Ever have one of those days?

I think I have a annoying, yet quirky but lovable kiddo. I'm sure that sounds like I'm some horrible mother. I only say this, because this morning has been interesting, yet like every other morning with the kiddo. His little quirks can be annoying, simple little things really. The main one being he's always picking up the dogs, mainly Ginger, then bringing her to me. She's off doing something or laying where she wants to and he disturbs her. Its the one thing that is majorly annoying. Minor yes, but still annoying. I am always telling him to leave the dogs alone. Just how many times does one need to remind a child, a 13 year old kiddo at that, to just leave the dogs alone. Let them do what they were doing. But as I said he's still lovable, just quirky...lol

So that was what has went on since I drug my sorry butt out of my nice warm bed. Vegging in bed with my laptop. I've been out of the bed long enough to start Pioneer Woman's Cinnamon rolls, just waiting until noon to get finished. I get all fired up about baking then I decide to make these cinnamon rolls and then realize its a long time b4 the final results...lol. But they are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO yummy! So well worth the time. Of course my husband isn't all that excited, or rather he's being impatient and wanting goodies now instead of later. But I just have no ambition to make anything else. Might change my mind who knows.

 We ended up with 51 cinnamon rolls and a batch of chocolate chip bars. So the hubs should be set for a couple days for snacks! Ate a yummy supper of steak and potatoes. I so LOVE putting my steaks in to the crock pot, they fall apart when done and are just so easy to eat. I'm sure some people think that's "cheating" that if you knew how to make a steak you wouldn't need to do it that way. But ya know what, I could care less about that opinion...lol. My family loves it this way so we go with what works for us.

I've went through 2 crock pots before this one, because it never fails the inserts end up cracked to where it will slowly leak out of the bottom. Frustrating, I always make sure to not add any liquids to it when its hot, because we all know hot and cold aren't going to mix well when it comes to ceramic. If there's any liquid to add I do it at the beginning. Course I haven't any idea what I'd do if some would need to be added later. Ah live and learn, and learning is what I'm still doing.



I haven't been part of a blog hop in awhile so since I moved my blog I figured I should jump back into some blog hops! So if you might have been following me before when my blog was at http://www.emilylindphotographymn.com/wordpress and still want to keep up with me please follow me again. I have no desire to change blogs again, I had this one to begin with and decided to just come back with it. So I went through the process of exporting all posts from my wordpress one. Walla here I am!

I'll leave you with a snapshot of summer, because I'm ready for it to be here, anything but winter. This Minnesota weather the past couple days has been rough!

Well I think I rambled enough, I hadn't intended to ramble on a blog hop but I was already writing the post so decided to add the 2 instead of making a seperate post.

Leave me a comment and I'll follow back! Thanks for stopping by.

Emma

Shadow Fun

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I have been waiting all week to post this, at first I was like there is no way anything interesting will come out of me photographing an egg. Only because I didn't have any fun props or anything. But I think I did pretty well with what I did have. Again it involves shadows, which I'm loving lately!

 I haven't joined in over here in awhile, well I hadn't blogged or anything in awhile. But with the other photo challenge I had so much fun playing with shadows and it seems to have become a slight addiction. Mainly because of the fact that its winter, cold and cloudy most of the time. So I love when the sun is out and just take it all in!
I didn't do anything fancy with the above photo. All are taken in B/W on camera, and very little editing. A little sharpening and contrast. Otherwise nothing else. I just set things Up on my island counter with the son streaming in my small kitchen window. It was a challenge with such a small area. But I loved what I came up with. They were all taken the same way, but I think the last one is my favorite one so that's the one I'm using.

{Life Made Lovely}

So I came across this lovely meme when I was reading

 

LOVE reading her stuff BTW. 

Now I don't have anything fancy or earth shattering to share. I don't even think I have any photos to share that haven't already been shared. *Gasp* the horror! 

