i've got the blues

I haven't been able to spend a whole lot of time taking pictures of blue things. But here are a few that I've taken here and there.

searching for blue

So I started a new photo project with my friend Lia.  We decided to focus on just one color for a whole month.  This is actually harder than I thought. Or maybe it's just because I'm picky.  I feel like when you are focusing on a color, there needs to be a certain simplicity to the picture.  Or else how do you make the color, rather than the object the focus?
Anyways. I've been looking, for the past week or so, for blue.  That's the color we picked.
I went for a bike ride today, just to see what I could find (it was that, or try and compose a picture of things I have at the apartment, which I'm not all that good at).  As I was ready to give up hope, I found it, the perfect subject for my picture.

Hopefully the next few will come a bit easier...

dad...

Father's day, wish I could spend it with you, dad.  Especially if that meant I was in Europe too :)
I did make you a cake though. Well, actually I made it for a co-worker, who requested a Father's Day cake,  but she didn't tell me what she wanted on it, so I used you as my inspiration...

for now

I still intend to put up some before-and-after pictures of the house, but I would like to spend  bit more time on them than it takes to slap some pictures on the page (plus I need to make room for them on my computer).

In the meantime, I will let you admire my most recent creation,  mocha toffee cupcakes.
                                                                                                 
                                                                                   I'll send you the recipe if you want it.

roaches, wreckage and repair

So, why the long silence? We bought a house.
And it's not a new house either, it's a fixer-upper. We have been busy busy busy, taking out walls, carpets, and cockroaches, and fixing roofs installing electrical an so on and so forth.  Pictures will be forthcoming, but for now here's one I took while standing on the roof.

Spring

Spring is here, and I feel like I am missing it with all the things I have been doing indoors.
I did get out briefly the other day to take a couple of pictures and I'm pretty happy with the results.  Nature is just so beautiful.

Time escapes me.
Josh and I have been painting a friend's basement this past week, going over there after work and coming home well past our bed time (last night it was 11).
Last week we had a potluck and brought a cake.  That same day I received two requests for cake (and cupcake) from coworkers and they wanted them on the same day - tomorrow.  Praise the Lord I only worked will noon today, or I would have been up all night getting them done.
So here are pictures of the cake I made last week and the cakes I did today and the damage done to my kitchen. I'm not a messy cook but I am definitely a messy cake decorator.