Make Your Own Canvas Portraits

Hey Everyone,

It is a new year with much in store for the blog and website.  I just found this really cool tutorial and wanted to share it with you.  I have been wanting to try this and will be trying it out soon.

Have a wonderful day!

Deanna  :)

http://abeautifulmess.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/10/make-your-own-canvas-portrait.html

SANTA COLLECTION

I just wanted to share some pictures with you of my Santa collection.  I have been collecting them for many years.  I can tell you where each one came from.  There are not that many, but I do love each one of them.  Most of them I have picked myself and others have been given to me.  Some have very special meaning to me because of the person that gave it to me.   I don't have that many, but I certainly do enjoy them.  Every year I keep my eyes open for one that just might be the next Santa to add to the collection.  

Enjoy!


Deanna  :)

Santa Collection

Indigi Photography and Design: HURRICANE WINDS IN UTAH

Indigi Photography and Design: HURRICANE WINDS IN UTAH: December 01, 2011 Hello Everyone, We are having extremely high winds here in Northern Utah. I live in Layton, Utah and went around the ...

HURRICANE WINDS IN UTAH

December 01, 2011


Hello Everyone,


We are having extremely high winds here in Northern Utah.  I live in Layton, Utah and went around the block just to see some of the damage.  Some of this is in my own yard.  Our fence is halfway down in the backyard and the big pine tree by the back fence is just about ready to fall over.  Plus damage to the Jeep.  The picture of the jeep window is actually not dirt.  It is sand blasted little pellet wholes in the window.  Incredible crazy weather.


Deanna

Indigi Photography and Design: SNOW FALLS SOFTLY

Indigi Photography and Design: SNOW FALLS SOFTLY: November 30, 2011, It started raining lightly around noon today here in Northern Utah. As I was driving home from my daughters house in...

SNOW FALLS SOFTLY

November 30, 2011,

It started raining lightly around noon today here in Northern Utah.  As I was driving home from my daughters house in a neighboring city, the rain quickly turned to snow.  Looking at this new snowfall I realized just how beautiful the light snow made everything.  It is just a dusting of snow so far, but yet so wonderfully breathtaking.  I had to grab my camera and take a few shots of this simple, soft snowfall.  It has certainly brought on the Christmas spirit for me.  After Thanksgiving, it just hasn't felt like Christmas.  The trees have lost there leaves and the snow that fell before has all melted.  Even with putting up the tree and decorations, it just hasn't felt like the Christmas season yet.  This new, light snowfall has helped to put me in the Christmas spirit.  Hopefully, it will do the same for you.

Enjoy!  

Deanna  :)

CHRISTMAS NATIVITY

On Saturday, November 27th, my husband, my son and I happened upon a community event where they had displays of different Christmas nativities from around the world.  It was held in Kaysville, Utah.  My eyes were opened to the many different nativities out there.  Each country has it's own idea of the nativity and here are a few of my favorite sets.  Enjoy!


Deanna  :)

PUMPKIN PIE MADE FROM SCRATCH

For Thanksgiving this year, I decided to make my pumpkin pies from scratch.  Here is the start of the whole thing.  You should use smaller pumpkins because they are sweeter and easier to work with.  Well, it took the help of my son to cut into these pumpkins.  I didn't carve any pumpkins for Halloween so I thought it would be cool to cut them up and cook them.  It ended up being a huge project which I was determined to finish.  It took pretty much all day the day before Thanksgiving.  We had three pumpkins and this was the largest.  The pies turned out really good.  They were fresh and lighter tasting than the store bought canned pumpkin.  


The following pictures are from the biggest pumpkin which was the hardest to cut open and didn't produce much results.  We ended up with 3 cups of pumpkin after it was cooked.  The other two pumpkins were smaller but produced more pumpkin.  I ended up w three with 6 bags of pumpkin at 3 cups in each bag.  That is a whole lot of pumpkin!  Thank goodness we are able to freeze it and use the rest at a later date.  


If you want to give it a try for the upcoming Christmas holiday, just email me and I will send you the recipe.  The stores usually carry the smaller pumpkins through December. 


Deanna  :)