WORDLESS WEDNESDAY #12 (+ new banner day)

To do a Mouthy Monday as the last post of the year, or a Wordless Wednesday in which I ignore the wordless part and just adopt the Wednesday of it all?

Hmmm...?

Meanwhile guess what? We're on an 11-day Christmas Staycation and LOVIN' the freedom of it. Got new taller hair pin legs for my dough bench and put those on today. I love the new area. Made a kilo of hand-shaped cavatelli for me (and the freezer), and a BIG HONKIN' pizza for Smoochie Face. We'll live off this until it's gone. 

Delightful. 

In other news, on the 15th I finished the last of the lighting classes along with food in motion classes (video classes). That felt good. Excited to take the education into 2026, PLUS jump into a few new adventures. 

Pretty cool. 

And that my Boogerbutts is all that's fit to print for 2025. This is Ivy, reporting live from an 11-day Christmas Staycation. See you next year ❤️

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY #11 (now with la la las and maybe some words, plus more words)

Tim asked me how many Christmas movies I watched this year and I'm not even sure but the answer is a lot. Many. So many. 

Here's the best line I heard yesterday in a Christmas movie.  

"Is the Easter Bunny here?"

"No."

"Okay, good. I need to focus."

That interaction cracked me up. 

27 broken candy canes awarded to anyone who knows what movie that was from. Along with 3 stinky stockings and a handful of elf approved gummy bears. 

In other news, I failed to make it through this Wordless Wednesday. I might have to start Mouthy Monday. I'd be good at that one.

And that my Boogerbutts, is all that's fit to print. Wishing you all a yummy rest of the holiday season with lots of fa, la, la, las, along with a kickbutt 2026.

I dunno about you ... but I'm excited to make a few BIG changes in 2026.

Bring it on.

Huggs & Bugs, Me.

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY #10 (now with no actual words)

 

WORDLESS (wordy) WEDNESDAY #9

Welcome to another not so Wordless Wednesday. Brought to by me, someone who can't stop using words.

True story.

Also, today is not Monday. 

Also a true story. 

In other news, I wanna turn the bedroom into a winter reading wonderland. So far my idea is to include snowflake lights and books. That's as far as I've gotten.

Suggestions and ideas welcome.

In other, other news, I tried saying wordless wordy Wednesday ten times fast and I couldn't do it. But I did a little better saying, wordy wordless Wednesday. 

And that my Boogerbutts, is all that's fit to print. 

ALMOST WORDLESS WENDESDAY #8 (because I can't help it, some days I gotta have words)

What do I get when I mix one snow day, with a bucket of mud, wood from HD and pot of Annie Sloan original chalk paint? Athenian Black to be exact.

Happiness.

I get happiness.

Plus another new banner using the DIY black photography board and inverse square law (the rate at which light falls off), for the back. 

Happiness. 

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY #7 (now with more Wednesdays + new banner day)

Name this monster and win three rotten pickles, two dead mice and eight broken candy canes. 

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY #6 (now with extra words)

First up, a BIG shout out to Mari for posting Wordless Wednesdays. Check out Mari's Blog - she's always got something fun cooking and/or baking going on along with everyday life adventures and photographs.

Thank you, Mari.

In other news, the Bamix is getting a workout, ALDI's buck a bag for cranberries is back and I'm soon to use the stick blender to mash the berries before tossing them into the dehydrator. Some batches with local-down-the-road maple syrup and other batches without. 

In other, other news, I just hung my second pegboard in the studio space and I like it because it keeps stuff off the floor and with gear on pegs, easy to grab, use and put away.

Hot dog.

And that my Boogerbutts is all that's fit to print. Thanks again to Mari for inspiring me with this fun weekly post. 

We now return to our regularly scheduled Wordless Wednesday .... with extra words and maybe one skully. 

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY #5 (+ new banner day)

MACRO MONDAY - MONSTERS INC.

I found Monster Inc. minis at Five Below. Super small. Super fun. Five smackers for a box of six characters and other bits and bobs. 

Below I posted the BTS and what's nice about behind the scene stuff is I get to show you how I use inverse square law to create a black background. Inverse square law is the rate at which light falls off. 

