Friday Photo Fun

This is my first time doing Fix-It Friday over at iheartfaces! Since I'm always playing in Photoshop anyway I decided to give it a try! I'm a little intimated by other entries but it's all for good fun! Plus I will only learn by challenging myself!

Here is the original photo:

And here are my edits:

I used Photoshop Elements 8. I didn't write down how my edits, sorry.

She is so beautiful and I had fun fixing up the photo!

So what do you think? I'd love any feedback- good and helpful ;)

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I'm also participating in Live Every Moments Challenge: Pets

Here's my entry:

Christmas Galore!

This is a random post of a few Christmas items around my house.


This is my very first attempt at a bokeh. I'll bet you can guess what it's of! 

What do you think?? 
I'll assume you guessed right... it's of course my tree...

(Christmas tree overload I know, I promise I will might stop posting pictures of it)

These photos are of my lovely Yankee Candle's decoration. My mom gave it to me when we moved into our home and I swear it's my favorite Christmas decoration ever. The tree lights up and blinks to Christmas tunes and the little snowmen spin around it. It's cute, very cute. And it's placed on my coffee table every year.

This is my new wreath, $15 at the Christmas Tree Shoppe! 

Had to do this..

Yes I'm a nerd :)


I LOVE my new Scentsy warmer with Christmas scents like Eskimo Kiss, Snowberry & Poinsetta Pine! It's delightful.


And, Roxy's stocking. The picture is from when she was a baby puppy. 
Yes, she has a bink in her mouth...

And no, I'm not a crazy lady, I swear this was all her! She has quite a few human cousins and well, one day one of them left their bink on the floor. Fair game right?! She thought so! 


 She also has a big thing for socks. This morning I found two pairs of clean socks in the living room, one of which was tucked under her head while she was sleeping.

Roxy has no comment on this.

The end.

P.S. You may have noticed I'm starting to add a watermark to my photos now. This is simply for the reason that I'd rather not have them stolen. So this is supposed to help, that's all :)

Recipe: Peanut Butter Pie

First off let me just say thank you for all comments on my previous post! I feel loved :) You're all awesome!


And....

Here it is! The recipe for the peanut butter pie I made for my family on Thanksgiving!

It is from Kraft's Food & Family Recipe magazines.

And it is delicious.

Sorry I didn't take pictures of the process since I was moving fast that morning!

What you will need:

35 Nilla Wafters, finely crushed (about 1 cup)

1/4 cup butter, melted

1 pkg. (3.9oz.) Jell-O Chocolate Instant Pudding

2 cups cold milk, divided

4oz. (1/2 of the 8oz pkg) Philadelphia Cream Cheese, softened

1 pkg. (3.4oz) Jell-O Vanilla Flavor Instant Pudding

1/2 cup peanut butter, divided

2 cups thawed Cool Whip

Hershey's Chocolate Syrup 

How to make it:

Heat oven to 375F
Mix wafer crumbs and butter until well blended; press onto bottom and up side of 9inch pie plate. Bake 10 min, let cool.

Beat chocolate pudding mix and 1 cup milk with whisk 2min. (Pudding will thicken a little). Spread onto bottom of crust. Gradually add remaining milk to cream cheese in large bowl, beating with mixer until well blended. Add dry vanilla pudding mix; beat 2 min. Stir in 1 cup Cool Whip. Spread over chocolate pudding layer. Spoon remaining Cool Whip onto center of pie.

Refrigerate 3 hours. When ready to serve microwave remaining peanut butter on HIGH 15 sec. or until melted. Drizzle peanut butter and Hershey's syrup over pie.

And, ENJOY!




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Looking In

While letting Roxy out last night I looked back and realized how beautiful our tree looks from the outside. Possibly even more beautiful than it looks on the inside. It's warmth and coziness shines through the glass and makes our home even more inviting. So I put Roxy in and grabbed my camera. I love this view. 

I used Pioneer Woman's Heartland action for this photo, I love the old time feel it gives it. 

P.S. I will be posting the recipe for the peanut butter pie I made since I got a few comments of people who said they would like to try it. It could be a nice dish to bring to a Christmas function! So stay tuned :)