Project 2012 -- Week 34

Project 2012 -- Week 34

August 19-25

Welcome to my Project 2012 weekly post!  This is my time for looking back over the past week, choosing my seven favorites images, and sharing them here with you.  If you have a project you're working on, please leave a comment so I can visit your blog and see what you're up to!

Last week began with veggies and ended with veggies.  I'd say that's a good week of summer!  Below is the product of two different days of canning:

[232] Canning day

I saw this idea on Pinterest, and decided to try it.  I layered salads into canning jars, minus the dressing on the bottom.  Each day at lunchtime, all I had to do was dump one jar out onto a plate and top with tomatoes (I like to cut them fresh) and dressing.  I didn't fill these quart-sized jars, but trust me, once I dumped one out onto a plate I realized I had a huge salad for lunch.  My layers:  carrots, red peppers, purple onion, chopped lettuce, cucumber, green olives, cubed mozzarella cheese.  They were delicious with my homemade balsamic vinaigrette dressing.

[233] Salad days

After another tomato harvest, I had some fun with my macro lens and caught the below once my eyes spotted the reflection.

[234] Tomato reflection

Danny, my science-minded son, called me to grab my camera right before Friday Frisbee.  He had filled his water bottle to the top, without spilling over, and filled it a bit too much.  Science concept at work:  cohesion of water.  :)

[235] Filled to the brim

At the Friday Frisbee game, Emily brought her three children.  Sammy, #2 son, decided to tackle his little sister, who's only two years old.  I think she's used to roughhousing with her two older brothers, because she took this tackle in stride.

[236] Tackle!

Thomas threw the Frisbee to me.  :)

[237] Catch, Mom!

Last photo of the week--more veggies!  I spotted a recipe over on Proud Italian Cook, and tried to duplicate it.  I had cut the palm of my hand with the knife, however, and forming veggie patties with my hand stung.  So I dumped the veggie mix into a stoneware pan and baked it.  It turned into my own version of a recipe, which I'll post on my family blog soon.  Promise.

[238] Eggplant veggie frittata

Thus ends another week of summer photos.  We're starting to get into the full swing of school, since my two college students are already in full-school mode.  Thomas is taking chemistry!  So I'll probably have some awesome photos of him doing incredible things with chemicals.  Let's hope he doesn't blow anything up.  :)


Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

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365 Project -- #344-350

This is the time in my week when I look back at the images I've captured

throughout the previous week, and choose my seven favorites.

These seven--one for each day of the week--are featured below.

December 10 - December 16

I'm happy to say that this week's photos are varied, with both people and decorations.  But they all bring to my mind family and friends and the Christmas season.

As a courtesy (and because I love to), I shot a Ladies and Daughters Christmas Tea.  The table was beautifully set, and the ladies added to the decorations by bringing their favorite tea cups.  Here are three of the many images from that wonderful afternoon.

[344] Christmas gold

[345] Christmas tea party

[346] Gem

Next came a photo session with a couple who have a rather significant anniversary coming up!  The photo session came about after I searched through my whole year's worth of images, and couldn't find a suitable one which my parents could use to include with their Christmas cards.  We set up the shoot right in front of their family room fireplace--perfect.  They are a beautiful couple in every way.

[347] Hearth and home

I went to Costco on a stock-up run, and bought some cream cheese for some Christmas treats I wanted to make.  I bought what I thought was the equivalent of three 8-ounce packages.  What I actually bought was three pounds.  What to do with all that cream cheese??  Make muffins, of course!  I Googled a recipe, read through several, and found one that used ingredients I had on hand.  I modified the recipe a bit, added blueberries to one half of the batter and raspberries to the other, and after breakfast was over (and nothing remained), I tucked the recipe into my personal recipe binder.  It was definitely a keeper!

[348] Muffins for breakfast

My mom came down one morning, and the two of us spent mother-daughter time preparing part of our Italian Christmas dinner.  We had to fry pans going, both making the pancake noodles, while Joe grated mozzarella and fresh Parmesan cheeses.  I helped him get the rest of the filling together, and then I took pictures while the Master Chef--as I refer to her--put the individual manicotti together.  As usual, it will be a genuine, from-scratch Italian Christmas!

[349] Manicotti day

Finally, I spent a few minutes taking macro shots of my simple Christmas decorations.  I don't do much; I'm too practical to store a ton of stuff and spend the time putting it up and taking it down.  We have a tree and a manger, and I hang a few strands of garland.  And this year, I took some of the discards from our live tree, and used those boughs along our fireplace mantel.  My mom gave me some crochet snowflakes, and I scattered them throughout the boughs.  Pretty!

