One of my images has been chosen among the favorites at the Milwaukee Art Museum! Honored to be among these beautiful images.
"The Milwaukee Art Museum invited visitors to submit their personal photographs of the Calatrava-designed Museum addition, demonstrating how significantly the building has brought a sense of pride in, as well as international attention, to Milwaukee. These are some of our favorite images."
Oh my gosh I have found marshmallow heaven. No, really. I have! Picked up salted caramel marshmallows at the one of a kind show from Katherine Anne Confections, a local chocolatier. She makes supberb chocolates - they are even at many of the local Whole Foods - but her caramels are to die for! Combine that with a marshmallow ... get out!!! They are the perfect combination of sweet and salt and literally melt in your mouth. Go order some now!! I promise you will not regret it. Oh and the pepppermit marshmallows are delish too! And while you're at it, try the rosemary sea salt or orange cinnamon caramels too... Oh I cannot say enough good things about Katherine Anne caramels!!!
These are my kids ... Lucy simply loves laying in the lit garland, likely because it's warm. And Phoebe, she loves sleeping under the down throw and emerges now and then to check out the scene. What funny kitties I have. I really don't know what I would do without a pet in my life...
We went to the Chicago One of a Kind show this past weekend and she REALLY wanted this four leaf clover pin ... she had enough money, but I thought it was make a great little Christmas gift for her. So I gave her a crisp twenty dollar bill so that she could purchase the pin. She was all grins from ear to ear. Oh how it's the little things...
30 days of gratitude :: Day 14 :: movement ... My flight was delayed so I had plenty of time to watch people pass by.
30 days of gratitude :: Day 13 :: written words ... Unlucky thirteen that is! These words are for my grandmother's recipe for a parker house type of roll she's made my entire life - heck probably hers too! She used to bake a pan full and overnight them to me - oh how I loved receiving that package!! All of my friends and coworkers know about grandma's rolls and give me a hard time because no matter how I try I simply CANNOT make them! I suck, suck, suck at making any type of yeast based anything and it frustrates me to no end!!
This is how I spent my black friday funds ... I will admit, I am wicked lazy at creating my own workflows in Photoshop and Lightroom. So I love it when I find some really great actions and presets ... I do feel like some of the looks I see out there are too "processed." But I have learned that pos-processing is kind of key to getting an image that really pops. I cannot remember how I stumbled upon Rad Lab, but they have some really fun stuff ... especially the Photoshop actions. Looking forward to getting out and shooting so that I can have some images to play with!!
30 days of gratitude :: Day 5 :: Morning Sky ... Got up a little early to be able to pop over to the beach for a little sunrise splendor and failed to get out of the house early enough for actual sunrise, oh well. Only an hour later and this was the beautiful scene ... I'll take it! I so underutilize the fact that live within blocks of this beautiful shoreline... I say that every time I go, but even when the wind is blowing like crazy and it's bitter cold, it's so peaceful and serene.
