cool stuff i like

Happy Friday! Not my best effort with the camera phone but I figured if I scribbled all over the picture in bright garish colors, that would improve things, yes? Julia and Andrew were at the pet store last week and she insisted that our puppy needed a sweater. With a hoody. With a pom pom on the top. She looks SO HAPPY in it!!!??? She's lucky that she won't stay this size, because I think then that Julia and I would happily get her an outfit for every day of the week, much to Nomi's and Andrew's deep, deep chagrin.


My online finds o' cool this week:

This banana-coconut-chocolate snack cake is happening asap.

SO pretty!

Dollhouses made from IKEA products. 

Fairy tales and chocolate orange cheesecake. A winning combo.

I've been watching this show and I LOVE IT.

Lucky Chinese New Year and Noodles. 

H&M spring!

Um, these stuffies are super duper adorable.

Grownup books to read in 2015. (I'm all over the new Kazuo Ishiguro novel!)

A beautiful cake that would be just right for springtime.


Cool Book of the Week: I'm thinking about trying to find 'My Dog! A Kids' Guide to Keeping a Happy & Healthy Pet' by Michael J. Rosen from the library, or some other book like it, for Julia. She adores her puppy, she adores reading animal how-to's and informational nonfiction books about animals in general, so hey, I might as well put her to work in terms of taking care of raising this dog to be a decent doggy member of society.

Have a lovely weekend! Our weather can't decide what it's doing - all I know is that cherry blossoms are blooming IN FEBRUARY and that is both confusing and wrong. I wasn't prepared to start taking cherry blossom photos of Julia yet! #blogger problems

~Melissa