Just a reminder that today you can get 15% off any order from my shop with coupon code THANKYOUTURKEY.
Also! Lulu is having a sale as well and I promised I would pass along any Lulu sale info as I got it... They are doing 25% off any order today with code CYBER305. (How generous!) So pop over and grab a calendar while the price lasts!
I'm getting in the "spirit" of the...uh...shopping season...with a Cyber Monday sale over at the wee shop. Use coupon code THANKYOUTURKEY to get 15% off your order! The code is good from now until I wake up Tuesday morning...so get yer shop on!
Hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving. Ours was a blast - good food, fun family and a baby full of pureed squash. Nothing better.
As some of you may remember from previous years, I usually make several calendars each year, featuring different photos that I've taken over the course of the year. Well, this year was kind of hectic, for obvious reasons. But...this year I managed to get the calendar done before it's almost too late! Yay me! On the other hand, I also realized I didn't have enough quality photos that don't involve the squishy face of my child to make more than one. And even that one took just about every good food-related photo I could unearth from 2010. But here it is! It'll be on sale over here until, well, forever really. (I mean, technically you can go buy the past years' calendars too...not sure why you would but, y'know, gotta have options.) If you pop over there, you can see a preview of all the lovely photos included. So enjoy some delicious food photography in 2011!
I'll post discounts and such as I become aware of them, as usual...
I hope that if you celebrate Thanksgiving, you had a lovely one. We were thankful for time with family and some delicious food!
When November rolls around, my mind always turns to thoughts of...food. I am a huge fan of Thanksgiving food - turkey, potatoes, gravy, pies, apple cider, cranberry sauce and, most of all, stuffing. (Or dressing, if you insist.) I mean, I love being thankful and all that but...stuffing. I swoon. There may have, in fact, been a few years in college where I subsisted almost entirely on brightly packaged Stove Top and bags of Pepperidge Farm. And here is where I admit that I have never made stuffing from scratch despite my DIY tendencies. I grew up on Pepperidge Farm and have such a warm place in my heart for it that I can't imagine how it could be any better. (Or, ahem, easier.) I'm always open to suggestions, so if you've got a relatively simple delicious homemade stuffing recipe, lay it on me!
Another favorite part of Thanksgiving food - canned cranberry sauce. No...the jellied kind. I know. I know.
During the time I lived in Oregon, I spent Thanksgiving every year with some very dear friends. One of them had a tradition that she called "thankful corn." It went like this - we would take a little ear of that decorative dried Indian corn and go around the table each plucking a kernel of corn and stating what we were thankful for. I have a love/hate relationship with this tradition. I think it is wonderful and sweet and a good reminder of why we should be thankful. But I'm not a sharer. It kind of makes me feel all nervous and squidgy inside. All the same, I love it. And I miss those dear friends, whom I haven't seen since I moved away.
But back to the (edible) food! One of my very favorite Thanksgiving traditions is baking an apple pie. If I do say so myself, I make a darn good apple pie. One former roommate once remarked that it was "so good!" and "better than my mom's!" but not to tell her mom! One memorable Thanksgiving involved me speeding along the interstate to a new boyfriend's family's house in an unfamiliar city with a perfect apple pie perched precariously on the passenger seat. The pie and I both made it safely, though in hindsight the pie was probably more well received that I was...
One of my new November loves - and I suspect it will remain for some time - is remembering how lovely it is to be able to pull out all the handknits I've been knitting on all year and how good it feels to actually get some use out of them! Texas was notoriously uncooperative on that account but Maine is proving much more obliging. I've already been wearing my lovely wool socks and would be wearing more items if I could just locate them in the mass of confusion that surrounds most of our personal possessions at the moment... (A side note - the pair-of-socks-a-month thing hit a brick wall with the onset of morning sickness, extreme fatigue and a cross-country move. With any luck, September's socks will be done by the end of November!)
What about you? What do you love about November?
