I've been perfecting the art of the self French manicure for the last few months. Yes, those are my real nails.
As I've mentioned before, I started making my own thank you cards this summer for my Etsy package. I put a few of them in my light box today while I taking some other pictures. Pink is not my favorite color, but I made a pink/green baby card for someone (who loves both of those colors) and decided to make this set with the scraps from that little project.
Jake and I started watching Man v. Food this summer. We saw a few episodes on cable while we were in the Dells and now watch it on Netflix. For those who have seen the show, we got inspired by the Minneapolis episode and decided to make our own Juicy Lucy burgers. They turned out pretty well. Yes, each burger does consist of two 1/3 pound burger patties, and no, I did not eat the entire thing in one sitting.
Also on the subject of food, I'm sure that many of you already know this, but I like to bake even more than I like to cook. I made pumpkin muffins last week. I got the recipe from this cookbook which is written by Billy Joel's wife. That cookbook is still one of the most random things I've found in the new nonfiction section of the library since I started browsing there regularly last year so I wanted to share that.
A picture of Angel that I took while Jake was setting up some of his Warhammer models in the light box.
I took a few dozen pictures of some of Jake's newest models yesterday. I won't post all of them here, but I'm pretty happy with the way that they turned out.
And finally, while I was taking jewelry pictures today, I experimented with a new idea. Jake doesn't like the way that it looks because he thinks that my hand ends up looking distorted. I think that a lot of people have trouble determining how a piece of jewelry is proportioned without a human model or a mannequin. I don't provide any sort of model in my pictures currently so I thought a shot like this might help my shop viewers. I have pretty small hands, but they will still provide a clear visual for how wide the bracelet is, how large the embellishment is, is it a long or short bracelet, etc. I like the first shot better than the second. I did not shoot any with a white background, but I could experiment with that if you think it would work better. Let me know what you think. Please be honest. I am open to the possibility of using a plastic hand mannequin, too. I just don't own one currently. Thanks in advance!
