First cool stuff list of 2017:
Gingerbread brownies. I can't wait to try these.
I LOVED THIS SHOW. I'm in.
Did you know there was such a thing as a narwhal nightlight?
Put this up on Instagram - such a beauty of a book!
These treats would be so cute to do at a birthday party.
LOVED this house tour, and I got inspiration for my winter decorating - COLOR snowflakes instead of white!
Meyer Lemon Pudding Cake.
I posted this on Facebook but it bears repeating. Beautiful post about wishes for the new year.
You have to see this darling little dollhouse.
Cool Book of the Week: 'Circus Mirandus' by Cassie Beasley is a book that is on its way to me as we speak. I ordered it promptly after a dear friend wrote to me just to rave to me about it, and to make sure that I knew about it. My friend and I are both ardent lovers of 'The Night Circus' by Erin Morgenstern, and my pal said that this book here is sort of like 'The Night Circus' - the junior version. That right there was enough for me to hit 'order' on my Amazon cart! For kids aged 9-12, this one follows a boy named Micah, as he learns that the magical tales spun by his ailing grandfather about a mysterious circus are actually real. I can't WAIT.
Have a lovely weekend! It's been cold cold cold here -- but no snow. I'm so disappointed! It always seems to pass us by! Where we live in the Pacific Northwest, when it's cold enough to snow, it's always clear and dry, and then when we have some moisture moving in, it warms up too quickly for the precipitation to fall as snow. Le sigh. Stay cozy, wherever you are....
~Melissa
Circus Mirandus was a great book (Night Circus is one of my favorite books as well). Have you read The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo? It's pretty magical too. I'm in the PNW too so I hear you about the cold :)
ReplyDeleteHey Maggie!! Stay warm! So frustrating about the cold-no snow. But Oregon has had a TON! Lucky. I have not read The Magician's Elephant yet -- I know it's supposed to be AMAZING.
DeleteI loved Circus Mirandus! I keep pushing it on my oldest, but to be fair, her to-read pile is enormous. That house tour was fabulous. And I laughed when I read about the baby book she published, because I remember wanting to get it when I was pregnant and how out of my price range it was, so I got different baby books, and did an embarrassingly poor job at filling them out. (Oh,hello, social media! Nice to meet you!) It is very cold here, but we only got the tiniest dusting of snow yesterday. I was going to blog today for Epiphany, but I don't think that will happen. Oh, well.
ReplyDeleteWell now I have it too and can see what all the fuss is about!! A paperback copy just arrived - I'm saving it for J's birthday which is not too far away.
DeleteI had a baby book of some kind - I think I filled out two pages. I would have been better off having a blog! Imagine this - when I had Julia, I wasn't even on Facebook then. I was just starting to get into online stuff. I didn't even read blogs back then!
Okay, these are great but what really knocks my socks off is the way you sweetly and genuinely use the word "darling." LOVE it.
ReplyDeleteI say it in REAL LIFE too. No jokey. I write just how I speak!
DeleteI just received an ARC of "Caraval" by Stephanie Garber -- I haven't read it yet, but I saw that it's being compared to the Night Circus, which I too, loved!
ReplyDeleteOH MY WORD. I just clicked over to read about it. ORDERING! It sounds amazing!
DeleteBirthday present to myself!
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