whoopieeeeee!

posted by on December 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment

This is "whoopie pie".

And yes, I totally bought this because of the name :)

whoopie!

Not to mention, it was beyond yummy.

The prompt for today's Picture The Holidays assignment was 'the day after'. Well, the day after still finds my house filled with all kinds of scrumptious food and goodies, to the point where I almost feel guilty for so much abundance.

'Tis the season.

Just ask my waistline ;)

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PICTURE THE HOLIDAYS with Tracy Clark and Paper Coterie: 31 days of seasonal photo prompts to inspire your creativity. Find out more here.

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pass the cookies

posted by on December 4, 2011 · 3 Comments

From Picture The Holidays:

What helps you to slow down, take a deep breath and enjoy the moment? Capture it! Tools for peace of mind can consist of anything. Maybe it's reading a few pages of your favorite book or just some cleansing exhales that help you. Creatively capture that thing you need to soothe your soul.

pass the cookies

Cookies soothe my soul :)

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PICTURE THE HOLIDAYS with Tracy Clark and Paper Coterie: 31 days of seasonal photo prompts to inspire your creativity. Find out more here.

This post is a portion of my focus52 project, hosted right here at twoscoopz! Visit or join the focus52 flickr group here. My own focus52 project can be found on flickr here or by clicking 'my f52' in the category list to the right.

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variety [10/52]

posted by on March 12, 2011 · 30 Comments

Still feeling under the weather, today rolled around and found me without a shot for this week's prompt.

A trip to the donut shop solved that problem :)

Now that's my kind of variety (a fact my ever expanding ass can attest to).

My Husband, on hearing my plan, said "you're going to go buy a dozen donuts just so you can take a picture of them?" (I mean seriously, where has this man been for the past 16 months???) to which I simply replied, "yes".

He thought it was a stupid idea.

At this moment, right now, there are five donuts left in that box.

And I only had one.

Yeah, what a stupid idea :)

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drizzled {165/365}

posted by on June 14, 2010 · 18 Comments

Day nine of Creativity Boot Camp and I had a ball with today's prompt, "drizzle".

This morning, I laughingly joked on facebook about the prompt and the fact that it had finally stopped raining here. Doesn't that just figure? I joked.

Immediately, everybody started on food.

(and I've been hungry ever since)

I had the idea to go over to the local ice cream shop and plead beg cajole ask the owner to make me a delicious looking concoction that I might photograph for my online class.  Pretty please.  With cherries (literally!) on top.

She was a little unsure of my whackjob self, but she agreed!

And better than that, she went all out and totally helped me plan and get this done.

(hi Michelle!  thank you!)

The only available 'drizzle' we had was some yummy hot fudge.  So we did this ...
(well, she did this, technically I stood around and pointed a camera at her)

drizzle!

Not bad, and totally fun! Look at Michelle go with that fudge ... woooot!

(ssshhhh ... she's camera shy)

But you know me, never satisfied. And I couldn't get the idea of a retro looking sundae out of my brain. It was stuck there.  I'm like a dog with a bone when I have an idea.  And her cool pink ice cream shop was begging me to figure it out.

So as I sat there eating my props (homemade props I might add - ice cream from scratch! and omg yummy) I contemplated the situation.

and then .... cherries ... hmmmm ... cherry juice ...

Cherry juice!!!

Well hell, cherry juice will drizzle!

Hello brain, glad you could make it.

from day 165 - ice cream!

Now that's what I'm talking about!

165/365

I only ate part of this one ... shush.

Fun!

All of the shots were processed in lightroom with the peachy fade preset I'm still working on.  I applied some textures to the bottom two shots to give them that soft fun look I was after.

Are you hungry now?  Craving some ice cream?

Thanks again Michelle, for being so kind to this nutbar with a camera.  Your indulgence was totally appreciated :)

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chocolate high {96/365}

posted by on April 6, 2010 · 3 Comments

Or is it a chocolate crash?

I dunno.

I DO know that I've probably gained 10 lbs since this time last week.

And my stash is dwindling ...

96/365

This photo of the day is supposed to be of daughter getting a shot to the arm. Literally. Her school records are wrong though and when we got to the doctor's office, it turns out she didn't need one.  So no photo-op (shot! ha! get it? *ahem*) there.  And no school suspension.  Idjits.

Nor did I manage to get a shot (or even think of it) of her thrilled face upon receiving that little tidbit of info.  She is very pleased.  heh.

Nor did I remember to put batteries into the little point and shoot that I oh so smartly brought along with me so as to not freak out my girl by pulling out the big guns.  Trying to be incognito doesn't work out so well without batteries.

So ...

I came home and snapped chocolate easter eggs.

Makes sense to me :)

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