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Easy Mousse

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Fork You, food, geeky, hobbies | No Comments »

Craftyangie and I have been helping out Scotty and Marisa create Fork You!, an online video cooking show, for well over a year now. And now, the latest show is up! Mmmm, quick and easy mousse... Just in time for ...

Wild Exaggerations

Sunday, February 10th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 2 Comments »

I hope that Scotty can one day forgive me for taking that photo... heh heh...

Glad I shoot Canon

Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in hobbies, photography | 3 Comments »

...That means I can get one of these puppies. Check out the price... and it's huuuuge! Too bad all you Nikon folks are out in the cold on this one! ;-) (Found this via kenrockwell.com)

You mean people used to print out -every- photo?

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in hobbies, photography | 3 Comments »

In my last post, I alluded to getting some photos I've taken printed out. And today, they arrived in the mail. Cool! I gotta say, I'm very happy with the results, especially for the price. There's one 4x6, seven 5x7 and ...

Recent photos

Sunday, January 27th, 2008 Posted in hobbies, photography | 1 Comment »

I haven't posted in a while... And you, our squirrely readers, deserve better! It's partly been a conscious decision on my part. I don't want this blog turning into a non-stop log of "OMG, I bought this great thing"... which ...

At the Train Show

Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in Model trains, geeky, hobbies | No Comments »

Saturday, we met Owen, Jess and Josh at the Allentown Train Meet Associates First Frost Train Meet. We to an ATMA event with Scottycakes (see his photos), but he couldn't go this time. Something about walking a friend's dog at ...

Learning wide-angle…

Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in hobbies, photography | 5 Comments »

We've had the Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens for about a week now so I thought I'd put some pics up I've taken while getting to know it. The bottom line is, it's living up to expectations! Even our 35mm lens ...

Wide-angle fun

Monday, November 5th, 2007 Posted in hobbies, photography | 1 Comment »

A couple of months have passed since I wrote about how I want an ultra-wide angle zoom lens for our Digital Rebel XTi camera. Since then I've seen a whole ton more neat photos on Flickr taken with the ...

We LOVE burgundy.

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 Posted in crafts, hobbies, paper crafts | No Comments »

So once we had a basic idea for the invitations (burgundy, square, with a ribbon accent that would prove to be useful and small cream-colored contrasting LOVE* embossed square) we started to play.

Inspirations

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 Posted in architecture, photography | 1 Comment »

I love architecture and great photos of architecture. The whole gamut, from the impression that an entire building or interior space makes, to the small details. When I was a kid and I took photographs, mom would ask "where are ...