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    2014 Daily Selfie: Week 5 {In the Dark Room}

    Hi, how are you? How was your weekend? Are you getting snowed in? I sure hope we’re not, but I heard we are. I don’t know about you, but I am so over this cold weather. Seriously, it’s time for spring. I don’t care what that ground hog thingy says… Did you notice that I’m posting this on Tuesday instead of Monday? Well, that’s because I totally messed things up, so if you’re looking for a few photography tips, check out yesterday’s post. If you wanna know about my week, stay here: Outtake from my post for this week’s What I Wore Wednesday. I hate filling out surveys. But even more…

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    How to ID Your Pics for Use on Pinterest {In the Dark Room}

    Are you on Pinterest? Do you encourage people to pin your recipes? If you answered yes to those questions, you need to make sure that you’re: Protecting your images Identifying your images And by following a couple of easy steps, you can make sure that your pictures are properly identified for use on Pinterest. When you take a picture, it’s assigned a file number. That file number is not useful for anyone except for you. And, unless you change the file number to something informative, whenever someone pins a picture directly from your blog, the file number is what shows up in the description on Pinterest. You want them to see…

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    Favorite Pictures from January {In the Dark Room}

    One of my photography goals this year is to learn to shoot in Manual. To accomplish this goal, I’m participating in 2 photography challenges on flickr: Challenge Friday and 52 Week Project: 2014 Edition. These are my favorite pictures from the month of January. Earrings ~ Red Tweezers ~ Tools Clouds ~ Edge Cape Girardeau ~ Urban Are you participating in any photography challenges this year? Do you have any favorite photos from this month? Post a link so I can check them out.

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    2014 Daily Selfie: Week 4 {In the Dark Room}

    Happy Monday! How’re you guys doing? I’m doing well. I spent the weekend doing what I usually do: vegging in front of the TV. Did you happen to catch Lizzie Borden Took an Ax? It was on Lifetime and starred Christina Ricci, who took crazy to a whole nother level. And can I give a round of applause for the soundtrack? Totally kick butt. And now for a few pics from last week: I keep holding out hope that at some point I’ll be able to take my What I Wore Wednesday pictures outside again. No such luck. It’s still too cold… Martin Luther King, jr.’s birthday. Thank you to all of the men and…

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    2014 Daily Selfie: Week 3 {In the Dark Room}

    Hi, y’all. I hope you had a great weekend. I did. I spent time with my family just relaxing… Goodness knows I needed it after last week. It was emotionally draining… The hubs and I spent Saturday our usual way: breakfast at a locally owned restaurant and then running errands. It’s the old married couple’s version of a date. After church, I spent the rest of the day vegging on the sofa and playing with my iPad. “Fashion over function.” Those shoes are not practical library wear but they’re cute. A lady delivered a thank you card to my office because I let her husband use my truck to jump…

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    2014 Daily Selfie: Week 2 {In the Dark Room}

    Hi there! How was your weekend? Mine was pretty nice. I spent most of Saturday vegging on the sofa, got sucked in to watching the Hallmark Channel. It was a Janet Oke weekend. I’ve never read her books but, man, was I swept away by the romance, positive messages of putting God first, and loving your family. hand me the tissues Sunday was pretty nice as well. The family and I went to church then I came home and made a big ol’ pot of white bean and beef soup. So delicious! The rest of the day was spent doing, what else, but laundry. What about you? Did you do…

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    2014 Daily Selfie: Week 1 {In the Dark Room}

    Hi there! How was your weekend? Ours was nice, I’ll be it incredibly cold! Check out the picture I posted here. I spent most of the weekend hunkered under a blanket with a cup of coffee, natch. I watched a lot of TV and started reading a very intense book by Beth Moore called When Godly People Do Ungodly Things. I also started two new challenges: Bible in 365 days ~ You can read my thoughts here 2014 Daily Selfie ~ I’ll be posting a weekly recap on the blog I began the first day of 2014 the same way I begin every day: with a cup of coffee… Going…

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    November Photo A Day Challenge: Days 10~15 {In the Dark Room}

    Day 10: Book When I moved out on my own, I took three things from my parents’ home: a few books, a chess set, and a doll. Day 11: Memory 1994. I was promoted to Corporal by Capt. DeMassey and the hubs. Side note, I’m pretty certain I was violating all kinds of reg with the glasses and lipstick. Day 12: Clouds The weather has been all over the place. One minute it’s cold, the next it’s hot. I need stability. Day 13: Part of Me My eyes are my favorite features, even though I’m blind as a bat without my glasses. Day 14: Eating One of my favorite salads…

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    November Photo A Day Challenge: Days 4~9 {In the Dark Room}

    Happy Monday, y’all! I hope you guys had a good weekend. My weekend started on Friday and lasted through Sunday. Yay for long weekends! We didn’t do anything, just hung out around the house. But, sometimes, you just need to take a break and do nothing, amiright? But there are times when you really need to get away from it all… I think next time the hubs and I have some time off we’re going to try to go exploring. This week’s pictures are a mix of camera phone and DSLR shots. I find that if I mix it up I’m more likely to post a picture for that day’s…

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    November Photo A Day Challenge: Days 1~3 {In the Dark Room}

    It has been waaaay too long since I’ve picked up my camera to shoot anything other than my clothes. Day 1: Fruit Confession: that apple was the last from a purchase from about a month ago. On one side it was wilted and bruised. Miss 18 was totally skeeved the whole time it was in her hands. Day 2: I Did This Today I do this every day. For further proof, check out my Instagram feed. Day 3: P Is For… Pretty petals on a purple flower. I’m linking up with: Fat Mum Slim ~ Photo A Day Challenge: Monthly photography challenge. If you play along, use the hashtag #FMSphotoaday…