Flowers Can Brighten Your Day

I love flowers! A vase of pretty flowers can brighten any room and make you feel happy. These flowers were so inspiring to photograph.

Glitter Pictures

I like shiny and glittery things so when I saw pictures of glitter it inspired me to create some sparkly pictures of my own.

Winner

The winner of the Celeste Savon gift basket was Amy!! Congrats! I hope you enjoy.

Today I wanted to talk about how I love to model and or take pictures of themed shoots. But I rarely like the way I look in a picture. I always see something that I dislike about myself. My thin lips or my face that looks too round when I smile. What makes me like the picture is the detail put into the props, the poses, and that it becomes more than just a photograph it is a work of art. I think modeling in themed shoots is also a form of acting. You get to convey emotions and feelings through your facial expressions or your body language that makes the picture believable.

As soon as the weather gets better I will be out traipsing through the woods and fields with my tripod and camera practicing my modeling and photographing so that one day my pictures will be worth a thousand words.

Win A Christmas Gift Basket

Enter to win this cute Christmas gift basket which is filled with Celeste Savon natural bath products (peppermint lip balm, peppermint candy cane soap, and petit four soap). Comment on this post and follow my blog. You can also enter again on my business Facebook page Here
A winner will be chosen on the 18th
The winner will have two days to contact us or a new one will be chosen.

Love Taking Pictures

Today I was wanting to create some beautiful pictures but I didn't have anyone to photograph or to photograph me and I still need to work out how to use my tripod and remote clicker. So I had a little shoot with my new awesome trunk and pillow.. I was hunting for Christmas decor and found the pillow and bird nest and  had to get them. I didn't find any Christmas stuff that I liked but I need to hurry and decorate. Christmas is my favorite holiday and I want the house feeling cozy for as long as possible. This will be my first time decorating my own house. Since we went to college out of town we would just come up for Christmas so there was never any need to decorate plus we had the tiniest house. Jon is not into spending money or decorating so it is up to me to get the house like I want it.. I am wondering if I should even attempt outside lights..

 

I love the shabby chic and vintage looks that are really popular right now. My living room, kitchen table, and bedroom are all shabby chic styles and if money had permitted I would have done the rest of the house.  I think my bed is one of my favorite furniture pieces. When the painter is finished I will put up pictures. I will be after Christmas.

Christmas Products

Christmas soap cupcakes and petit fours

I have been working double time making soaps and candles for Christmas festivals and the launch of my website. Right now I am in love with peppermint essential oil. I have been adding it to everything even thinking about putting it in my natural deodorant.  Like my page on Facebook.

Peppermint Candy Cane Soap

Teavana

Teavana's Cococaramel Sea Salt herbal tea.

I tried this tea a few weeks ago when I went to Teavana. It taste great and is zero calories! I have a huge sweet tooth and I am trying to cut back so this tea is a great way to satisfy my cravings. It has a very light flavor so adding more than it recommends is a must.
Growing up I was never a tea fan. I liked the idea of tea and would try to drink it on and off but I never could find a tea that I liked. That is until I was in Georgia a few years back and tried one of Teavana's blends. I was so excited that I had finally found not just one tea that I liked but ten..
I bought blends of Samurai Chair Mate & White Ayurvedic Chai and Blueberry Bliss & Strawberry Lemonade. The white tea is a little tricky because your water has to be the perfect temperature or it will taste bitter. It took a few tries before I could make it bitter free.

Breville One-Touch Tea Maker

 This is on my Christmas list for this year. It will make me a perfect cup of tea every time. I am looking forward to all the benefits of drinking herbal teas. I am just going to have to brush with activated charcoal more than once a week.