Handmade Holiday

Later this afternoon, Inna and I are planning on heading over to Pulaski Park Fieldhouse to peruse the finest of handmade indie-craft goodies.  I'm really excited about this.

I'm hoping to find some lovely gifts for friends and family while drinking some bubbly with my fantastic friend.

Christmas Wish(ful Thinking)

So, in the spirit of awesome Christmas gifts we want to give to ourselves as well as our nearest and dearest, the following exhibits are presented for your droolage:

Gorgeous cocktail glasses from Yarai, a Japanese designer:


Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town, a book celebrating food, photography and Tuscan culture (it was just previewed on NPR):


For wee people, I liked these hats, which remind me rather of these, but are of course much nicer!



And in a few minutes I get my husband back from a really long surgery call at the hospital, and we're going Christmas shopping together - yeah! :-)

It's obvious I'm hungry, isn't it

I WANT TO EAT THIS.  MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.  I stumbled upon this delicious looking rainbow cake and now I am dreaming about it.

Just look at its beauty!

You can find the recipe here.  Enjoy!

And the gift ideas begin...

It's December, which means it's officially time to start Christmas shopping.  Since we're flying to Kansas for the celebration, I plan on doing all of my shopping online.  What about you?  I'm sure I'll still get out and try to hunt down some goodies, but I just don't have the desire or the space this year to shop til I drop.  Although, Badge could beg to differ. 

Anywho, on to the first amazing find:

These are some amazing terrariums that I would love to have.  Aren't they cute?!

I found them at the A+R store, which is chock full of amazing finds. 

Yes, I'll take them all.  Even the hand.  If only I was filthy rich!

Oh no!

I just read some more bad news about the world of magazines.  As a journalism major with a concentration in magazines, I'm disheartened by all the news of publications shutting down.  And now, my favorite wedding magazine  has come to an end.

I love InStyle Weddings.  I've only browsed through a few since I've been engaged but each one of them has been beyond helpful with my planning and ideas. 

Our time together was short, but sweet.

Gus Gus

When I look at the little booger sleeping, I go a little weak in the knees.   How did I get to be so lucky? 

 

So much personality, so majestic.

He loves to flirt with everyone.

He's got a grrrreat sense of humor.

See?!

He loves to sits on your things.

I love you, lil' bitchka!

Happy Monday!

Well, I'm back at my desk after a delicious 4 day weekend, and I must admit (even though I just got here and got as far as checking gmail and making a cuppa), it's tough already. Really tough. So if anyone wants to send me cute pictures, or Natalie Dee comics, or fruit baskets, knock yourselves out.


In other news, I have to be thankful for an amazing weekend. On Thursday we had a really great day hanging out with my in-laws, going to the dog park, playing with my new sewing machine, we saw Fantastic Mr.Fox, and then the 4 of us ate through 11 dishes of food and collapsed with Bailey's and another movie. On Friday, I hit the sales (snow boots and bath towels, apparently). I pottered around the house and in the pm spent the evening with my lovely friends eating double helpings of pie and playing Taboo. Yes, I did shut my finger in their door, but was reassured to find out from Dr.Bort that I had a bona fide documented medical reaction and wasn't just being a pussy.



My lovely friend Jacob got me on the guestlist for a very sold out show, and I saw a band I really heart (Fools Gold) followed my another really fun 11 piece by the name of Ed Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.




Saturday and Sunday were spent pottering around at home, catching up on Glee, putting up shelves, cooking delicious shrimp, insulating the house (seriously, it's much warmer now even though I feel like a grandma), watching the Reader and snuggling with my favourite guy before I loan him back to the surgery department for the next 13 days straight.


Hope your weekends were perfect - happy Monday :-)

Holiday weekend fun

What did you guys do over the weekend?  Well I know Anna-Maria managed to slam a finger in the door and wound up in a lot of pain :(  I hope she still comes over to our house and forgives our front door some day. 

Friday, Inna & I pampered ourselves at the salon then went home and vegged out w/boy and snarfed down some leftovers.  AMDCC came over and we attempted to play Taboo until the incident (see above).  It was a good day besides that.

Yesterday, we had brunch at Yolk then went and saw Fantastic Mr. Fox.  What a fantastic movie!  

Bill Murray plays Clive Badger.  So funny.

We finished the night off with Belgium beers and Phase 10. 

                                     

I love low-key weekends. 

Mmm....Thanksgiving

This holiday weekend flew by, but it was certainly a good time.   Thanksgiving day was amazing.  Badger's parents and sister came up and our friends Jake & Inna came over as well.  Badger cooked all day long, but his dad was sure to take care of him by feeding him Miller lite the whole time.  I got some amazing flowers and was pretty excited to decorate the table.  It seemed to turn out pretty good!

We had so many dishes.  Turkey (I didn't eat it, but of course), sweet potatoes, macaroni n' cheese, green bean casserole, corn pudding, cranberry sauce, stuffing, pesto-deviled eggs, gravy, etc.  It was all made from scratch and with tons of love.  Seriously.  For dessert we had pumpkin-banana pie and an apple crumble.  It was delicious.  Nothing was made from a can.  I'm so proud of my boy!

It was a great day!