Let them eat cake

The blog post on February 10th is a prerequisite for this blog post, because I was talking about how I tried to go to a dessert convention. Well, would you believe that only a few weeks later the next best thing has come to Philly called “Let them eat cake”. This event was a charity event cake competition with 40 professional cakes and 10 student cakes to be judged in 2 categories: appearance & taste. All of the proceeds from the tickets go towards the City Of Hope Foundation which is a research center dedicated to curing and preventing cancer. I didn’t waste any time purchasing my tickets! Needless to say, after all that cake testing we were both sick to our stomach and didn’t hang around for the official results, so here is my own set of awards!

First Place: AppearanceSecond Place: AppearanceThird Place: AppearanceFirst Place: Taste: This cake was chocolate ganache with milk and white chocolate mousse, so deliciousSecond Place: Taste This cake was a Southern Sweet Potato Cake with Cream Cheese icingThird Place: Taste This was another chocolate one (my weakness) of moist chocolate cake with ganache filling..yummmRunner Up:

Blake comes over to Visit

One of my best friends, Kristy, stopped over last weekend with her adorable 15 month old son Blake. Blake played shy when he first arrived, but by the time we made it to the resturant for lunch he was yelling and throwing everything on the floor (food, shoes, paper) and I couldn’t do anything but laugh. Blake has the biggest blue eyes and some Angelina-like lips… so I couldn’t help but break out the camera when he was here……


Prison Shoot Part 1

So, I spent Saturday at the Eastern State Penitentiary with some other photographers and a group of models for a photoshoot. I had so much fun and I can’t wait to do something like this again. The old broken down retired prison was a great place to shoot.I have so many images from this shoot that I am going to have to break it up into two seperate blog posts.



allison b - February 27, 2008 - 12:56 PM

Melissa I love the close up of Dani! Go girl I had a blast and it was a pleasure meet you. Now I have another drinking buddy for DWF.

Jimmy V - February 27, 2008 - 10:00 PM

AMAZING shots, Iss!

picturepaiges - February 28, 2008 - 9:12 AM

I love the one of Kristen looking up. Can’t wait to see the rest. You did great and it was nice meeting you. Loved your shoot sac girlie.

Dolce - February 28, 2008 - 11:45 AM

Great Job! What a location!! Can’t wait to see more!

~Kristi

AMy - March 1, 2008 - 3:45 PM

I love the new Photos….Awesome work!!!

jamie - March 1, 2008 - 7:10 PM

Love the one of Dani. You rocked it! –Jamie

New Purchases

So, I bought a website and a big-girl membership to DWF which means that as soon as that goes through I will be spending hours upon hours reading the forums…. and I can’t wait. The website will probably take a while to get up and running for the main reason being that I don’t have enough images for it yet. I am going to a shoot in Philly this weekend for some portfolio building, but of course its going to rain!

In my never-ending fitness endeavors, the latest had been P90x which I purchased on a whim after seeing on an info-mercial when I was not sleeping but should have been. Austin and I have been doing the bootcamp workouts for a few weeks now and I think we are ready to commit to the 90 day program. We now have an entire weight set, bands, and a pull-up bar in our downstairs…Today will be the official first day…