We’re supposed to be getting heaps of snow over the next few days and I am so excited! If it’s going to be winter we should have snow. I thought I’d take a little break from looking at the storm map to share three things I’m loving this week.
I ordered this shirt while it was on sale New Year’s Day. New year, new shirt. Somehow I missed that the print on the shirt is made up of pairs of tiny cardinals. What a fun surprise! I love it!
Weekends are always over too quickly and this one just flew! For me, the best way to get back to the work week is a good breakfast of granola and coffee and a favorite playlist. I watched Casablanca and Midnight and Paris this weekend and I think they might be fueling my nostalgic Music Monday:
A brand new year always feels like the right time to do some planning. My poor little Wayside Violet shop was a little stagnant in 2011. I haven’t created any new cozies and, to be honest, I’m surprised that they are still selling like hotcakes. But the lack of freshness is going to change soon, because I have the whole month of January off from school. Which means new things are coming!
2012 Goals for Wayside Violet:
The campus where I work is empty of students and the quiet seems especially suited to reading and knitting and drinking coffee, which is just what I do on my lunch breaks. Right now I’m reading one of the books I got for Christmas, Brideshead Revisited. I’ve been wanting to read it for quite sometime,
All this extra time that being on break from school has meant more time for finding neat things on the internets. This week’s loves are a little hodge podge from all over. Starting with the most gorgeous home tour I’ve seen in ages, via Design*Sponge. The photos make me want to curl up in a house full of light and read a good book.
For some reason the start of a new year always makes me want to buy new stationary. I’m not sure if that’s a normal reaction to have, but I would love to stock up on things from Our Paper Shop:
I came across some lovely new-to-me blogs this past year and though I’ve probably mentioned them a few times, I thought I would highlight three of them today: Apple a Day, Grainline, and Junkaholique.
Apple a Day belongs to Amy Merrick and it’s the most perfect place filled with photos of stunning flowers. Really the photos are so lovely I’m almost surprised that I can’t smell the blossoms. I love this blog because it makes me want to learn more about plants. That might be a nice little goal for 2012.
I rang in the New Year quietly, but quiet and happy has been a theme for the holidays at our house this year. Joel fixed a fine little chicken dinner. Cors wouldn’t budge from the kitchen because the smell of the chicken roasting was just too good! I made the Dubliner cupcakes I made last St. Patrick’s Day (minus the ganache) and we watched Midnight in Paris. Happy New Year, indeed!
The recipe is from Smitten Kitchen and it’s the best one I’ve found for chocolate cake. It’s just wonderful!
Hello friends! I’m just popping in to send best wishes for a safe and happy new year your way. My New Year’s Eve was spend quietly and wonderfully. There was baking and knitting and dozy puppy and candles. Don’t worry, the puppy left the candles alone for the most part. I did have to move him a few times when he got a little too curious. I hope yours was wonderful!
I won’t pretend to make any resolutions this year, but I will send out a few wishes: I want to write more letters, start and finish and photograph more projects, and spend more time drawing. What ate you hoping 2012 will bring?
New Year’s Eve is inching closer and I don’t have any plans. I secretly hope my plans will include knitting, eating something tasting, watching Midnight in Paris, and being tucked up in bed not too long after midnight. Despite sounding like a little granny, if I were planning a little New Year’s soiree this year, I would want it to look something like this:
1) Cheers Banner 2) The Party Dress 3) A Golden Cake 4) Beautiful Flower Inspiration 5) Golden Film 6) Boom Boom Pow Nail Polish
Please excuse this week’s Wednesday Love for being extra homebody-ish, but it’s been a terrifically lazy week around here. We’ve had a few trips to the movies (I still want to see The Artist, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Tin Tin), knitting projects, lots of reading, and lots and lots of cups of Newport Coffee’s amazing Holiday Blend. Oh, and hazelnut biscuits, too!
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