As much as I love Valentine’s Day, I haven’t really done anything festive for it since I was a kid and my aunt threw parties dripping in pink, white, and red décor, chocolate candy, and homemade “lovebugs.”
I don’t mind though, I’m still very much in a hermit-y time of my life — I’m happy on my own, and don’t feel like sharing my time with many other people.
But there is one thing that I do enjoy doing for this fleeting February 14th holiday.
And that’s make a pink cake.
The only reasons that this photo series exists are:
1. I wanted more practice editing photos
2. I was feeling way too good about myself the other day and simply had to document it
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Although those are the only two reasons, I think they’re pretty good reasons.
A lot of times when it comes to photo editing I feel a bit of imposter syndrome try to edge in; after all, I’m definitely no professional. But I’m trying to work through that and just continue to figure out what I’m doing as I go. And since my stomach issues (which I touched on briefly in this post) have been getting me down a bit lately, every day that I feel amazing is a day to celebrate. It’s slow and steady progress over here.
My mental health has been kept aloft by a short list of songs that I’ve been listening to on repeat, and it’s pretty successfully brainwashed me into thinking that I am the absolute shit.
Curious? You shouldn’t be.
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