Playing with Pictures Again

These are some fun effects!

Playing with Pictures

This picture thing is addicting, but I love it!

I'd like to quit my day job and mess around with this,

but I guess it's more important for us to have food and shelter.

The Girls

The girls were willing to cooperate with me and let me practice with my new lens. They're pretty darn cute when they want to be. I'm learning.... I took about 200 shots and got about 20 decent ones. Lighting is everything!

Here are a couple shots I took of my friend's baby. He's absolutely darling!

Sewing

Molly is going to be "Becky" in her class play Gold Dust or Bust. I've spent the last couple days sewing her dress. It's been years since I've sewn anything. It turned out pretty cute.

Good Thing I'm Working

It's a good thing that I work full time, because there would be a good chance that I might weigh 300 pounds or more if I stayed home and cooked all the things I wanted to every day. I have become addicted, perhaps even obsessed with "The Pioneer Woman," her blog, cookbook and her high calorie, delicious, to die for recipes. So the other evening I'm watching a segment on Fox and Friends that "The Pioneer Woman" appeared on making her Cinnamon Rolls. I was instantly inspired and headed to the kitchen where I began to whip up a batch. I didn't look too closely at all the details of the recipe to notice that this was a gigantic recipe (guess I should have been clued in when I put 9 cups of flower into the mix.) One batch makes 7 pie tins of these gooey, sweet, yummy Cinnamon Rolls. 5 of the 7 pans went to school to the teachers and they immediately blamed me for their weight gain and for going off their diet. Like I said it's a good thing I don't have time to bake daily!

On the menu for today..... complements of "The Pioneer Woman"..... Meatballs (she describes them as mini meatloaf packed with flavor), Macaroni and Cheese and Pound Cake. Looks like I'll be baking all afternoon, the perfect scenario for a snowy Saturday.

Check out The Pioneer Woman's blog at this link.

Snow Fun

Shari & Molly made their first ever "Snow Dog."

They did a really good job. This is the kind of dog we should all have.

Digital Scrapbooking

I'm learning "Digital Scrapbooking."

Here are a couple of my first attempts.

It's really pretty fun and I have to admit ... addicting.

There's laundry still to be folded a bathroom to be cleaned, but it's all good because I've learned something new and we're in the "Memory Making Business" aren't we?

The girls dressed up and had their own little tea party.