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Still Life Stills Features: Festive FlavoursEveryone has their own idea of what is festive to them, I was going to feature just one flavour but there are so many i could not decide. What counts as festive varies greatly depending on family traditions, culture, taste and smell.
This is what is festive to me. Chestnuts, peppermint, chocolate, orange, cranberry, cinnamon, mince pies, rum, brussel sprouts, stuffing, cheese and crackers, pickled onions, cheesecake and pigs wrapped in blankets. All these foods are a combination of my families tastes over the years rubbing off on me.
What is festive for you?

Feature Time: Poppy DayRemembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day or Armistice Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. This day, or alternative dates, are also recognized as special days for war remembrances in many non-Commonwealth countries. Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the end of hostilities of World War I on that date in 1918. Hostilities formally ended "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month," in accordance with the Armistice, signed by representatives of Germany and the Entente between 5:12 and 5:20 that morning. ("At the 11th hour" refers to the passing of the 11th hour, or 11:00 a.m.) World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919.
The red remembrance poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem "In Flanders Fields". These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefiel

Still Life Stills Features: Making OfI absolutely adore food photography but rarely do I find the time to take photos of ingredients or of the making process so seeing such photos makes a wonderful change.

Banana chocolate chip cookies by *Nattyw

Still Life Stills Features: DrinksWe have had breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and dessert. Now for the final part of my meal series, you got to have a drink with that meal!

Still Life Stills Features: DessertWe had breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, now it's finally time for dessert!

Pancake DayTomorrow, Tuesday February 12th is Pancake Day here in the UK.
Sugar, lemon juice and for those who like them, raisins are the basic typical extras to be added around here.
Tasty but having the same thing every year can get a little boring so, if like me you fancy something different but have yet to decide what to fill or top your pancakes with, here are some tasty looking ideas to get you started.

Still looking for more ideas? then check out last years Pancaktastic feature!

Still Life Stills Features: BottlesDo you have or would like to have any beautiful bottles? If so what have or would you fill them with? There are so many endless possibilities i wouldn't even know where to begin to decide!

Got any ideas for features? Please let us know

December!!!Now that December is here I am going to go a little quiet over the following weeks here on DA. In the build up to Christmas there is much to be done, unfortunately none of it involves baking other than my peppermint creams the weekend before Christmas for gifts which actually requires no cooking at all! awesome!

You could always try and make your own claremanson until things are back to normal! Just be careful to follow the instructions carefully as someone has already made themselves Justin Bieber! Oops!

Now for my song of the week!

Still Life Stills Features: JewelleryPeople have been producing and wearing Jewellery for a long time now – with 100,000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.
Depending on the culture and times jewellery may be appreciated as a status symbol, for its material properties, its patterns, meaningful symbols or has no other purpose than to look appealing.
The word jewellery itself is derived from the word jewel, which was anglicized from the Old French "jouel", and beyond that, to the Latin word "jocale", meaning plaything. In British English the spelling can be written as jewelery or jewellery, while in U.S. English the spelling is jewelry.
full article can be found on good old Wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewellery

My Halloween Wedding Blogged!Today my very awesome wedding photographer Justin Krause told me that not only was he working on getting our Halloween wedding photos finished this week but also he was writing a blog about our big day too!
Justin was a last minute replacement for another photographer my father in law had found after the old one dropped out. Up until 4 days the wedding I was pretty nervous about getting a good photographer for the day but as soon as we met him i knew he would not be good but great.
So here it is my Halloween wedding day blogged! It's great to read it from another persons perspective plus great to see some photos i haven't seen before! he loves to tease! http://weddingandportraitphotography.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/halloween-wedding.html check it out and leave a comment on blogspot if you like, he would love to receive some feedback I am sure.
If any of you lovely people are planning a wedding at the moment, I highly recommend Justi

Still Life Stills Features: FeathersThere are many beauties of nature in this world, feathers sure are up there with the most beautiful of them all. Feathers are not only beautiful but highly useful too. Not only to feathered creatures but also perfect for us humans too as insulation for pillows, blankets and other things to help keep us warm in the long, dark winter months.

