“Venice is Italy’s kingdom of salt & pearls, prosecco & mermaids, bigola & polenta. Tessa Kiros travels through this city, breathing in it’s atmosphere & letting it’s bejeweled past & dark alleyways fuel her imagination. Mingled among the recipes & stunningly beautiful photography are Tessa’s diary jottings on the life & food of Venezia.” ~…
I downloaded the new Eclipse soundtrack just in time for the Halloween weekend. We’ve been enjoying the Twilight and New Moon soundtrack this past week. Awesome, awesome stuff! Super Massive Black Hole Decode Friends Monsters All Yours Heavy In Your Arms Enjoy! And have a great Halloween weekend! ~Melissa
“Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied”. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1859 This is a quilt I made for my daughter Grace using vintage reproduction…
“The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. this is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember. The rain that falls on a day when you’d just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters, or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot…
” ‘You played this game with your parents?’ he asked skeptically. ‘Yep. And Mom always won, the dirty bitch. I guess being older she’d been around more than me and Carrie,’ Sophie said, extracting replacement tiles from the box. ‘Although I don’t know what Dad’s excuse was. Lack of imagination, I guess. Your turn.’ ”…