Funny kids!

Last Saturday, after the baseball game, Anne, Jinho, Aaron and I all drove over to Gwangali Beach together to get in a photo shoot of the two of them! 

We love how they turned out! 

Full post here!

Let's get CRAFTY!

I met Jestine a couple weeks ago when she e-mailed me about doing engagement photos for her and her fiance. We hit it off immediately and spent our night chatting on facebook, getting to know each other! She e-mailed me the day after I posted this blog about re-designing our photography website and asked if I would ever be up for having a crafting night.  Ahhh, a girl after my own heart!  So, we planned it and made it happen last night... Even Bobby, her fiance and my friend Ashley came and got in on the action, too!  The more the merrier. It was a big huge - 4 hour long - comfy clothes wearing - cake eating - wine sipping - craft explosion in my apartment, and I loved every second f it!!

Here's what the 4 of us came up with!  The one with the light blue ornaments makes me laugh!  I made it and accidentally glued Merry Christmas backwards!  Aaron caught it later, after everyone left!  Guess that's what happens when you're talking while you craft!  Maybe I'll send that one to my mom, since she loves and appreciates everything I make. :) 

Merry early Christmas everyone!

My co-teacher's family!

Check out the photo's that Aaron and I did of my co-teacher's neice and nephew at a park on Yeong-do a couple weeks ago!  I'm pretty sure Korean kids are some of the cutest on the planet!

Full post here:

 Aaron Nicholas Photography

 

Homemade Pepero!

"HAPPY NOVEMBER 11th - aka PEPERO DAY!"

There's nothing more generic and unoriginal than giving your friends, co-teachers, girlfriend, boyfriend or spouse, a box of store bought pepero on pepero day!  Don't get me wrong, store bought pepero is great, but homemade is BETTER, don't you agree?!

Last Friday, I picked up a package of nude pepero (1,800 won) and a package of white melting chocolate (2,500 won) - {not pictured,oops!} in Seomyeon.  Luckily I had lots of leftover stuff to decorate my pepero with from last Christmas when I made Christmas cookies, and last Wednesday when I decorated cupcakes!  

I grabbed the tallest and skinniest ceramic cup I had and filled it with the white chocolate, dropped it into a pot of warm water (medium low heat) and waited for the chocolate to melt, occasionally stirring it with a metal chopstick.

Then, I dipped my first pepero stick, laid it out on the wax paper and quickly decorated it to my heart's content before the chocolate hardened! 

Aaron decided to get in on the pepero decorating action! :)

And of course Maverick (AKA: Project Kitty) tried to get in on the action, too, before his little paw was swatted off the table by his mom!  

I could have done this all day if I had had more pepero and more chocolate!  I was definitely in my element.

No finished project is complete without an Instagram, right?!

All in all, I think I dipped and decorated about 50 pepero sticks!  Somehow though, when I was packaging them for my co-teachers, Aaron's co-teachers, and my friend Ashley who I'll see tomorrow, I ended up with 42.  I think there may be a pepero monster living with me!  

2012 Asia Series Game!

The 2012 Asia Series kicked off this week, with the best baseball teams from all of the major Asian leagues, along with the winner from Australia, competing to see who's the BEST in Asia!  Our friend Jinho's sister gave him some FREE tickets to the game, so he invited Aaron, me, Gill, Sam, Crystal and his girlfriend Anne to go to the game today!  FREE baseball tickets with some of my favorite friends?! "YEP! I'm in!"  

Definitely don't have to ask this girl twice!

The orange plastic bags on our heads are handed out by the stadium staff, at the 7th inning, as a way for fans to easily clean up their own garbage before leaving their seat.  Years ago, a tradition began among the Lotte Giants fans to tie the bags on their heads to encourage the team by creating a sea of orange and black around the stadium!  Gilly made ours into cute little bows...

Sam's looked like Alien antennae...

... and Aaron's was a bow tie!  

His bow tie flew off and tried to choke me!  LOL

A little good luck kiss for the Giants.  Muah!

Today's game was between Korea's Lotte Giants and Japan's Yomiuri Giants... not that I really cared who was playing though!  In my opinion, baseball games are about eating baseball-ish food with a choice drink in hand with great friends around to catch up with, cheers to cheer along with, and oh yea, baseball to watch!  Today's game was no exception!  Even with Lotte losing the game, the 7 of us had an awesome time together!  ... and that's what it's all about, right?!

"Lotte Giants Fighting!"