Yearly Archives: 2008

The city is so beautiful during the holidays. Every Victorian bay window is lit up with a tree. There are painted windows for every shop. All sorts of festive things to see. Each year, I share a photo a day on the blog to document San Francisco in December. Today’s picture is from the little…

What a fun and unusual weekend! We did all sorts of good deeds and community activities. On Friday, Rob and I took the tandem bike out to Chrome Messenger Bags‘ holiday party. Free Prohibition Ale, good music from a band called In the Dust and a very diverse crowd. There were – I kid you…

I’ve started putting up a few decorations for the holidays. A silver bell here, a few red bows there. I’m waiting until after the 11th (my late grandmother’s birthday) to get our tree, per family tradition. I was given a set of these lovely wood snowflakes from Roost last week. I want to give them…

I was particularly happy with my outfit yesterday. Rob and I rode our newly repaired bike to work and I had a chance to try out my new bright red blazer from last weekend. Turtleneck – Oh, how I love a black turtleneck. When I become an eccentric old woman, I’ll wear nothing but black…

L’Occitane’s new jasmine fragrance is lovely! Margaret and I got samples last weekend and walked around the rest of the day sniffing our wrists compulsively. I already have the neroli perfume from this line and I love their cedar blend, too. There’s always room for one more perfume!

I’m a sucker for the Christmas flavors of pretty much everything. Right now, I’m falling for the Cinnamon Dolce lattes at Starbucks and loving these Iced Gingerbread Clif Bars. There are chunks of crystallized ginger under the icing. I eat a Clif Bar every morning and this flavor feels like a real holiday splurge.

For $10, this chalkboard candle would be a fun present for an office mate or winter hostess. You could write your own message on the side before delivery. A great excuse to work on your French-style cursive! {via: re-nest }

Did your grandparents have those gigantic albums, the kind that you could fit a full newspaper page? I’m considering one of those for our wedding album. We have so many photos and cards and scraps of paper from the wedding. I’m thinking a hodge podge on each page might be a fun way to share…

Drying our laundry inside – instead of at the laundromat – has been working out. Rob rigged up an auxiliary line to go along with our new Ikea rack. We haven’t put a load in the dryer in 3 weeks. Between the sun at that window and our warm radiators, the clothes dry in a…

It’s a cold and overcast Wednesday afternoon at work…time for a quick break to rock out with Brazilians.