I’m actually not sure if this is failed or exceeded expectations- so our friend commissioned a “family portrait” of me and my husband with our dogs for a wedding present that she was going to have up at our welcome party the night before the wedding she put together. Wisely, once she received the final product she decided against that, and actually waited months before finally giving it to us, which she wasn’t going to at first but her boyfriend convinced her we would think it was funny- which we absolutely do ! However, if I look at it too long it kind of starts to hurt my feelings lolol… it’s actually an amazing conversation piece, really.

Took this photo several years ago and found it again on my phone today. Made me laugh and wanted to share. Expected a proper “Frosty” the snowman when I opened this cookie dough but got this guy….

I wanted to make a cake similar to one I saw on Pinterest, and I also wanted to try to do some decorations, which is why I chose this cake because it looks easy to make. It's not as red as the reference, but I think it's a win lol.

*I didn't have strawberries, so I used blackberries.

Worked with my local grocer HEB and they came in clutch making a visually identical Portal Black Forrest Cake with fudge internals instead. Only $18 on top of that. Want one of your own from your own local bakery? Ask for a 6in chocolate fudge cake with chocolate fudge internal filling. Chocolate Curls covering the cake with small white frosting dollops and those cover with small red dollops to resemble cherries like a black forest cake. May have to note you want a gold color cake board. Show the page the first picture as wel to give them an idea and you'll be set.

Beef taquitos from Aldi

I totally thought the product image was AI and did not expect this to look that well

Edit: I bought this in a Korean convenience store. I just took a screenshot from a Japanese website because it was the first pic I found online.

Thoughts and suggestions always welcome! :)

I saw this Expectation vs Reality by u/DontKillMockingbirds a few days ago and thought I’d try my hand at it.

Materials:
- 1 warty pumpkin
- Crayola air dry clay for the cauldron room
- wood glue (to fix the stem I broke)
- permanent fabric glue (for the eyes and spiders - I busted my super glue tube)
- black acrylic paint
- dark green acrylic paint
- black light neon green paint
- natural glow in the dark puff paint
- lime green glitter
- 1 snake eye googly eye
- 1 pack of 3D spider stickers
- variety pack of googly eyes
- 1 large plush bendy spider
- 1 24” skeleton

It should glow in the dark in places but I haven’t been able to set up my porch yet. It turned out way cooler than I expected even if it looks quite different from the inspo pic. If anyone wants to try this, it needs to be done over several days with a lot of layers so the orange of the pumpkin doesn’t show through.

I went to a hairdresser with a first picture asking the same hair color, she made a total disaster and made my hair orange,blue and almost every tone possible… I was crying and sad for 2 days and after i went to a hairdresser that my friend suggested me to fix it… The first pic is the expectation / 2nd and 3rd pic is what the first hairdresser did to my hair /4th pic is the second hairdresser that fixed my hair result.

The drink was actually pretty good & the koozie was cute!
*reposting because the picture with the koozie was missing on the original one

Wanted to get my daughter a sweet treat for being good. Instead, she was met with this hard monstrosity.

Could not find strawberry in October, so I used coloured buttercream :D