iHeartFaces: Bubbles Week Entry

It's another week, another theme, with another GREAT groups of photos all revolving around the theme of bubbles. Don't forget to check out the other entries here.

My entry:

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This was taken on July 4th of this year. I was very lucky to be able to visit my fiancé over this holiday. A large group of Marines & their wives, fiancees, and girlfriends got together for a BBQ/Pool party. The guys were very content throwing the football around in the pool until they realized I had an underwater camera- hence wrestling broke out and I became an "action" photographer. This one is my favorite because of the expression on his face- almost Popeye like! (and there's my fiancé getting double teamed at the bottom, haha...)

What do you think about the photo?
-Taylor

DIY: Fruit Pizza

This past weekend was my friend Ephrem's birthday party, I was in charge of making the "cake," he wanted it to be unique and different. How did I do?

"Skinnie," this was the best birthday cake, um... dessert anyone has ever made me!

Score one for me! =)

Anyway, you can make this too...I cheated with the cookie and used a mix instead of baking from scratch, I also used peanut butter where most people generally prefer a sugar cookie "crust." I used the recipe for the cookie as directed on the bag, however I baked it for 20min on the pizza stone. My cookie was 1ft in diameter when it came out of the oven, you'll notice a difference in the final picture.I did make my own cream cheese frosting...

• 1 8oz package of cream cheese
• 1/4 cup softened butter
• 1 cup confectioner's (powdered) sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  

First you need to cream the butter and cream cheese together, then mix in the vanilla. After this you will gradually stir in the powdered sugar.Since it has been reaching 115* (no I'm not kidding) here in the day time, I baked this cookie around 6am, and made the frosting while it was in the oven. I left the cookie uncovered on the pizza stone in the fridge, and placed the frosting in a tupperware in the fridge. The party wasn't until 6pm, so around 5pm I pulled the cookie and frosting out, cut up all my fruit (nectarines, kiwis, strawberries, blueberries, and bananas) and started working on the finished product-Yum!
It was gone in less than 5min.


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I ♥ Faces: Feet Week Entry

i ♥ faces is an awesome photography blog... check it out.

My entry to this weeks "feet" themed contest:
My fiancé is in the Marine Corps... and I think there is nothing better than My Flip-Flops + His Combat Boots, because it means that we are together!

Be sure to check out all the other entries...