Rainbow Fruit Kabobs

So last week I showed you my Over the Rainbow Fruit Platter that I made for my daughter's St. Patrick's Day party at Youth Group.  It was a HUGE success and was nearly all gone by the end of the night.

  Well, I also volunteered to bring fruit to girls' night at my friend, Laura's, house Friday night.  Since she and I are not eating sugar, this gave us something sweet to eat after a yummy dinner.  Instead of making another rainbow platter, I found some skewers at Walmart and made rainbow fruit kabobs instead.

Not that I need to tell you :) but I used strawberries, mandarin oranges, pineapple, green grapes, blueberries, and red grapes.

I thought about putting a marshmallow on each end to cover the skewers, but that would defeat the purpose of a healthy dessert.  And even though I'm not a big marshmallow eater, Laura said she really likes them.  And I didn't want to tempt her.

I was going to take them in my new pitcher that I bought from Zulily but they wouldn't all fit in.  And the strawberries at the bottom kept falling off.  So I just took them in an aluminum cake pan.  They didn't look as nice but it worked.

They were a big hit and I came home with an empty pan!

While at girls' night, a friend taught us how to belly dance.  It was great fun!  Laura did a blog post about our fun if you want to check it out.   There might be an, um,  interesting picture of me in there.  :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Linking with Kleinworth & Co. Your Best Weekly, Project Alicia, In the Moment with ..., NC Sue, and Live and Love ... Out Loud.

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Tutorial Tuesday - Foodtography

So I'm still not quick enough to get the Tutorial Tuesday post up ON Tuesday or even Wednesday, but I'm a little quicker this week than last.  :)

Anyway, I wanted to try out this week's TT because it is about foodtography, which is an area that I am seriously lacking.  My kitchen was the ugliest, darkest kitchen and was just not good for photographing food (or anything else, for that matter).  It is still not a good place, mainly because it is almost completely gutted right now.  But we're making progress.

Hopefully when it is all done, it will be much more photo friendly.  And it is kind of funny that when I've been picking out cabinets and countertops, sinks and faucets, backsplashes and lighting, always in the back of my mind has been "will that photograph well?"  Please tell me I'm not the only one who does that.  :)

But I digress.  So since my kitchen is currently a sucky place for photography, I pulled out my lightbox from last week's tutorial and used it for a couple photos.

I waited until Nick got home from school the other day because I knew he'd want some of the kiwi that I had just bought.  He loves kiwi.  I think he ate all of the last few that I bought.  It almost killed him that I cut it up for him then walked away and asked him to wait a few minutes while I photographed it.  This isn't the most creative shot, but I was under a little pressure to get that starving boy his kiwi.

While I had the light box out, I photographed some conversation hearts I had just purchased for the upcoming Valentine's Day party at school.  I'm Room Parent for Nick's class and we'll be using these for a game we will play.  When I was done with them, I let Keira eat them since I'm not eating sweets.  Plus I don't really like conversation hearts anyway.


For both of these photos I used my 18-55mm kit lens.


And just for fun, here's a photo I took of some yummy pumpkin cookies back in September.

My husband had some trim drying out on the deck so I took advantage of the makeshift table and photographed these.  The tree across the road provided some beautiful bokeh.  Those look really good to me right now!


And one more just for fun ...

I took this for Ashley's Scavenger Hunt back in December.  I like the simplicity of it.

This was fun but it is definitely an area that I need some more practice in.

Be sure to head over to Branson's and Ashley's to see some great foodtography.

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday 12.18.11

This week's Scavenger Hunt items are: What is it?, Children/fur babies sleeping, Joy, Window, and Half.

{what is it?}I got a little messed up with this prompt.  Even though I had it written down correctly, I kept thinking "what's inside" and I had this picture in mind.  I'm totally "borrowing" this idea from Tracey from Inspire Me Photography ... although I think she borrowed the idea from someone else also. :)  Anyway, I love this photo of Nick.  If he doesn't become a politician when he grows up, he will be an actor.  He's good at faking.  :)
{children/fur babies sleeping}I kept trying to get a photo of Honey sleeping but every time I got the camera near her face, she would wake up.  So I opted for a different angle.  :)
{joy}I bought these blocks last week at Target.  Alex loves playing with them and saying the letters.  You can flip them to say PEACE also.
{window}I love the way our Christmas tree lights reflect off the front window.
{half}This was the hardest prompt for me for some reason.  So you get half of an apple.  :) (I'm also calling this my POTD since I took it this afternoon.)  :)
I was tickled when I visited Ashley's blog this morning because I learned that I won her giveaway from last week.  Yay!  I won a collection of digital papers and a premade logo or $25 credit towards a custom logo from Blues and Pinks.  Thanks Ashley!
There is no Scavenger Hunt next week because of Christmas, but you can check out her Memories, Dreams and Reflections photo prompt that is coming up quickly!Have a great week and a Merry Christmas!

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Photo of the Day: September 10

ISO 800, f/5.3, 1/80s, 18-105mm lens on Nikon D40

Unfortunately this photo was not take today.  Although the sun did peak through for a minute or so earlier.  In the middle of all the rain and thunderstorms.  So since I'm seriously lacking in inspiration today ... and the fact that I've spent all morning cleaning up my scrapbook/computer room (I can see the counter top again!) ... I'm using a photo from a week ago.

The pears on our neighbor's tree are almost ready to eat.  Although Alex says they are perfect and will eat them now anyway.  :)  Thankfully the neighbors don't mind if my kids help themselves to a few.

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