I made a font!
I made a font out of my own handwriting, and I love it! This is probably not very exciting to anyone else – I know. I’m easly amused. But I wasn’t planning to make my own font. I was just having trouble finding one for my new Cup Tea logo. None of my installed fonts
An Awakening
It’s been a pivotal time of my life. You know those ones. . .something happens – or a series of little somethings happen – to jostle your existential awareness and make you re-evaluate the bubble of a world that you’ve built for yourself. This time around, my series of little somethings has included the passing
Easy Win Double Chocolate Brownies
These are ‘Easy Win’ because they’re so easy to make, and they’re a bunch of crowd pleasers, I tell ya. They’re guaranteed to win you new friends… and maybe a few willpower-tired, diet-conscious enemies, too. (I’m sorry.) It’s all about moderation, though, right? That’s what I hear, anyway – I’m more of an ‘in-excess’ kinda
Playing with light
It’s a whole new year! What have I been up to? Moving back into our newly renovated house Delving into the hyper-productivity world of bullet and minimal-istic journaling Writing pictures. Recording stories. Capturing memories Cooking and baking and green smoothie making Planting my first ever (all by myself) edible garden Jasmine hot and iced tea
Renovation
Our house is under construction again… its first refurbishing in probably 30 years. It was definitely in need of some TLC. We had to pack up and vacate the house for the few weeks of renovation. Digging up and culling a decades’ worth of clutter was huge, sometimes painful, but eventually therapeutic work. My mom
Idle snaps
Hung out near a dairy today. Just chillin’… out in the Auckland cold… because. So much is going on in my world these days, it was nice to just take my camera out for a quiet, pensive stroll, with a good shutterbug friend I can always talk ‘snaps’ with. The other thing bringing peace to
Weekend (food) photographer
I’m only here today to shamelessly flaunt some of my favourite images from the last couple weeks. It’s like the best thing about creating content for Manaui – I get to pretend to be an actual photographer. It’s all been so very… educational for me: capturing motion, playing with light, composing with color, making yummy
Swinging jewels, stringing gemstones and black gold
Manaui.com is officially live now, yay! …along with the mad rush that is the publishing industry. “Content, content, content!” is my new, fabulous life. Next on the agenda is to figure out how to get paid for it. Whole ‘nother story for a whole ‘nother day. Right now, it’s all about telling great stories and
The Light Fantastic
What do you call the daughters of your cousins? More cousins? Nieces? Well, two of mine agreed to be my muses on my latest lens adventure. We had a few errands to run first, so we didn’t get to the photography part until the sun was a bit overbearing, which helped to tire us all
Wandering Totara
I learned this week: what really makes the image is light. AND… I’m gonna have to get a lot fitter to be a real photographer. Our stake’s Mormon Helping Hands joined forces with Friends of Totara last weekend to do lots of mulching and digging and spreading and clearing and cleaning at the park. I