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Orlando, Florida
Hello and thanks for visiting with me! I'm what most people would say would be a "native" of Florida. While not "officially" born here I have lived in Orlando all but a few years of my wonderful life. I love spontaneous adventures, cooking, learning and exploring new things. In my blog I will share many of these experiences with you and hope that you will enjoy them too! As an enthusiast for everything photography I decided to do what I love and love what I do after working in the corporate world for much of my life. My love for travel and people inspired me to take a once hobby and make lemons into lemonade as we would say here in the south. My style of shooting uses natural light, is relaxed and photojournalistic in nature and is meant to portray, in the images captured, the beauty of "Living, Laughing and Loving Life".

July 10, 2010

Moist Blueberry Muffins with a TWIST!

So my husband is a big muffin fanatic these days it seems.  Being from England he likes his breads and pastries.  Over there traditionally it's a love of scones but over here I think it's more about the muffin.  With our newly renovated kitchen I have found myself starting to bake more.

After a quick, and yes, failed attempt at a less than moist blueberry muffin I began my search.  I recalled a recipe I made often growing up that I thought I'd give a try but added a little bit of my own twist.  I got the thumbs up so I felt it be worthy of sharing this recipe.  The TWIST...It's made with a box of cereal!


  • 12 ounce box of Special K Fruit & Yogurt
  • 3 cups of flour
  • 3 tsp. of baking soda
  • 1 tsp. of salt
  • 3 eggs
  • 5 ounces of vegetable oil
  • 2 1/2 cups of buttermilk
  • 1 cup of sugar
  • 1 pint of fresh blueberries
Grease your muffin tin and bake at 400 degrees for 20 - 25 minutes.
Yields 12 jumbo or 24 regular sized muffins.

Tip: To make buttermilk from regular milk add 1 tablespoon of distilled vinegar for each cup and let stand for 5 minutes.

You can use a regular box of Special K flakes if you prefer.

Simple, easy and tasty too!  I hope you enjoy them.
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July 9, 2010

Magical Sunset PSE Action

So I wanted to share some of my editing actions and the results they have on the photos.  You may have noticed that one of "My Favorite Things" is the Coffee Shop Free Actions & Presets blog site.  Rita runs the blog and I receive her RSS feeds on her latest posts.  Often times she will have new actions for me to use in my Photoshop Elements program.

Recently she sent out the "Magic Sunset" action and I tried it out on one of my many photos taken in the UK last year.  This photo is of Corfe Castle located in the village of Dorset.  I loved this photo but had put it aside because it had a power line running right through the top of the photo.  When I received this new action I thought I would revisit editing this photo using the Magic Sunset action.  This is what I came up with.  Let me know your thoughts and critiques.


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