My friend Kristin of My Life As A Teacup asked me to help blog-sit while she and her Boy take some time to relax in Gettysburg! As some of you long-time readers know, I used to be a food blogger, before I sort of lost that thread and then started blogging about our wedding. Kristin asked all of her guest posters to share their fall favorites, so I decided to dip my toes back into the food world and share some of my favorite fall recipes. I shared my crock pot vegetarian chili, cheddar-chive buttermilk biscuits, and pear bread. Head on over and take a look! Here’s a little preview of what you might find:

{Personal photos}

Head on over to Kristin’s blog to check it out! Thanks again for having me, Kristin!

I’m not really one for New Years Resolutions, but since I have a resolution I want to make anyway, and it is coming up on the New Year…I might as well call it a New Years Resolution.

I really want to start focusing on photography more, and on centering my words here around my photos, not vice-versa. My photography used to be the center of my blogging, and I would spend twenty minutes taking the same photo over and over again until I got it just right. I haven’t done that in I don’t know how long, and it shows. I’ve become so wrapped up in the literal point-and-shoot nature of photography that I have all but forgotten that to take a great photo it takes some planning, some fine-tuning, before pressing that shutter button.

So once again, a layout change. Something to facilitate photo blogging more than word blogging. Something less cluttered, clunky, heavy. Minimalist web design is my “thing”, anyway, and there’s no use fighting it.

I’m guest posting over at Lost & Fawned today! Lindsey asked me to put together a holiday shopping list as a part of her series this month, and mine went up today. Go check it out!

P.S. I promise I’ll be back with a real post and some photos later today…I’ve been scrambling this week to turn in finals early so I can have all of next week to dedicate to my most important final, so I haven’t had much time to post.

Over the weekend I set up both a Facebook and a Twitter page for this here blog. Be sure to Like me on Facebook and/or follow me on Twitter for blog-related blurbs and alerts when I post something new here (which seems to be, y’know, never lately but I promise there’s more coming soon. Just stick with me. You’ll see. I promise.) And you can always find me on Facebook or Twitter later by checking the new widgets on the sidebar there to your right ——————->

You can also now Like and/or Tweet each of my posts here by clicking on the buttons right above the comments on each post.

Have any of you read the blog Habit? It’s one of my ongoing favorites. Each month, a select group of women post a daily image and a thought, in thirty words or less, to go with it. This month they opened up a Flickr group for everyone to participate in. I’ve been so inspired by this lately that I’ve decided to undertake a sort of personal Habit, both in the Flickr group and here on this blog.

I’ve wanted to take this blog in a more personal direction for a while but it’s hard to steer that way. I feel I’ve nothing of interest to say, and yet I am most inspired by blogs such as him + her, nataliecreates, Sweet Fine Day, coriandersea, and the like, and I always wish I had something like that for myself. But it’s hard to steer this blog when everything I write seems to come out in Saleslady Speak (seriously, when did I develop that?) and, though I do love sharing recipes and DIY projects and the like, none of it feels totally genuine.

There’s a lot in my life to appreciate and a lot I’d love to share besides food and DIY. And I think starting a Habit-esque thing here, to capture moments from my days, would be a good way to do that. I contemplated creating a separate Blogger account for this but decided against it because I really want to keep everything in one place.

I’m by no means saying that I’m going to stop posting recipes or showing you my various household projects. I definitely love sharing those things here, but I’m just going to try to do it from a more personal angle from now on, and those might not be the main focus of the blog anymore. Imagine the amount of posts about food I make now (i.e. about one-two posts per week) interspersed with other things throughout the rest of the week: that’s what I’m aiming for.