Chocolates & Photography

I was in an EtsyVeg team chat a few weeks ago. One of the leaders, Kylie, offered to send me vegan chocolates. I've been looking forward to getting them and they came in the mail today. It was also nice because I was having kind of a long Monday and it felt like getting a present in the mail. :) I was going to take photos of what I got, but my digital camera's not working. I took photos with my cell phone, but I can't figure out how to email them to myself (it looks like there's only an option to send them to someone's phone number). I got: Green & Black's Organic Chocolate, Shaman's Vision Chocolate with Coconut, Raspberries in Dark Chocolate (I haven't opened it yet, but it says there's a love poem inside, haha), and some mini sized chocolates. She also sent me a card.

Speaking of EtsyVeg, I was featured in this cupcake treasury on their blog which has cupcake items. I also noticed today I'm featured in these picks of butterfly items.

I don't have a lot of shop updates. It's hard to work on items because I'm working on a lot of final projects for my classes. I might make some items if I get inspired though. I thought I'd share some of my photograph today. :)

One of my assignments for my photography class was to take photos of my spring break. I went to Millennium Park one day. I don't live in the city of Chicago (I live nearby), but I figured it would be nice to get to Millennium Park to get photos because it's a really pretty area and I love city parks. Here are some of them (they're kind of grainy because of the negatives being dirty, but I think it kind of makes them look old fashioned):


Buildings in Chicago.


Walking in Millennium Park.


This is a piece of artwork called the Bean. You can see the skyline reflected off of it.


Reflection from the Bean. It's a great place to take photos.


Ice skating rink. I actually wrote a story in my fiction class based on this memory I had of going to the ice skating rink when Millennium Park first opened (I ended up changing it in my story so the ice skating rink is in Minnesota, and it was a little different in my memory than in real life).


This wasn't from my spring break or Millennium Park, but it's a photo I took of the inside of a piano. It was actually for an assignment for my photography class where we were supposed to take a photo representing the word "naked". I wanted to do something less obvious than a nude body and I liked the idea of the piano being "exposed" and showing it's organs.

If you have a camera, at 8:09PM eastern time (or whatever time that is for your time zone - you can check here), you should take a photo of wherever you are and submit it in to this project called Worldwide Moment. It's this idea that people take photos at the same time around the world for a moment of peace. It started last summer, but their doing "mini" moments. I just noticed that the photo I did from the first moment last summer is used as part of their logo thing on the front page of their website (it's the one with the chocolate and fork, haha, I was cooking).

I also went to a dog show this weekend. I took a lot of photos which I'm thinking of using for my final project for my photography class (and if not, I'll just have a bunch of cute photos of dogs). Some of my film got messed up though so I don't know how the photos turned out yet. We got to walk around a pet a lot of dogs (who were all so well mannered). It was a lot of fun and made me want a puppy!