Feather by *AfricanObserver
Chocolate Easter Egg by ~CozyComfyCouchheavenly winter II by *JoannaRzeznikowska

Food As Art“So all you have to do is take a photo of your lunch and you get a DD?”
“Food isn’t even art”
While I’ve been fortunate enough to have never encountered such comments, I’ve heard from older hats around dA than I that this is the sort of criticism they have received when their deviation has gained enough popularity to draw wider attention around the site.
Now, it would be easy enough to dismiss such notions by pointing out that art cannot be defined. It is a fluid entity, forever being shaped, changed, challenged and expanded. Art is usually considered to be anything produced by skill and/or imagination: to exclude an entire medium from it can only do a disservice to this wonderful entity.
But that’s too easy.
Instead, I’m going to take some time to explore all the creative aspects of culinary arts that make it a medium as worthy of the title ‘art’ as any. Not only is food art, it's everything in between.
Food is s

August FeatureSome of my favourite art and photography i have seen around DA this past month. Enjoy.

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Disturb by ~DeviArtLover21
Orange Chocolate Pots by ~Mrs-Yum-Yums Pink Thorn by ~gzmrt Creme Brulee Doughnuts by ~sasQuat-ch

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Artisan Crafts - Friday InterviewsIt's Artisan Crafts month at #ArtHistoryProject, to celebrate I will be publishing interviews on every Friday of December. These four interviews will feature very different artisans.
Interviewing ^cakecrumbs
Where do you draw inspiration for creating art?
Via osmosis. It's actually amazing (and annoying) the times inspiration strikes. It's never the moments when I have freedom to make any creation and am desperately trying to think of a cool idea. I might be doing fieldwork or browsing the internet or a book or at a restaurant and see a concept or a shape and I start wondering, “How could I make that out of cake?” or “How can I put my own spin on this cake/dish?” Half the time I forget them. Often I’ll be lying in bed about to fall asleep and something will hit me. I’m known to leap out of bed at 3am and scribble ideas down.

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November Feature: Food! Food! Food!

by *claremanson, Nov 15, 2012, 3:34:16 AM
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Some recent favourites of mine from both people and groups i watch that i thought so good needed more more recognition for either it's photography and/or creativeness or just pure nom.
It is not often I feature savoury food as well as sweet as sweet is where my passion has always been so make the most of it

Rhubarb and almond Crumb Pie by ~Cachahuete

Banana, almond and chocolate Muffins 2 by ~Cachahuete

Halloween Orange Segments by =behindthesofa

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Also don't forget to check out the awesome blog written about my halloween wedding. Justin who photographed and wrote the blog on blogspot would love to get some feedback. For those who have already read it he has just informed me you can now follow his blog by email to keep up to date with his latest photo shoots.

Claremanson.

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If any of you know of anyone you would like to see me feature (i love doing features, especially in winter when i can't bake so much) that have galleries full of food and/or photography (i love photography of all kinds so it doesn't just have to be food!) sent me comment or a note and I will check them out.

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~Naruto-II Nov 18, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Wonderful selection ^^ I'll be sure to check them out!

*sesam-is-open Nov 18, 2012

Very tasty selection.

*Stargatesg11 Nov 17, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Ohhh boy,.. I jast gained 10 pounds looking at this...

Mmmm, nice!

*claremanson Nov 17, 2012 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

^DistortedSmile Nov 16, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

~i77310 Nov 16, 2012

I feel hungry just looking at these!

^maytel Nov 16, 2012

Thanks for featuring my cupcakes!
Hey, I didn't know you could post images with no premium membership

*claremanson Nov 16, 2012 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

apparently it's been that way for a while now but i only found out when someone told me after i said in a journal feature not long ago it would be my last because my membership was about to expire.

^maytel Nov 16, 2012

yeah... that's cool

~Crescent-S-Moon Nov 15, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

yum!

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