Orchid Festival Photographs

So I went to one of my favorite places to take photograph's this morning, Longwood Gardens.  It's a wonderful botanical garden that has an amazing Conservatory to enjoy even when it's cold out, like right now.  They are in the midst of an Orchid Festival right now, and orchids happen to be one of my favorite flowers.  Too bad I don't have a green enough thumb to actually be able to grow them.  But I enjoyed my morning there taking pictures, especially since I haven't had time to take many in the past couple of months.

The gorgeous yellow of these just screams "Spring is coming!!".

If a cheetah turned purple and morphed into an orchid, it would look like this.

So gorgeous.  An arch covered with orchids.

Looking pretty in pink.

One of my favorite color combinations, purple and yellow.  Such an interesting little flower.

This one is my absolute favorite!!

I just thought this one looked interesting with the long stems and pointed flower petals.

I hope you enjoyed my photographs as much as I enjoyed taking them!!  Until next time...

Diaper Baby Carriage

I tried my hand at making a diaper baby carriage for a friend's baby shower. I had made one diaper cake last year, but had never tried anything more creative. It really wasn't that hard to create. I'm really happy with the way it turned out.

She doesn't know whether she is having a boy or girl, so her nursery theme is yellow and gray.

I signed the inside of the book like a card, so whenever she reads to the new baby, she'll remember who gave her the book.  I like giving books to start the new baby's library.

She registered for a lot of monkey items, so most of the patterns I used had monkeys incorporated, but I couldn't pass up this cuddly gray teddy bear.

I like the big yellow flowers in the center of the wheels.

I used my Cricut to make a tag to decorate the gift.

I like this gift because it's very practical.  There's between 80-90 size 1 diapers that will be very useful when baby comes.  Each section is covered with a blanket-3 receiving blankets and 1 large fleece blanket.  Blankets are always handy right?  and then I decorated it with some monkey items inside the carriage and the large teddy bear and book outside.  I hope she enjoys it!!

Welcome!!

Welcome to my new blog.  I hope you enjoy following along with my cooking, crafting, and photographing endeavors!!  I look forward to sharing some of my favorite recipes, my newest craft projects, and my favorite photographs.

I'm no professional chef or photographer by any means.  I'm self taught at each, with the exception of a couple of 3 hour photography classes.  I'm a member of the working world by day and a single, creative, suburban girl by night that likes experimenting in new things.

Enjoy the journey!!