My 70s girl

I don't really have much to post about. I reformatted my computer and now it's not reading my camera. So I have no new pictures until that is fixed. I was doing my usual reading of random blogs in my bookmarks list and came across Pioneer Woman's blog. I love it so much. You must see the pictures of her house, they're so lovely. Makes me want to just drop everything and go buy a ranch (did I mention my dream house is an old ranch house. I'm not asking for much). Anyway, she has a section on her website that talks about photography. It's no surprise that I have this amazing camera but have done nothing more than point and shoot since I got it. It's on my to do list. But I digress. On her website she has some action sets that you can install in Adobe Photoshop CS2 (and higher?) that will allow you to edit your photos. I was really loving the 1970's look of a set she had done on her blog so I knew I had to have it for myself. I also just happened to have the perfect picture to make into a vintage 70's look.

I love love love the way it turned out. I feel like going thru all my pictures now and tweaking them. Mind you I should be doing that anyway since I have Photoshop but usually they're straight out of the camera shots because I can't be bothered. But I'll definitely be playing with some of the other actions in the two sets so perhaps my posts might be more geared towards photography in the next few days?

Autumn pictures

Well I wanted to post about dinner today. But it didn't go into the oven till very late and so we ended up having something not blog worthy. Instead I offer up some wonderful pictures I took today of Ayla and her friend Faith. This is not the first time that they've gotten their pictures taken together.

They turned out very well. Well actually, the sun set much earlier than we though it would. We really didn't have any sunlight at all to take these pictures. The clarity is only due to the wonderful lens that I bought to go with my camera. I wish I could remember what it was. Anyway, it was about 100 bucks but it allows me to take great pictures in low light without a flash. I hate flash so this lens really came in handy today.

Summer photoshoot

Yesterday a friend who I met on Facebook's mommy group for Red Deer asked me if I would like to join her and her daughter in the park to take some photos. We both have new cameras that we don't really know how to use and so I thought it would be a great opportunity.

We ended up taking a lot more time that we anticipated but we had such a blast. I'm not so sure about Ayla and her daughter Faith though. They were about fed up at the end of the day and ready for a real long nap.

We've decided that since the pictures came out so well that we'd go out this fall when all the leaves are turning and take some more. I'm sure they'll turn out so lovely. Especially with the girls playing in the leaves!

A long weekend

A long weekend indeed, or maybe it was a too fast gone by weekend. Saturday was Alex's birthday and so I decided to make the triple layer chocolate cake by Dreena from Everyday Vegan. I topped it off with raspberries and it turned out amazingly! He loved it and has practically eaten half of it already! In the morning I made the Fronch toast recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance. It was the first time I had made this recipe for vegan french toast and I must say, I can't imagine why anyone ever used eggs in french toast! Very good stuff. We even made it again on Sunday morning with veggie sausages, yum yum. For dinner we made a curry chickpea and potatoes from a new cookbook I had bought the day before at another one of our favorite stores in this town called Sunflower. They have a great selection of kitchen gadgets and books and many different things for around the house. But I digress. The chickpea curry was amazing! I told Alex that I was never going to make chickpea curry any other way again. The recipe called for a lot of spices in very large quantities but I edited as I saw fit. Two tablespoons of cayenne pepper is just way too much for my palette!

On Sunday we decided to head to Lake Louise to get some great pictures and see the glacier lake. It was beautiful as usual. We got some really great shots and Ayla was being super cute saying 'Bye, bye!' to everyone as we were leaving. I have so many Lake Louise pictures so please bear with me, I just didn't know which ones to weed out!

How do you like the chipmunk that decided to pose with Ayla in the background. He was in three of the shots we took of her like this.