happy belated birthday, annie!

Here's a short video clip from last night. Kind of embarrassing, actually. I always feel like I am so much different when I look at myself on film.


making mimosas from Anna Allen on Vimeo.

Annie was filming and her sister Rachel was lighting the candles. I'm the one making the mimosas. Yummm.

egg again.

Another rather boring breakfast, but this time I didn't burn the egg! I added cheese and made it into a sort of omelet instead. Tasted much better than the burnt egg I ate yesterday.

Nothing super exciting today. I've got to finish a project I'm working on and then dive into my taxes, which is pretty much furthest away from fun as you can get. But maybe I'll make it fun by putting on a movie while I sit there typing in numbers. I could never be an accountant in a million trillion years. {Funny I say that, because having your own business automatically makes you an accountant of sorts.}

Well I'm off to get things done.

Also, Vetiver is coming out with a new album in February. Love. {Don't forget to click on the mp3 "Everyday." Pretty song I can't stop listening to.}

And, this song by Bon Iver. {via. Lisen.}

new japanese craft book

Natural Material Clothes Pt. 2







My grandma gave this to me for Christmas and I love it! I want to make these sandals so bad. Now to figure out how exactly they're constructed. Man I wish I knew how to read Japanese.

egg.

I actually burnt my egg. Probably the simplest breakfast you could make. What a special way to start out the day. :)

I'm making red velvet cake for my friend's birthday today. Actually her birthday was last weekend, but we are celebrating it tonight. I also picked up champagne and orange juice to make mimosa's! It's her favorite, any time of the day or night. Doesn't have to be at breakfast. And we're going out to eat. Should be delightful evening. In the meantime, I've got to get some mad sewing done! Happy Friday!

home-made bagels.

Home-made bagels for the first time ever! Next time I won't bake them as long as I did. I was afraid they might not get done, so I left them in for a few minutes longer than the recipe directed and they came out a little too brown. Oops. Live and learn. Also I might try making the bagels a smidge bit smaller. But they were really very easy to make and I have a bunch of ideas for different types of bagels next time. I'd like to try a whole grain bagel for sure. Maybe something with oats and honey in it. Oh the possibilities! I used this recipe. They even show a short video on how to form the bagels, which was quite helpful.

The book I'm flipping through is a Christmas present from my grandma! It's one of the Japanese Craft Books that many of us obsess over. This one is Natural Material Clothes Pt. 2. Lots of great ideas in that book. They even have a pattern for leather sandals! I'm itching to make them for the summer. Perhaps I will document how I make them on here whenever I get around to that.

Listening to Alela Diane. Watch this beautiful video! More of her lovely music here.

banana muffins.

We had bananas that needed to be used, so I decided to mix up a quick batch of banana muffins. Oh man, it is hard to stop at just one.

Listening to Chopin.

candied orange scones.

{first day.}

Congratulations, Mr. Obama. What a great day this is. A day to go down in history that we shall ne'er forget.

I like this. {i still like it, but decided it may offend some, so removed the link.}

breakfast.

{my messy desk, one homemade doughnut, one clementine orange and a glass of milk.}

I am generally not a morning person. I like to stay up late and make the day feel longer than it is. But the problem with that is I still like my sleep and find that when morning comes, it comes much too early. Annoyingly early. It's hard enough to get myself out of bed, so I came up with an idea that may convince me to stop pressing the snooze button on the alarm clocks (yes, there are two). It is simply this; make breakfast! I never make breakfast. When I do, it's usually on a weekend and generally I sleep in too late on those days to make breakfast. But to me, I've always thought breakfast as one of those meals I don't think I really need. It's more of a luxury in my book. But at the same time, I still really love the idea of breakfast. Getting up to a warm muffin or a fresh blueberry scone and a hot cup of coffee? Yes, PLEASE! What actually ends up happening is I make my coffee and maybe get a bowl of Cheerios (I like putting raisins and walnuts in there to liven it up a smidge). Boring. Who gets excited about waking up to a bowl of Cheerios? Many times I'll just have coffee. Coffee is a must, but that's usually it. So I thought, hey, what if I planned a few days ahead to make breakfast each morning, maybe it would convince me to wake up. And to make things a little more enjoyable, each morning I will take a picture of my breakfast so that I am sure to think of something to make, and in turn, help me to get my butt out of bed. Kinda like Simply Breakfast. Only her photos are way too cool. Mine will probably be pretty bland, but I will try! Let's hope my little experiment won't turn into a picture of a boring bowl of Cheerios every morning. Oh man, now that would be thrilling. Well I've just wasted 20 minutes jabbing on here about making breakfast.

I am going now.

Happy morning and breakfast eating!

P.S. Also happy day this is. History is being made and it is good.