Jes's 101 in 1001 blog: 2009

Monday, January 26, 2009

Red Velvet Cupcake Truffles

These are my favorite dessert of ALL time! A bit difficult to make, but oh so worth it!

Monday, January 12, 2009

Cherry White Chocolate Shortbreak Cookies, dipped in more White Chocolate!

My friend Ambyr gave me some of these cookies for Christmas and I fell in love! She gave me the recipe and here are mine!

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

#66 - Photograph Everything That I Bake

Before Christmas I made some peanut butter cookies and chocolate covered pretzels. Here they are! This is a fun task to photograph this stuff. I have so many kitchen plates and bowls and stuff that my options for accessories is pretty good!

my official list

undone, not started
in progress
complete!

health + vanity:
1. get to goal weight #1
2. stop drinking pop
3. {personal}
4. use wii fit at least once a week (0/143)
5. buy less frozen food
6. drink 8 glasses of water a day for 2 weeks in a row
7. take daily vitamins for 2 weeks in a row
8. take a spin class
9. eat breakfast for 2 weeks in a row (0/14)
10. fit into Boden jeans
11. get to goal weight #2
12. get eyebrows waxed every other month at least (0/33)
13. get eye exam and new glasses
14. Walk the dogs at least once a week in the spring, summer and fall (0/60)
15. go for a bike ride at least once a week in the spring, summer and fall (0/60)
16. get a crap load of new clothes at one time

for fun, happiness and creativity:
17. take a ceramics class
18. make one clay cake (good quality)
19. go on a non-photography related vacation
20. do a pooch portrait for my own dogs
21. take photos for fun 10 times (0/10)
22. learn to knit and or crochet (beginner to moderate style)
23. knit and or crochet a scarf for me that I would actually wear outside
24. go rollerskating twice a year (0/5)
25. read one book a month (5/33)
26. take a cake decorating class
27. host a cookie party
28. photograph 50 more dogs (9/50)
29. go bowling 10 times (0/10)
30. go to that ceramics painting place in Royal Oak
31. attempt to make handmade cards
32. go to the DIA and see if I really don't like it
33. go horseback riding
34. go 4 wheeling
35. participate in 26 Things photo project
36. get a custom perfume
37. see a real pop concert
38. make my own candles
39. make my own soap
40. play with shrinky dinks (make velvet elvis shrinkies)
41. netflix The Office - I didn't like it. I know! Thats odd.
42. try a woodworking project with Nate
43. go to a Pistons playoff game

for marriages sake:
44. have date night with nate once a month (0/33)
45. get pro portraits of nate & i by someone really good
46. eat dinner together, at the table, twice a month (0/66)
47. keep nate on track with his 101 list
48. help nate with one of his "chores" once a week (0/143)

because money does matter:
49. open an etsy shop (again)
50. pay off credit cards
51. buy stocks
52. get, learn and actually use Quickbooks for business (let my brother off the hook)
53. use coupons for grocery shopping
54. figure out how to, and then do, save for retirement
55. sell something on ebay

cooking, baking & eating:
56. cook 10 meals in crockpot (1/10), 1.11.09 Mac & Cheese,
57. make homemade ice cream in unused ice cream machine, once (0/1)
58. make homemade pasta
59. bake 20 NEW kinds of cupcakes and or cookies (1/20)
60. make an apple pie from scratch
61. give one of everything I bake to someone other than nate or mom
62. make pesto
63. try sushi (vegetarian of course)
64. organize recipes that I just printed on paper or wrote down
65. start a baking blog to document what I've made
66. photograph (with real camera) everything I bake - first real photos taken 12.19.08!!

i like friends and family:
67. mail (real mail) birthday cards to friends and family
68. call friends twice a week just to chat (7/286)
69. visit Kirk
70. visit nephew (Justin) at least once a week (2/143)
71. have people over for dinner 6 times a year (1/18)

because I bought a house and it should be taken care of:
72. redo closet room (paint, comforter)
73. organize basement stuff
74. get rid of 100 unused items (0/100)
75. replace living room window
76. refinish dressers
77. hang Christmas lights on the outside of the house
78. hang a bigger photo above fireplace
79. organize closets
80. try the whole fire in the fireplace thing
81. put away clothes once a week from bed (1/143)
82. put cd's in shelf we bought just for the cd's
83. dust every surface that needs dusting once a week (1/143)
84. wallpaper a room with really kick ass wallpaper
85. paint and spruce up basement bathroom
86. paint house siding
87. get a new front door
88. redo deck
89. glass mosaic back splash for kitchen
90. replace knobs and pulls in kitchen

other:
91. get life insurance
92. document each 101 with photo (if possible) (1/101)
93. decide what to do with wedding dress
94. get wedding dress from moms
95. shoot a session at the studio without Nates help
96. photograph an animal that is NOT a dog or cat (or squirrel or a bird)
97. paint studio walls at least once every 2 months (0/16)

things to buy:
98. get a new laptop
99. get blinds cleaned or replaced
100. get another curio cabinet or buffet
101. get a real wedding album

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