Project 365: Week 13

If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, you know that I spontaneously decided to come home for my birthday/Easter! I’m thrilled that I did. Even though I have a big paper to write, and not long before exams, I won’t ever regret making a choice to spend time with my family. That’s an important lesson, and I’m glad I learned it, albeit at the last minute – I literally booked my train at 12:30 AM on Wednesday night, and left at 11:50 the next morning!

Today I had the pleasure of working on my essay with a lakefront view (thanks to the hospitality of my friend Isabelle!) and tonight I’ll get to have my first family dinner in a little while. I miss the quiet comfort of being surrounded by people sometimes, since I live alone.

Wishing you the happiest of Good Fridays.

Six Layer Chocolate Malted and Toasted Marshmallow Cake

Brace yourselves.

Wait, maybe I should have somehow written that in the title. The title alone sometimes stops my heart. It’s okay though guys: I only had one piece, and went for a run this morning. (Let’s just ignore the fact that the run probably burned 1/3 of the calories I consumed from that piece of cake alone.)

It’s probably a good thing that the birthdays of my closest friends all lie between March 12 and April 23. Because by the time April 23 rolls around I am not going to want to so much as see a cake until, like, at least 2013. I mean, pie maybe, but not cake.

Joking aside though, there are 5 birthdays (including my own) that fall between those dates, and that means that we, as a group, gain approximately a cake each, right before summer, aka bikini season. Way to plan that one out, parents, way to plan. Because it’s not as though cake is optional, on a birthday. For me it sometimes is, because icing can occasionally make me nauseous, but if there ain’t cake there sure as hell better be a tray of brownies or something.

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March

And another one bites the dust. March is over! Time for the best month of the year, April. (I’m maybe a little biased). The greatest part of my “creative New Years Resolutions” – Project 365 and this video project – is that I get to document and preserve the special parts of my life. I don’t feel like it all goes by too quickly, I think it goes by just quickly enough. I get to fully experience each month, and then (with peace of mind, knowing that I’ve got it all on film) move onto the next.

A friend pointed out to me yesterday that she loved watching the three 2012 videos back-to-back, which to me is just another indication that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts (a theme in my life, I’m realizing). I’m so happy I chose to start this project. I will never regret it, and I will be thrilled to have it all on film.

I know you don’t know my friends, but maybe the video can inspire you or make you smile in some way. Enjoy.

Project 365: Week 12

Go girl.

I’m almost 3 months into Project 365. I can’t explain how amazing I feel about that. We’re turning the corner into April: final exams might make it a tough month for this project, but I’m still determined to take my daily photo. And during the summer? I have a feeling this project will be a cake walk – there’ll be so many beautiful, outdoorsy things to do and see.

Shooting the ice cream + cake post from yesterday was such a jubilant moment for me. I love food styling, I love that I’m slowly improving, and I love how the photos turned out. Love love love. Happy happy. Improvement of my photography is one of the reasons I took this project on. The other reason was to preserve everyday moments + beauty in my life. I think I’m succeeding at both!

Have a great day.

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