1. Rainbow Cake photos

Sliced and eaten cake.

1. Make a rainbow cake, 10. Make a fruit roll up fortune cookie, and 11. Make ice cream

Sorry for the delay with our posts, but don’t worry, we’ve been getting stuff done(ish).

Anyway, hello everyone. On Thursday, the freaking first day of August, we made a rainbow cake, fruit roll up fortune cookies, did the baby food challenge, we made ice cream, kept three balloons in the air for a minute, bobbed for apples, and we did the saltine cracker challenge. It was a day of delicious food and challenges, I guess.

The most surprising thing we’ve gotten done is the rainbow cake. I was really impressed because we honestly thought it was going to be a Pinterest fail–like all the other projects from Pinterest we’ve done. Though, it wasn’t. The cake was delicious (because how hard is it to screw up a cake from a box) and they looked like a rainbow.

We did an actual rainbow cake where the colors are all together in the cake pan and then we did a layered cake using a scone pan. We ended up just making a mess with the layered cake.

Pre-sliced rainbow cake.

Sliced and eaten cake.

You can actually see the rainbow, correct?!

The layered cake pieces when they were still batter.

The cooked cake!

Check out more photos here

I believe while our cakes were cooking away, or at some point during the day, we made fruit roll up fortune cookies. They aren’t hard to make, but just really sticky. You need:
Fruit roll up
A cup or a cookie cutter (something in the shape of a circle)
Paper for the fortunes
A plate or something for you to put underneath the sticky fruit roll up so it won’t stick to your kitchen table.

Your first step is to take the cup or the cookie cutter to make a circle out of the fruit roll up. Make sure the fruit roll up is on a plate or something so it doesn’t stick.

See, after Alicia tried this, the fruit roll up got stuck to the table. We got it off though. She has the directions from Pinterest open on her phone 🙂

Once you have the circle, you place a fortune in the inside. I took a lined post-it note and cut on the lined part to make strips.

Fold the cookie either in half if you are lazy like me or like a real fortune cookie (your choice).

Enjoy!

So, I know for sure, after we made the cakes (sorry, going out of order), we made ice cream. Last year we made ice cream and that was the last time I made ice cream so we decided to make it again.

You need:
An ice cream maker of sorts
Heavy whipping cream
Another type of milk. Skim milk doesn’t work well but we used vanilla almond milk and it was so yummy.
Sugar
Vanilla extract.

Mix your ice cream base together and then pour into your ice cream maker.

Let churn for as long as your ice cream maker says.

So thrilled about having to churn the ice cream.

Alicia is excited about holding the freezing cold bowl of ice cream.

The finished product. The ice cream my maker makes is supposed to come out nice and smooth and it did. Yum.

Well, look forward to an updated array of post that are in the works.

Enjoy!

Much love and summer fun!

81dayswontlastforever!

Molly and Alicia

66.) Make a vlog everyday for a week and post it on youtube

Hey guys, so last week Molly and I vlogged everyday, some we were together, others we weren’t. But, here they were. Watch them, they’re fun. 🙂

Thursday July 18th- Make Shadow Puppets

Friday July 19th- Blog Award- nominations and such

Saturday July 20th- Go to the Dunes

Sunday July 21st- Day After Dunes and Molly’s Vlog- jobs i think

Monday July 21st- Smoothie Vlog and Just another Molly Monday

Tuesday July 22nd- 5 minutes with Maddy

Wednesday July 23rd- Make String Art

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever!

Alicia and Molly!

37. Go see some movies and 87. Manicures/pedicures

Hello all!

Before 81dayswontlastforever goes on a brief hiatus due to the fact I’ll be in Disney World with my mom and sister, Alicia and I have some blogging to catch up with. Today, after a week of being extremely busy, Alicia, our friend Alex (who has helped out with the blog), and I went and saw Monsters University. It was ok, not phenomenal like previous Pixar releases.

Overall, I would give it about 3 out of 5 stars. The overall plot wasn’t very thought out and though the characters already had some background with Monsters Inc, the prequel was not needed. (SPOILERS AHEAD)
It was interesting how Mike and Randall (the good guy and the bad guy) were roommates in college and then their relationship drastically changed when Sulley joined the scene and it was nice that Randall’s character foreshadowed information of Monsters Inc such as there was a poster on the dorm wall that said “The Winds of Change” or how Randall and the Mike/Sulley duo were competing, and Mike even made the OK team do scary feet and pre-scaring exercises. I thought in the first movie, Mike seemed to be a pretty confident character and all the other monsters liked him but in the prequel, he was bullied.

