The perfect invitations for your holiday party from Minnie&Emma, with cute envelopes to boot.
I want to be the girl on the right with the bubble skirt. Hopefully the snacks are on that side of the room.
Minnie&Emma, 20 cards for $60 (Friends & Family Sale, 25% off your entire order with Code F2008, through 12/11/08)
Books (and book clubs) are great and all, but sometimes–during a busy subway commute or late at night– reading a full page of text (and then turning the page and doing it all over again) aggravates A.D.D. or exhaustion.
At these times, captions and blurbs of text are more manageable. Especially if they’re interspersed with pictures.
My first nomination for Book Club Lite: Gourmet Magazine. Fancy ingredients and innovative techniques, but straightforward recipes. And for people who’ve always preferred pictures to words: the photographs are BIG.
I’ve decided to make several of this month’s holiday recipes in advance, to give you a heads up in case you might want to use some of Gourmet’s recipes at your Thanksgiving table.
With Halloween behind us it is apparently time to think about holiday gifts.
Normally this would make me gag, but in the case of wine gift baskets–bring on Christmakwanzakah.
Bottlerocket is a fun wine store on West 19th Street (which I found out about via some free wine tastings).
In the store, wines are arranged according to what types of foods they’d go well with: “take out,” “seafood,” “treats,” etc.
Another perk of this store is its gift baskets, ahem, pails, which you can custom-fill with various wines, champagnes, wine/food-themed books and magazines, and wine accessories… whatever would delight or inspire. They do the wrapping and the shipping. You don’t have to be in NYC to give or to receive one of these pails.
Couldn’t December come a little faster? Just kidding.