December 19 - 314/365

28-135mm lens @ 75mm, f/5, 1/13, ISO 800

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December 5 - 303/365

18-55mm lens @ 29mm, f/4.5, 1/10, ISO 800

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December 2 - 300/365

50mm lens, f/2.2, 1/60, ISO 200

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September 9 - 252/365

28-135mm lens @ 112mm, f/7.1, 1/40, ISO 800

....and cupcakes after!

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September 8 - 251/365

28-135mm lens @ 50mm, f/7.1, 1/15, ISO 800

Cupcakes before....

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May 2 - 122/365

28-135mm lens @ 112mm, f/5.6, 1/40, ISO 400

Today was my Dad's Birthday! We also celebrated an early Mother's Day today with both my parents and my in-laws since my husband and I will be on vacation for the official Mother's Day. While we made sure to honor the mother's, the cake had to still revolve around the birthday guy! Since my Dad is an avid bowler, I thought it would be fun to make this cake for him. While he doesn't go down the lane like this poor guy, he has had his share of falls on those newly slicked lanes! But the cake was still cute and everyone loved the humorous side of it. Not to mention that it tasted good..... :-P

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March 7 - 66/365

28-135mm lens @ 56mm, f/4.5, 1/6, ISO 400 w/fill flash

Here it is... my latest cake masterpiece! I spent the past two weekends taking an intermediate cake decorating course to learn how to make lots of pretty flowers which ended up being used to make our final cake. I learned how to make chrysantemums, apple blossoms, daffodils, violets, pansies, lilies, and more! I just took a picture of one of the flower clusters from my cake for today's photo, but will be posting a few extra on the other blog soon. Needless to say, it was difficult for me to cut into the cake tonight... but as good as it tasted it was well worth it!! :-)

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March 2 - 61/365

28-135mm lens @ 50mm, f/4.5, 1/13, ISO 100

I spent most of my evening tonight making flowers out of icing for my current cake decorating class. We are learning how to make apple blossoms, shown here, lilys, mums, violets, and other flowers which we will be using to decorate a cake in our final class on Sunday. So you can guess what Sunday's picture has a good chance of being.... :-)

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February 11 - 42/365

28-135mm lens @ 135mm, f/5.7, 1/60, ISO 294 with bounce flash

I love to bake. And in the winter time, I definitely crave warm, gooey, sweet comfort foods. So being that over the past few days I have found myself snowed in at home with lots of free time on my hands, what did I do? I baked. I baked brownies. I baked banana nut muffins. I would have baked cookies, too, but I ran out of butter and didn't want to try getting to the store to get more. So today's photo not only represents my recent urge for warm homemade goodies, but also another of my home-bound activities from the past few days. If you want the recipe, check it out here. Back to work tomorrow!

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January 29 - 29/365

18-55mm lens @ 40mm, f/5.0, 1/50, ISO 640

We are having a birthday party for my husband on Saturday, so I have been spending almost every night this past week working on a cake for his party. Now normally I don't go to this much trouble for a cake, but this is his 30th birthday, so I wanted to do something really fun and special for the party. I don't want to spoil the end result yet, so today's picture is of the "discarded" cake pieces after the cake had been cut into shape. Yellow cake with white chocolate mousse filling.... yummmmm! For pictures and a description about the cake making process, be sure to check out my other blog for all the details! [should be posted sometime after the weekend]

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January 28 - 28/365

18-55mm lens @ 55mm, f/5.6, 1/60, ISO 600

In case you can't tell what the object in this photo is, it is one of the attachments for my Kitchen Aid stand mixer. I spent a LOT of time with my mixer tonight, working on a confectionary masterpiece for my husband's 30th birthday party this weekend. I had taken a number of photos of my adventures in baking tonight, but spotted this whisk attachment when I was finishing kitchen clean-up and knew it would end up being the winning photo for the day.

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