A few favorite pictures of me and Daddy. I’ll have to see if I can find any when I’m not tiny. But Dad is still as good-looking as ever : )
Learning to pray! I treasure this photo.
and storytime!
and my Grandpa Big Mike on my Mom’s side
and Grandpa Chris on Dad’s side
oh and Mommy too
our whole family (minus Clara, who was not alive?)
and Dad and three of us girls this winter.
I am blessed to have such a great Dad.
Happy Father’s Day, Daddy-o! Love, Ellie-Bird
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pin curls.
i tried these last night, after taking out my heidi braid. i ran out of bobby pins about halfway through, and then ran around the house looking for more. they are pretty easy (a little difficult with layered hair) but much more comfortable to sleep in than foam rollers. and i didn’t take a before picture of this, even though it wasn’t that bad looking, because it was late at night and because clara stole the tripod.
so here is an after picture. looove how this looks. thanks, amy, for taking a picture of me.
also, love how it mostly curls the end and not up top so much. it makes wearing it down so much easier. that probably will vary for your hair length.
tutorial here: strawberry koi vintage pin curls
second time trying these actually, but the first time for it to work. i need to figure out the best way to do the bobby pins, and make it less messy, but i really like this.
photo tutorial here: orchid grey heidi braids
video tutorial here: strawberry koi vintage heidi braids
i found this shirt in my melisssa’s drawer. she found it at a clothing exchange.
clara took our tripod with her to beach camp, so for these i just set my camera on a shelf or dresser.
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recently i read somewhere online about adjusting a photo’s levels to make the whites, well, white.
this photo i took back at the beginning of the snowpocalypse.
isn’t it sadly gray? really really sadly gray.
but this… this is what snow should look like.
and i’m not one of those bloggers with tons of photoshop tutorials and handy-dandy screen shots of what i did, so i’ll try to explain it. (and i use gimp, anyway.) but in levels, when the whites in your photo are gray, you drag the white arrow (on the far right) over to where the histogram starts. if that makes sense. (a friend of mine mentioned you can do the same thing with the black to even out the look. i haven’t tried this yet – just starting to use gimp more.)
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^ i took lots of pictures of melissa
^ my super awesome (and super cute) parents
^ it was only very very windy. that was actually why i mostly used my film camera, because the blowing sand was reeeaaalllly bad for my digital SLR. (after just a few minutes i was noticing grittiness on my lens.)
^ jellyfish
^ melly building the sandcastle. more precisely, the fab tunnel she dug.
^ our sandcastle. self filling moat! so awesome.
the end!
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^ this one is my favorite.
and more fun here: http://eliciamoose2011.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/a-for-real-portrait-session/
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Darlene and I explored the downtown of our city looking for places to take photos, and also utilized the awesomely colorful books at Half Price to make some great backgrounds.
^ really digging the color and the focus and the wind in this one.
^also in the antique store, with some lovely mirrors.
we included some fun props: a mustache on a stick, and a super colorful lollipop
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This lovely sister of mine. More pictures will be coming later, after I get my film developed. I took my sun hat (in this post) and it was well used.
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This photo shows just one step in making this delicious cake, the cooling period where we have it upside down on a bottle.
The recipe is from Mema, my grandmother on my Mom’s side. And it is word for word from the original. You’ll have to open the link to read all the semi-ridiculous wording.
Cake recipe: Chocolate Chip Chiffon Cake
The frosting recipe I use: 4-Minute Butter Frosting
This is absolutely one of my family’s favorite cakes, and we make it for almost every birthday. It’s that good.
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^The morning began with a cup of tea (and trying out the heart-shaped bokeh filter.)
I did have to do school, even though it was my birthday.
^ complete with sparkling cider
^ jen being a torero [bullfighter] and em doing the death drop.
^some lovely roses from em + jen
^ the christmas lights in the back yard [with heart bokeh filter]
^ i made some delicious brownies, recipe from bon appetit magazine.
it was a really lovely day. and no, i don’t feel older. i’m still a kid.
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Elicia Wetstein 