Lovelies

Last year Penguin released a line of classics with the covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. I was so excited about them that I bought them from Canada and had them shipped to the states. I justified the purchase as a birthday present to myself. Although I still think I got the swine flu from the box these books came in I love them.

A few months ago Penguin release a 2nd line of more classics with more covers by Coralie Bickford-Smith. This time I wasn't fast enough to order them before they sold out in Canada. But Amazon just posted them for pre-sale, and with my birthday a few weeks away. I once again justified the purchase.

Now I just need a new house with a huge wall bookcase that I can put all of my beautiful books on.

Valentine Craftiness

I may not be posting on my own blog, but I am still reading blogs pretty much every day. I came across this Valentine Day craft project and thought it was cute.

It was originally posted here on Design Sponge.

Home

Folks, I am still alive. Just busy and not really feeling blog inspired.

Until my return. Here's one my new favorite songs.

Tis the season for.. toffee

As usual every Christmas time I make toffee. It's a family recipe and everyone seems to love it. The only downside to this, is that each year my list of people that would like toffee seems to get longer and longer. This year I planned out making 6 batches. Hopefully that will be enough. If not, guess I go back to the store and pick up some more stuff to make a couple more batches.

I have a running list in my head of people who have mentioned they wanted toffee, but since my memory isn't the greatest some days. Leave me a comment if you want to be added to the list.

Here are some shots of my process. I got 3 batches done last night, then I was out of cookie sheets.

(get all of your ingredients together)

(start cooking in the electric frying pan)

(Melt the chocolate chips)

(once it turns the perfect shade of brown and smells wonderful pour into a cookie sheet)

(let set for a minute or two and then cover with melted chocolate)

Cardigans

Is it wrong to be in love in with cardigans & want them to be the only sweaters in your closet? I hope not... because I can't stop looking at them and wanting to buy them all.

Black Friday

We opened a new store, spellitout.bigcartel.com. We are having a Black Friday sale. Use the code BFSALE at checkout to get 20% off.


-- Post From My iPhone

Hallo-weenie

Usually every year we are very into the Halloween spirit. We decorate the house. Pull out Stew and get him ready for the holiday. But this year none of that happened. I am pretty sure it had to do with the fact that I have been battling a cold for a few weeks and have had to fly out of town a couple of times. I just didn't put the dedication into Halloween this year.

We received several party invitations, but ultimately decided not to attend them since we had no costumes. At the last minute we decided to get out and go to a "zombie" party. Although we had no costumes we threw some makeup on and headed out. We needed to stop by Target for some chips 'n dip. While there we got several comments about being scary or getting hid by that bus from no where. Considering we had not thought this out before hand. I don't think it turned out too bad.