rai's slim look in Dhoom 2.

Actually, Rani Mukherjee too attempted to get fit as a fiddle for her YRF film Dil Bole Hadippa and had to work totally hard for it.

Govinda's latest upcoming film Naughty @ 40 stills

Govinda's latest upcoming film Naughty @ 40 stills: A sex comedy concerning a 40-year-old man frantic to lose his virginity, Naughty @ 40 is Govinda's boldest part to date.

The movie has the 47-year-old star playing a 40-year-old Londoner who has never encountered the happiness of sex in his dry, fruitless and lady-less existence. The sight of a few significant others schmoozing affectionately by the roadside makes him stop in his tracks. He's envious of the men who couch ladies, but is himself happily uninformed of what in reality transpires amidst the several once the window ornaments are drawn and lights switched off.

Frantic to get laid, he even runs over to a back rub parlour where lovely and curvaceous blondes massage his deveoping figure. In any case then his dear and gushing pop (Anupam Kher) concocts the irrevocable explanation. Get him married. In any case what if the youngster happens to be clueless concerning sexual intercourse?

Jagmohan Mundhra who once made suggestive flicks like Night Eyes, Sexual Malice and Tales of the Kama Sutra before deviating into the socially applicable silver screen like Bawandar, coordinates Naughty @ 40.

The film stars the junior and really Yuvika Chaudhary as the kid Govinda is situated to marry. Supporting roles are played by Shakti Kapoor, Sanjay Mishra, Gurpreet Guggi and Sayali Bhagat.

Film Shor In The City Review

Film Shor In The City Review: Tumults in our head do associate with the confusion of the metros. Burbs that house the rich and the downtrodden, the degenerate and the faithful, the visionaries and the expiration shippers, the maverick and the improved. Director couple Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK's film Shor In the City is regarding numerous such elements gotten in the disordered whirlpool of Mumbai the same time as the 11 days of the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi.

Several storylines run parallel in the screenplay. Abhay (Sendhil Ramamurthy) is a NRI who feels similar to a pariah in Mumbai. He is pulled in to a model Sharmili (Preeti Desai) and needs to handle several goons who would like to coerce cash from him.

Tilak (Tusshar Kapoor), Ramesh (Nikhil Dwivedi) and Mandook (Pitobash) are several miscreants making pain free income as peddlers. They steal a sack that, to their stun, holds firearms and shells. Their lives are modified for great and worse thereafter.

Sawan (Sundeep Kishan) dreams of playing cricket for the little crew of Mumbai but doesn’t have the cash to oil the palms of the determination trustees.

The first part of the film goes into securing the elements and their clashes. There are for sure some grasping instants similar to the flop shell going off, or the a couple miscreants fiddling around with AK 47s. What makes these instants diversion to view is a string of humour that runs throughout the film, absolutely broke by Pitobash, who is harsh, crude and amusing.

Dear me, once the several tracks are laid out, the film appears to rotate in rounds, fluttering from one story to an alternate one. There's much skirting the issue, but every last trace of the slackness in the pace is something greater than repaid for by the touchy peak that includes a savings institution ‘highjacking’ (as Pitobash calls it), and an ensuing determination of internal clashes for every last trace of the elements. It's in addition in the peak that a few of the tracks meet.

The robustness of the film untruths in the element outlines that the director twosome has made as well as co-journalist Sita Menon. Tusshar's element is a man who becomes hopelessly enamored with his wife (Radhika Apte) and is transformed into a man who won’t touch a weapon and just give “ethical underpin” to his rebel mates in their criminal misfortunes. Sendhil Ramamurthy's element exists off the defeated track and fumes with vengeance. His concise sentimental track with the UK import Preeti Desai has been much expounded on the subject of but plainly isn’t as sizzling as made out to be.

In Pics : Preeti Desai-Hot and fascinating.

The genuine punch goes in the finale when every last trace of the tracks are adjusted off square and sound.

Appearances are quite excellent, but an exceptional specify for Tusshar Kapoor and Pitobash. Preeti Desai has a concise function. Something greater than her, its Radhika Apte who leaves an impression. There's moreover Girija Oak in an eminent function. Sendhil is simply about nod. Nikhil Dwivedi gleams in the penultimate grouping.

All things considered, Shor In The City would not be able to brag of huge star names, but it packs in stacks of stimulation and a dangerous peak.

Most likely worth a watch.

