Flotsam / Jetsam

It's party time. Excellent.

mosaic438486.jpg5 Minutes for Mom is hosting their “Ultimate Blog Party” this week. Welcome to my corner of the festivities!

Have a seat! Can I get you anything? Some marshmallows? Lemon meringue ice cream pie? Chocolate cake? Ice cream?
Ultimate Blog Party 2008A grizzly bear? (Hey, who let him in here?)

No?

Alright then. Have you met my husband? His alias is Rockford, and he’s a mighty sweet guy. And here are the kids, Poppy — our resident comedienne — and Pete. He’s new to the team, but he’s fitting in well so far.

There are all sorts of door prizes to be had at the Ultimate Blog Party, by the way. I’d love to win a rocking horse for Pete & Poppy or some art for someone’s wall or a customized workout plan from Go Workout Mom. We’ll be giving away some more cookies sometime this week, so make sure to stop by again to toss your name into the hat.

Thanks for stopping by! Feel free to look around, and help yourself to whatever’s in the fridge. And before you go, please leave a comment! Tell me a little about yourself! Thanks!

Eating

A good reason to eschew vegetarianism

I’ve had bacon on the brain ever since I saw the bacon cups at NotMartha.com. Today she revealed the purpose of the cups: A bacon party. The photos had me drooling.

In other bacon news, here are a few things I’d like to try:

  • Bacon Salt. Because everything should taste like bacon. The founders have a nice background story that involves “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” Seriously.
  • Mo’s Bacon Bars. A few years ago I thought it would be a good idea to add bacon to chocolate chip cookies. Rockford squashed that idea. (Fair enough. I squashed his cereal bar idea, which was the most lucrative of the two.) Vosges’ bacony bar has me thinking about Bacon Chocolate Cookies again, though.
  • “Powered by Pork.” This Zingerman’s gift box contains “almost 3 lbs of our favorite bacons, including Wisconsin Applewood, Arkansas Long Pepper, Kentucky Dry-Cured and Edward’s from Virginia.”

    Gee whiz, I’m hungry.

    It seems I infuriated Chris with my “American Idol” post. So in the spirit of apology, this post is dedicated to you, my bacon-loving, expat pal.

    • Flotsam / Jetsam

    Afternoon photo shoot

    Poppy, March 4, 2008I’ve been trying to take a cue from professional photographer and natural light fan Season Moore lately. There was some nice light coming into the apartment this afternoon, and Poppy was willing to let me snap some photos. She even took a few herself!

    I cropped and edited the photo of Poppy with Picnik, using the “Orton effect” and a little cross-processing. Picnik was a great, online photo-editing service before, and it’s even more impressive now that it’s entirely free. I haven’t found anything that I do on a regular basis with Photoshop that I can’t do with Picnik. If you’d like to play around with your photos, you should definitely check it out.