Y'all, I have to apologize for not posting March's love. My excuse is that I was on vacation. And then I kept thinking I'd get to it...and then I never did. Oh well! Onward!
In honor of the season, the first on the love list: artificial sweeteners! Seriously, they get a bad rap, but they're so sweet! And sugar-like! Who needs the real thing?
You know what I else love? Unemployment. It's such a great idea - instead of slaving away at some boring office job, you get to stay home and eat ramen noodles! I'm so excited that I may get to join the ranks of the unemployed a mere 5 months from today. Can't wait.
Also, scrunchies. Damn. Now there is a fashion statement.
Acrylic yarn is another one of my all-time faves. To quote from Wikipedia, "Acrylic has recently been used in clothing as a less expensive alternative to cashmere, due to the similar feeling of the materials." It just holds up so beautifully and feels so nice. I can barely stand how awesome it is.
Also? April Fool's Day. Love it.
For February, well, what can I say. The love is all about love! I'm not actually a huge fan of Valentine's Day, but whatever, a lot of other people are. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate it! I'm just sort of...indifferent. So much pressure to do the right thing, with the right person, on that day! Let's just all chill out. So here I've gathered together some of my favorite could-be-considered-Valentine's-appropriate things. We've got creamy desserts, movies, a little candlelight, some underthings and little cards for when you just feel like writing a little love note to that special someone!
First up, I love creme brulee. Seriously. With a passion. I've never made it - the burnt sugar bit scares me just a little - but I order it whenever I get the chance! (Which is surprisingly infrequently.)
The Alamo Drafthouse is my very favorite place to catch a movie in the whole wide world. It's quirky and fun and where else can you have creme brulee (heehee!) and fancy drinks while watching Amelie?
Nothing says romance like a bit of candlelight. Muted, forgiving and warm, just don't catch your hair on fire in the heat of the moment! These are some of my favorite candles. They smell amazing (try the tangerine!) and burn cleanly. Soy wax - yay!
I don't remember how I stumbled into this one the other day...but who doesn't need some comfy organic underthings? OK, sure, they're not exactly lingerie material. But still, they look comfy. And, well, comfy is more what I'm into these days! The organic cotton doesn't hurt either...
There are so many talented card designers on Etsy, that I was hoping to come back with something brilliant for you this month. But there was just too much to choose from! So I give you the Love Notes and Wrappings gift guide with an ever-changing array of lovely, lovely little doodads for you to choose from when you want to pen a few lines to your sweetie.
Happy February everybody!
2008 was not a remarkable year for us. That's not such a bad thing because 2007 was a real downer. So, 2008 was leaps and bounds ahead of that! 2008 was the year that we both had full time work most of the time and our jobs didn't completely suck. Nobody went to the hospital with meningitis. I wasn't struggling through the tail end of grad school. Our apartment building didn't burn down. All in all, not so bad!
2008 was the year I started this blog. My very first post, way back in May, was so hopeful about our little garden. Little did we know that the temperatures would shoot up above 100 in late spring and never go down again until fall, thus rendering almost all of our plants withered and unproductive.
The garden may not have been a success, but knitting was! 2008 was the year I got serious and started knitting things that were more than just glorified squares and rectangles. I've come a long way since those first fingerless mittens above! August saw me completing my Ravelympics project - my first lace project, given to my step-mother for her birthday.
In between all the canning and cooking and knitting and blogging, I managed to find the time to get engaged! Of course, that had little impact on 2008, but it's definitely going to make 2009 a lot more interesting!
2008 also saw the start of a brand new crafty business venture for me - my hand-dyed yarn shop. It's been a blast so far, and I'm thrilled that people actually want to buy my yarn and even seem to really like it! Hopefully 2009 will be a good year for my little fledgling business, despite the wretched economy...
So whether 2008 was a fabulous year for you or pretty terrible, I hope that 2009 is even better! I have high hopes for everyone. Happy new year!
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