cheese platters

If I could drop everything and go down one career path right now I would be a Cheese Platter Connoisseur. I’ve been on such a cheeseboard kick lately it’s ridiculous.

My grandpa had some guests over a few weeks ago so I whipped out a cheese platter. My cousin finished a hard exam and I whipped out another one. 
 I love entertaining, celebrating the little things, and cheese so the obvious combination of these three loves is a cheese plate. Right?

Absolutely.

I don’t know if cheese plates have always been a trendy thing, but lately, I’ve been seeing them everywhere. From my favorite influencers making them for their Friendsgiving festivities to entire cheese board Instagram accounts, they’re wherever I look. So instead of running away from the trendy, I’ve been leaning in.

If you’re into them too I inspire you to check out the Instagram account called “Cheese by Numbers.” They walk you through the creation of different types of plates, from fruity to salty to sporty to girly, they’ve got it all. While I’m sure there are rules on what cheese to pair with what fruits or crackers or nuts or whatever, I kind of just make them however I want. Sometimes I do it by color, sometimes I do it by what I have in the pantry. There’s really no wrong way to make one and I think that’s what I love about them most.

Here are a few pictures I snapped of the one I made for my cousin.
We demolished it embarrassingly quickly.

Thanks for reading!
chloe

saturday to saturday 3

Wow! It’s Saturday again. Crazy how time just… works. To be completely honest with y’all, this week has been rough. Nothing has happened, but that’s the problem. I’ve been busy applying for job after job, and I continue to be rejected again and again. I’m truly trying to keep spirits high and remind myself that it’ll work out when and how it’s supposed to, but the waiting game of hearing back (or not hearing back) from the places I’ve applied to is very frustrating.

However, I’m trying to stay positive. So on that note, here’s what I’ve captured on my iPhone in the past week. No photo left behind.

My grandpa had me send a picture of these shoes to his friend. He has great style if I do say so myself. These shoes are no exception.

I went to the bookstore to pick up the next book that Natalie and I are reading together and I saw this sign and had to take a picture to remember the book. I LOVED “Where the Crawdads Sing” so anything that’s close to it I definitely want to read.

I snapped a picture of this book as well because I’ve heard great things about it, and potentially might pick it for Natalie and I to read eventually.

Some influencer that I followed posted about this YouTuber so I screenshot her Instagram so I wouldn’t forget to watch one of her videos. I still haven’t watched if you’re wondering.

The coffee shop that I frequent is so cute on the inside. The Matcha Lattes are unreal. Also extremely expensive but you win some you lose some.

I took a picture of this outfit because I couldn’t tell if I liked it or not. I changed, but in hindsight I think it’s cute. Maybe? Still don’t know.

My grandfather had some friends stay with us this past week so my cousin and I made them a cheese board for when they arrived. It was a HUGE hit and now I think I want to start selling cheese platters for events. Like how fun would that be?

Yet another coffee shop picture.

Alrighty, that’s all for this week. Hopefully next week will have some fun pictures since I’ll be with my family for Thanksgiving. Hope you all had a great week!!!

xo,
chloe

100 pictures of cake

I graduated college in May, but I still miss some of my professors and classes. I also miss a lot of the projects that I was assigned. My major was special because, most of the time, we had big projects due at the end of my classes instead of exams. This worked out magically for me because I have, maybe, the worst test anxiety possible.

So one of my projects in one of my classes was a visual project. We had to pick one word, a noun, and represent that word in 100 pictures. The catch was that it had to be a word that had multiple meanings. Our challenge was to visually represent it in 100 pictures.

It sounds easy, but picking the word was extremely difficult. It took me two weeks just to figure out what word I would use. I played around with tons of words, but finally landed on “cake.” This word, to me at least, can mean cake in the literal sense (i.e. a round sweet dessert covered in delicious frosting), booty, “caked” as in “plastered” as in “too drunk to function,” or “cake-y” as in “too much makeup.”

I also liked that all of these different meanings of cake fell in the same color palette. If you know me, I’m obsessed with colors, so making my squares fit the same color scheme was necessary for me for this project.

Here’s the visual:

So yeah, I miss college. Not just because I miss living with my friends, and going out, and having fun, and being carefree, but also because I miss my classes and projects. I feel like not many people can say that either so I feel lucky to be able to.

stay creative,
chloe