Every morning should start off with a piece of Apple and Cream Cheese Coffee Cake. Wonder how many people would get up on the right side of the bed then, huh?
:: recipe and photo via Cookie Baker Lynn
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It’s overcast and we’re expecting rain this afternoon, but I’m busy picturing myself on a tropical beach sipping on one of these Blackberry Rum Runners.
Ingredients:
– 1-1/2 oz rum
– 1/2 oz Banana Liqueur
– Splash of pineapple juice
– Splash of orange juice
– 1/2 oz Monin Blackberry Syrup
– 3 fresh blackberries
– Splash of Sprite
Pour the first five ingredients, along with two of the blackberries, into a cocktail shaker with enough ice to fill a 14-ounce beverage glass. Shake. Pour into beverage glass and top with Sprite. Garnish with the reserved blackberry and a straw.
:: cocktail and image via Cocktail Times
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Have I ever mentioned that I adore books? That I have about a gazillion of them? Or that I have a really difficult time getting rid of even the really horrible ones? All true. I think I could solve this pesky problem of mine with the help of a few French Industrial Double Bookshelves. Wouldn’t a wall look fantastic lined with them? It would give things a nice laboratory feeling I’d like to think. Now if I only had a dollar for every book I owned I could afford them!
:: via Roadside Scholar
Posted In furniture, house and homeI don’t collect wine labels. But I am guilty of snapping photos of them with my cell at the liquor store, much to the chagrin of anyone accompanying me. There’s just so, so much good design and inspiration on those little stickers that I can’t resist!
The label on the back of Oxford Landing’s wine bottles is brilliant. Tear the little tab off of it as either a reminder of wine you liked and want to buy again or as a keepsake for the occasion. Smart design at work, my friends.
:: link and photos via Noisy Decent Graphics
:: heads up via the always wonderful d.Sharp
This Thai Fried Rice with Chicken looks so delicious! (I typed as I gobbled up leftover jellybeans.)
:: recipe and image via Real Thai Recipes
Posted In recipesCalling cards are such a great thing. I hate making a contact that’s not business related and having to hand them my work card. I’m not saying it’s unattractive by any means because I love them. It’s just sort of, well, my Work Card and I need a Kelly Card, too!
Check out these new card designs by Funnel Paper Goods. Gorgeous.
I love these pretty little stained glass candies! They’re available in a variety of flavors as well as sugar-free and are supposedly bursting with so much flavor you don’t need to look at the color to know what it is.
:: via Something Old, Something New
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Okay, okay. Although this little stunt wasn’t an April Fool’s prank, it was spectacular. It took five co-workers and myself about three hours, several hundred plastic cups and gallons of water to pull off one evening. The tape is across the door to prevent my boss at the time from walking right into the room without looking – and it barely stopped him!
I never fancied myself a table mirror sort of girl. (Actually I’ve never “fancied” myself anything before this post.) But then I met the FIGGJO mirror at IKEA and thought it just might be so. Measuring in at 9 7/8 X 18 1/8″ this would fit perfectly atop my bedroom dresser.
:: via Apartment Therapy
Posted In accents, house and homeApples = Fruit = Healthy. And don’t try and tell me otherwise!
:: recipe and image via Cafe Chocolada
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