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Kale chips

("recipe" at the end of the post)

When I'm at home I'm a bit of a muncher (I believe grazer is the current term-in-use).  That being the case I try to have healthy options within availble for easy grabbing, like carrot sticks (we've been getting the tastiest carrots in our CSA box mmmmm), fruit of all kinds, and the most recent addition - Kale chips

Trust me - as healthy as I attempt to eat if any of these aren't around I have no problem diving into the nutella.

 

Little Mr. Isn't into actually eating the kale chips (or the carrot sticks....or most of the fruit...sigh) but he does like to help in the preparation.  Yesterday he saw me taking pictures right before we popped the kale in the oven and he hopped off of the chair (small mommy heart attack) and came back in a flash with his camera.

 

Only one of the Kale pictrues in this post was taken by me..the other two are from Little Mr. - can you tell which is which?

 

 The Kale chip "recipe" is a pretty simple one:

wash and dry some Kale

remove the stem (we didn't this time because we bought prewashed bagged kale - so we'll just eat around the tough parts)

toss with some olive oil

Lay them out on a cookie sheet (one layer)

sprinkle with salt

bake @300 for ~20min

mmmmmmm - crunchy

behind the scenes

 Do you see this mess of a kitchen counter? Yup - that belongs to me. 

But if you lean down at the right angle then you can make the plate of cookies on the messy counter look like this:

 

And then there's the product photos...

I was in the middle of taking photos of my new rings and kept shooting during a few product adjustments.

 

 

Wanna know what I was doing when I took this photo?

 

 

yup - holding Little Miss.  I try to get most of my pictures taken during nap times but, occasionally someone wakes up right when I'm trying to get those last few shots in while the light is still where I want it to be.

If you look in the back ground you can see Mr. Man.  What you can't see all that clearly is that Little Mr. is laying (asleep) on his lap after waking up prematurely from a nap.  He ended up having his "daddy lap nap" for almost an hour.

I also got to take this picture

More photo props

A couple of weeks ago I discussed my new found photo prop for my scarves and cowls - the wooden hanger.

 

Now here's another photo prop that I use (and a new product for the shop)

yes, an envelope

 

Nice right. But if I flip it over to the other side....

(don't worry - I'm not planning on using that picture in my etsy shop).

 

Now - I wouldn't ever ship something to someone like this.  When it comes to shipping, this felt ball garland will be wrapped around a piece of nice white cardstock.  But for now, thank you junk mail!

 

 

Product photos

Meet my new favorite photo prop:

yup - a wooden hanger

Since I am both model, and photographer for all of the products in the simpletruths shop it can often be difficut to get the angles and point-of-view I want for certain things. I could wait until Mr. Man is around (and the light is right) to take pictures but then I have to describe what angles I want from the different shots, how the light should fall; and I end up checking after every shot.

I know - what a pain for everybody involved - especially considering that photos are usually just one of the many things I'm trying to get done during nap time.

BUT with the hanger, instead of attempting to make something decent out of awkwardness like this:

(not withstanding the nursing boobage and post pregnancy pounds)

 

Now I can shoot something like this:

OMG, I know right! Why didn't I think of this before? 

Plus, we've had some beautiful morning sun so I've also been trying to take full advantage of that before the rain arrives. 

Because it has to rain at some point this winter, right?

Here's a few more hanger shots from this morning