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Monthly Archives: January 2011

vendor spotlight: MCP Actions

One of my favorite action sets to use is the Bag of Tricks from MCP Actions.  Being a food blogger, my images have to be very realistic and the food needs to look as close to real life as possible.  This action set lets me make some major impact in very little time.  Color casts…

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celebrating the four seasons.

There are four days I look forward to each and every year: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. To you those might sounds like seasons. But to me they represent a series of perfect evenings that only happen four times per year. See, three years ago my husband I were invited to join a Supper Club that…

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Becoming a Fit Mama

Last year, at 40, I decided it was the year I was going to get fit.  I wasn’t overweight, but I was “fluffy” or “skinny-fat” (whatever you might call it) — and I was determined I was going to change that.  In May 2010, a long-distance friend and I took pre photographs (below) and set…

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Hello Homeschool.

Homeschool Collage by Katie. Read her blog here. This week was open registration for kindergarten at my son’s preschool–and after much thought, prayer and deliberation, we didn’t enroll him. It marked the first official step toward homeschooling for our family. A few years ago I never imagined I would be a mom that would consider…

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DIY Neon Square Knot Bracelet

I was Christmas shopping–and I needed to spend somewhere near $1.50 more to get free shipping from J.Crew–so I threw one of these in my cart.  It cost me $4.00, which is about $3.96 more than it should cost.  But!  It’s neon, and it’s cute, and I got free shipping! I loved the bracelet, especially…

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