FAIL: Homemade Hostess Cupcakes

This is my first food post and it's going to be about how I failed at making cupcakes. Great.....I hope ya'll (like my Texas accent?) don't get the impression that I can't cook because I can. Like I said before my niece and nephew is staying with me for a week in the summer, so I thought it would be fun to make cupcakes with/for them. They wanted chocolate cupcakes, so I pulled up the Hostess Cupcake recipe (w/ pictures) to show them and they screamed "YES, THAT ONE!" This is the recipe I kind of followed to make these Hostess Cupcakes - Brown Eyed Baker. In the end, the cupcakes still tasted very good, so all was not lost.

All the recipes for the Hostess Cupcakes used chocolate cake made from scratch and I wasn't about to do that, so I replaced with a box of chocolate cake mix. First, I made the cupcake from the directions on the box (easy peasy) and preheated the oven.

First DIY Project: Crayola Melting Art

So these Crayola melting art can be found all over Pinterest and my niece has been dying to do one of these projects. Since she will be staying with me for about a week over the summer, I decided to do this with her. I haven't done an arts and craft project in years, so I didn't have any material to even began. Our first step was to make a trip to Hobby Lobby and ended up spending hours there going through each aisle (especially the 80-90% section - more on that later). Below is a list of what we ultimately got for this project:

Material List (from Hobby Lobby)
- High Temp Hot Glue Gun (I didn't own one) $2.99
- 50-pack of Glue Sticks $4.99
- 2-pack of Canvas $7.99
- A Box of 94 Crayola Crayons $8.99

When we got home, I immediately made my niece sort out all the crayons and had her begin by picking out all the colors she liked. Meanwhile, I looked for tutorials online and decided to use this blog's tutorial for this project - 52 Kitchen Adventures.