VT cups

Made some cute lollipop cookies and cards for visiting teaching this month. Wanted to share the finished product. I think they turned out cute.

Adventures in Photography

So I've done my share of dabbling in photography and such. Mostly for craft projects and stuff but I've been wanting to play around with it a little more. So I decided to head out for a photo shoot today. Of course when I brought my friend mike with me it ended up being more of me being the model so I have to accredit these to him. (although it's all my artistic vision ha) Pretty much you take pics of me posing. He did pretty good and with a good deal of editing I was quite proud of what I got. Also makes me feel a bit vain having so many pictures of myself for no special reason. I laughed and said these were my "senior pictures" for hopefully my last year in school.

Ya crawling around under this bridge in a skirt was fun. We had a lot of funny pictures of me climbing around on the rocks. But I love sitting under this bridge to keep cool in the summer. It's a good view too.

I just thought this was a funny face I was making. Turns out I hate modeling because I hate trying to think of other faces to make plus I just feel stupid because I know someone is watching.
LOVE this one. A very fun shot.
Not my favorite one. But this bridge just asked me to get it's picture taken and I couldn't say no.
Ya I'm totally cheesin in this one but I loved playing on this log.

Ya as you can see I'm out of faces and just feeling awkward in the last two. Looking good only happens in spurts for me I guess.
I was playing. Dumb idea in a skirt but what can I say??
This is one of my pretty shots. I wanna be like wait... I look pretty?!
Again enjoying the bridge. It was tough to get a shot without a bunch of people on it. Everyone was out today on a nice Sunday afternoon. But that's most of what I thought was worth sharing. Let me know what you think. And for future reference I'm looking for models. Anyone wanna play???

Card making

Lets be honest... inspiration for this card came because there was a sale at Joann's and I blew some money. I was told I shouldn't feel bad as it's an investment in myself. Whatever it takes to let me sleep at night :)

I made this for a friend's mom's birthday, especially because I haven't made a card in quite a while. It turned out to get me thinking about marketing homemade cards. We'll see how that turns out.

Other dessert platter

This one is just so perfect for fall in my book. I hate seasonal decorating but inspiration hit and I couldn't ignore it.

It's been a while...

Ya I've been busy. School has started and just got a job about a month ago so now crafting time is harder to come by. But of course I can't stop... It's too much of an addiction. So here is one of my new pieces...

Yep a lovely dessert platter. And of course I made some cupcakes for staging. Sadly it was my first time baking at my new place and the oven didn't work well. It took a few tries to figure out that you have to cook 100 degrees hotter than normal. Crappy student housing ovens. So after many ugly cupcakes I finally made some perty ones. Who knew ovens helped build character?? like patience????

Clock

Ok this really should have a before picture so you can see everything that actually went into this project. I'm quite proud. Re-did Everything!!!