[350] Snowflake in spruce

I love snowflakes!  When I browsed the images of my decorations, I realized I had taken photos of snowflakes everywhere.  I collect them for our Christmas tree, and my dearie lets me splurge each year and purchase a new one or two snowflake (or snowflake-themed) ornaments for the tree.  I think I'll do a snowflake-themed post soon!


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Christine

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365 Project -- #302-308

This is the time in my week when I look back at the images I've captured

throughout the previous week, and choose my seven favorites.

These seven--one for each day of the week--are featured below.

October 29 - November 4

A couple of lost images.  Yummy food.  A tea party.  A Bible and some music.  And a teenager with a driver's license.  My images from last week run the gamut!

I discovered these two "lost" images when I was going through my Lightroom "October" album.  The honeybee shots turned out great, and this one below is my favorite.

[302] Honeybee on dandelion

The sun turned the leaves on this tree to gold.  It was really cool framed in my window.

 [303] Through an autumn window

For a family get-together, we decided on "Breakfast at Dinner."  My sister-in-law Charlotte made the below, which were the hit of the evening.

 [304] Maple-brown butter glazed waffles

I took the below for a past and future client; I shot their Mother/Daughter Encouragement Weekend this past year, and I get to fly out to Georgia next February to shoot next year's event!  (I'm so very excited about it.)  They needed some teacup images to promote next year's mother/daughter event, and I was happy to oblige them.  I love tea.  :)

 [305] Rose teacup

My "son" Caleb was thumbing through Proverbs, and I got this shot.  (I called him "son" one day, and he started calling me "Mom."  Kinda nice.)

 [306] Proverbs

And one potential client!  This talented young man is looking forward to a career in music.  I had fun taking these images and experimenting with the light (which was very dim, yuck).  Hopefully the images I captured will give him a good idea of what I can offer.  Although I must say--I can't wait to hold a session with him (and the rest of his musical group) outdoors in good light!

 [307] Sing your heart out

Another one leaves the nest...in our Suburban.  Danny got his driver's license, and two hours later he drove off to class.  I can't tell you how freeing it is, even after just a few days, that I don't have to drive him to college classes any more.  I get to be home and spend more time with Thomas and Joseph.  I am thrilled to be a full-time at-home mom again!

[308] Another one drives away

And so ends my week of images.  Hope you captured some fine memories, too!


Capturing the moments of life.

Christine

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365 Project -- #239-245

This is the time in my week when I look back at the images I've captured

the week before, and choose my seven favorites.

These seven--one for each day of the week--are featured below.

Enjoy!!

Last week was nice and varied, photographically speaking.  I try to take Ellie with me when I can (and when it's appropriate) so I can document everyday life.  Aaand...here's the next snippet of everyday life!

I've hinted to my husband that it would be nice to go to a farmers market on a Saturday, just for fun.  Our local market is Thursday afternoons (yuck for several reasons), and I wanted to see a "real" market, with lots of booths and vendors of all sorts, and have a date all at the same time.  Fernando took me to the Wheaton French Market, and I got my wish, plus lots of people and a dizzying array of products offered.  Yes, we spent money.  But not a lot.  :)

[239] August 27 -- Farmers Market

I had the privilege of shooting Tressey and her family just a little bit ago (post to appear soon), and I had the extra-special privilege of shooting Tressey's surprise birthday party last week.  Her husband hit a grand-slam with this party, hosted at a roller rink!  (That's roller skating, and yes--I had a pair on!)

[240] August 28 -- Surprise!

[241] August 29 -- Hand in hand

Yeah, it was a night of just hangin' around with nothin' to do except take pictures...

[242] August 30 -- Hangin' around

Ingredients lined up on the counter makes it so much easier to make things.  This evening it was Caesar salad dressing.  Yum.

[243] August 31 -- Making salad dressing

One of my sewing projects with which I occupy my time while waiting for Danny to get out of college class.  (I accompany him since he still has his learner's permit, long story...)

[244] September 1 -- Sewing project

My friend Lori was picking veggies in her "rented" garden space in my back yard, and she spotted this guy.  He was HUGE, hence the all-caps.  He would turn his head and look right at us; amazing!

[245] September 2 -- Pepper plant surprise

And so went my week.  I hope to be on the ball enough to get more posts up; I have a few from portrait sessions and events to get up.  I sure hope you have a blessed week after Labor Day!


Capturing the moments of life.

Christine

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