BTS: Making Valentine's Day Conversation Hearts

Hello Lovelies,

I wanted to share a few behind the scene photos in the making of my recent YouTube video.

Milk Chocolate Heart - BAE (before anyone else)
White Chocolate Heart - I SHIP US (SHIP - to endorse a relationship)
Peanut Butter Heart - OTP (one true pair)

Here is the tutorial:

Ingredients:
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1/8 cup - white chocolate chips
1/4 cup - milk chocolate chips
2 tbsp - butter
2 cups - mini marshmallow
3 cups - crispy rice cereal

Note:
- For the white chocolate heart, you will need 1/4 cup - white chocolate chips & 1/8 cup - peanut butter chips. This is as follow for the peanut butter heart, your base will be 1/4 cup & lettering will be 1/8 cups.  

- Double this recipe if you are using a bigger baking pan/ making more than two heart at a time. 
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BTS: prepping & getting set up to shoot! 

 Let me know if you give this a try! Happy Valentines Day! (:

What's up San Francisco?

Hello beautiful faces,
How are all of you? I hope you guys had a fun-filled and cozy winter break!

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Here are a few photos from my SF trip. I actually enjoyed the car ride more than sight seeing in San Francisco. This is because there were so many amazing landscape to experience, from mountains, lakes and flat farm lands. Don't get me wrong, San Francisco is a beautiful city in it's own right and I probably need to explore more than just one day. So SF was freezing, I didn't expect it to be so cold! It was overwhelming since there were so many tourist including ourselves haha. I think the bike ride to the Golden Gate Bridge was the best part of the trip for me. All in all, I think it was a successful trip and it was my first time really leaving SoCal. I also have a video recap of my trip so please check it out here: [click here].

Until next time, I hope you all have a wonderful year filled with happiness & love!

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China Town

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Stanford

New Year's Outfit Ideas

Hello lovelies,

It blows my mind that this year is coming to an end and a new year is peeking around the corner! Where has the time gone?!

I am still a strong believer in the fact you create your own happiness. Echoing from my 2014 New Year's post, you have to get yourself out there, take that leap of faith, and try new things! Don't wish for dreams to come true, make them come true. So go out there and live a little, lovelies!

I am a big fan of sparkly clothing items, especially for a New Year's look. This might be my tacky taste talking here, but come on it's definitely the right occasion to bust out those gems! So below are a few outfit ideas for any New Years party/ get together.

New Year Outfit Ideas by postcardsfromliz on polyvore.com

Let me know which outfit you would wear/ what you will be wearing this New Year?! I'd love to hear (:

Behind The Scene(BTS): DIY Minecraft Ornaments

Here are a few pictures taken during the making of this DIY project and video.

 Neat fact: The B&W photos were taken, processed, and printed by yours truly.

The finished products: Minecraft cake and Creeper!

I enjoyed making this tutorial, so I hope it's easy to follow and you guys like it (:

Thanks for reading & watching!

New Journey - What Am I Doing?

Hello again,

I wanted to share with you all a new journey for me. I started a YouTube channel!! It is exciting and terrifying all at the same time. I wanted to jump for joy for mustering up the courage to finally post a video, even if it's just a short introduction to what to come for the postcardsfromliz YouTube channel. But being super shy it's actually very paralyzing as well, not knowing what to expect and if internet meanies will be, mean. Sigh, whatever. I am doing this for myself, because for many years now I wanted to start a channel just for fun. This is me not letting fear hold me back, so here's to a step forward to living the dream!

Below is my intro video:

Thanks for reading & watching! (:

You are Now Exiting the Comfort Zone...

As I am getting older, I am trying to step out of my comfort zone to experience new things. Side note: I like to pretend I am frozen in the age of 18 forever, so don't burst my bubble... For this post I would like to single out one aspect of this "exiting the comfort zone" which took place today while I was shooting for a photo project.

I am not a photographer, I am  an observer. I feel most comfortable capturing photos of friends within settings I am familiar with. I personally do not believe this restricts or limits the photos I that I can create, because I find everything very interesting. However, the photos tend to seem like a continuous project and I want to branch out from the same old, same old.

My professor is always trying to get us to loosen up, grow as a person, and experiment with our approach of photography. So today I  traveled to a part of town I usually never find myself at or even knew existed really. At first it was intimating to go somewhere new and it was just plain amazing to be able to find it in the first place. But it was also scary, I felt I was not allowed there and especially not allowed to take photos. Then my professor's voice popped in my head and reminded me that photographers have RIGHTS. 

I think it's odd that we find things that are old,  run-down, and broken so interesting. It might look like just an old abandon building or just trash on the street but once you snap a picture somehow it gets immortalized as somewhat an interesting photo. I like to wonder if it's because we all what to believe that even if something may  be broken it still has it's own beauty.
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And for funsies there's a video of behind the scenes:
(Warning: LOUD train!!!)

click click.

Hello Internet,

I wanted to share a little gem I purchased a few weekends ago. It's a Konica Autoflex TC and I am so obsessed with it. First off, I am not an expert in photography or cameras so please excuse any an incorrect/lame comments from me.

I picked up this beauty at the thrift store for only $6! I am currently experimenting and learning along the way as I am taking photos for a project. It is a film SLR where you manually load film, advance the frames, and settings. I have enjoyed getting a hands-on experience working with this Konica and creating some decent prints. I might share some of the black and white prints in a future post so please stay tuned!