Weekly Wrap Up | Photo a Day

It's Monday! That means time for the weekly wrap up from the photo a day challenge by Fat Mum Slim. All pictures were edited using the Little Moments App. These are the pictures from 8/4-8/10.

8/4 In the middle: I took this picture of 3 landmarks of Michigan State's Campus, the middle one is Beaumont Tower, which is one of my favorite places on campus.

8/5 Pile: C and I have a lot of books. Here are a few piles.

8/6 Grateful for...: MY KEURIG is HOME! I am grateful for LOTS of other things, but this is definitely on my list this week!

8/7 Spot: I spot a delicious salad with lots of fruit and goat cheese. So good. It's my summertime favorite.

8/8 Pet peeve: A huge pet peeve of mine is when something in my apartment is broken and the maintenance man says he will fix it...three times...and never does. This is my mailbox in it's current state and I'm beyond irritated.

8/9 Mix: C and I have a shot glass collection, a rather extensive one at that. We are unable to properly display them all in our current home, but here is a very very small mix of some of them. 

8/10 Art: This is a beautiful lighthouse painting that was actually painted by C's grandma. I just found that out while I was snapping a picture of it. I have always loved lighthouses, and never thought anything of us having a hand painted picture of one, but C told me that his grandma actually painted this one and it made me love it even more!

That's the weekly wrap up! Tune in tomorrow to see what books are in my nightstand currently.

Weekly Wrap-Up | Photo A Day

Happy August friends! Below you will find the weekly wrap from the photo a day challenge from 7/28 - 8/3! Along with the prompts for the month of August. Once again, all prompts are courtesy of Fat Mum Slim and I use here Little Moments App to edit and post all of my pictures for the challenge.

7/28 Cool: It has been a remarkably cool summer here in mid-michigan. This particular night was cool 57 degrees. So odd for July.

7/29 Repeat: We were in the midst of packing, so I took this one late.

7/30 Lost: My parents little jack Russell, mojo, was lost in his dreams. Precious.

7/31 Rise: I moved on this day and did not take a picture. sorry!

Happy August! Here is the August prompt list:


Looks like a great one!! Here are my pictures from the first 3 days.

8/1 Landscape: this is my new landscape in my neighborhood. I locked myself out of the apartment not too long after I snapped this picture. 

8/2 Lunch: Met a friend for lunch in downtown east Lansing, I had a yummy ginger peach cider and fish & chips. Delicious.

8/3 S is for...: State Capital Building. I took this photo while driving into downtown Lansing. 

That's the weekly wrap up folks! Come back tomorrow for a book review!

Weekly Wrap-Up | Photo A Day

First and foremost, I am moving this week. So if I am slightly absent on social media, this is why. We are moving back to the land of high speed internet, so in the long run it will be good for this blog and my social media presence, so bear with me in the short term please! Housekeeping out the way, lets move on.

Once again, all prompts are from Fat Mum Slim and all photos were edited using the Little Moments App. Not gonna lie, I struggled this week with taking pictures. Here are my pictures from 7/21-7/27!

7/21 Basic: Just some regular old basic watermelon on a summers night. I was having a hard time with this prompt, for whatever reason, and the watermelon was delicious and pretty so...I used it. Gotta work with what ya got, right?

7/22 I wore this!: I had a hard time adjusting to life on this particular Tuesday. I stayed in gym shorts and a nasty t-shirt this day, and didn't wear anything that I wanted photographic proof of. So, my glasses seemed like a good choice. I took this before I went to bed, nothing like waiting until the last minute.

7/23 Macro: I had high hopes for myself with this one, but again, I just phoned it in. This is the letter E that is on my bookmark. It's quite small, and I thought I would be able to get a good picture of it. I didn't. It turned out blurry, but I kept it anyway mainly because of sheer laziness. 

7/24 Water: The sun was hitting the pond just right, so I made sure to capture it. I love this pond at my parents house and the animals it brings to the yard.

7/25 Home: I actually ended up taking this photo a day late. It's the house numbers at my parents house.

7/26 Fun: It was 9:30 pm and I did not do anything fun, except laze around and read. So instead C suggested I search for the band Fun, take a screenshot of it and use that. So I did.

7/27 Ten: These are my little brother's hands, he has 10 fingers. Once again, phoning it in.

