Etsy love: ♡* for Valentine's Day *♡

1. sex appeal soap from savor
2. In Love Wood from sanfran67
3. Hot Kiss Cupcake (TM) from FatDaddyBakeShop
4. I Love You - Hand Stamped Greeting Card from A PunkinCard Company

The Friday Ulti-Love List

It's been a few weeks since we had a Friday Love List™ here, but according to Meg this week is for "THINGS I LOVE MOST AND BEST AND WHOA! THE LOVE OVERWHELMS ME!" so I feel I should join in.

Things I love most:

Real life
Good writing
Etsy.com
My cousins
Email & IM
music that makes me melt
Chocolate
My ibook (please live forever so I don't have to upgrade)
Horses
My hand-stitched quilt made by my great-great-grandmother
comedy that makes me laugh 'til I'm in pain
Tuscany
World Cup football
Coffee
Sending off my jewelry to patrons in corners of the globe I've never even been myself
Flickr friends
Watching a cat stretch
Baking a perfect lemon meringue pie
Birdsong in the morning
Driving on country roads
A self-deprecating sense of humour
Big, masculine wrist watches
Wood floors
Hot showers
Sunlight filtering through lace curtains
Sheepish grins
The perfect jeans
Collapsing into a pile of clean laundry just out of the dryer
Knowing the meaning of life, the universe, and everything
Ceiling fans
Providing comfort
Cotton
People who can keep their temper
Hot cider
Waking up to a world coated in snow
Family traditions
Embroidery
An impossibly starry night sky
Kisses stolen in a dark theatre
Yosemite
and
You

it's raining berries

After a long, grey, rainy weekend spent eating copious amounts of blueberries, some inspiration takes form:



1. my new berry necklace
2. Untitled
3. A sweet cherry
4. Callicarpa

*Alice's Cocktail Party*

Polyvore is like paper dolls for grownups.
My first attempt is inspired by my style icon: Alice (of Wonderland).

*site found via the lovely CreatureComforts*

flickr love: waiting on winter

1. Stark Splash
2. .
3. Untitled
4. Frozen berries

*click the links above to see the original photos*

flickr love: everything is peachy keen

1. apple for the day
2. cakes for art
3. peach petals
4. Viktor and Kate

everyday

I don't know if anyone else besides me needs some cheering up today, but this song usually helps if you'd like something to smile about.

Etsy love: Jill Popowich

Jill is one of the nicest, most professional, and generous Etsians I've yet encountered. I custom ordered a gold fill toe ring for a Christmas present (she usually works in sterling), and when it turned out that the gauge used was a little too thick, she sent me another, thinner one... when I hadn't even complained about the first one. The recipient is thrilled with the ring, and I got to keep the "flawed" one, which is still perfectly wearable. Artisans like Jill are why I love Etsy. There is something wonderful about knowing exactly where your jewelry (or scarf or handbag or soap, etc.) comes from, and knowing that the person who made it wanted it to make you happy.

Visit Jill Popowich Designs

flickr love: this post is brought to you by the letters:

1. Embriodered Hanky
2. circles (blue-green dream)
3. "V"
4. "E"

.*.click the links above to see the original photos.*.

this was the hardest one yet

The Friday Love List™ from Meg's blog is becoming an institution around here. I cannot resist a good list, so here are my entries for:

THINGS OF LOVE FROM 2007

Movie of Love: Amazing Grace

Song of Love: Goodnight and Go -- Imogen Heap (*see below)

Book of Love: How I Live Now -- Meg Rosoff

Place of Love: Rossane (a Tuscan villa)

Month of Love: December

Best Day of Love: this one, because the cherry blossoms were beautiful, because the food was delicious, because it was so ridiculously cold to be having a picnic, and because I miss those girls

Best Moment of Love: hugging a friend i had parted on poor terms with and hadn't spoken to in a year

Word of Love: canticchiare (Italian: to sing languidly)

Purchase of Love: uber-soft, bordeaux-red leather wallet, sold to me by the Italian artisan who made it, who told me to think of him every time i used it

City of Love: San Gimignano

Food of Love: veggie choux

Beverage of Love: hot coffee with a splash of eggnog

Person of Love (someone who made a difference for you this year): my aunt, who made my illustrations being published possible

Spot of Love (the best place to go to just be): riding in a train on the Den-entoshi line

Clothing Item of Love: plaid flannel pajamas

Random Thing of Love (anything you want): savor's decadent all natural soaps -- thanks to her I smell like Pink Sugar all the time

etsy love: *❄snow white❄*

1. Lily Crowned tea cosy from GloamingDesigns
2. raindrops earrings from foundling
3. Blush Scarf from AllInStitches
4. winter white owlette from wonting