Paris versus New York

So clever.

Alphabet Drawers

I think this is my favorite alphabet furniture that I've found yet... Each letter is a different drawer, plus I love the rustic-looking wood, and the old type-setting feel.

The next time I'm in England with an extra $6,000 to spend (grumble grumble exchange rate grumble) I'll just have to pick one up.

Book Bend

The Ballerina Project

Have you heard about this? I can't get enough of looking through these photographs.

Make your own postcards

I love postcards. I love sending them, I love getting them, I love buying them and then just keeping them on my cork board to remind me of the places I've been. Postcards are the best.

And now you can make your own!

Behold.... This online shop sells a backing for your photos that is postal service approved and will make them sturdy enough to send in the mail as a postcard. It comes in 4x6 and 5x7, and its affordable! Even for cute young broke and married people like me! You can get 50 for less that $15!

Nest Rest

Ok, this is the coolest thing EVER. It's like a grown up tree house/book nook/Sara's secret hideaway.

{via Black*Eiffel}

Morse Code Necklaces

Ok, this is just too clever to keep to myself. I mean, I just found it... Someone else is very clever... And that cleverness deserves to be shared.

The beads and bars on these necklaces are like the dots and dashes for morse code! It's a totally sneaky way to wear something terribly cheesy around your neck (Best Friends Forever!) and no one will know!

Fur Ball

WANT ONE.

Frozen Almond Toffee Mousse

This is my husband's new favorite dessert. He has been "accidentally" coming home with all of the ingredients, so of course we have to make it.... Because it only takes 2 minutes and it only has 2 ingredients.

No joke.

But if you serve it in cute little ramekins with a sprinkle of cocoa powder and a sprig of mint or an almond roca at a dinner party, everyone will think its the fanciest thing ever and they'll never know how embarassingly easy it is... So shhhhh.

Frozen Almond Toffee Mouse

1 tub of cool whip (regular size, not the big one, unless you want to double up the recipe which is fine with me!)
1 large Symphony bar (or other chocolate bar of your choice, I like symphony because of the toffee. Mmm, toffee)

1. Remove the cool whip from the freezer and let it sit on the counter for 10 or 15 mins. After that, give it a good stir to soften it up a bit.

2. Unwrap the chocolate bar and place it on a microwave safe plate. Microwave for about 45 seconds. The chocolate should be soft and melty all the way through, (if not, give it another quick nuke) then scrape the melted chcolate off of the plate and into the cool whipe and stir it about. The chocolate will begin to cool, forming little chcolate bits and flecks through out the cool whip!

3. Now you can either eat it right away, or throw it back in the freezer until it gets stiff again, then eat it like ice cream. Delish.

The Beautiful Briny Sea

{via The Grand Archives}

Whoa

Me and heights? We are not the best of friends.

I think someone would have to pay me at least a million dollars to walk across this thing. I would probably collapse into an adrenaline induced seizure at the end of it.

(Is there such a thing as an adrenaline induced seizure?)

I'm ready!

I'm ready for ski season, but I'm afraid it won't arrive for quite some time. This is what I get for living in Southern California... palm trees, blue skies, 75 degress and sunny in November.

I know it sounds idyllic, but after experiencing the broad range of seasons on the east coast I am longing for my trench coat and scarf clad autumn days.

Next year (fingers crossed!) I'll be in a place where ski seasons begins at a reasonable time... like, before January.

Pizza Extraordinaire

Whole wheat pizza with figs, brie, grilled eggplant, honey and sea salt...

Right?

Love, California (pillows!)

My designer friend Amber once told me that if you put the Eiffel Tower on anything, it will sell. I think that the same holds true for anything in the shape of a state, or the island of Manhattan. Well, at least I know that it holds true for me. Because I want one of these.

Out of Print

More holiday gift ideas! (I'm just full of them today.) For reader in your life... Out of Print makes t-shirts featuring book covers from great literature... Thus combining three of my favorite things: clothes and books and unique-ness.

I would not be sad to find Atlas Shrugged and/or The Great Gatsby with my name on it.