I didn’t understand why one of the OK fraternity brothers was an older guy who ended up with the one character’s mom. That was a weird add-on that was completely unnecessary…Heck, the whole movie was unnecessary. And the ending with the campers? What was that all about? And then how the professors kept talking about Sulley’s father. It was played up so much and then towards the end of the movie, there was no references again. Is there a deleted scene that the viewers should see?

And usually the short films that play before the movie are really good. For example, La Luna which played before Brave was amazing and creative. Or, one of my favorites: For the Birds which played before Monsters Inc was movie magic. My second favorite, Partly Cloudy, should have been a movie in itself. However, The Blue Umbrella  was a disappointment. It was a cute five minute love story..about two umbrellas. Alex said that if the short had a yellow umbrella instead it would have been How I Met Your Mother.  

Anyway, so Monsters University like many prequels (and sequels–I’m looking at you Cars 2) should not have been made. A wise teacher Alicia and I had in eighth grade said no movie should ever need a sequel and I agree. Sequels and such just become money makers instead of an original feature.

So, after finishing the movie and our lunch at Chipotle, Alex left because Alicia and I got manicures and pedicures. It was super relaxing and the guy who did my nails was very kind.

At the particular nail place I go to, they always have HGTV on the TV and I don’t understand two things about the houses they have on that channel. One: The house, no matter if it’s a $200,000 house or a $948,000 house, the furnishings are horrible and the walls are the most horrid colors I have ever seen. Who has a $948,000 house and just a bed with a white down comforter in their “master suite”? And the second thing that confuses me is the kitchens! You want the people to purchase an almost one million dollar house that has a kitchen that is smaller than the one we have in our two bedroom house in the burbs? Really? If my house was almost a million dollars, that thing would have at least an island in the middle of the kitchen!

Anyway, for Alicia’s nails, she picked a light purple for her toe nails and she picked almost a tomato red for her fingernails. Both look splendid, of course.

Modeling her tomato-y nails.

For my nails, I chose a light pink for my fingers and a teal for my toes.

My very pudgy toes.

One thing that separates Alicia and I is that Alicia is very tickleish. When you get a pedicure, they rub this thing on your foot to soften the skin on the bottom of your feet. Well, when you are tickleish and they do this, it’s sort of the funniest thing I have ever witnessed. Oh poor Alicia. According to the guy who did my nails, I flinched once..but who’s counting?

So, that concludes our adventure for today. Alicia probably will be posting things about our vlogs and then our arts and crafts day. So, look for that!

Much love and summer fun!

81dayswontlastforever!

Alex, Molly, and Alicia

 

23. Go to the Indiana Dunes

Hey guys, so Molly and I went to the Indiana Dunes on Saturday, we pretty much explained it in the quick video, so here are a few more pictures from our day.

In the car

I’m ready

She’s ready

Awkward chair between us

Dunes and some trees

Lake Michigan

le sky

The Lake

The Dune

More Lake and lake goers

Molly’s feet

Chilling

Awesome panorama ruined by this dude

my feet, my very white legs which are no longer white

Cuties

Cuties again

hot hot hot

#attractive

We’re adorable

The burial process

sleepy

And done!

I am the headless- horsewoman, wait I only have a head. i’m the bodyless horsewoman

more burying

My initial

I was buried in the sand

Much Love and Summer Fun

81dayswontlastforever

Alicia and Molly

A Sleepover of sorts

Well, Friday night, the day before the Dunes, Molly and I had a very fun sleepover, which consisted of us getting a few things done, one of which already has a post, but we were also able to complete 71.) Blindfold makeup challenge and 89.) Dip dye our hair (ish).

What we learned from these two things 1. When dip-dying/hair chalking our hair, darker colors work best, You could barely tell that my hair was purple, however you could tell the navy blue color was present in Molly’s hair, and neck :). And, that if you are going to do the blindfold makeup challenge, you really don’t want a girl who doesn’t wear makeup in general (me) and doing it at one in the morning makes it so much more fun, especially when we are half-asleep.

