Broken Shutter memories

Here are some pictures from our little shop in 2004.  We served tea by reservation only.  I had forgotten we used real linen and almost daily we ironed the tablecloths and napkins.  My sister, Rhonda and I were so ambitious and wanted everything perfect.  That is when Sheila told us we needed a mangle and sadly we were unable to locate one.  Many of our pieces of linen were purchased from our dear friend Sheila of Abundant Memories.  We looked forward to every Tuesday when she would bring in her "finds" from GSing (garage sales).

It's all about the apps

Dermandar

My Dad

I love photography and try to browse the app store frequently for interesting apps to use with my iPhone.  This one is called Dermandar and takes panoramas effortlessly and also saves them to your photo album.    These apps are fun, however, the camera I love is my Canon EOS 40D.  I have found that I am happiest when taking close up shots.  I have a EFS 60mm lens that takes great portraits as well as close ups.  I absolutely love it....My father was an amateur photographer and used a 35mm Minolta.  I started scanning, then moved on to let Costo scan all his slides to DVD.  I've discovered my 60mm gives me the same warm look and feel of his camera.  I really like that.

Noshing-present participle of nosh (Verb) Verb: Eat food enthusiastically or greedily: "you can nosh to your heart's content"; "noshing my favorite food". Eat between meals.

I had enough beautiful ripe tomatoes from the garden today to make a small batch of salsa.  We also have an abundance of  hot peppers.  We are still waiting on the habenero peppers.
This batch of salsa included:
Early Girl tomatos
Roma tomatos
Hot Banana Peppers
Jalepeno Peppers
Serrano Peppers
Fajita Bell Peppers
White onions
We are enjoying the salsa with these delicious Sanissimo oven baked tostadas from Costco and Wholly Guacomole.  Perfect Sunday afternoon noshing.

Summer Solstice 2012

The Broken Shutter it is....

The Broken Shutter is the name of a little shop my sister and I opened in Upland in 2004.  We closed  a year later on the upside with a real appreciation of the work involved in keeping a small business running.  I think it's appropriate that I change the name of my blog to The Broken Shutter.  It was a magical place full of beautiful things, laughter and at times, ants.  We reminisce about all the wonderful and not so wonderful days throughout that year and the months leading up to our opening.  I'll dig through my pictures and share them in the near future. 
I am looking forward to filling this blog with beautiful things, laughter and at times....ants.