This was taken not long before the snows finally melted completely away from our yard… about a month after it was gone from the rest of the town!
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So I’ve been trying to wrangle up a submission for Pioneer Woman’s Photobook contest which ends… soon?? You just upload some pictures to Snapfish and make a photobook out of them and then add it to her group, and then they pick 50 random winners. I want the photobooks, fo’ real… it’s been on my to-do list forever. AND EVER. But of course, I want them to look gorgeous and be all themed and color-coordinated and ahhh. Too much with the brain. Most of the photos I edit I am crazy and save them as web-sized jpgs. I don’t know,…
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Long, long ago back when I was studying in London (for the second time), a little gift from above happened along my path. It was known as Gü and could be found in the refrigerated desserts aisle at Waitrose. Mmm.While I had a meal plan Regents College, Alex lived in an apartment a few streets away and lived like a normal Londoner, going to the grocery store every day or two. There was this nice little Waitrose around the corner, down Marleybone High Street, that we would shop at. They have *the* most amazing Chicken Tikka Masala in the world…
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An image of the towers of Canterbury Cathedral in England, taken in 2006 on a day trip to Canterbury from London. The sky had a beautiful, enchanted cloudy pattern that contrasted with the mysterious, ancient spires of the cathedral.
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Here is a quick little comparison of some various techniques for converting to black and white in Photoshop (CS2). Here I’ve started with a straight out of the (point and shoot) camera shot of Mike, my great-uncle six times removed (or however that works) on the maternal Italian side. He did not want me to take a close-up, much less make it public, but that’s what he gets for being a cheeky. If you never hear from me again, just assume Big Mike sent me to sleep with the fishes. 🙂 Alright, let’s start off simple. This is a basic…
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To celebrate Julie’s delicious gift of fresh lemon curd from Merry Old England, I made another batch of scones this morning. Last time I posted about the King Arthur Blueberry Sour Cream scone mix, and mentioned I normally get the ‘plain’ kind. So here are the pictures of the King Arthur Cream Tea Scones. Yummy! There are two suggested ways to prepare these scones, for the cream method add 1 egg and 3/4 cup of heavy cream to the mix. The other is the traditional method, for which you cut in butter and add some milk. Today I went the…
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I usually eat my breakfast in the living room while Arin has his morning ba-ba. Usually its ucky bran-type cereal, but sometimes, when the moon waxes over the the third house, I will have some delectable Bobo-tempting treat like a Pillsbury cinnamon bun. On such days as this, if I am so absentminded as to wander off mid-bite to attend to some pressing matter like putting a spoon in the dishwasher or fetching Bobo’s discarded socks from the bedroom, this is what I will find upon my return: Little man just can’t wait for his own! Guess it tastes better…
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So today we had a scary experience, and by we I basically mean I because Arin got over the situation about a minute after it happened… We were outside and I was raking leaves and Arin decided he wanted to try climbing the front stairs like a big boy, standing up. The front stairs (concrete with about six steps) have a wrought-iron railing which makes this easy for him to do, and he’s done it several times before so I just let him. Well, this time he got even more brazen, and was standing at the top and doing a…
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Bobosaur loves him some juice boxes! I love these juice boxes because they contain a serving of fruit AND a serving of veggies. Bobo’s not been wanting to eat much lately, and veggies are definitely at the bottom of his list, so any way I can sneak them in is a plus. P.S. I absolutely love these jammies on him… he looks like a little bunny or something and is SO cuddly!
