I am at home, nursing a cold that doesn't seem to want to go away, but plan on spending Halloween night watching scary movies to celebrate. I may have to sleep with the lights on after!
ps. Picture from the Graphics Fairy
I looooove candy corn! It's one of my favorite candies, but for some reason, I only like to eat it in the fall. I also love these candy corn inspired pix!
1. All 3 candy corns, 2. Candy corn--Crafting 365/day 11, 3. candy corn line up, 4. Domo Devours Candy Corn, 5. Candy Corn!, 6. candy corn red face, 7. OHH sweet Candy corn how I love thee. Candle holder. Candy holder., 8. Candy Corn Cat Pins, 9. Candy Corn Moon Bun
A little bit more fall decorating...
I picked up a bunch of cute little mini pumpkins to add just a bit of a hint of fall to my house.
Just a simple bowl filled with the little pumpkins on my coffee table...
It's not much, but it's a simple and nice touch. Cute!
My parents have been going on vacation to France about every year or two in the last eight years or so and while it's definitely not as cool as getting to go myself, I always love all the treats they bring back for me and this trip's haul of goodies definitely does not disappoint! They traveled through a huge portion of the country this time and brought back things from all over.
Caramels from Normandy, Fauchon wafer cookies, violet candy and confit from Toulouse
And more caramels in a Saint Michel tin and a mini Mont Saint Michel
Laduree cookies (jackpot!) in an absolutely beautiful kitty box. They are delicious!
Maison du Chocolat chocolates. Okay, it was a half eaten box, so don't blame me for so many missing chocolates, although it has been hard to not just eat the rest all at once!
Toulouse-Lautrec prints from the museum about him in Toulouse
A couple of books on places they visited
A teeny limoges high heel from Limoges, a bookmark from the Lascaux caves and an Emily Loizeau cd.
Emily Loizeau is a French singer who has an English mother, so she sings in both English and French. If you haven't heard of her, check out her website. It is just beautiful! The design is amazing. I only wish they had an English translation on it as well. I heard of her through Nadine and fell in love with her videos. Here's one for Je Suis Jalouse. Enjoy!
I don't usually decorate my house for the seasons, except for a little bit for Christmas, because it's kind of small and I don't have a lot of tables, etc. to put decorations on, but I couldn't resist getting these adorable pumpkin trees from the grocery store!
They are just too cute and just the right amount of color to make our muggy weather of late to feel like fall.
A few days ago, we had the remains of a typhoon that came from Japan, unleashing a huge storm. I think I still haven't totally dried out! Since then, the weather has been unseasonably humid and the poor pumpkin trees aren't faring too well, but I am enjoying then while I can.
I even found this funny mutated pumpkin on one of the branches...
I guess I am easily entertained, but the wonky pumpkin is fun to look at to me!
I also sent an email to the heads of Craft Gossip today, resigning for hopefully at the end of the month. There were a few reasons, which I won't really get into here, but mostly it was because it was just sucking up my limited free time. I unfortunately have a full time job, and really only have the weekends to blog for myself and to craft and writing up all those blog posts caused me to neglect my own things, so I hope that soon I will be able to focus more on working on my own business.
I hope you all are enjoying the weekend! The Nike Wome's Marathon ran right past my house this morning so I didn't get as much sleep as I thought I would, but I'm trying to take advantage of the extra time to get a lot of stuff crossed off my to do list!
I have just added brand new red velvet lotion bars to my shop! I am very excited about expanding my product line.
This red velvet cake scent is one of my favorites! A sweet, cake fragrance with nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla and ginger notes. The lotion bar is packaged in a convenient push up stick for easy portability. Made with beeswax, almond oil, shea butter and cocoa butter for a moisturizing and non-greasy lotion! Please check it out in my shop.
I can't believe it's been a year now since I visited Europe. The last place I visited was Copenhagen. By the time I got there in late September, it was getting very cold and a bit rainy and the sun rarely came out from the clouds. Still, it was a beautiful city with very delicious pastries (they're called danishes for a reason!). I was feeling nostalgic and looking through my pictures this weekend. Here's some of my favorites from Copenhagen.
As soon as I arrived in Copenhagen, I headed to Tivoli Gardens, an amusement park and so much more. Luckily, it was the last week it was open before closing for the winter and it was half priced to get in!
Asian Station - where they served mostly sausages...
There was some sort of play going on...
I also visited Nyhavn, the famous canal. The sun kept flitting in and out behind the clouds, but it was a beautiful place, complete with typical Danish architecture.
There were other pretty canals and buildings too
Right by these buildings was a little flea market
Smurfs!
I also visited the Carlsberg Brewery. You got to try 4 beers. Unfortunately, I don't like beer very much, but I did meet a nice Swedish couple visiting from Malmo and we had a great conversation.
The giant Carlsberg elephants at the entrance. It's hard to tell in the picture, but they're pretty huge.
One of the royal family's palaces. There are 4, situated around a plaza.
A royal guard
The Round Tower (Rundetarn), built in 1642 as an astronomy tower
Rathaus, the city hall. It's across the street from Tivoli Gardens and on the entrance to the Stroget, a big shopping promenade
There were little statues all around the Rathaus and surrounding plaza
Rosenborg Palace. This is where they keep the crown jewels, which are absolutely amazing. Of course, you can't take pictures inside and there were a ton of heavily armed guards, so I didn't risk it! It also functions as a museum now.
It was a bit rainy out, so I couldn't get a great picture of the outside, but it was very pretty. Around it are the king's gardens. The Royal Family are apparently pretty down to earth and can be seen around the city walking their dogs and things like that.
I also visited Christiania, a sort of city within the city. Back in the 70s, some people took over an old military site and declared it Freetown Christiania. They have a street called Pusher Street where you can buy drugs and other things. It kind of reminded me of the Haight Ashbury neighborhood here, with dogs running around and people selling rasta stuff and other things.
The entrance
The red with the 3 yellow dots is their logo
I would definitely visit Denmark again, but I have sooo many places on my travel wishlist that it may be awhile before I get back there!
Over the weekend, I met with Barbe to celebrate her birthday at Crown & Crumpet, a pretty little tea room at Ghiradelli Square. I got down to the Fisherman's Wharf area a little early, so I took some pictures of the cute sea lions!
All the tourists watching the sea lions....
Alcatraz....
After taking pictures, I wandered through the throngs of people over to Crown & Crumpet and met Barbe for a lovely tea for two. We ended up being there for about 3 hours because no one ever brought the bill!
A chocolate and sample tea to try at home...
There was supposed to be a tea leaf reader there that day, which was the main reason we went there, but she ended up flaking out, so the owner gave us a little chocolate. It's a nice place to go to anyway, so it wasn't a bit deal.
As always, I brought my camera intending to take pictures but totally forgot! Hopefully I'll remember next time.