First, we hair-chalked our hair, Like I mentioned earlier, Molly used a navy-ish blue and mine was a pastelly- purple. What you do, if put the hair chalk applicator thing on your hair and on the other side of your hair put your thumb and then slide the applicator down your hair, and repeat.

Before

Before

During

Some more During

 During

Fist piece done

First piece done

Blue hands!

After…. All of these beautiful pictures are after

 

And that’s that for hair chalking. As for the blindfold makeup challenge, we did one round of just eyeshadow, but then we realized that it’s no fun unless you have lipstick, mascara, blush etc. So we started over.

Before

Before

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Molly went first, and being a makeup extraordinaire she had a pretty simple time other than getting lipstick on my teeth, and the fact that she picked a blush color that was much too dark for my skin tone, giving me an orange ring outlining my face, but totally quick fixes. I, on the other hand, had a much more difficult time, especially when I ended up applying mascara to her mouth because apparently her lips felt like an eye, it was late, and apparently I had lost my mind. My favorite though,was when Molly said “Why are you applying my lipstick vertically? It goes horizontally!” I had no idea I was doing it vertically in the first place, like I said, it was late, But I know it’s been killing you all to see what we looked like in the end, So, here we go.

lipstick on my teeth

No explanation needed

And, that was our sleepover.

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever!

Alicia and Molly

69. Make multicolored crayons

Hello people.

A few days ago, last Wednesday, Alicia and I made multicolored crayons. For those who don’t know, you take crayons and you melt them in the oven to create a nugget of crayon with beautiful colors.

The supplies needed include:

• A box of crayons. It helps if you have a lot of crayons or crayons that are old and unusable for coloring.
• A muffin tins and liners
• A sharp knife

First, you have to peel off the paper that’s on the crayons. It helps to have a group of people peeling because it takes forever. While peeling, preheat your oven to 275 degrees. Keep the oven temperature low.

After all the crayons are naked, break them up by either snapping them in pieces with your hands or chopping them up with a knife.

Place the pieces in a lined muffin tin. Use a variety of colors in each liner. Alicia and I separated them by warm and cool colors.

Put the tin in the oven and let the crayons melt for 15 minutes.

Take out the crayons and let cool either on the stove top or in the fridge. Our crayons were fine on the stove.

And then you are done! Color away!

Much love and summer fun!

81dayswontlastforever

Molly and Alicia

18. Go to the pool

Hello all!

Get ready for a lot of posts because for the past two days, Alicia and I have been busy, busy, busy!

On Friday to kick off our extravaganza of getting blog stuff done, Samantha, Alicia, and I went to our local pool. Samantha’s wonderful family has a membership to this fancy pool and so she invited Alicia and I to go with; we accepted. We spent a good two to three hours swimming and jumping off the diving board and tanning..erm..burning. See, Alicia and I have this unrealistic desire to tan and it just doesn’t work. We end up more red and pink than golden brown. Sigh.

Also, with tradition, I ate a hot dog. Last summer when I went to Wisconsin with Alicia and her family, I ate a hot dog and then on Friday, I ate a hot dog again. The whole reason why I mention this is that I don’t eat anything that moos or oinks. If it’s a bird or a fish, I’ll eat it. And I have to say, no matter what videos like Food Inc or Peta’s videos say about hot dogs, hot dogs are good. Must just be an American thing..I don’t know.

Me enjoying my hot dog.

Anyway, that’s it; Alicia and I went swimming!

Enjoy this picture of Alicia I took. I got all photographer up in that joint.

Much love and summer fun!

81dayswontlastforever!