In short, when my camera is set at maximum sync speed, the off-camera flash can't reach beyond the monsters, making the background look black - which also works with the DIY black photography board I placed the monsters on. 

Pretty cool. 

In other news, last week I bought a cheap stick blender and after a few days of playing with it, Smoochie Face ordered me a Bamix. The Bamix stick blender comes with useful accessories and four different blades. 

I have a long list of things to make on Tuesday and plan to spend the entire day in the kitchen writing, testing and playing. 

Beyond excited. 

Beyond.

And that my Boogerbutts is Macro Monday for this week. If you'd like to join me in close-up photography and macros, I'd love to see your photos. 

Until next time, cheers and boogie boogie. 

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY #4 (+ new banner day)

MACRO MONDAY - MS. MARBLES SAYS HELLO

I'm kickin' off the week with a Macro Monday & Close-Up Photography, post. Some Mondays I'll have words, other Mondays no words and then I'm sure I'll skip a few Monday as well. Anyone who wants to join in, I'd love to see your photos. 

Today's guest is Ms. Marbles. She's a marbled orb weaver and likes to hide under leaves, often attached by a single silk. She also likes to hide under other things and lemme tell you, Ms. Marbles is fast. 

Even Spider-Man would have a hard time keeping up with her.

In this photo Ms. Marbles is moving and I'm squatted nearby. My jeans are soaked because it's a soggy day. Not a complaint. There's something about close-up photography that when I'm in the wild, I forget that it's cold, wet and soggy out.

I love that.

In other news, it's a 3-day week for us, moving into a 4-day weekend. Hot dog and happy dance. 

And in other, other news, I got lemons a month ago, submerged them in water and stored them in the fridge. And guess what?

If you guessed that weeks later the lemons are in perfect condition, then you win three broken Christmas balls, two rotten eyeballs and a purple toothpick I found in my couch.

You're welcome. 

BOOGIE BOOGIE to all the BOOGERBUTTS

Today I'm showing off the newly cleaned out corner of the shared office/studio space. Before I cleared it, along the floor and against the walls stood wooden photography boards, bounce boards and black boards. Only my Barney Rubble feet kept knocking stuff over. 

Not no more! Nooooo. Removed it all and now there's a nice empty corner lot to shoot in. 

Not too shabby. 

A couple of you asked to see my camera and Big Bertha. My camera is a Canon M50 with a Laowa macro lens. Camera bodies will come and go but learning light and having a good piece of glass.

Now that's the good stuff. 

Big Bertha is seen best in the last photo. She's a strobe flash that fires from the trigger sitting on top of my camera. I click the shutter button and Big Bertha goes off. 

Very, very, very, VERY fun to play with off-camera flash - both inside and outside. For outside I have a speedlight. Very cute. Loads of fun. 

And that my brilliant and boo-teee-ful Boogerbutts is the end of my post. I'm about ready to crawl into the coffin for the night and this post, will go live at midnight. 

Wishing you all a Spooktacular Halloween with a GREAT BIG side of boogie boogie.  

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY #3 (now with more scary clowns)

JASON vs THE NUN (coming to a blogfeed near you)

Dig these two minis from the Halloween calendar (from my recent Wordless Wednesday post). Tonight we'll open two more and then on Halloween Friday, we get one more to open.

So. Much. Fun.

In other news, yesterday I shot macro inside in the new studio space (pictures to come) AND I used the big honking off-camera flash. She's so big that I've named her Big Bertha.

She's a beast.

In other news, I am moving sllloooooooooow today. It's almost noon and I haven't gotten one ding, dong, thing done. Unless getting out of old jammies and back into new jammies and making a cuppa and writing a blog post counts.

I don't think it does. Unless ... I add those things to my TO BOO LIST and then scratch them off as done.

Yes. Yes, I can work with that. 

Here's mini Jason and The Nun. Had a bunch of fun shooting them this past week and I'm excited to see who we open tonight. Lots of pictures to come, for sure. 

For now, boogie boogie, Boogerbutts - Here's to a spooktacular weekend.

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY #2