Fun Stuff
Random topics that don't fit in other categories.
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Fab Forties: Lord Animal and Lady Neon
The Fab Forties is a group of five style bloggers from around the globe who come together once a month to share their common love of fashion. Each month we choose a different theme and invite a guest blogger, who is also in her forties, to join us. The group’s goal is to take on a style trend and show how we each interpret and incorporate it into our lives. Six different ladies, six different styles, you’re sure to find something that inspires you. The Theme Our theme: Lord Neon and Lady Animal was selected by Sheela. Our guest co-host is Sam from Fake Fabulous. Scroll down to see Sam’s…
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Coffee and Pie Chat: Lemon-Lime Chess Pie Recipe
This post contains affiliate links Maple Orange Walnut Pie Click here for the recipe For our first pie, we baked a Maple Orange Walnut Pie from A Year of Pies by Ashley English. As I stated before, I’m not a baker, but this pie was super easy and delicious. A tad sweet, so I wouldn’t recommend it on a regular basis, but for special occasions? Absolutely. This month’s pie is Lemon-Lime Chess Pie. I’ve never had a Lemon-Lime Chess Pie before, so this whole thing is new to me. I’m super excited and I hope you are as well. Here’s the recipe: Lemon-Lime Chess Pie For the Filling: 1 1/4…
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Week 4: Happiness Is…
Welcome to week three of my Project 52: 2019 Edition. If you’d like to see the prompts that I’m using, read this post. Anyway, as promised, I’m showing the Straight Out of Camera {SOOC} image too, so you can see what I started with and how it ended. SOOC Nikon D7500 | 35mm I was sitting in my office on the floor with the light from the window facing me. I forget the exact camera settings and I accidentally deleted the details when I uploaded the photo. And now that you can see my office, you can see what I mean when I say I need to paint it. I’m…
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Coffee and Pie Chat: Maple Orange Walnut Pie Recipe
This post contains affiliate links A few weeks ago, I was scrolling Instagram when a picture of the most delicious looking pie jumped out at me. Like I started drooling on my phone. The more I looked at this pie, the more I wanted a slice. Well, that’s not possible considering Kristin {from Chicken Librarian and I don’t live anywhere near each other, but I thought of another possibility… Why don’t I learn to bake my own pies? So I contacted Kristin and asked her if she’d like to join me on a pie baking venture and – guess what? She was game. cue the drooling crowds Y’all, she was still on…
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Please Read: My Privacy Policy
I know y’all have probably been inundated with updated Privacy Policies, at least I have. Anyway,I wanted to share mine with you all, so here it is: Who we are Living Outside the Stacks is a lifestyle blog that focuses on faith, style, and photography. Our website address is: https://livingoutsidethestacks.com. What personal data we collect and why we collect it Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar…
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Shoot the Moon {A Tutorial}
You guys, this is my first photography tutorial! cheer I’m not by any stretch of the imagination a professional, but I have been asked to share how I achieve some of my shots, so I thought why not? If I can share what I know to help someone else have fun then yay! I’ll be honest, I’ve learned a lot from following people on Instagram, watching YouTube, and reading the camera manual. I cannot stress enough that you really need to know how your camera works in order to make the best images. After you learn what does what, take your camera off Auto and learn to find the light.…
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Week 4: Fill the Frame
Week 4: Fill the Frame Nikon D7500 | 50mm | f/5.6 | 1/25 | ISO 500 2018 saw the introduction of a new 52 week photography project, which has me totally excited. This year I want to really step out creatively and learn/practice new skills. I’d also really like to do more than just make photos of my morning coffee, although I do enjoy that. If you’d like to join in, I’m using the prompts from Definitely Dreaming. Anyway, I thought I’d let these posts do a sort of double duty, if you will. I’ll share my weekly photo and a few highlights from the week. So here goes… The feel…
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New Specs from Firmoo {and a discount code}
Disclaimer: This post contains an affiliate link. If you make a purchase using that link, I will receive a small commission. I purchased my glasses with my own money; the opinions shared is my own. I was about 7 or 8 years old when I got my first pair of glasses. I remember walking out of the doctor’s office, looking at my mom, and saying “I didn’t know there were individual leaves on trees.” For years, trees had looked like brown rectangles with green circles. And people looked like walking blurs. I didn’t know what I wasn’t seeing until I did. My vision was bad. It’s still incredibly bad. My…
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Be Brave
I used to tell my kids they should do one thing in their life that they can look back on and think Ohmygosh, I cannot believe I did that! You know, something that their kids or spouse will have to call me to verify. In other words, live boldly. Not dangerously. Boldly. There’s a difference. When I was in the Army, I was stationed in Korea for a year and I loved it. I used to spend my weekends hanging out with local Koreans. You know, dancing and eating all kinds of foods that I couldn’t identify. I spoke very little Korean. Truth be told, all I could say was…
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Throwback Thursday: First Snow
With the cold snap that’s gripping the nation, I thought it’d be fun to share a picture from my first snow. We were living in El Paso, Texas at the time, so I think my twin sister and I were about four or five and my younger sister was about one or two. Notice how we didn’t have gloves or “winter” coats. But I think the star of the show is my mom’s afro. On a related note {and, gah, I wish I had pictures}… The first time my kids saw snow was when they were between 2 and 5 years old. We were living in Pennsylvania at the time,…
