Final week of Food+Foto. I'm very sorry to see it end. It has truly been a "get out of your box" experience, of which I am very thankful. The amount of available subjects for my office food fotos were never ending this week but I chose the glittering cupcakes. Very tasty. And... MERRY CHRISTMAS Continue reading

Our bank sent us this beautiful box full of mint chocolate covered chocolate cookies. Watch out Girl Scouts. Which, by the way, I ordered last week. 4 boxes of mints and 4 boxes of the one I can never remember the name of but they have coconut and carmel. They come in January, just in time to ruin any diet New Years resolution. Continue reading

I submitted 3 photos this week all from a lunch I put together for 40 people. The occasion was what I like to call "Decking the Halls". The church was truly transformed in just hours. Boy were they hungry! Here's the salad that caused the soup to boil over (see next photo). It's a recipe from "Rich and Charlie's", a restaurant in St. Louis. I'm not sure if it's still there. I started using this recipe in 1976 and a note on the back of my recipe card said that it cost $6.74 to make. I can't even buy the... Continue reading

Lunch at work. Left over pizza and an apple - always. When I decided to use office food as my topic I was thinking of all the goodies around Christmas. Hopefully that starts this week but before Thanksgiving, there just isn't a lot of good subjects around. Not that Greek pizza isn't good but a bit hard to photograph and still look tasty. Continue reading

I entered 3 photos this week. I know this looks a lot like last week's picture; chocolate, alone, delicious. At least I remembered to eat this one. These delectable treats are like a brownie in cookie form and are from a restaurant in Prairie Village called C. Jacks. We buy the dough and bake them fresh for our 5 O'Clock church service. Sometime, like this week, we found some in the work room on Monday morning. What a joy! Well, some days there just isn't a lot to be had. Maybe it was the presentation that made them look so... Continue reading

While blog surfing the other day, I came upon an interesting Flickr group and join up. It's called Souvenir Foto School - the food challenge. We had to come up with our own food+foto project idea. A lot of people in the group had a lot of great ideas. Just when I didn't think I was going to come up with something in time, an idea pop into my head. Where is there always food to take a picture of? The workroom at work of course. It's a church and people are always bring in the best stuff or we... Continue reading

Sorry it's been so long but it takes longer to settle in than one might think. It's different but nice. Drive time to work is the best, 6-8 minutes instead of 25-30! Got to love it. Here's a few pictures of the new place. Same stuff - new place. LIVING ROOM - This is a two story town home with the bedrooms upstairs and the living and kitchen down. Because the living room is vaulted, it seems like one big space. LIVING ROOM - another view MY BEDROOM GUEST BEDROOM - come for a visit! Really SEWING ROOM - not... Continue reading

The truck, family and friends come a week from today to help with the big move. Here a few pictures from the house I've called home for the past 7 years. LIVING ROOM - Saying good bye to the piano too. I have a week to find it a good home. DINING ROOM FAMILY ROOM - DINING ROOM AND A SNIP OF THE KITCHEN IN THE BACK. BEDROOM GUEST ROOM DECK AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST - THE LIVING AREA OF THE BASEMENT Well, that's it from this home. I'm about to pack the iMac away and will share pictures... Continue reading

First I said goodbye to Tavianna, Andrew, Nicholas, Peter, George and Annika. Then I got ready to put the house on the market. It went on the market Monday, sold on Thursday! Now I have to find a place to live. Fun! Painting the bedroom. It's been 6 years. But needs to be done if I was going to sell the house A final trip to the Plaza including Barnes and Noble. Then we had a little fun at the Nelson Art Museum. And off they went on their adventure to the west coast. Then it was time for my... Continue reading

Here are the answers for all of you who were stumped. Day 99 Day 100 - WOW!100 pictures of my life. Day 101 Day 102 Day 103 Day 104 Day 105 Well, that's it. How many did you guess correctly? We'll do it again soon. Continue reading

Here are the answers for all of you who were stumped. Day 99 Day 100 - WOW!100 pictures of my life. Day 101 Day 102 Day 103 Day 104 Day 105 Well, that's it. How many did you guess correctly? We'll do it again soon. Continue reading

Here's a little photo fun. I've always loved the puzzles where you see a close-up of something and try and guess what it is. I thought I'd give it a try. Photos this week, answers next week. See how many you can guess. Day 92 Day 93 Day 94 Day 95 Day 96 Day 97 Day 98 Kind of annoyed that the focus isn't better, but we'll try again soon. Anyone want to take a guess? Continue reading

