Grandma's Rum Cake

RUM CAKE
1 cup butter
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 cups sifted cake flour
1/2 tsp salt
5 eggs
1 tsp each vanilla, rum, and butter flavorings

Cake:
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy(as whipped cream).
Add flavorings.
Sift flour and salt.
Add half to butter mixture. Beat until creamy.
Add eggs; one at a time beating well after each.
Add flour and beat until velvety smooth.
Pour into well greased bundt pan.
Bake in 325 oven one hour or longer
Cool slightly and then glaze

Glaze:
In small saucepan put 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup water and 1/4 cup rum.
Bring to boil.
Remove from heat and add the tsp. of rum flavoring.
Cool cake slightly and then brush glaze over warm cake.

Enjoy!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls

Steps to amazing in your mouth:
ingredients
  2 cups Crunchy Peanut Butter (I prefer Peter Pan with no high fructose)
  2 sticks softened butter
  1 lb. sifted powdered sugar
  3 cups Rice Krispies
Roll into approximately 1 inch balls. Makes about 60 balls.
Put in refrigerator  to firm up.
Melt the following in a double boiler
   6 oz. Regular chocolate morsels
   6 oz. Semi-sweet chocolate morsels
   ½ bar paraffin
Keep this mixture on low heat while you dip.
Use a fork to dip the balls in the chocolate mixture.
Roll until covered.
Put them on waxed paper on a cookie sheet.
Cool.
These freezes well

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Wizard Con 2013

Bridgette and I were featured on Nerdlocker.com

This was my second year at Wizard Con representing Powerhouse Animation at our studio's information booth.  I had a good time and met some interesting people.  Next year I'm thinking about having a table for The Adventures of Dr. Blah-kman & Mr. Meow.  I'd sell prints, posters, plushies, t-shirts, and pickles.  I'm also thinking about suggesting a few ideas for things to sell at PHA's booth next year.  On the other hand I could just scrap all of that and just run around in a unitard.  Ya know, do what everybody else there is doing.

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Today Disney Interactive announced the release of a new animated series for "It’s A Small World” and credits Powerhouse Animation Studios!  I am so proud to be doing work on this project.  I've been having a blast doing lip sync, animation, clean up, and post production along with the rest of the PHA team.  Other people working on this awesome project include Kellan Stover, Megan Kluck, and Adam Conarroe, and a whole bunch of other awesome animators and visual effects artists.  Keep an eye out for the soon to be released episodes.

A different life.

I'm so ready to let go of this acrimony you cause in me.
I'm so ready to live a different life.
The pain you pretend is real for me.
The need to live a different life.
Level my heart, rip out my soul.
Tear me limb for limb so the outside matches the inner being.
Give me one more trial, one more tribulation.
Give me that final reason to let go.
I'm so ready to live a different life.