I found this manifesto while blog surfing this week. I liked it, so I thought I’d share with you all. Its interesting how all of our digital devices and never-ending access to information is redefining so many parts of our lives.
Brandon and I stayed in Columbus this Easter weekend, so we didn’t indulge in any large family feasts. Growing up, the usual menu for my family’s Easter meal was ham, asparagus, cheesy potatoes, and some sort of dessert usually in pie or cake form. I took the easy route for our feast for two and took a little from each menu item and transformed it into a delicious quiche. (the cheese from cheesy potatoes and pie crust from the dessert, in case it wasn’t obvious)
It was tasty. Go ahead and make it.
Two things I’ve discovered since I’ve started this blog: photographing food is hard! and I don’t have an amazing natural talent for it. I think the process photos are decent (did you see that cool ombre effect with my scallions?!) but once it comes to the final product, which is what really counts, I totally miss the mark. Here’s the best one of the bunch:
It seems like all the successful food photos have perpetually sunny kitchens constantly being flooded with natural light in an ever-sunny, but not over-exposed, world. Whereas my kitchen is dark by dinner time and lit with wimpy halogen track lights. I’ll make do for now, and in the mean time I’ll keep working on those pesky photography skills.
I took advantage of the sunny weather this weekend and worked my poor fingers to the bone weeding the brick walkway and side garden. Here’s a reminder of the before:
Ugh, look at all that ugliness. Check it out now!!
I told you there were tulips hiding in there. Unfortunately it looks like there might be only one survivor. Overall its looking pretty good. I might do a little sweet talking to get my personal lawn mower Brandon to do some edging next week.
Going back to the official Operation Front Door Checklist:
Weed the brick walkway and sidewalkWeed the side garden – aka “find the tulips”- Plant some more flowers, “pretty it up”
- Weed and fix up the front garden, and finally
- Paint the door
Definitely made some headway!
Ugh, I’m still dreading painting that door….
Happy Monday!
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I honestly hadn’t thought about a song for this week until right before I was going to bed and somehow I stumbled on Zee Avi. Seems pretty cool. This is the only song I’ve listened to so far, but I’m going to go out on a limb and trust that the rest of it is as satisfactory.
Enjoy your week!
Last week while I was in Toledo installing Mason’s letters and taking fanatical pictures of his cheese dip at lunch, my mom had made these adorable little sock bunnies. I thought they were too cute not to share on here! She saw the idea on pinterest and made her way to lil blue boo’s blog that has a fabulously detailed step-by-step.
If you want the detailed diy, go there. If you want the quick and dirty how-to, I’ll provide you with a simple analysis of the sock bunny anatomy:
If you want to see what else my mom has found on pinterest, follow her!
