Little Burro {5/52 M3B}

We had a fabulous couples bridal shower for my wonderful sister-in-law and her fiancee a couple of weekends ago. We had a blast! We ate, visited and played a newlywed game with the bride and groom to be, the groom's parents and the bride's grandparents as the contestants. We laughed so hard!  Since it was at a Mexican restaurant, my other sister-in-law decided to go with the most adorable and fun traditional Mexican decorations and themes.  We had awesome, huge margarita flavored cupcakes served in margarita glasses.  Lime garnish and straw included!  Our table decorations were streamers and miniature pinatas.  There were stars with streamers on the points as well as the best little miniature burros!  They were so cute!  I wanted to keep a set just for the heck of it!  I took this shot of one of our pinata pals sitting on the table waiting for the festivities to begin.  He's my picture for this week.  I love how the colors are so vivid and bright!

Rachel & Ava {4/52 M3B}

A couple of weekends ago I had the privilege to help Rachel and Will watch their little girl, Ava.  She's adorable.  They are moving into a new house and weren't going to be able to get much done while having to watch her also.  After the work was done we hung out in the backyard for a while and I caught this pic of the two of them.  Rachel is an actress and always gives good face in a photo, who would have thought that it's genetic and Ava is just as awesome?  I think they're great, but I'm not sure I like the editing of it.  The sun was escaping from us and I had the ISO bumped way up to be able to get the shot.  There was a lot of graininess to the pic because of it.  I tried to get as much out as I could, but it still bugs me a bit.

Elvis Cake! {2/52 M3B}

~Disclaimer: I am exceedingly late in posting this, and for that, I apologize.~

I attended a shower for my lovely sister-in-law the weekend of January 15th. It was at the home of one of our co-workers. The atmosphere at her home is lovely and it is always comfortable to be there. She and her husband are both from Louisiana. She was kind enough to teach me how she makes homemade gumbo a few months back!

Anyway- back to the shower. All who attended were charmed. The food spread was abundant and all so yummy. The highlight for me was the bowl of cut frozen fruit. Yummy!

The star of the show, however and week #2's picture is of the cake that was served. The bakery that it was purchased at is owned by a friend of the hostesses. The baker's husband is a huge Elvis Presley fan. So she set out to create a cake that incorporated many of Elvis' stereotypical 'favorite' foods. It is a chocolate cake with a banana pudding filling covered with a peanut butter buttercream frosting and topped off with caramelized bacon. It is quite the concoction! Enjoy!

Project 52 #2 M3B

As I mentioned previously, I am doing two different Project 52 groups. This is the second, un-themed P52. This is the one through http://www.my3boybarians.com/. I really think this one will be easier and not as much of a challenge, only in that it is wide open for subject matter. It is much easier to take photos of whatever you want as opposed to having to fall into a certain parameter. Here is my photo for the week. I posted it on the group Flickr page last week and am late getting it on here. I'm already scoping out shots for this week's submission. Still haven't decided what the weekly pic will be. I like the surprise of finding out what you like best about the stuff you have been taking pics of.

The following photo is also one I took with my iPhone, as I hadn't (once again) started seriously thinking about the project and didn't have the SLR in hand. I took this on the road the other day when it was drizzly and gray. I edited the pic with the Instagram app which is pretty cool. It's like a twitter for only photos. I'm really starting to enjoy it.

Back on the Horse

Okay- so I have neglected (sorely!) this blog. I created it with good intentions and never followed up on it (funny how that always seems to happen to me). For over a year it has sat here pining away for me. Well guess what, girlie! I'm back. I'm going to be visiting more often. I'm going to post stuff here regularly (God willing)!

My newfound inspiration also comes from the fact that I have joined up with a Project 52 for the year. Two of them, actually. The point of a project 52 is to take photos every week and post one for public sharing once a week. The pictures are all to be posted on Flickr and then shared with the groups there for public viewing. My personal Flickr page is here: http://flickr.com/photos/odam/

The first group I've joined up with is the P52 group headed up by Darcy of http://www.my3boybarians.com/. Her posting group is here: www.flickr.com/groups/m3bp52
go check out all the pics. There are already some awesome things.

The other group is through MCP Actions. http://www.mcpactions.com/ This group has a themed weekly challenge. I have a feeling this one will be a bit harder for me to keep up with.
The creative juices don't always follow the theme. The posting group for this one is here: www.flickr.com/groups/mcp-project52.

I'm going to try to post my pics weekly on here as well. Please let me know what you think of them! I appreciate the feedback. It does good things for my self-esteem.