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While other people were enjoying Valentine’s day I was working as a florist helping convey love through flowers. (at least that’s what one really cute old guy told me when he came to pick up his arrangement) I really enjoyed spending time with great ladies, surrounded with beautiful flowers. I was really excited when I received this beautiful orchid plant. Most of all I really enjoyed spending valentine’s day celebrating my husband’s birthday!

 

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine’s day!
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I am a nerd when it comes to cooking & baking! Here are my cooking/baking confessions:



-I rarely measure anything

-when a recipe calls for 1 tsp vanilla, I use almost 2 and I only use Mexican vanilla

-kosher salt is my favorite (thanks, Ryan!)

-I also rarely use &/or follow a recipe

-I love to experiment when I cook . . . which doesn’t always turn out the best

-I used to teach cooking classes

-you can never have too many kitchen gadgets

-the harder the ingredient or spice is to say the more I want to try it

-I love experimenting with spices. My current favorite is cardamom. I would love to try some great saffron

-I would love to take a food photography workshop from Lou Manna, Lara Ferroni, Quinn Curtis
-my google reader is full of photography blogs, craft blogs & food blogs. My favorites are bakerella, joy the baker, smitten kitchen & the pioneer woman.
(I love to see their photography too)

-garnishing a dish is yet another one of my favorites



I was extremely flattered when my little sister asked me to make her birthday cake: the triple chocolate cheesecake you see above. My husband said it had too much chocolate…I say nonsense!!!
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  • Chelsea - ….and, you are gonna bake something like this in Vegas, yes? =)

    Hold on just a minute… oh… wait is that?… oh uh yeah… I just drooled on my keyboard. 😉

    Okay, not really but it does look DELISH!ReplyCancel

  • Belinda - Chels, maybe I'll make one for our after Vegas party 🙂ReplyCancel

Here’s a quick run down of some of the things I’ve done/need to do this weekend:
-Laundry…Need I say more? (except I was really proud of the fact that it is ALL folded & put away!)
-Spent time reading a little bit in three different books: The Martha Rules, The Sound of Paper & Purple Cow
-Made a Chocolate New York Cheesecake for my brother & sister’s birthday/superbowl bash tomorrow
-Studied for my Sunday School lesson I am teaching tomorrow
-Made housing arrangements for my gal pals & I at WPPI, a photography conference
-Ordered a few new props for an upcoming newborn session
-Processed a photo card which had this cute little cowboy on it:

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Weekends are the best!
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  • Chelsea Lewis - Yay for our housing arrangements! You ROCK!!! And I love the little hat! It's inspiring me to make a yellow and white one for spring! And a bunch of other springy colors!ReplyCancel

  • Ryan - Hey I know those blue eyes. We may need a couple of copies of that. 😀ReplyCancel

  • Christy - Yes, cute pic!!ReplyCancel

  • Belinda - Chels, I'm super excited for WPPI! I am ready for spring to be here too! Thanks Ry & Christy!ReplyCancel

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A few months ago my husband and I moved. There were several aspects of the change that were bittersweet. I was contemplating the things that I was looking forward to and other aspects that I was nervous about. I was standing in my bedroom packing up my latest etsy finds for an upcoming newborn session and looked outside my window. It was something that I had done hundreds of times, yet none were as impactful as this one. I looked out the window and smiled knowing that everything would be okay.
Yesterday we experienced some pretty impacting changes in local church leadership. I was experiencing those same feelings of bittersweet change. As I was looking through some images on my computer to prepare this upcoming week I found this image. I was reminded of the feelings that I had when I took this picture. It’s not the worlds most beautiful image. It’s shot through my blinds for goodness sake! But this image represents a sense of peace, calm and hope. Despite these changes which were very bittersweet everything will be okay. I know that things change sometimes because they are supposed to.
This morning I am grateful for the people who come in and out of my life leaving me a better person than before simply because I have known them. Thank you Scott & Kathy Wilcock!
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  • Sara Anderson - That is amazing and very powerful!ReplyCancel