That's it for the weekly wrap-up! We are moving on Thursday, wish us luck!

Review | Little Moments App by Fat Mum Slim

One of my favorite bloggers has launched her very own app! *applause* It is a photo editing app, and it is meshed in with her photo a day challenge -- but if you don't participate in the challenge it is still just a great app for editing photos! It costs $1.99 off the bat, with some in-app purchases if you want them. This app was launched on Friday June 27th, so I have had a few days to play around with it -- but I am no expert! For now, this app is only available on iPhone, but I believe Chantelle is wanting to have it available on android eventually. This is just a brief overview and all opinions are my own!

When you open the app, the home page looks like this:

1. Camera.  This will just lead you to your camera, pretty self-explanatory!

2. Photos. This is where you will edit your photos. Click on this and it will take you to the photos saved on your camera. Pick one and let's get to work! 

There are 3 options down at the bottom. The little wand is all the different filters, with super fun names like sugar, Popsicle and sunshine! 

The T icon will lead you to adding some text! There a bunch of cute fonts, and an in-app purchase for some additional if that is your jam.

The + is what you click to add more text, then the circles of color are where you can change the color of your text, the Aa is where the fun fonts are hidden and the last icon helps you adjust the opacity of the text. It is super easy to adjust the size and position of the text.

So once you have added the text you desire, click the word text down at the bottom and it will take you back to the main editing page. 

The 3rd icon will enable you to add fun and inspirational quotes to your photo.

Once you do that, you are able to adjust the size, color and opacity of the quote!

Then, on the main editing page, the last icon (it looks like a flower!) allows you to add some fun designs and doodles!

You can adjust the position, size, color and opacity of this as well! 

Then your photo is ready to share or save! Click the save button on the top right hand side and then your options will await you!

1. This will share your photo to Instagram, automatically inserting the daily prompt for photo a day and hashtags for this app. If your photo has nothing to do with the challenge, you can simply erase it and carry on with your own caption.

2. This will save your photo to your camera roll.

3. This will share your photo to Facebook, doing the whole inserting of the hashtags and prompt thing again.

4. You can now make your awesome photos into a fun phone case! This will lead you through how to do so!

5. This will share your photo to Twitter, inserting hashtags again for you.

6. This will give you more options such as email, message, open in and copy.

Now back to the homepage!

3. Prompts. This is for the photo a day-ers out there. You click this and it leads you to here:

It is the entire month of prompts, and you can click each individual day to get a more detailed idea. This also rocks, cause you can get notifications right to your phone! So no more excuses about forgetting what the prompt was! You are also able to look in the past to see previous months prompts.

4. About. This is where you can turn the daily prompts on or off. 

You can also read more details about the app in general and review/rate the app in the App Store.  

5. Fab Four. Everyday Fat Mum Slim (or one of her chosen ones) will pick their favorite 4 photos from the daily prompt and share it on social media. It's great to see what catches people's eyes and how others intrepret the prompts.

I LOVE this app, I give it a loud and enthusiastic 5/5 stars! I can't wait to start fresh in July with the photo a day challenge!!

Weekly Wrap-up | photo.a.day

Another weekly wrap up for the books! These are photos from 6/14-6/18 and all of them are from while I am in Florida visiting family! The prompts are from Fat Mum Slim and her photoaday challenge, check it out!

14. cross. i took this picture at an origami owl party (google it). i was at my sisters friends house and as we were walking out the door, i saw this pretty cross hanging in her hallway...so i creepily took a picture of it. 

15. lovely. now, i am in the minority here, but i don't like to be hot. hot = sweaty = annoyed esther. BUT, being in the water when it is hot out is lovely. so i took a picture of the empty lounge chairs at the pool.

16. in the shadows. we were at the beach, little talbot island state park, and i pretty much stayed in the water the whole time. but when i wasn't in the water, i was in the shadows under the beach umbrella.

17. peaceful. this is my sisters cat, minnow. he was being super snuggly and napping. 

18. quirky. this is my 6 year old niece, E. she is a quirky kid, she always wears socks up to her knees to go to bed, she has a super specific way that her bed needs to be made and she hates kisses (sad face).

Stay tuned for the next weekly wrap-up!!!