This week, in honor of Saturday being Halloween and all, I’ve put together a mad selection of chocolate delectables for you. Each day will feature one main recipe (as usual) with several others included in a mini-roundup for a grand total of FIFTY chocolate recipes this week! Please, look on, drool and enjoy!
I’ve mentioned my affinity for bread pudding before, but I’ve never seen anything like this Chocolate Bread & Butter Pudding concoction. Note to self: try immediately!
Unlike paper calendars, which are often thrown out after use, this calendar is a truly “green” calendar option, as the piece can be tacked up on the wall or framed for the duration of the year MMX, and then used and loved for many years to come. Printed on a snowy white 100% cotton tea towel. Measures 19″ x 28″.
Hang it on your wall and enjoy its pristine state for the year. Made of 55% linen/45% cotton, this towel will serve you years of purpose past 2010. With each washing, it gets more supple and soft and makes an excellent drying towel, though you should expect fading and shrinkage. Dimensions are 16×20 inches. Comes with wooden hanging rod and strung with baker’s twine.
Each image is an original papercut, cut from a single piece of paper featuring strong images of everyday life, each with a powerful verb that inspires to action. Printed on acid-free paper using soy ink. Measures 12X12″.
Each month features a different pattern and color scheme. The calendars are spiral bound and come ready to hang. Each one is 8.5 inches by 11 inches giving enough room on each day to write important events and appointments. Printed on recycled heavy 100 lb linen coverstock. To make it even more earth friendly the pages are printed on both sides.
Veering away from marbled calendars of years past, Albertine created a 100% letterpress calendar. Playing with layering in the designs, and drawing in new colors, they made use of favorite custom designs in new and exciting ways. Each color scheme is entirely unique translating to 29 separate color runs for the project.
Calendars pages are 100% recycled paper. Each finished calendar measures 5″x8″ with hand-rounded corners and is hung with ribbon from a hole on the top. It is a limited edition of 225.
This 2010 calendar shows off a love for nature and vintage botanical prints with 12 unique specimen prints letterpress printed on each month. Sized to 5.5″ × 8.5″ and printed on 100% cotton, 110lb bright white stock. Order includes 12 month calendar + 1 tiny bulldog clip to display your calendar on the wall. Bonus: once the month is over, trim the dates off and turn each month into a 5.5″ × 5.5″ print for your wall. Limited edition of 100.
This perpetual calendar a stack of thirteen 2-sided cards, letterpress printed and measuring 3.5 x 5″. Each calendar comes in a display box (also letterpress printed!) that is free-standing with peel+stick assembly.
Original botanical illustrations were created from Anna’s own photographs. A true labor of love, the graphics on each monthly sheet have been gocco printed by hand in a mix of vivid colors including 3 metallic inks (all non-toxic). Printed on 100% recycled, 100% FSC certified post consumer fiber, processed chlorine free, manufactured using biogas energy.
12 unbound colorful sheets are packaged in a clear plastic jewel case that folds back to create a stand – or frame the 12 sheets for a bright year at a glance wall calendar. Measures ~4.75″ x 5.5″ with case.
Congratulations missrantsypants! And thank you to Marta for giving away such an adorable (and much coveted!) mini diary.
Since I asked about your last memorable dream, well, I guess it’s only fair that I spill my own. It was about a guy I briefly dated in college and then again a few years ago. In the dream he told me – via Sharpie-written note – that he was engaged to the girl he left me for. And oddly enough, that dream stuck with me for a few days. It’s so interesting the way our subconscious minds work!
Happy Halloween Week! I’m really looking forward to the 31st and will be posting extra doses of Halloween Goodness here and there throughout the week. I hope you’ll be along for the ride!
This past weekend I: • cleaned like a mad woman • went to the Greek festival and ate a yummy gyro (among other things!) • attended my first Ghouls Gone Wild with Greedy Girl • went on a big-time knee-high boot hunt, only to end up with the sweetest pair of peep-toe hounds tooth heels • spent way too much money at Target
Hello, weekend! I’m so, so very happy to see you again. And really looking forward to the Greek festival, the OU game, Ghouls Gone Wild and boot shopping! (If you could somehow make my clean underwear supply last until Monday so that I don’t have to do laundry just yet, that would rock.)
NOTES:
• You have until Monday at 9am CST to enter and win one of Marta’s oh-so-cute mini diaries!
• The time left to enter the 2010 Calendar Swap is starting to wind down, but there’s still a few days left. If you need some inspiration check out my calendar roundups 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5!
For 100 consecutive days – October 30, 2008 to February 6, 200 – Rachel Berger picked a paint chip out of a bag and responded with a short write up associated with the selected color.
I’m sort of obsessed with Rachel’s 100 Days project for a few reasons. First, I have a thing with collecting paint chips like mad. Second, I find it so interesting that color can evoke memories. I’m seeing a possible 2010 New Year’s resolution emerge as I type…
I own a monstrous collection of dish towels, so many in fact that they inhabit an entire shelf in one of my kitchen cabinets. I think I could make room for one more though… so long as it was one of these sweet Ampersand Monogram Dish Towels. (Great holiday gift, dontcha think?)
1. Baby Chocolate Lamingtons 2. Baked Spicy Brownies 3. Brownie Pizza
