all the pretty colors!

January 14, 2010



Light pink?

light blue?

light yellow?

BRIGHT yellow?

a plain creamy white?

or green OH SO bright!?

(top photo from winifredStudios at Etsy)
I just entered a contest at the Pioneer Woman’s Tasty Kitchen blog…. all I had to do was enter my favorite ice cream flavor and I’m in the drawing to win a KitchenAid mixer!! The options for colors aren’t as playful as my picks, but who gives! Imagine what all the tasty things I could make with one! Oh, let the girl dream…..

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adorable ceramics.

January 13, 2010
I’m in LOVE! I found these adORable ceramic stacking jars here. It’s a website called mirrormirror— a british company with all kinds of beautiful gifts. I think these jars are just precious with their floral patterns…. and it’s so fun how you can mix and match the lids!

Here is another cute gift: stacking egg cups. Not sure if I’d ever personally use these- but if the opportunity ever arose where I needed stacking egg cups these would surely be the ones I would want.
They are just darling!

LOVE!
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The Horn Book Magazine

January 12, 2010

My first Horn Book Magazine (Jan/Feb 2010) came in the mail yesterday! Excellent! I already know I’m going to love this subscription— it’s just such a perfect resource for the teacher in me. In this issue I particularly liked the section on “Horn Book Fanfare: Our Choices for the Best Books of 2009″… gives me a chance to see what the experts think.
After reading through the list here are the books I’m most excited to find at the bookstore:
written by Liz Garton Scanlon
illustrated by Marla Frazee



written by Alice Schertle
illustrated by Petra Mathers


written by Joyce Sidman
illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski

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Stratton Sundays.

January 11, 2010

It’s Monday morning and I’m still on a skiing high from my day at Stratton Mountain, VT yesterday. It was a blast! This year I got the Stratton Sunday pass, which means every Sunday I will be heading north to the mountains of Vermont to strap on my skis and pretend I am Picabo Street. Whoo! One reason I am so in love with Stratton is because it’s where I learned to ski so many years ago. Ah the memories. Back in elementary school my family used to head up to VT on February break, stay at my great-aunt Barbara’s condo (RIGHT next to the mountain!), take ski lessons and enjoy the ski-side village. While at Stratton yesterday I got a chance to walk through the village and it was exactly the same as I remembered it…. just seemed a little bit smaller (isn’t it funny how that happens when you get older?). Glorious. The skiing is amazing too– they have so many lifts and trails, plus they have great snow! I’m told it resembles the ski mountains out west… hopefully I will get out there someday to experience western skiing for myself!
Here’s a map of the mountain:
Check out the snow on the trees!
Here’s the resort’s village…almost feels like you’re not in the US!
And there’s nothing better than coming in a little early from the slopes and warming up with hot tea and a good book in the lodge!!

HAPPY MONDAY!
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