december afternoons and fresh bread.

(you can find the recipe i used here)

quiet december afternoons are made for procrastinating on all the packing that is needing to be done and making french bread while listening to christmas music. 

technically I took these two weeks ago, but somehow the scheduled blog post never posted while I was on Christmas break and I didn't catch it until now. (thanks a lot, blogger.) so I'm just publishing this photoset now. yay technology! ;)

xoxo.

-marcia

of rainbows walls & hidden unicorns | a photo essay

aka-- attempts at being artsy | a photo essay

xoxo. 

marcia

MERRY & BRIGHT | my 2014 christmas playlist

it's not really a hidden fact that I love Christmas and Christmas music and play it year 'round #noshame, but i've literally had the same Christmas playlist for the last two years, give and take a few songs. so this year, i decided to find some new music for my playlist and guys, i found some pure gold. 

these are some of my all-time favorites and new favorites. 

you can listen to these + a few more of my favorites on spotify!

what is your favorite Christmas song this year? all-time favorite? (share them with me, pleaseeee.)
xoxo.
-marcia

p.s. i know i've been talking about the new name + design for months now, but it really is coming! i'm planning on hopefully relaunching around New Years because obviously, it's the best time to have a fresh start.

a monday quote + snowy frames.

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” 

― Lewis Carroll

a quote + some snowy frames for your monday,

xoxo. -m

on freelensing and using a three dollar thrift store lens

For a while now, I've been saving for a 50mm 1.4 lens for my t3i, but I still have to save some more and it's honestly not been a priority in my life. But, I feel I have gotten literally every possible use out of my kit lens and I've kind of hit a wall. So I decided to try out a brilliant idea that hit me one night when I was trying to get to sleep-- freelensing with one of the lenses off of my thrifted film cameras. 

For this project, I took my three dollar thrift store 50mm lens and tried freelensing with my t3i. 

IT'S MAGIC, guys. pure magic. 

and, this was the result.

it obviously takes some extra effort--i had to manually adjust my aperture and focus on the lens, while adjusting my manual settings in camera, while using one hand to hold the lens and the other to hold my t3i body (a third appendage would have been so helpful.)-- but the results were so so worth it, and i can't wait to try it out some more.

xoxo. -marcia