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.


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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.

Memphis

On Sunday I traveled to Memphis, TN for work. While there in my free time I was able to check out the surroundings. I wish I could have seen more and that it wasn't down pouring on Tuesday, when I had the whole day to explore.

The first night there I went to the B.B. King Blue club. There was an awesome live band.


Yeah, he was playing the guitar with his tongue. Crazy!

Beale street is awesome at night, with all of the neon signs.

I also wandered around the city and found some cool buildings.

I would love to go back and be able to explore the whole time, rather than in between work meetings. This city is so awesome and has an amazing history.

Books - again

Last year I posted about these lovely books.

As I was looking around the internet today I found that Anthropologie is now selling these on their website. You can save the hassle of getting them from Canada.

Check them out here.

Sunshine?

Last week I had to fly to San Jose for work. It was a quick little trip, but I was able to spend some time with my colleges from another office and enjoy the warm and sunshine.

I do like being home - but as I was waiting for my car to warm up this morning so the ice on the window would melt (I couldn't find my ice scraper) I was nostalgic for the sun and warm for a few more weeks.

(View from my room)

(Santana Row)