Personal Tracer Pages for your Preschoolers

Make your own custom tracer pages for your child's name or letter of the week.

DLTK Tracer Page

Tissue Pom Poms {SO CUTE & EASY}

I recently made some tissue pom poms for my daughters birthday party. They were so easy, and turned out super cute.

Here's a great Tutorial...so grab some tissue paper and have FUN!!!

Source: ourdailyobsessions.blogspot.com via Derinda on Pinterest

5 Star Meal at HOME {friendly recipies}

My long time friend is down from Washington staying with us for a week and tonight she made a delicious dinner for us. She made 5 Spice Pork with Roasted Oranges and Broccoli, Mash Potatoes, and Green Beans with Bacon. She got all the recipes from her Food Network Magazine, but here they are for you to see and for me to remember.
It was ALL wonderful...Thanks Alicia!!!


{click photos for recipe link}

photos and recipes provided by: The Food Network

APPLE CRISP {YUM}

Tried a new recipe today that I found on Pinterest. Every October my MIL brings us some of the most delicious apples, but there were more than we could possible eat raw, so I found this VERY simple recipe, followed it to a tee, and it was incredible. Not too sweet, crunchy, and was great with a bit of vanilla ice cream. {YUM}

In need of {PHOTOGRAPHY 101}

I've been bit by the photography bug for a long time now. Ever since I had professional photographers take pictures of my hair clips on their clients.{Here are just a few}

Good cameras are very expensive though so it took awhile before I could go from this Nikon Coolpix to the Nikon D3100:
TO THIS

I loved my Nikon CoolPix so I wanted to stay with Nikon when upgrading. I decided to get a Nikon 3100 because it had great reviews and it was in my price range. The pictures are very clear and the shutter speed is just right for my personal needs. There is so much I need to learn about photography, but the biggest part of photography is knowing how to edit pictures. I've always used picasa for editing and I've also used picnik, but I just recently purchased a downloaded version of photoshop, and my goodness their is SO much to learn. With time I'm sure I'll get the hang of it, but until then I consider myself to be in the first week of Photography 101 so if you have any advice or sites I should visit please let me know.

{Here's a recent picture I took at the pumpkin patch with my Nikon D3100, edited in Picassa}