Sparkles.

A close-up of art work brought home from school.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Family, friends, health, countless daily blessings… this paper bag garland I made  sums it up.

Autumn gossamer.

The title comes from the fact that I’d rather focus on the pretty web catching the morning sunlight than that scary spider.  Halloween’s a-comin’!

Sweet tart.

This tart sums up early summer: sweet, bright, beautiful.

If you want to recreate it for yourself, here are the tart shell and the pastry cream recipes I used.

Partial marquees.

The State Theater and Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Sizzle.

I wish you could smell this butter.

Easter eggs.

Happy Easter!  We’re celebrating with Rice Krispie eggs and Reese’s peanut butter eggs.

Miniature big bed.

I love the whimsy of photos taken with a tilt-shift lens.  I don’t have one of those lenses, but I did apply a tilt-shift effect to this photo of Meena’s new big girl bed.  I think the effect will look better on a landscape, but I was eager to try it out!

Snow blossoms.

80 degrees and sunshine yesterday, 40 degrees and snow today.  Spring in Colorado.

Toddler togs.