Amie Simon | Three Imaginary GIrls

You can find Amy over Three Imaginary Girls and her blog I Love Splatter. A fellow horror movie fanatic... Amie, we need to hang out.

SIFF Opening Gala Photos Part II | Entering the Whedonverse

Amy Acker

The rest of the photos that I took last night at the SIFF Opening Gala have been added to a second album on the SIFF facebook page. 

SIFF Opening Gala 2013 | Much Ado About Nothing

Joss Whedon, Amy Acker, Clark Gregg and Nathan Fillion

Wow, what a fun night! I had such a great time photographing people at SIFF's Opening Night. Here are just a few of my favorite photos but you can find many more of the shots I took over at the SIFF facebook page and they will be continuing to add the rest of them in the upcoming days. Thanks to all of the readers that came up and introduced themselves! It was so great to meet you.

SIFF Managing Director Mary Bacarella

I will be at the Centerpiece Gala on June 1st and the Closing Gala on June 9th. Can't wait to see what other great outfits make an appearance!  See you there.

Ashley Fejeran & Nick Bernard | 6th & Pine

Nick works for Portent.com and is also a poet. You can find his writing here.

It's My Darlin' in Germany's Blonde Magazine

I was recently contacted by German fashion magazine Blonde to help with a piece they were doing about traveling to Seattle on a budget. I contributed a few photos (some of your lovely faces and oufits can be found in the photo slideshow) as well as suggestions on where to get the most for your money while traveling here when it comes to food and shopping. I sent them a list of a lot of places... it was so hard to narrow it down! They ended up including quite a few including my beloved Indian Summer, the ladies over at Kaleidoscope Vision, the good old Fremont Sunday flea market, Marination Station's mindblowing torta and my new favorite dessert spot: Hot Cakes in Ballard.

You can find the article here. I put it in Google translate and while you can get the general idea of what is being said there were a few things lost in translation.

Thanks for showing Seattle some love Blonde Magazine!

It's Mackenzie and Ria!

Marion Kimes | 15th & Harrison

Marion is the subject of my Hill Style feature this week over at CHS. You can find that feature here.

Happy Mother's Day | Robin & Jessie Ballou

I have a post coming up in the next couple days about Jessie but I couldn't resist sharing this sweet photo today that I took of her with her mom Robin when I ran into them at the Seattle Art Museum. 

Happy Mother's Day!!  

The Bees Knees

A bees knees has become my recent favorite cocktail to work off of at home. It is so easy to make and there are so many things you can add to it. Yesterday I ended up with what I think is my favorite variation of the drink yet.  A traditional Bees Knees contains 2 oz Gin, 3/4 oz fresh lemon juice, 3/4 oz honey syrup (1:1 water and honey mixture) and a lemon twist for garnish. I've been playing around with adding in half lime juice, switching out the lemon for lime completely and adding in weird bitters to the mix. Here is what I ended up with yesterday... not really even a Bees Knees cocktail anymore but delicious nonetheless.

2 oz gin (lately I've been enjoying Seattle's own Counter Gin from Batch 206 Distillery)
1 oz lime juice
3/4 oz honey syrup (1:1 water and honey mixture)
2 dashes of dandelion & burdock bitters (you can switch this out for another bitter... lavender, aromatic, orange or no bitters at all)

add ingredients to a shaker and shake with ice until the shaker becomes frosty. Strain into a glass with ice then add the following:
a splash of citrus soda (I used Gazzosa soda which can be purchased at Sugar Pill on Capitol Hill)
a sprig of basil

Now, what in the world do I call this outlandish metamorphosis of a Bees Knees? Bees Ricky, Lime Basil Bee, Gin Fizzbee... Okay, so I'm good at making cocktails but not so good at naming them.