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This project started out as a quote I wanted to share in this season of gratitude and turned into a PicMonkey tutorial! While working on making the pinnable image below for Pinterest, it occurred to me that this could be a teachable moment, too. I think PicMonkey is a great photo editing tool for the novice photographer and even the more advanced photographer…
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Here’s a beef and noodles recipe with a sneaky benefit – pumpkin. So, did you bake all those 42 pumpkins you had leftover from Halloween? Do you have a stash of pumpkin puree in your freezer? Beefy Pumpkin Noodle Bake is a delicious beef and noodles recipe that uses leftover pumpkin. But, if you don’t have leftover pumpkin, you can…
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Here’s an easy idea for the holidays: glamorize your holiday table with mismatched flatware! I love the look of mismatched flatware and use it all the time, especially in food styling for the food photography on this blog. And, over time have increased my collection through various resources. Don’t have a collection of mismatched flatware at hand? Here are 10 tips to…
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Don’t you love this cover photo for How to Cook 42 Pumpkins? It’s a photo from the pumpkin patch that I cropped vertically then, using PicMonkey’s “Effects” called “Focal B&W,” I zeroed in on the pumpkins in the front, leaving the rest of the photo black & white. So cool! Love that monkey; but, I digress… How to cook 42…
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I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting. I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life appear bigger. I wish you…
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“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” – George Carlin Happy Halloween! Tootles,