Thank you to Village Realty OBX

Thank you to Village Realty OBX (http://www.villagerealtyobx.com/) for the generous donation!

It will go a long way in the fight against breast cancer!

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3 days to end breast cancer.  We can do this!  Can you help?

Donate here

Thank you to Commercial Insurance!

Taking a moment to say a big "Thank you!!!"
to Commercial Insurance.

The generous donation from the agency will go a long way in the fight against breast cancer!

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3 days to end breast cancer.  We can do this!  Can you help?
donate here

Cupcakes for a cure

I'm not much of a baker, so I knew if I wanted to make stuff for a bake sale, i'd better do a trial run first.  So, i made some cupcakes:

Learned a few things along the way:
Lesson #1 - if you fill the cups up too much, you end up without enough batter to make all 24 cupcakes
Lesson #2 - go for the shorter cooking time instead of the longer, unless you want your cupcakes to look a little dark
Lesson #3 - waiting for the cupcakes to cool enough to put the frosting on is the hardest part...
Lesson #4 - the finished product actually looks good enough to eat:

Lesson #5 - there is such a thing as too many sprinkles; and strawberry frosting is just a bit too "strawberry-y"
So the next time around, I'll be doing some things differently.
Less batter per cupcake
shorter cooking time
different frosting
less sprinkles.

Now I need to make some cookies to try out my nifty pink ribbon cookie cutter (and to test my cookie decorating skills...)

Wanna make a donation to help in the fight against breast cancer?  visit www.the3day.org/goto/mkfuentes1 .  I walk this mile...

I walk this mile...

Do you know and love someone who is fighting breast cancer?  Have you lost a loved one to this disease?

In August, I'll be walking 60 miles over 3 days in an effort to find a cure for breast cancer.  I'm walking for a future where our sisters, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, cousins, nieces, daughters, friends, co-workers, etc., will no longer have worry about or suffer from this disease.

For a donation of $10, I will dedicate a mile of my walk to the honor or memory of someone you love and care about.  Your loved one's name will be listed on my t-shirt and I will dedicate a post on this blog to her/him. (You can provide a picture and your story if you like.


Help me put a face to my efforts and remind the world that breast cancer isn't a far off concern, but one that affects us all, every day.

Contact me at mkfuentes 1 @ gmail.com (without the spaces of course) if you'd like to dedicate a mile.

(Donations of any amount are greatly appreciated and can be made here: The 3-Day )