Collaborative Watercolors

We like to make these collaborative paintings in our house. My daughter loves to paint, and so do most adults, which is something we have learned from having guests over, and leaving the watercolors within reach. This one was made by 5 adults and a 3 year old. We try to cover every inch with color, and then we tack the cheery results to the walls all over the place. Give it a try!

Happy Birthday, Quin!

I can't believe that my baby daughter turned THREE today! Time has flown... and in a few short weeks, our next daughter will join us! We had a lovely little birthday day today, with a friend visit, and then dinner, a special hand-picked-from-the-local-candy-shop carameled apple rolled in M&Ms dessert, gifts sent from family, and LOTS of phone calls. Thanks everyone! We will have a kiddo party on Sunday. Bonne fete et happy birthday to the sweetest reason for living I know!!

Everything's Amazing, Nobody is Happy

That about sums up our current state of society. This guy is right on. Enjoy a laugh!

Still Snowing, So How About Some Strawberry Shortcake?

We live in a place where snow flurries are still falling, although it is mid May. This kind of weather, this time of year, makes people a bit out of sorts. We had a kind of cranky day, until it was time to make dinner and dessert. I will post about dinner later, let's go straight to dessert. I needed some inspiration for meals this week, so I took out one of my old notebooks that I have recipes taped into. This one I made while living in Maine, and it has tons of strawberry recipes on the first several pages. One is for Strawberry Shortcake. Always a lovely dessert and so easy. While I was not able to go to my beloved pick-your-own strawberry field in Farmington, Maine, the berries we got from the local market were sweet without adding sugar. There is just something so special about the taste of summer. And as my husband pointed out as he watched Q & I roll out the shortcake dough and cut them into circles, "How can you be unhappy when you have little homemade cakes on a snowy day?" Exactly why it was the perfect time to have strawberry shortcake, a way of denying the crazy weather.


Here is the recipe. I was going to retype it, but I like this photo, and I am working on borrowed time, since we will welcome a new baby girl in three weeks or less...


Yummy fresh cakes!


PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE if you have an electric or hand mixer, make fresh whipped cream. It is sooooooooo much better than anything at the store. It may have a lot of fat, but it doesn't have much sugar, and none of those nasty additives and preservatives. My grandmother has always made the whipped cream from scratch, and I will never serve cool whip, thanks to her example.


And besides, when you make it fresh, there is always someone who will be thrilled to lick the beaters!


Baking with my wonderful girl and my 37 week baby bump :)


It's ready! YUM!

Images by Tiffany Teske

Face Painting Fun

QQ & Daddy had extra fun with the watercolors recently. One minute they were painting paper and the next they were painting each other!

Happy Mother's Day!

 

This message is a bit late... we didn't have internet OR phone for 4 hours, right from 6:30 PM - 10:30 PM, so I didn't even get to talk to MY mom :( At least I had left her a message earlier in the day... Hope all you Moms had an amazing day surrounded by family!! I am getting pretty excited to welcome our daughter in early June!

More 2009 'Roid Week Images

Man, that was fast, it is already over for 2009... NOOOOOOOOOO! I did make images each day, but just got home from being away, so have yet to scan most of them. I was able to scan this mini series today. I love to shoot little series with Polaroid. 3-5 images work well. This is my daughter, just being free.




All Images Copyright Tiffany Teske

Feature on POE Blog (Photographers of Etsy) - My Internship with Wegman

I have been on vacation with my family for so long (no complaints!) that I am getting behind on my posts. I would be posting each night but my darn hotel internet is a bit unreliable, especially when it comes to uploading images. C'est la vie! Technology is great when it works...




I want to thank Ann Wilkinson for interviewing me about an internship I completed in University with William Wegman for the Photographer's of Etsy blog. You can check it out here. It was a fun trip down memory lane. I really haven't thought about it much in recent years. It is only when people have read my CV and ask me about it that I remember it. I was able to find these photographs, which now seem like they were taken AGES ago. I have changed a lot in going on 10 years... Ann's article was pretty accurate (although Wegman's "cabin" is more like a mansion) which I appreciate and expected from Ann. As the article states, if you are interested in interning for another photographer, just be brave and ask. It worked for me...

Once Again, It Is Time for Polaroid Week...

Paper Lantern by Tiffany Teske
Polaroid Spectra

...or 'Roid Week 2009, as it is affectionately known. Time to make a Polaroid a day for five days. I pretty much do this anyway, but it is fun to make it official and to play with others. Here is the Flickr group you can join so that you can upload your work for others to view and where you can check out the work of others... Have fun and be creative!

Hello from Olympia, Washington!

We are at our friend's home in Olympia, enjoying the spring warmth and their generous hospitality. We only have two days to see a ton of stuff, so I will do my best to post some updates but it may have to wait until we reach Kelowna next week. I have been experimenting with a new film in my Polaroid back of my Holga... wish I had a scanner so I could post them. More soon...