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Farmers Cheese

Farmers Cheese

The Idea As I have mentioned several times before, my husband and I use to homestead. I write about it here if you would like to take a look: Homesteading Our Journey I wish I would have tried making cheese back then. The one thing my husband and I tried to make was homemade butter. We used heavy cream and had to shake it in a mason jar for a long time. It really did not taste bad, I just did not realize I needed to allow it to drain through cheese-cloth like this cheese. The Idea about making this cheese came to me the other day. I am the worst trying to figure out what to eat during the hot summer months. I just know I want it simple and easy without having to use the stove a lot. I caught the tail end of a cooking show on Food Network and the cook was making cheese. So I went online to try and find a recipe. Read more at whiteoak.hubpages.com

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Farmers Cheese

Farmers Cheese

The Idea As I have mentioned several times before, my husband and I use to homestead. I write about it here if you would like to take a look: Homesteading Our Journey I wish I would have tried making cheese back then. The one thing my husband and I tried to make was homemade butter. We used heavy cream and had to shake it in a mason jar for a long time. It really did not taste bad, I just did not realize I needed to allow it to drain through cheese-cloth like this cheese. The Idea about making this cheese came to me the other day. I am the worst trying to figure out what to eat during the hot summer months. I just know I want it simple and easy without having to use the stove a lot. I caught the tail end of a cooking show on Food Network and the cook was making cheese. So I went online to try and find a recipe. Read more at whiteoak.hubpages.com

http://amplify.com/u/a1absq

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Burning Black Candles

Black Candles

t is almost Halloween, and you are beginning to see Halloween decorations in the stores including black and orange candles. Many people who burn a lot of black candles throughout the year will stock up and purchase as many as possible. One of the main problems is many of the stores only get a small supply of black candles in. Why do you think this is? Often burning black candles has a negative connotation. Many people associate them to witchcraft, evil and darkness. However, when someone wears a lot of darker colors including black it is not considered evil or dark at all, but instead sensual and sometimes exotic. What about decorating your house hold with black items? During Halloween it is part of the custom to decorate in black and orange. Often decorators will decorate certain rooms such as the bedroom and/or bathrooms in total black because it is very stylish. Yes, burning black candles away from Halloween is often considered to be bad. It is associated with mourning and grief, and yes black is worn a lot at funerals and some cultures wear black for a certain period of time when mourning someone they have lost. Black is a very mysterious color perhaps that is why many people chose to not burn black candles. Read more at hubpages.com

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My Photography Related Hubpages

 

Recently, I have been writing a lot about photography at a place called Hubpages.  I have been with that community for a couple of years but have not done a lot on it.  I figured since I was becoming so involved with my photography and have set some pretty high goals for myself for 2011, why not share things I have learned along the way.

I believe it was last year I wrote a page called The Love of Photography I just talk a little about how much I love photography and show a few pictures from my less experienced days.  Although, today I still consider myself an amateur photographer, I have learned a lot.  I look back on my older photo's and can see now why so many have been rejected from 123RF a stock photography site.  

Even though I am trying to view Rejection from a different perspective, it still lead me to write a page called:  Moving on from Rejection  I went through this long process of applying at this other stock photography place and submitted ten of my (best) photos and after waiting for days, I received an email stating every picture was rejected.  They did not accept one of my photos!  Then I remembered that I had signed up with 123RF almost two ago and never submitted anything to them after they rejected all but four of my photos.  Like a doctors visit I wanted a second opinion about the photography this other stock photography site rejected, so I resubmitted those pictures to 123RF and some were accepted.  Okay, this is a start right?

I am almost too embarrassed to tell you the rejections compared to the acceptance of my photography to this point, BUT I have learned a lot about improving my photography by learning from my mistakes!  I took some of the fantastic tips I have learned and wrote a page called:  Photography Tips for Amateur's  Since I have been applying the things I have learned to my photography, I am getting more acceptance instead of rejections.  Don't get me wrong, I still have rejections BUT even I can tell why the pictures were rejected.  I have questioned three rejections and waiting to hear back from them as to why these pictures were rejected.

I have also started writing more about photography on Squidoo.  I recently was invited to join Professional Squids on Rockmoms and our first project was to write a niche related page, so I wrote:  Pictures of Tropical Flowers   With as many floral pictures as I take, I should be able to follow through on this niche.  

So that is the scoop with what I have been doing lately.  If you love doing photography, look into 123RF- If any of your photos are rejected learn from it and you will be amazed how much you can tell the difference in your work. Another cool thing is to open up a separate Zazzle Gallery to separate your photography from your artwork.  I recently did that at WhiteOak's Photography

Until Next time,