Daydreaming of...the sea

Alongside the Ferry taken by TJ

beach path by maryvican

that's me on Chappaquiddick

some far away beach by irenesuchocki

Vineyard Haven by me

Lighthouse at Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard
by Bright Bridge Photo's

Martha's Vineyard taken by me

Did you know about this?

Cause I didn't! But now that I do I am having a ton of fun playing with it. Oh, you want to know what it is? It's BigHugeLabs, a photo editing and flickr toy site. Check it out!

I made these and got that cute little flickr widget in my right margin from the website for free of course. No, I'm not advertising for them, I just thought it was fun and I had to share with you.

You can do so many neat things with your photos. This is just all I had time for. You should take a peak if you have a moment.

Sorry for the ad-like post!

 

Sneak Preview

As previously mentioned, I have been working on a new and important (to me) project, well trying to work on one anyway (see this post). This project has been in the works for quite a while now. It was something I wanted to start a long ago but didn't have the time to do, I still don't have the time but the desire trumped the time issue and I went for it.


After lots of research and saving the money to get started, I purchased the supplies to make my new products. Since this was a new and fresh start, I thought why not open a new shop too. It has been slow going with only being able to work while Rory is napping, but I am getting there. I forgot how much time it really takes to not only make the products but take the pictures, list them on etsy and create all of the little things like banners, avatars, business cards, packaging materials, etc. I do hope to have the shop open and fully stocked in the next week or two and that is when I will really launch it.


Until then, I will leave you with this, once announced there will be a special offer to my readers and I hope that will you help me to celebrate this exciting new venture.

Yummmmm!

I was having a craving for something a little sweet and naughty last night and since I promised TJ that I would cut back on my rather expensive chocolate addiction (3+ visits to the chocolate shop a week and I'm not talking Hershey's here. Take a peak, but be careful, you might become just as addicted), I decided to try my hand at baking my own lemon poppy seed muffins.

Now, I am not a baker, I can cook a mean meal but I just can't bake. I know, it shouldn't be that hard but for some reason I can't get it. I know, you are thinking what kind of stay at home mom can't make brownies? I'm supposed to be a June Cleaver or Donna Reed but that's just not me. I got lucky though, TJ is a great baker, in fact he is a great cook too! So he makes the brownies and I truly appreciate his baking skills for we would never have a decent dessert around here otherwise.

Back to my sweet treat, Lemon Poppyseed Muffins! I have to say they came out quite yummy and they look yummy too! Don't you think?

So I had one when they just came out of the oven, the best time to eat anything baked is when it is fresh out of the over and warm. Okay, I lied I had two.

I had another for breakfast!

And another for snack!

And another for another snack!

And now I feel really guilty cause that baby weight isn't gonna go anywhere if I keep eating these things.

I know you are wondering how I have time to take care of my baby, keep up this blog, work on my shop, clean the house and bake muffins. I must be some kind of supermom. Well, though i wish i could hold that title I can't cause my muffins came from a box. But I made them with one hand while holding my daughter in the other cause she would freak everytime I put her down (don't worry, I put her down whenever I had to open the oven. Safety first!) so that should get me some sort of supermom title...but maybe not.

Five Things

5 things you probably didn't know about me:

that's me, taken from a family photo
1. My toe nails are blue,
2. I make sweet potato fries almost everyday (baked so they are still kind of healthy),
3. My daughter usually only has one sock on at a time as there is always one missing,
4. I hate house work,
5. I am addicted to hot chocolate.