brownies+my outfit

You know that moment when you take a sheet of perfect cookies or a pan of delectable cake out of the oven and you inhale deeply to get the full commercial-like affect? I love doing that. Why? Because I <3 baking.

I got to do it yesterday with these beauties:

Sorry for the crummy photos, by the time I took these the sun was going down and since I refuse to use flash I had to brighten them up in Photoshop.

Delicious. They were gone fast :)
Oh, and since this would be a rather short post, I'm going to throw in a few recent wizard pictures, combined with my outfit pictures:

shirt: aeropostale// skirt: aeropostale// cami: wet seal

I love the skirt I'm wearing, it's ssooooo comfy, and:

It. has. pockets.

How awesome is that! It's the first skirt that I own with pockets and I'm in love!
What do you prefer in a skirt, pockets or no pockets?

-hannah

miscellaneous ramblings

1. The Wedding of the Century

Did you watch the Royal Wedding?!? I did! We got up at 4:00am, made cinnamon rolls and did our best to keep our eyes open through all the coverage, the ceremony, etc. I did pretty well, I only dozed off after the wedding when everyone was riding to the palace ;) But seriously, it was amazing. And who else agrees that Kate Middleton is simply gorgeous?

2. sweet tooth
Yeah, I have a serious sweet tooth. And when you combine something healthy with something sweet? PERFECT. Sorta like these:

Yum.

3. manual
I am becoming a manual maniac. I barely switch the setting on my camera to anything else. Its so easy once you get the hang of it, but I guess that's the case with most things. I yet have to take portraits in manual, but I'll get around to it eventually.....

4. etsy
Yeah, I really need to update my shop. Also, I'm thinking of opening another shop with my sister so we can sell our wands. Would you buy a wand?

5. sweet tooth pt II

uh, I don't think dessert can get much better than this. I took these cookies and crumbled them on top of vanilla and chocolate ice cream. hea.ven.

6. I'm running out of rambles....
so I'm gonna sign off! Oh, don't forget to enter the giveaway! It's your last day to enter!


What are some random things you've been doing?

-hannah

chocolate love

Obsessing over chocolate is not good, I'll admit. But when you bake some brownies and its chilly outside, and you have a huge box of hot chocolate packets, who can resist?

Brownies have always been a favorite dessert, but now I think it's my very favorite. Especially with this recipe.

Delicious.

What's your favorite dessert?

-Hannah

Finalists of My Photo Contest!

Out of the eleven spectacular entries, these three are the ones I've chosen to be finalists. So without further ado, in no particular order, the finalists:

#1. Sveta

I don't know what it is about this photo, maybe the sharp orange-ish colors or the perfect focus, but I love it!

#2. Mikayla

What can I say? This photo is just gorgeous. The colors, the lighting, all of it is gorgeous.

#3. Kate

Now, I've raved over bokeh before, but this, this is amazing. The bokeh, the delicious-looking apricot bar, its all just *sigh* perfect.


Now its up to you! Which photo do you thinks deserves to win? Vote on the poll under the header to say which is your favorite!

-hannah

I'm going to the mountains again.........:)

And just to let you know my family will probably be going to our cabin every weekend so I will probably not be posting most Saturdays. Hopefully most Sundays will bring loads of photos from the mountains. So I was thinking about combining my photo blog with this one. Yes I've brought it up before but I really want your honest opinion. I think it would be so much easier just to manage one blog. Anywho, yesterday we had our family over to celebrate my grandma's (my mom's mom) 70th birthday! It was a blast and it was a great opportunity to take lots of photos of my cousins (mostly my baby cousin because I was sort of babysitting her the whole time, which I didn't mind at all, she's so darn cute!). Unfortunately I won't be posting those because I don't think their parents would feel comfortable with their pictures on the internet. There were tons of desserts and I sampled almost everything (which I payed for later, but it was totally worth a little stomach ache!)
Cookies, cake, an awesome pudding/brownie/cool whip/chocolate thing that my aunt brought! (I did not get any pics of that. I know, shame on me!)
There were also three kinds of pies but by the time I finished all the other stuff I was waaayyy too full to risk anything else. So I hung out with my cousins (I am the oldest of all of them but they're all super fun!) and uncles and aunts and snapped photos like crazy. Every time I took a photo of her, my one-year-old cousin would say, "see! See!" so I had to show her a few pictures of her gorgeous self. (Whenever I showed her a picture of herself I think I saw more drool on her face than usual! LOL kidding!)
At the end of the night I played a slideshow for my grandma that featured every member of the past three generations. (Ok, I might have missed one or two of her sibling but everybody makes mistakes, right?)
She loved it! And it was made by yours truly.................... moi! (With a little help from my mom of course!)
So that's what's been going on around here for the past 24 hours!
Gotta get to bed!