By Lisa Gutierrez on 04/11/2010 I always want seconds. That’s how I remember how to spell the word. It’s true, though. Ask my gut.
If you’re friends with me on Flickr, you probably saw this photo, last week.
#4 on my 25 before 26 list was to try a new cupcake recipe each month. I JUST made the deadline, as it was already the last day of March. I made banana cupcakes. This isn’t the first time I’ve made these, but it is the first time I’ve shared a photo of them, so I’ll count it off my list.
I’m not too big on frosting, so these were naked. The recipe (in 500 cupcakes, which was gifted to me by my awesome mother-in-law on Christmas) called for a cream cheese frosting. I think the reason I don’t usually frost my cupcakes (MUFFINS?!) is that I suck at making frosting. Maybe I should practice, this year. Perhaps by my next birthday, I’ll be able to successfully ice an entirely from-scratch cake.
Check out all the desserts entries at I ♥ Faces, this week. They will make you crave something sweet, even though it’s almost midnight, you’ve just brushed your teeth, and are all ready for bed. Perhaps that cheesecake in my fridge really did call my name, as I was walking down the hall. Perhaps…
By Lisa Gutierrez on 04/10/2010 First things first. If you have a button that you would like to put in my sidebar, please tell me in the comments! I have decided to post little buttons in my sidebar to my blog friends. I put up the code to two different ones that link here/my shop. Feel free to snag one, if you’d like! Also, if you’re viewing this in a reader, come check out the blog! I put up a new header.
Now that blog business is out of the way, let’s talk about these other types of buttons:
button bokeh. It’s awesome, no? That was probably one of my favorite buttons in a jar I bought at an antique store, a few weekends ago. Andrew helped me sort them (and taste them! yum!) and I ended up with a nice amount of lovely white and ivory colored buttons. I have found myself heading to that jar before my others. They’re just so….charming. Know what I mean?
Here’s a shot I took of my small to medium jar-
I shot it through my Duaflex. I’m now totally caught up on my TtV project (and my self-portrait/week project!) and that makes me giddy! I need to find more interesting things to shoot through the viewfinder and think of more clever ways to photograph myself. Any tips? Suggestions?
Tomorrow we’re headed to a “junk shop” downtown and I would be lying if I said I wasn’t hoping to find more jars full of buttons. I’ve had to restrain myself from walking to the antique store closest to me to snatch up the other jars I saw there. I wasn’t a button collector before I saw them sitting on a shelf at the Antique Junction, I SWEAR. They just called to me! Do you collect anything? Show me your collections!
Man, I’m a bucket of questions, tonight. This is what some moms do at 10pm on Saturday nights.
oh! One last question: have you ever regretted not buying something at a thrift store? GOODNESS! I saw the prettiest chair at one, today, but because of a lack of space and vehicle for transport, I said goodbye to it. I want it. I want it bad. And they’re closed on Sundays, so I can’t just buy it and throw out my rocking chair to make room for it. But I really wanna.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 04/06/2010 Forgive me for my absence. The littlest one has had a fever for the better part of 4 days and I feel like I’m nursing allthetime. The good part is that I’m over halfway through Water For Elephants, which I started reading on Sunday. The bad thing is….well, my baby is sick and I’m nursing all day.
Poor babe! I don’t know what’s wrong with him and that’s the most frustrating part. He doesn’t have a consistent cough (as in, he only coughs a few times a day), nor has he been tugging on his ear or displaying any sort of signs of an ear infection. SO. I’m all out of ideas to make him feel better. I’ve been administering a regimen of fever-reducers, but I’d like that to subside, so he has an appointment with his pediatrician this afternoon. I hate that he’s sick, but I hope it’s something they CAN diagnose and treat right away.
I’m tired of him feeling so blah. He had his happy moments over the holiday, but it primarily consisted of whines and whimpers in my, daddy’s, or a grandma’s arms. Not cool!
When he’s back on the road to good health, I’ll be back on the road to more consistent blogging and shop-updating.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 03/31/2010
He never says no when I ask him for anything. Well, OK, maybe he did tell me NO when I asked for a camera upgrade. And he may have even said NO to me putting a certain CD on repeat in the car, but he never says NO when I ask him for a photo. He usually goes above and beyond the call of husbandly duty. I asked for a cheerleader jump and he proceeded to make me laugh so hard a lot of my photos ended up too blurry for use.
THEN, he started running and jumping off the tree for even more hilarious photos, like the one below. I have SO many, but I will only share these few. The rest will have to be printed for a scrapbook. you know, when I actually start getting around to even composing simple photo albums. I’m going to be caught by surprise when my boys are all grown up, demanding SOME proof they had a childhood.
Jason, thank you for being so cute and awesome.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 03/28/2010
Spring is here. I love that the sun is so bright my photos come out awful. Well, most do, but a few are so gloriously lit, I want to kiss the ground. We spent a good chunk of our day in Grandma Linda’s backyard. Swinging, playing, lounging, and just general spring-loving.
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