Molly and Alicia

 

69. Make Shadow Puppets

Much Love and Summer Fun
81 days won’t last forever!
Alicia, Molly, and Maddy

20. Create a Blog Award for Summer Blogs like us

Hey everyone! So, Molly and I have created a Summer Blog Award to get to know some more summer bloggers like us.
We have nominated 9 very amazing summer blogs for this award:Shay

Meagan

Sarah and Rachel

Abby

Alice

Anya

Micky

Danika

ME

Alright, so the rules for all of you summer bloggers who have received this award

1. Nominate 5 summer blogs for this award (not any blog who has been nominated in this post)
2. Make a post about receiving this award and nominating these people, and whatever else we make you all do next
3. Ask nine questions for people to answer (relating to summer blogs, not relating to summer blogs, doesn’t really matter)
4. Answer the nine questions that the person who nominated you asked
5. Put our link in the post somewhere so that everyone who gets the award can comment on our blog, so that we can follow all of you. 🙂
6. Also, put the blog award picture in the post as well, thank you all
7. Any questions??????????? Comment below or email us at 81dayswontlastforever@gmail.com

The Nine Questions

1. Why a Summer Bucket List?
2. What is the craziest thing on your list?
3. What is you worst summer memory?
4. What is the hardest thing on your list?
5. What is your favorite shampoo?
6. If you could be anything other than human, what would you be and why?
7. What is your favorite inspirational quote?
8. What is your favorite childhood movie?
9. What do you see yourself doing in 81 years?

Our Answers

Why a Summer Bucket List?
Molly: We watched Julie and Julia and decided to make a blog to document our summerAlicia: Same as Molly, but after I read gonewiththesummer’s blog, I told Molly that we should give this whole blogging thing a tryWhat is the craziest thing on your list?
Both: Hand out lemons wearing shirts that say lifeWhat is you worst summer memory?
Molly: I don’t remember it, but when I was two, my right ring finger was caught in a side garage door.Alicia: Last summer, I spent a week on crutches and then a month later, spent three days in the hospital, not really a good summer at all, What is the hardest thing on your list?
Both:Getting everything done…
What is your favorite shampoo?
Alicia: Herbal Essences: Tousle Me Softly (Purple bottle)
Molly: Aveeno, Nourish plus moisturize
If you could be anything other than human, what would you be and why?
Alicia: A turtle, because they are really chill, swimming in the EAC dude (haha Finding Nemo) and they live long, Sandy Plankton tells me they live to be 100 years old,
Molly: A pair of shoes because I complete an outfit and help people feel confident or if I don’t like the person I can make their feet hurt
What is your favorite inspirational quote?
Molly: “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get.” -Forrest, Forrest Gump
Alicia: “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -Marilyn Monroe
What is your favorite childhood movie?
Alicia: The Princess Diaries
Molly: The Little Mermaid
What do you see yourself doing in 81 years?
Alicia: Sitting in my nursing home with my 16 year-old great-granddaughter, pushing my life-alert button, and trying to set her up with one of the hot firefighters that show up. Molly: Running a Marathon

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever

Alicia and Molly

44. Learn the Lyrics to “Pollito Pio”

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever

Alicia, Molly, Maddy, and Rosie

Be sure to check out our Bloopers video

P.S. Be sure to look at the original video and see how terribly we messed up

61. Make cereal box notepads

Hello everyone! Today, Alicia and I completed three things. We completed number 61. Make cereal box notepads. It’s one of the last arts and crafts projects that we need to do and it was really easy.

You need:

• Cardboard/cereal box
• A hole punch
• Yarn
•  Notebook/computer paper

If you Google the directions (or use faithful Pinterest), you can surely figure it out. Alicia and I improvised and made a beautiful notepad. Enjoy our photos!

Alicia beginning to hole punch.

The weaving begins!

Weaving my notepad.

Alicia and her baby.

The finish product!

Much love and summer fun!

81dayswontlastforever!

Molly and Alicia

3. Make homemade chocolate turtles and 60. Sharpie plates and bake them

Hello!

Today Alicia and I did two things on our list. We first made homemade chocolate turtle…brownies. We were originally going to to make the candy that has a pecan and then chocolate and caramel covering it. We decided (well, I decided) the brownies would be less labor intensive and more delicious. Plus, we needed a way to bribe our friends into helping Alicia and me put together a manual for our yearbook class. We wrote almost everything for that book and we honestly don’t want to put it together. What can I say? The co-editors-in-chief are lazy.

Anyway, I found the brownie recipe on Pinterest. Pinterest in the world of having a summer blog is the greatest creation. We got all of our craft ideas from Pinterest. I’m addicted; it’s bad.

Here is the recipe we followed: http://www.cooksrecipes.com/bar/chocolate_turtle_brownies_recipe.html

They were really easy to make and we enjoyed the corner piece we ate. Gosh, it was so freaking good.