Oh wait I can't remember if I shared these awhile back or not, if so forgive me :D I have been looking for some old camera's just to photograph, I was talking with my mom about it when we'd went to an Antique store she frequents. I started looking there when I find out mom had 2 old cameras and one was exactly what I was looking for. Go figure...lol.

Aren't they just great? I just smile every time I see them. I probably should give them back to mom but I just can't yet, I never know when I'm going to want to photograph them again!

Head on over to 

 and check out what others do to make their days more lovely!

{Virtual Coffee}

Good Morning! 

Here I am writing my virtual coffee a couple days late but I haven't participated in a few weeks so here I am.

I haven't had any coffee this morning because I woke up at about 3:30am with heartburn. Oh the joys of that! So here it is 6am and I'm still awake but at least the heartburn is gone!

Now you might wonder just why I haven't had coffee just because of heartburn, well for some *lovely* reason coffee either give me heartburn (at times that is) or just makes it worse when I already have it. So I'll be giving it a try in a bit.

If we were meeting for coffee I'd tell you that I really need to get back to blogging! I haven't really blogged since December sometime. I was doing so well with taking photos and participating in memes and challenges then nothing. So I've been slowly getting back into it. Boy have I missed it as well as my readers, as few as I might have :) 

If we were meeting for coffee I'd tell you when I woke up so early this morning, I was afraid to look at the temp, and I had a right to be -20 here this morning. The hubs just checked and its now -10 so its went up. The weather guys have pointed out that our lovely below zero weather is back here in Minnesota. Oh how I've missed that *eyeroll*

If we were meeting for coffee I'd tell you I've been having fun using my external flash that I haven't used much since getting it last year. So my pooches have been *tormented* as well as I've been enjoying photographing with shadows! Its been great, of course its extra nice when I'm just enjoying the sun since its hit or miss around here!

These are the ones I took recently of the babies. The first one is of Ginger and the other 2 are of her sister Molly

 I'm really loving Coffeeshop Rita's Velvet Truffle action! Gives that slight vintage feel!

I've had good intentions to get into exercising I have several Wii exercise games, if that's what you want to call them. But when I do get up early and everyone else is sleeping I'm usually enjoying the quiet and checking things out on the computer. I really should take some of that time and exercise. Of course when the hubs falls asleep on the sofa, well I'm not going to exercise then, I don't want anyone watching me exercise...lol.

Well I've talked your ear off and I better head on out, the hubs will be leaving for work soon {I hope} lol then maybe I'll get to that workout before the kiddo gets up. Hoping that if I workout I won't want to go take a nap!

Have a great day and thanks for the chat! 

See ya next week

Black and White Wednesday

With being stuck indoors or should I say, rather be indoors then out due to the snow and chilly weather, I've been having to figure out just what to photograph. So today I was working on a photo challenge that I'll post later this week, and ended up with a couple ideas in the process.

I've been really having fun with shadows, seems that not seeing the sun that often due to winter I keep taking advantage of shadows from it when its out...lol.

So since I've been doing more still lifes, oh wait that's generally all I do unless its nature and well there isn't anything out in nature that's really worth shooting these days. There's snow, snow and oh wait for it, more snow! Thankfully we haven't gotten as much as those south of us here in Minnesota but still. And of course they are calling for our below zero temps yet again. Brrr.

Seems as though I've been enjoying black and whites more than color as well. At least it fits in with the Black and White Wednesday photo challenge!

One word

One word project has pulled me in and made a separate blog for it. To check it out head on over to focus . Hope to see you stop on by, let me know if you join in or already have!

Saturday delight

I haven't taken any photos recently, this is the time of the year I don't like much, mainly because there's nothing to photograph. Snow, snow, and more snow.  I have yet to figure out how to take different photos snow wise. LOL But this is why I haven't blogged in who knows how long. I miss my readers!

I came across this challenge and am hoping its the one to *dig me outta* my rut and lack of motivation

Lines - Fork is the challenge

Boy let me tell you it took me forever to remember where the B/W setting was on my DSLR....LOL. But finally found it.  Wasn't too bad just had to tweak contrast and sharpen slightly.