Well this is all very new! I always have trouble with printing/selling, its the next step in the chain that I just dont know enough a…
Well this is all very new! I always have trouble with printing/selling, its the next step in the chain that I just dont know enough about to do right so this seems like the ideal place…lets just see what happens. Hope everybody likes what they see, creepy, crumpy cooky, and many other things and not all beginning with C
By the end of this shoot, I was ready to take a real gun to them. When taking pictures of anything with a high fat content, either chill …
By the end of this shoot, I was ready to take a real gun to them. When taking pictures of anything with a high fat content, either chill it or freeze it first. It keeps any doilies from soaking up the fat and getting blotchy. I fought this all day before the solution came to me.
First … I am not sure why folks have to fix things that just ain’t broken. Has anyone noticed that the Hershey’s Kiss … is no long…
First … I am not sure why folks have to fix things that just ain’t broken. Has anyone noticed that the Hershey’s Kiss … is no longer … “kissed”? Nope it’s just another run of the mill, molded, piece of chocolate confection now. I don’t know when it happened but I think It happened in the past year or so. After 100 years they changed the way they make the product thinking we wouldn’t notice. Yup the kiss has a rounded top now that can’t possibly be formed from “dropping” as I’m almost certain they had been made for a century. Now you no longer have that tiny sliver that broke off as you were trying to get the kiss out of it’s wrapper. That’s actually what made me look very closely at it. I actually missed that little piece that would always fall off on my clothes or someplace. All my life … coming up on 52 years … I’ve licked my finger to pick that meaningless little piece of chocolate up. Now I have no reason to lick my finger. sigh Second … Toll House Cookies …. I am a die hard Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip person for cookies … THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE! OK … I’ll confess there is one substitute … the Wilbur Chocolate Chip … but that is the ONLY substitute. But I STILL bake my cookie per the Toll House recipe on the back of that famous yellow bag … well mostly … sorta kinda … OK again I’ll confess I modify it a little … well … maybe more than a little. BUT I STILL MAKE ONE DAMN FINE … NESTLE TOLL HOUSE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE! Or do I? Well it is one damn fine cookie and I have perfected it over the years and I have a very hard time eatting any other. Alas I have become a cookie snob. The other week though, I got despartate for a cookie and I just didn’t feel like baking … soooooooo … for the first time ever I bought some of that NTH cookie dough in the yellow roll. I put it on the baking tray … and it needed something so I topped each one with some pecans. I tossed them in the oven and waited patiently for 10 minutes … Ding …. My cookies were done … I took them out of the oven … and was shocked. No … actually I was mortified. What were these thin freaky looking little things? They weren’t like my NTH cookies???? So I tasted one … hmmmmmm. Well that was a waste of 20 minutes. Being the cookie addict that I am, I ate them but I did not enjoy them at all. I ate them under duress and I needed that FIX. If that is the official NTH cookie … well … it sucks. Soooo … I don’t know what the hell it is I’ve been baking all my life but I will never ever insult it again by calling it a Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie … sorry folks at Nestle … you make a great chip … but you missed the boat big time with the cookie recipe. Give me a call, I’ll sell you a REAL cookie recipe …. for only a million bazillion dollars! Like I said … I bake one damn fine cookie! Just some observations … Today would be my Dad’s 78th birthday … Happy Birthday Dad. He never got to taste my cookie in it’s final form. I think he would have liked it.
Chinese take away ending in fortune cookies fit to burst. Never Wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it I hav…
Chinese take away ending in fortune cookies fit to burst. Never Wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it I have my spin on it, would anyone care to share theirs?
I placed in the top ten in the Bubblers Weekly challenge!!!! Wooo Hooo !http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/backingcolor:white/prod…
I placed in the top ten in the Bubblers Weekly challenge!!!! Wooo Hooo Cookies for everyone this Christmas!!!!!! Thanks all who voted!
Thank you so much…
Thank you so much for choosing my photo. I appreciate it!
So lets create some cookie cutter lighting in Photoshop, instead of in the studio :-) I first saw this done by Eddie Tapp and because of…
So lets create some cookie cutter lighting in Photoshop, instead of in the studio :-) I first saw this done by Eddie Tapp and because of its simplicity it makes it a viable option for creating effects. It should also be extremely easy to do in other image editing software. You can borrow my image below to practise on if you like, copyright is mine etc., With the image open in Photoshop, click on the little ying, yang symbol at the bottom of the layers palette to create a new Curves adjustment layer. Viewing the image below, place your cursor at the top right and it down till the output reads about 95. See image below. You should end up with something like the image below. The Curves adjustment layer will have a mask there, click on that and grab a soft edged brush, foreground colour set to black. How big you decide to make the brush will be up to you, and where you decide to do the effect will be up to you as well. I made my brush 400px and made the first click over the moon – see image below. The 2nd click was done over the ruins – see image below Remember that you can lower the opacity of your brush in the top toolbar as you come closer to the front of the image. I took my brush opacity down to 25% to click at the front of the image. I raised the brush opacity to 50% and went back over the moon again. You can carry on like that till you get the effect you want. Your layer mask might end up looking a little like the one below. And you can see why it is called a Cookie Cutter effect. You can do this on any type of image, people, animals, flowers, buildings etc., I have done a flower image and then my final image is below. Have fun :)
so I finally made it! haha here is my new painting, hope you guys like it. / Much love !http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/5064/fortune…
so I finally made it! haha here is my new painting, hope you guys like it. / Much love / acrylic on canvas 50×70cm
Thanks so much gabbielizzie…host of the APBT Lovers Group for F…
Thanks so much gabbielizzie…host of the APBT Lovers Group for Featuring 2 of my images! How awesome!! / The Beautiful Dottie / / and Did You Say Cookie? /
/ If I could send you all cookies for the holidays, th…
/ If I could send you all cookies for the holidays, this is what I would send you. So instead I am sending you my secret recipe. I have lived on these cookies since I was a kid, they are my prescription for anything that ails you. Great for PMS and other female problems, but men love them too. Not for diabetics or weight watchers though, sorry. Try them, you’ll love em. AUNTIE SOLAR’S SECRET STOVE COOKIES 1 Stick of butter or margarine / 2 Cups of sugar / ½ Cup of milk / 3 Heaping tablespoons of cocoa / ½ Cup of peanut butter / 1 ¼ Cup of instant oatmeal / 1 Tbls Vanilla VERY IMPORTANT: FOLLOW DIRECTIONS EXACTLY OR THEY WON’T HARDEN. Melt butter in sauce pan on medium heat, when melted add sugar, milk and cocoa. / Stir well until it starts a rolling boil. Let boil for 2 minutes (don’t stir). Take off the stove and stir in peanut butter until melted. Then stir in oatmeal, stir in vanilla last. Pour out blobs (cookie size) on aluminum foil and let set about 10 minutes. WARNING! Highly addictive.
Ok. I have narrowed it down to these two. I have to pick just one picture for the Just Dessert Exhibit that’s coming up in January. !...
Ok. I have narrowed it down to these two. I have to pick just one picture for the Just Dessert Exhibit that’s coming up in January. Which ones do you like?
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