the perfect breakfast smoothie (& my first ever green monster!) = peanut butter + skimmed milk + frozen banana + handful of spinach + a dash of cinnamon + a swirl of vanilla

zesty orange chocolate chip cookies! (plus, a secret ingredient)

recipe found here: http://www.cookingclassy.blogspot.com/2012/01/orange-chocolate-chip-cookies-tastes.html

as i unpacked my suitcase after coming home from my first year at college, i pulled out all the books i’d never had the time to read and all the clothes i’d never had the occasion to wear. there was a strange, throbbing sadness rippling through my fingers. however, the saddest moment came when i held my camera, turning it in my hands. a beautiful canon 1100D with a 50 mm f/1.8 lens; i had barely used it all semester.

about a year ago, you could not have wrenched me away from my camera - ‘nigel’, as i dubbed it - if you used a crowbar. it was my brand new toy and it hung around my neck like an appendage. i took pictures of everything - everything. babies, cupcakes, leaf structures, puddles, curtains, but especially food. i found foodgawker and was drawn to it like a moth to the light. food photography is my passion, i claimed. so was baking. i had hoped (naive seventeen-year-old that i was) that i could continue baking in college, and even keep a blog about it.

photography is not, i realize, something i can neglect for a long time without losing interest. the more pictures i take, the more i find that this is something i love to do: to capture moments in time that when added up, don’t even make up a minute; to find the glow in ordinary things like milk jugs, ribbons, cookies; to snap someone smiling like they mean it. 

this summer, and next year, i pledge to take more pictures. not just of food, but of people especially - real, beautiful people, created in the image of their beautiful Creator.

of things to read this summer:

• how to read the bible for all its worth, gordon d. fee & douglas stuart
• the end of sexual identity, jennell williams paris

be humble for you are made of earth;
be noble for you are made of stars.

- serbian proverb 

(Source: synodik, via amayafuego)

“i fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.”

john green, the fault in our stars

next dessert project: mochi with adzuki filling. mmmm <3

• the irresistible revolution
• reason to believe
• les miserables
• anna karenina
• paradise lost & paradise regained
• the soul of hip hop
• the hunger games (yes, yes, i KNOW)
• the brothers karamazov

let us begin! :)

well, it’s official. i am obsessed with this show. also, this video is too fitting :)

SHERLOCK & JOHN <3

(Source: morgansfreeman, via bbcsherlockftw)