Day 85 - Spring has definitely sprung! Day 86 - I love to force forsythia branches. It only takes a few days and a little warm water. Day 87 - A birthday present from the Orlando's. It reminded Tavianna of one my mother has had for a long time. Day 88 - Here's the original, the terra-cotta lamp I mean. Mom too. She's one of a kind. Very kind. (Don't tell anyone, but she's 91!) Day 89 - 2010 Shop Hop Quilt It was fun to get to work with all the Harper Girls for a couple of days. Day... Continue reading

Amaryllis... Day 78 Day 79 Day 80 Day 81 Day 82 Day 83 Day 84 Ta Da! Continue reading

Day 71 - George, Annika, Birthday Boy Nicholas, Peter Day 72 - We're making music now! Day 73 - AM or PM, I see both. Day 74 - All gone, but wait - there's going to be another. Day 75 - Getting a bit bored with the treadmill. Day 76 - Happy St. Patrick's Day Day 77 - Happy Birthday Samuel Continue reading

I didn't take too many pictures this week because I threw my back out on Saturday and just breathing was hard. So, I thought I would share some more pictures from Chicago and from when the girls were little and I was young. Day 64 - The real us. I think Philip's a bit stunned but he'll get used to it. Day 65 - Silly Samuel, serious Lucian. Day 66 - What a difference a week will make. So maybe I do take pictures out of airplanes often. I took it to show Robin that all the worlds a quilt.... Continue reading

A week in Chicago. Day 57 - Favorite place to shop when visiting Chicago. Day 58 - One should never, never go to IKEA when you're flying home. Next time I'm bringing an extra suitcase. Still a lot of fun. I wonder if we will ever get one in KC. Day 59 - Look what Hannah's is growing. This actually bloomed on her birthday. (See below) Day 60 - Philip, 6 months old and cute as a button. Day 61 - Lucian (I think I might be hugging him too much), Allegra, me, Philip, Samuel. Day 62 - What a... Continue reading

It's been awhile, but I'm still here. Day 50 - Flowers .58 each, Vase 1.68, Priceless. Day 51 - Saturday night is "new recipe" night taken from Real Simple Magazine. This one was great except the greens. Had to pick them all out, piece by piece, in order to be able to eat the left overs. Day 52 - One more snow, this one was kind of icy. Day 53 - It's blooming! I love doing this every year. Day 54 - The ice was on the trees for days. Amazingly beautiful, especially as the sun was coming up. Day... Continue reading

Well, I thought I was all caught up until I realized that I missed Day 39. So here it is. Day 39 - It's been since Day 11 since I've shown how the Amaryllis is growing. Getting there. Now for Week 7. Day 43 - What a find. White lanterns at Pier 1, red ones from World market. Almost ready for Chinese New Year. Day 44 - Here's my grandkids in Chicago. Philp, Allegra, Lucian, and Samuel. Get to see them next week. Day 45 - HAPPY NEW YEAR! We had a great party. But did we have Chinese food... Continue reading

Can you believe it? This is it, I'm all caught up! Let's hope I don't have to play catch-up again. My plan is to post on Fridays. Day 36 - Just an inch but enough to cover all the yucky, dirty snow piled up. The trees are absolutely beautiful. Day 37 - So long little blue phone, who's numbers were so hard to see. I didn't really like this phone much except it took amazing pictures. Day 38 - The cello. Pretty quiet these days. Day 40 - This little guy found a place to perch. Day 41 - I... Continue reading

Two post in one day! Will wonders never cease. Day 29 - Do these ever die? Day 30 - This is soooo Nicholas. Day 31 - I love these lights. I had evergreen branches (fake) with them at Christmas and just couldn't bear to put them away, so I found some bamboo sticks to put with them for the winter. Who knows what I'll put with them in the spring. Day 32 - This is a quilt square. (A quilt block stretched over a thick canvas). Made by my friend Robin. Someday I'm going to have time to make one... Continue reading

Still catching up. Day 22 - A fun, new (to me) website, called wordle.net, produces these fun papers. Day 23 - A bike for Peter's 8th birthday. Now if the weather would just warm up. It's so hard to have a birthday in January when you're an outside kind of kid. Day 24 - Here's the e-mail from my sign up day. Day 25 - All my pictures are taken on this amazing camera. The best auto mode ever. Day 26 - So you might notice that I'm an odometer fanatic. You'll probably see more this year. Day 27 -... Continue reading