{scissor variations}

annual-eat-cake-for-breakfast-day

 

 
 
 

...in our house, anyway.

 

{chocolate carrot cake w/ cream cheese icing + bittersweet chocolate glaze}

 

 

le bon donateur de cadeau ….

 

A.…is good at keeping secrets

B…does not speak French

C... always manages to surprise me

D… tout les en haut

 

D !

 

Surprised, indeed!

A wonderful, thoughtful secret kept by the non-French speaking, good gift giver.

Who somehow managed to maneuver his way around a French website to gift me with a Marie Claire Idées subscription.

 

 

 

{ Photo Credits: Louis Gaillard + Gilles Trillard}

 

....i have been without my Marie Claire Idées fix for several months after the independent bookstore that reserved it for me closed it's doors.

{i love this take on the oversized chalkboard calendar--the color, the size, the fact that it was done on an existing door-the moldings already in place creating an instant frame, the chalk hanging on the door knob....oh, and my favorite color too}

it's Friday, i'm in love

~ with my new magazine + my good gift giver

yes i said yes i will yes

 

 

...today we are ten...

{quote from ending of Ulysses-Bloomsday}