custom silhouette necklace

Well I felt like Christmas sucked the life out of me. The holidays really are a lot harder with a baby. We'll see if I ever get motivated enough to take my Christmas decorations down. So that is why i haven't posted lately. My husband has been working late on the weekends, so I have been inspired to craft. Here is my new "favoritist" thing. I am so excited to wear it but I pretty much stay in my comfy clothes all day so I hardly have a chance to show it off. For Christmas I illustrated silhouettes of all of the grandchildren for my mom and family...it was a big hit. So then I wanted to think of more ways to use August's silhouette and this necklace was the first thing that came to mind.
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photographer branding: Jesica Allen

I did this photography branding a while back, but i am just getting around to posting it. This was a really fun project and jesica was great to work with. We did a package that included: logo with branding fonts, branding pattern, branding background, home page slide show template, blog post separator and watermark. We ended up designing the logo off of her beautiful signature.

twig mini caramel apples

So I was in the mood to make some kind of fall treat for a group of our friends. Where we live there are a couple of wild apple trees so I thought maybe mini caramel apples would be fun. No one can ever finishes a whole caramel apple anyway. I didn't have any sticks to put in the apples so when my husband was picking the apples I picked up a couple of apple branches from the ground and cut them into small sticks. I soaked and scrubbed the sticks to make sure they would be clean enough to use. I also cut the ends at an angle to make them sharp. Then in between naps and poopy diapers I managed to stick the apples, make the caramel and dip them. My favorite thing was that a lot of the apples still had there leaves on them.

owl lamp: before and after

Well i haven't quite finished the nursery so I thought I would post a couple of small details here and there until the nursery is done...
... So I got this lamp at a thrift store it was supposed to be $8 but it happened to be 50% off. Yes!!! I was so excited I grabbed it right when I saw it and kept it close by my side I was seriously worried someone might try to steel it. Then when i got to the counter they could not believe I wanted such a ugly thing. Even my husband thought i was crazy, but now I think it is beautiful. He still thinks it's "whatever".

my sweet baby boy

Well I haven't posted in a while because on August 21st our sweet baby boy August Michael Baker was born. It is hard to take my eyes off of him long enough to get anything done.

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prego photo shoot

You may remember Kristin Eldridge from a previous post. I did a branding package for her earlier this year. She recently came to visit and offered to do a maternity shoot with me and my husband Rich. We were so excited. She is so talented and it was really fun to get to see her work. Here are a couple of the photos. You can see more on her blog.

watermelon salad

So I have always wanted to make a watermelon salad so tonight I tested it out. Wow was it good. I decided to pair it with a grilled cheese with orange bell peppers. If you want to make this salad it is just watermelon, fresh mozzarella, fresh basil, sea salt, fresh ground pepper, and balsamic glaze from Fresh & Easy (if you don't have this you can reduce your own balsamic vinegar into a syrup). Got to love summer cooking.