Oh Nuts

  Photo by Mishaal Zahed on Unsplash Life is like burnt toast. Riding highs, riding lows, Some people make french toast. Sitting in a warm glow Baking until you're crisp Life is like burnt toast. Sometimes soft Sometimes black Sometimes in the middle. Life is like burnt toast. 

All photos by me. "Now I turn around and find I am lost in the woods  North is south, right is left, when you're gone."

Here is the last few days of NaNoWriMo's Prep Time Instagram challenge!!! Day 26: Paradox I was a little lazy on this one and just found a quote with a paradox in it. Day 27: Where/When in the World Some of the characters in my story for NaNo are from Greece. Day 28: Fresh Air Again I cheated a little on this one because this is a picture that I took back  on my family's vacation last month. Day 29: Suddenly... For this one, I was having a hard time coming up with something until I found this song called "Suddenly" on YouTube the other night. And the section of lyrics that I took a picture  of goes with the last day's prompt. Day 30: Time To Write While @nanowrimo doesn't officially start for another month I will be taking this time  to write an outline and organize my thoughts for the story that I want to write.

I know that we are just leaving the Christmas season and that you may be wondering why I am talking about themed gifts. Especially since this seems like a topic that would be helpful before Christmas day. The reason why I am posting this now is that because themed gifts work for birthdays as well as graduations, going away parties, etc. painted and photographed by me For a number of years now, instead of getting a present for every single sibling, as well as the parents, because it gets rather expensive, my family has started doing this thing where my mom puts all of the siblings names on pieces of paper and then puts it into a bowl. We are then supposed to pick a name out of the bowl and that is the sibling that we buy a present, or two, for that Christmas. And this year, once I had the name of the sibling that I was buying for, I slowly started coming up with ideas as to what to buy for my "person" as we have started calling them. My "person" this year fo...

A couple weeks ago I decided to create a board on Pinterest that was specifically for photography challenges. Since I enjoy doing photography challenges every now and then, I figured it was time to start a board for collecting different kids of photography challenges. So far I have at least one photography challenge for each month, some months have multiple challenges. I also have multiple photography challenges that are for 31 days, or 30 days. There might be a few that are just 20 day challenges. I also saved a couple photography challenges that are for 20 weeks, as well as a few that are for 52 weeks. Out of the many photography challenges that I have saved, I picked out four different challenges that I thought were interesting and that I wanted to try. One of the photography challenges that I saved and printed out is called "City Photography Challenge." While you could do the challenges anywhere and at any time, I feel like this challenges would work better in a la...