The butter and chocolate before it turned into batter.

Alicia stirring away.

Unwrapping the soft caramel for the drizzling.

Before…

Taking it out.

Putting the pecans on very seriously.

And, well ah! They are done!

While the delicious brownies were cooking away, we also completed 60. Sharpie plates and bake them. This is indeed a Pinterest craft. The designs people do are absolutely gorgeous. Ours came out great too. Except, there was one small blunder on the part of the former writing editor of a high school yearbook: I spelled knowledge wrong and then I baked the plate. However, because the plate was still warm, I was able to fix it.

While inscribing a Marilyn Monroe quote on her plate, she works quickly, but with a steady hand.

I was so proud of my plate however  Alicia and I didn’t notice knowledge was spelled wrong. Ergh.

The “finished” plates before we noticed the mistake.

My plates after I fixed the word.

The finished plates!

Much love and summer fun!

81dayswontlastforever!

Molly and Alicia

PS: Did you like Alicia’s shirt? That’s the one she made this year..I think?

PPS: I made our pretzels again. I think Alicia is the pretzel making good luck charm.

PPPS: My fantastic madre mailed the awards out to those fantastic people so congratulations to them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

77.) Make a glitter snow globe

Well, hey guys. As Molly has said in our earlier posts today we got a lot done yesterday. One of those items was 77. Make a Glitter snow globe. Well, if any of you have a pinterest or have attempted to do something from pinterest, sometimes things don’t always turn out as planned, this happened with the glitter snow globes… or at least we thought.

 

What the pinterest picture said to do was mix glitter glue and warm water in a jar of some sort, mix with a knife, and voila “Glitter snow Globe” So, Molly had a big prego jar and I had a small jar that has previously been the house of garlic (Molly’s kitchen smelled very garlicy)…

Molly was taking forever washing the jars

excited… as always

my jar

glitter

Anyway, what I was not told was only to put about a tablespoon of glitter glue into the jar, and since mine was like 8 times smaller than Molly’s, a teaspoon would have sufficed. Oops. Mine looks like glitter in a jar.

weird

uhh it was hard and glue-like

like i said, glitter in a jar

And, Molly on the other hand, when she put the glitter glue in the jar and started mixing, some weird chemical reaction started to happen and the whole thing was foam and stayed like that, so darn again.

we even added more glitter… still foaming

Jeez pinterest, give us girls a warning. anyways, the day after, they both look fine and dandy, which is good. But at the time, we were very aggravated with Pinterest but we’re good now. 🙂

the two finished products- Yesterday

the two finished products, a day later

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway, just a piece of advice, less is more, especially when you have a small jar, using a knife to mix is VERY VERY DUMB… use your fingers to mix the glitter… Like I showed earlier, the glitter is solid and your hands do the best job of making it… un-solid? It;s not liquid but not solid… I don’t know.

Anyway, if it does begin to foam, give it a day and it will be alright. 🙂

 

81 days won’t last forever

Much Love and Summer Fun

Alicia, Molly, and Maddy

we got very bored waiting for Molly, she’s slow

well, that’s mighty attractive

glitter

plastic bag on my head for the win

we had to ad more glitter and shake Molly’s

glitter and the finished product

the two finished products- Yesterday

Molly’s jar was confusing

74.) Write a letter to Disney Princesses +Thank YOU!

Well, last week Molly, Maddy, and I sent letters to Disney Princesses.

There’s not much to say about this other than if you write a letter to

Walt Disney World Communications

P.O. Box 10040

Lake Buena Vista, FL

32830-0040

They will send an autographed photo back. Molly sent letters to Cinderella and Mulan. Maddy sent them to Merida and Tiana. And  I wrote letters to Merida and Rapunzel. We will keep you all updated on the outcome of this post.

 

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever

Alicia, Molly, and Maddy

P.S. The last post published was our 100th post, and on behalf of Molly and I would like to thank everyone who reads and comments frequently to those who have only stopped by the blog once. It means so much. We’ve had this blog for just over a year and have gotten about 100 followers, 30,000 views, 300 comments, and so many new friends. Just thank you all so much for putting up with Molly, me, and all of our rambling. Thanks again!