Crying on a Plane – There’s No Food Here
Airplanes make me cry. Every time I get on a plane, I wind up crying. Every single time. I blame it on the altitude. All that oxygen depleted air makes your tear ducts go in to overdrive. I’m sure there’s science to back it up. Right? Usually it’s the movie – even if it’s […]
Valentine Heart Art (Or Playing With My Food)
I’m not super big on Valentine’s Day. I’m not super big on anything where you’re made to feel obligated to give or do things. It’s partly why I hate birthdays, don’t like the gift aspect of Christmas and struggle with Mothers and Father’s day. I don’t like my giving (or receiving) to be mandated by […]
Friday Tea & Chocolate: Ethereal Chocolate
There is a lovely little chocolate shop in Vancouver that I always forget is there, except when I’m nowhere near it. It’s called Xoxolat and lives in Yaletown on Homer Street. Every time I go in, I spend way too much money and come home with far too much chocolate. It’s probably just as well […]
Food Photography And Styling Inspiration From the Print World
We talk a lot about food photography and food styling in the food blogging world. I think we’re sort of obsessed with it. I know I am! Ages ago I wrote about a post asking if food bloggers were caught in a rut with their food photography? It got a LOT of feedback. Haha! I […]
Pear Cranberry Toffee Oatmeal Cookies
Adding pears to cookies is easy when you use dried fruit – like in these Pear and Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies! Happiest of new years to all of you, my readers! I hope 2015 brings you lots of great things including a little bit of inspiration to create something new every day – even if it’s […]
Focusing on Food Photo Essays and Using Steller
Pretty much since I first picked up a camera, the idea of the photo essay has intrigued me. The concept of telling a story from start to finish with just images and no, or very few, words, is both daunting and challenging and something I’ve been wanting to do more of for the last two years. […]
