Project 52: Week 45

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Golden leaves in our front yard.

Project 52: Week 42

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Daniel was having fun playing space ship with the laundry baskets in the living room. I don't have to many portraits of him, so when I saw that the lighting was perfect, I took a few quick shots. I love how this one turned out.

Project 52: Week 39

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Fall is here. It's getting colder outside and the leaves are beginning to change from green to bright shades yellow, red, and orange. 

Project 52: Week 38

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Aren't these candy corn cookies cute? When I ran across the recipe, I knew I wanted to make them this fall. I used whole wheat flour, like I usually do, so the colors aren't as bright, but more natural looking. I think they actually look quite nice that way. They're really easy to make, so I'll most likely be baking some more soon. The recipe can be found at Land O'Lakes.

Project 52: Week 33 & 34

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It's fun photographing little details and things that most people wouldn't give a second thought too. I liked the rust on this chain link fence, along with the golden light from the sunset, and thought it would make a fun photo.

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Yesterday morning I went out with my friend Renee to take her senior portraits. Here's a little preview of the shoot:

Project 52: Week 32

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Monday we visited the beach with another family. It's one of the best beaches around for finding crabs. My younger brother Daniel and Laura, one of the girls from the other family, spent most of the afternoon searching for the little creatures underneath the rocks. They found a couple dozen small crabs, but also found this larger one as well.

Project 52: Week 31

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This is our next door neighbors new cat, who's name I have difficulty remember because it's Russian. He's really cute and lots of fun to play with. Our cats have been getting along with him quite well, which is good too.

Today Photoshop CS5 arrived in the mail! Oh yeah! I've been spending the afternoon getting familiar and having lots of fun with it.

Project 52: Week 30

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Thursday evening Daniel and I played a game of Scrabble on the back deck.

Project 52: Week 28

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Hiking along the river on the way to see a waterfall. More photos to come!

Project 52: Week 25

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These little clovers are growing in the mint type plan in our backyard.

Project 52: Week 24

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Last week my family and I went to visit with family in Oregon. We had a fantastic time and it was great to have a little vacation of sorts. We stopped by Peter Skene Ogden State Park and saw the canyon there. The sky was so blue, the mountains filled with snow, and the moon and a few wispy clouds were found in the sky.

Project 52: Week 22 & 23

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This flower is so pretty!

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After driving up the windy road to the top of the hill, we got to see this beautiful view of the Colombia River.

Project 52: Week 21

This week I baked toaster pastries from scratch for the first time. I followed the recipe from Smitten Kitchen, but made them with whole wheat flour. The cinnamon filling was really tasty and want to try filling them with raspberry or strawberry jelly next time. 

Project 52: Week 14 & Week 15

I forgot to post my Project 52 photo last week, so today you'll get both last weeks and this weeks photo. They both happen to be tulips...

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The tulips in our front yard have started to bloom.

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Yesterday we visited the tulip fields. I'll have lots of photos from our visit up next week.

Project 52: Week 14

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Project 52: Week 11

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Spring is on it's way!

Project 52: Week 9

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Sometimes taking self-portraits is lots of fun, while other times it can be quite frustrating, when you can't seem to get the look your going for. On a whim I decided to take some portraits of myself this morning, so I put my hair up in new favorite up-do (thanks to Casey's tutorial) and headed to the living room, the best lit spot in the house. I ended up with quite a few keepers that I'm quite fond of. The two below are my very favorites.

Project 52: Week 5

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While at the craft store the other day, I found these cute little bird figurines. They were only a couple dollars, so I bought two of them. All the bright and cheerful colors in this shot make me wish it was spring.

(linking up at Simple Days)

Project 52: Week 4

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I've always thought it would be fun to take pictures of Scrabble tiles, so I did today.

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Linking up to:

Simple Days

Project 52: Week 3

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I was trying some new red lipstick to see how it looked, and decided to get dressed up a bit, and take some self-portraits. Since I was going for a 1940's look, I did an old black and white edit.

(Linking up at Simple Days)