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{“hobo hands”}

i have some of the best friends ever! mainly because they are TRUE FRIENDS, but also because they give me the best gifts. many of which are homemade and/or handmade and/or practical and/or purposeful… all the things i appreciate… always given with love and thought behind it. true treasures, just like the friends and people that they are!

case and point : these fabulous fingerless gloves that a dear friend sent me for christmas last year. her sister made them and i think they are just fantastic! coincidentally, i had recently been looking for a pair of fingerless gloves to replace the pair i had for decades that finally unraveled. then these appeared and – !!!!!! they are so much better than anything else i was finding in my search!!! 😀

AND! they are in my food and foto colour! 😀

even though spring is approaching, i still wear these often because they keep my wrists nice and cozy!

THANK YOU, S & K!!

Tags: artists, crafts, DIY, food and foto, foodnfoto, fotography, friends, gifts, gratitude, hobo hands, homemade, life, love, magenta, thankful

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{homemade soap}

24 Jan

i made soap for christmas gifts last year. it’s so fun to make! the soap block, which i got from michaels, was made with mango and shea butter – super moisturizing! these soaps create a nice, rich lather. they would also be perfect for a bubble bath!

i made a few different kinds :

fragrance-free oatmeal
orange cinammon w/ rose petal flakes
lavender oatmeal
lavender rose
orange peppermint

people go nuts over the soap whenever i give it as a gift. 🙂

have you ever made your own soap?!

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{the most delicious holiday chocolate!}

18 Dec

i am so grateful for fellow foodie friends who get me! and who send me delicious treats like these decadent holiday-inspired chocolates… that look like logs for a cozy christmas fire! aren’t the beautiful?!

and my goodness they were delicious!

i’m not certain, but i believe the flavours were :

dark chocolate almond
dark chocolate w/ sea salt and peppermint filling
milk chocolate w/ peanut butter filling

needless to say, they didn’t last too long…

Tags: audrey michelle, chocolate, christmas, eating, food, food photography, foodie, foodography, fotographer, fotography, friends, gifts, life, love, photography, snacks, yum

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Categories audrey michelle, blogging, colorado, denver, food, food photography, food stories, fun, holidays, life, photography, the food, the foodie, the foto, whatever

{“good friends are like stars; you don’t always see them, but you know they are there.”}

15 Feb

thank you {again} for the lovely flowers, D.A.! 🙂

Tags: appreciation, audrey michelle, beauty, flowers, friends, friendship, gifts, gratitude, inspiration, life, love, nature, photography, photos, quotes, stillness, surprise, thank you, valentine's day, whatever

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Categories art, beauty, life, nature, the foto, whatever

{things i’m loving right now – bath sand}

12 Apr

this was a christmas gift from my awesome landlord/neighbour and i’ve been super enjoying it during this ~~winter and spring~~ longest season ever.

it’s been so relentlessly cold here… dark, cold, snowy, damp… did i mention cold?

nothing warms my bones like a hot salt bath. we all know how much i luuuurrve himalayan pink salt, and i do sometimes throw it in my warm bath water. but since i have had these wonderful {hand-made} bath sand satchels, i have been using them to soak in lots of healing from the powerful dead sea salts and essential oils these adorable packages are filled with.

i just love salt; it has amazing healing properties in so many ways.

sometimes nothing will comfort me like a hot salt bath. to detox the skin, the body, the pores, the aches and pains… and what i love about these great little packages is how my skin feels when i leave the water… so super soft and smooth, and smelly-good, too! 😉 ❤

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{animal messengers : the centipede}

5 Apr

i found this little guy {or gal? … are they asexual?!} in my tiny house the other day… and i think it’s so cool i was able to kind of capture the little legs!!!

i may have been a little freaked out at first, but that’s what you get when you live in the mountains – you have to learn to share your space with all of nature, as you are on her turf. when i looked up what this creature “represented” {according to some}, i read terms like psychic revelations, ability to survive stress, and this : “it is a wonder that something so small can humble even the largest and most threatening of creatures and people.” which clearly made me feel so good and comforted – cuz i am small, myself – but only physically 😉

i happily scooped him up onto a piece of paper and released him outside… but not before snapping a couple quick fotos. little bugger is FAST, too! i could only fire off two shots before he creeped down into a crevasse and scurried away…

apparently some centipedes are poisonous?! {yikes!} but not here in colorado, from what i’ve been told and read. i am thankful for my little gift of a centipede messenger. at the time i didn’t think much of it, but after reading about the energy this creature carries, i feel super blessed to have had it cross my path…