Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’

A Pounamu, Dreams and Changes

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Three years ago today, I was on a plane jetting back to New Zealand for a three week visit. I had made my host sister, Elise, a deal. Pay for my airfare and I will photograph your wedding. Much to my surprise, I found myself on a plane on Christmas morning going to the one place on earth I most needed to be. You see three years ago I was going through a very rough patch – I refer to it as my early mid-life crisis… In four weeks not only did I moved back to my home town but also back into my parents home, put my business on hold, said good-bye to someone I cared very much about and to top it off sold my car.  As I said to my Dad, “I hope life doesn’t ask anymore

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The Great Cookie Caper! – Part II

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Whew! Did you take a deep breath? Are you ready to move on??  In case you missed it, and I don’t know how you could have, here is a refresher of where we’ve been - The Great Cookie Caper! – Part I! In Part I we we discussed and went over the finer points of Krumkake, Spritz, Ethel’s Sugar Cookies and Snickerdoodles. It’s time now to delve into the final four: 5)    Kringla – Another traditional Norwegian cookie that found The UnKitchen Diva reliving her play dough rolling days… 6)    Berlinerkranzer – Why stick to one Norwegian and play dough rolling type of cookie when you can have two?!? This is also when The UnKitchen Diva realized that most of the traditional cookies are colorless and the tray of cookies may be a little less than festive looking…. 7)    Lemon Whippersnaps – A favorite,

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The Great Cookie Caper! – Part I

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Where to start? Where to start? Do we begin with the fact that it’s a Norwegian holiday tradition to serve 7 different types of cookies?  Why 7? No one seems to be able to recall. Or do we go down the road of how The UnKitchen Diva has some how started a new tradition of baking cookies for her friend Mary’s Dad? What started as a joke has now turned into a ‘thing’.  A ‘thing’ of such epic proportions that the man is now receiving his own humongous tray of 8 (an extra type thrown in for the heck of it) types of cookies for Christmas. (No need to worry that The UnKitchen Diva has let the cat out of the bag – he believes that the internet is the death of all society and won’t be reading this at

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They’re Back – Christmas 2010 with the M Family!!

2010 Custom Christmas Card inside

It’s that time of year again, which means, the M family is back for their annual Christmas Card!  Those of you who have been fans of Lil Blu Dragonfly might recognize them from last year’s card and the all time favorite 2008 card.  The boys and I are old hands at this now. We work really well together and the shoot goes amazingly fast! (I think they’re learning the sooner I get what I want the sooner they can get back to whatever they were doing before I showed up!) I look forward to this project every year. It challenges me in so many ways – how to show the boys as they are this year, how to be visually interesting and different from the past year(s) and finally the custom design. I love designing layouts (one of the reasons

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Happy Holidays

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May you be surrounded by Love, Laughter and Joy!!

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