Category: Creative Inspiration
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Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots
Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots is dedicated to “…foodies, food bloggers, home cooks, and chefs…and to anyone who craves a delicious meal, chases beauty, and wants to make people hungry with their photographs.” That certainly includes me! 🙂 So I was glad to have the chance to review this very helpful, comprehensive guide to…
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Eileen’s Cranberry Almond Breakfast Scones
My artistic friend Eileen made these delicious scones and gave me the recipe (and this wonderful photo she took of them!) so I could share them with you, too! Eileen adapted her recipe from a cranberry scone recipe she found in a cookbook called Scones, Muffins, and Tea Cakes: Breakfast Breads and Teatime Spreads.
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The Farm Chicks
I first heard of The Farm Chicks in Country Living magazine. I noticed they had come out with a fun-looking cookbook, The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen. It has lots of down-home recipes, personal stories, and even some sewing and craft projects.
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Pretty Things
Every now and then, when I want to look at beautiful images of flowers and other pretty things, I visit A Creative Mint. The author of this blog, Leslie, is a talented photographer and also has a background in interior design and architecture. I like the way she adds different borders to her photographs—it makes such…
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Hand Lettering Inspiration
Being a designer, I really appreciate creative hand lettering! Lately I’ve been seeing more casual, colorful layouts on everything from greeting cards to packaging and magazine ads.
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Creative Stitching with Aimee Ray
If you love stitching and embroidery, you’ll need to check out Aimee Ray’s book, Doodle Stitching: The Motif Collection. Aimee does some wonderfully creative stitching-—I’ve seen a lot of her projects for this book in person, because I used to sit right next to her at work! We were both designers for a greeting card company,…
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A Cute Little Cupcake Bakery
I’m a big fan of cupcakes, and when I recently did a search on the web one day to see if “polka dots” was one word or two (it’s two), I came across this cute little cupcake bakery! I think their logo is really fun (even though they did make polkadots one word)–I like the way…
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I’ve Been Tooned!
Several months ago I was tooned by my very creative co-worker Jon! He loves to draw cartoons of people, critters, sharks…you name it! He’s always drawing and doodling every chance he gets! You’ll have to check out his blog, Huckart. He also writes creative rhymes to go with his artwork. Did I mention that he does…
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