Sunday, May 22, 2011

Corbin Eli Nolt

Meet Corbin Eli Nolt. I've been having lots of little boys visit my studio lately. Corbin did so well, he let us position him however we wanted - so much fun !!













One of the collages I created with his pictures.











Playing arround with editing techniques






I love this pose and  Corbin did so great ! Often when we try this the baby doesn't cooperate very well.


Blessings,    Esther

Friday, May 20, 2011

Rainy Day Goodness!

Tonight after yet another rain shower, as  we were sitting on the porch enjoying the beautiful soft rain falling thru the sunshine ( I'm sure there was rainbow out there) I notice how beautiful the light was falling on my irises and making them glow.

The rain drops sparkling on the petals was so beautiful.

The colors on this iris are soo amazing !!


This pictures are Sooc ( straight out of camera) no editing needed because of that beautiful golden evening light !













The last of the bleeding heart flowers

Love these flowers and I'm so excited about my white bleeding heart, it's still really small but managed to produce a few flowers.
My pretty pansies ! As you can tell I love pink tones of flowers.


My Blog was uploading the pictures sideways and there is no way to turn them on the blog, So I wasn't able to post several of the ones I had picked out.

Blessings, Esther




Saturday, May 14, 2011

Parkview Ladies Luncheon

The Ladies at Parkview Mennonite Church in Reamstown, Pa had a special day of inspiration and fellowship on May 7th, 2011. I was asked to prepare a luncheon for them. I decided to have the tables set up at the park which is next to the church. Thankfully God blessed us with a nice day! Slightly windy but warm in the sunshine.    


Entrance to the luncheon area.


I wanted to hang these tissue balls in the trees but ran into a problem ! This park has very large mature trees and the branches were all to high ! I did find this one maple tree near the tennis court and just off the church parking lot, so that's the tree I used !

I decided to use an all white theme and that worked well with speakers theme!




Bird's nest salad


                                 Beautiful snowball viburnums in milk glass vases for centerpieces.




I created several different types of white flower pins for favors and used them on the napkins.









 And the yummiest part .... Dessert table !!!!  btw I hid my work space behind this curtain


Cake~pops

                         Yummy cake covered with chocolate and placed on a lollipop stick. 

A closeup view- Mmm... do not lick the screen !


Tortilla shells with cream


Angel food cake with lemon curd


Decorated with pretty little flowers


Yogurt covered peanuts



Fruit salad with fresh blueberries

                                                               Mints with jelly filling


Butterfly & Flower cupcakes. Butterflies have yougurt covered prezels for wings.


Yogurt pretzels




Before praying the ladies sang 'White as snow' lead by Michele Stauffer


MENU

Bird's nest salad

Dill Pickle Soup
Ham & Cheese Soup
Home Baked Rolls

Dessert Buffet










 and now I need to give credit to the amazing help I had in preparing this event !
~ Thanks so much Deb Zimmerman for giving up a morning of camping to help set up and providing lots of dishes and then returning to help clean up !  A true blessing !
~ Sandy Eberly for preparing the wonderful desserts, please give her a call if you need a cake or desserts !
~Mary Weber for making the soups and homemade rolls
~ Amanda, Jenna, Monica & Katrina for helping to set up and serving the ladies - you did a great job !
~ Marla Stauffer for letting me chop at her huge snow ball bush
 ~ my husband Dave & my son Dillon for lugging all the heavy tables down from the church and then back up again and for helping with setting up !!!