Watch Film ‘Ragini MMS’ ‘Raat Akeli Hai’ video song (Uncensored)

Watch Film ‘Ragini MMS’ ‘Raat Akeli Hai’ video song (Uncensored): The scariest date movie Ragini MMS gets a topic tune. One of the most exceptionally sentimental melodies of Hindi silver screen, Raat Akeli Hai, gets a chiller form for the film, emphasizing Kainaz Motivala and Raj Kumar Yadav.

In this way the extreme tempting tune of every times ha a unique implication in Ekta Kapoor's film Ragini MMS. The sentimental hit, basically picturised on Dev Anand and Tanuja, is from the blockbuster Jewel Thief and is rendered eagerly by Asha Bhosle. Ekta, in stunningness of the melody, chose to keep the initial in the film as a substitute for remixing it.

Ekta demonstrates why she chose the tune, and is cited as truism, “Some excellent tunes ought to actually not be touched. They ought to be reveled in their purest true frame. 'Raat Akeli Hai' is sexy enough in its first frame and runs particularly well with the temperament of Ragini MMS.”

On account of the movie is a paranormal erotic film and is regarding a couple who are on a sentimental getaway to a unknown put, the tune fits the topic. Anyhow from now on Raat Akeli Hai will frequent you, because of Ragini MMS.

Tusshar Kapoor gets private with Radhika Apte photos

Tusshar Kapoor gets private with Radhika Apte photos: For the present year is making be the best equipped year in Tusshar Kapoor's lifework. The man has got a challenging part of a hoodlum in the film Shor In The City, and can moreover be viewed in the movie Dirty Picture. The kid is doing things which he hasn’t even attempted heretofore. Yes, he has moved on from being a sassy actor to the one we are able to take without a doubt now.

Shor In The City will see Tusshar reveling in some lovemaking scenes with his co-star Radhika Apte. The actor has devised a workable plan to shed his hindrances and now thinks he is very professional in doing steamy scenes. Tusshar gets sincere while discussing the scene, which is part of the tune “Saibo”, and expresss, “It is a soft, sentimental song funneled on a married couple-Radhika (Apte) and me. It's a sentimental scene among a working class spouse and wife living in a chawl that spearheads to lovemaking.”

In the tune Tusshar unhooks Radhika's outfit and looks at her inching toward getting undressed. Didn’t he feel clumsy? “I wasn’t humiliated whatsoever. I am a professional at such scenes now! Truth be told my scenes in Dirty Picture are far steamier,” expresss Tusshar. Goodness! yes, we recall Tusshar even did workshops with Vidya Balan to be comfy while doing private scenes in Dirty Picture.

Be that as it may what regarding his guardians? They don’t for the most part see their kid getting smoking and wild on screen? Tusshar states his guardians have ended up being “stun-confirmation” following Kya Kool Hai Hum. They can’t work toward getting embarrassed any more.

SRK supporter K'Johar woos Sallu?

SRK supporter K'Johar woos Sallu?: Nothing succeeds like achievement. Salman Khan has been witnessing this proverb come vivified when the super-good fortune of Dabangg. He's been on the wishlist of countless a producer, but now he is getting antennas from the most obviously unexpected quarters.

Karan Johar, a staunch Shahrukh Khan supporter, is now learnt to be wooing Salman for his following generation to be administered by Rensil D’Silva, he of the super-flop Kurbaan. Rensil is appeared for have penned a movement-thriller on the lines of ‘Oceans Eleven’ this time and he's of the view that Salman Khan suits the part of the advancing man finest. Karan is on the same page.

Thus, the buzz is that K-Jo is sending antennas to the great looking Khan. He was freshly in converses Salman for a presence on his show Koffee With Karan, but the talks fell through following Salman reportedly mandated a commitment for his philanthropy Being Human in profit for his manifestation for the show.

Now, will Salman take the trap and give his nod to a film being made under Dharma Productions, whose publication-kid for a significant number of years has been Shahrukh Khan?

We won’t challenge to response that since predicting Salman's movements is like predicting climate. Or far more detestable!

Queens Réunion 2011 will be crowned on June 4, 2011 - The winner will represent Reunion in Miss World 2011 pageant

The road to Miss World 2011.

Queens Réunion 2011 will be crowned on June 4.

WINNER will represent Reunion in Miss World 2011 pageant.

Click here to meet the contestants vying for the crown.








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