About Me

I'm a loving daughter, sister and friend transplanted from New York, currently living in Orlando, Florida.  I'm a dreamer and a do-er and I need creativity to survive daily life.  I do jewelry design, cake decorating, photography, and, of course, I scrapbook. 

 

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    Thursday
    05Nov2009

    Food & Wine Festival

    Happy Thursday everyone!  The sun is shining, the sky is blue, and it's a wonderful 70-something degrees here in Orlando, FL.  I'm one happy chick!  AND I'm going to Epcot's Food & Wine Festival tonight with some wonderful, fun friends.  So who can complain?  I'm a lucky chick!

    Last year's Food & Wine Festival was DELICIOUS.  Some years are better than others, but last year I felt they really stepped it up.  Hopefully this year will be EVEN BETTER!

    What else is going on in my life?  I have a FUN cake order I will be delivering Sunday for a groom's cake (I baked a TON last night), I have lots of scrapbooking for both The Digichick (where I sell my digital creations) and I applied to be on Pink Paislee's design team for 2010.  Hopefully they'll like my stuff!

    Hope to post some photos this weekend of everything!

    Sunday
    01Nov2009

    FACEBOOK Fan Page!

    My Facebook Fan Page is up!

    Please become a fan if you like my designs, talent, personality...whatever! 

    Click the below image to become a fan!  I'll always have this on the left-hand column of my blog too.

    Mikkel Paige

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    Sunday
    01Nov2009

    Photo fun at the Magic Kingdom

    I've had a lot of fun with my camera lately.  (Nikon D80, which is a wonderful camera!)  On Friday night, when I went to the Magic Kingdom with my friend Tracy to meet up with some other friends of ours, I got to play with a really good quality tripod, courtesy of Tracy's job.  (Thanks Tracy!)  I got some really incredible shots of Tomorrowland and the castle and fireworks at night.  Just goes to show your TRULY need a tripod if you're going to get awesome night exposures, simply due to the extended length of time the shutter speed needs to be opened in order to record all the fantastic lights and colors.

    Here's some of my favorite photos:

    Love the above exposure of Tommorowland.  I love that Astro Orbiter is in motion (those green lines above in the back).  So cool!  This land's really a feast for your eyes at night.

    The photos below are of Wishes fireworks show at the Magic Kingdom.  For anyone who doesn't know, I'm a fireworks freak! I just LOVE fireworks.  Some people can take or leave them - I'm not one of those people!  Luckily, I've been fortunate enough to see this awe-inspiring show so many times, I am pretty familiar with when the "wow" moments are going to hit.  I can even hear the music in my head for the exact moments these photos were taken when I look at them now.

    And of course the big finale!!!

    I'm really loving this photography thing!  Stay tuned for my first couples session I shot yesterday and my Facebook fan page launch!

    Sunday
    01Nov2009

    Happy Halloween!

    Life has been anything but scary around here.  Actually, it's been pretty fantastic!  I had the opportunity to join my aunt on her business trip to Paris and London at the beginning of the month and I jumped on it!  I have never been to both of those places so it was all new to me.  Needless to say, they were incredible.  I really fell in love with Paris.  London was fantastic too and I love its history but I really thought there was something special Paris had that I've never felt in other cities I've been to.  I'm still sorting through over 2,000 photos so I'll post some when I pick my favorites.

    I've also decided to make a Facebook fan page for all my creations since I take part in lots of crafts and assorted hobbies including jewelry design, cake decorating, scrapbooking and photography.  What better way to showcase it all then on Facebook in this day and age? Seems to be the thing to do!

    I'm geting more and more into photography and have really loved getting to "know" my camera better.  (I have a Nikon D80 for all you camera people out there.)  Being in Europe was a great excuse to just constantly shoot exposures off and I've continued to try to find excuses to do so now too.  I would completely love to be a professional photographer one day in some capacity so I'm laying the ground work now.

    Every day I feel like there just aren't enough hours to complete my life's to-do list but I feel really blessed to have so much to keep me busy from a wonderful job to incredible creative outlet.  And I cannot fail to mention my boyfriend, Daniel, who's amazing in every way.  And for anyone who's been in love, you must know that I feel like I'm floating most days and my feet are always slightly off the ground!  Well, metaphorically speaking anyway!


    Here's a cute scrapbook page I made of a photo of us taken recently.  Don't you just love what Photoshop lets you do?

    Sunday
    13Sep2009

    September 13th already? How? 

    Wow - September 13th?  Unbelievable!  And to think my last post was "almost August."  Pathetic!


    I've been working on cakes, scrapbooking stuff, and lots of travel! 

    So what's on the agenda for today?

    • Brunch with friends (check)
    • Shop at Joann's and Marshalls (check)
    • Scrapbook (both paper and digital) (working on it)
    • Gym (going in a minute!)
    • Watch the Hurley Pro live surf feed (doing it now)
    • TRUE BLOOD season finale! (9pm)
    • Upload new products to scrap store (later tonight)

    Whew!  BUSY! 

    Hugs,

    Mikkel