{Coffee}

I have come to love my morning coffee.  Especially when I drink it in this wonderful new mug my brother gave me for Christmas:)  The mug is Cath Kidston.  And I highly recommend her line of products.

Click the link and check them out.  But beware!  You will want to buy something!  Probably more than one something.  But if you do cave and purchase something you won't be sorry about it:)  It is quality stuff.  And they are not paying me to say that either.  They don't even know my blog exists!

I used to put this in my coffee every morning.  It is yummy.  But then I discovered that it is not cream.  No dairy whatsoever.  It is oil.  Insert facemaking.  Yuck.  I was putting flavored oil in my coffee??  Not only that but my girls were using it too and they used more 'cream' than coffee!

So I started using real cream and sugar.  Because it's what I had on hand when my 'Italian Sweet Cream' was gone. (yes I used up the bottle I had)

When the heavy cream got all I started buying 1/2 and 1/2.  It's cheaper and really almost tastes better in coffee!  Of course I would never turn down heavy cream:)

Then one day I tried this.  Pure Maple Syrup.  Viola!!  Deliciousness!  I don't care for Maple Syrup as the main sweetener in most things.  If you want dessert it needs real sugar:)  But for coffee I like the maple syrup better than sugar.  It tastes better and it takes way less to sweeten it.  Plus it's supposed to be better for you than all that processed sugar.  But I'm not here to argue about using or not using sugar.  I use it.  It makes things taste good:)

And when I was searching for all these pics I put in this post I ran across this.  Supposedly it has only 4 ingredients in it and they are as follows:  nonfat milk, heavy cream, sugar and natural flavor.

I may just have to give this a try:) 

Do you drink coffee? 

How do you like yours?

Black?

White?

Sweet?

Of Handbags and Calendars

My new Cath Kidston bag I got for Christmas.  This is the first bag I've had for years that I have not made myself.  Kind of fun to have one someone else made:)

This heavy duck cloth is coated with a heavy layer of lamination.  How I would love to get my hands on some of this type of fabric.  If you know of a source PLEASE let me know.

I love the laminated fabric I have but it is all soft and won't stand on it's own like this does.  And while that is wonderful for a lot of things and very fun to use I'd like to find this too.

A seamstress can never have too many fabric options:)

My 2012 calendar.  By Greg Johnson and Jean Lowe.  I've used this calendar before in 2009 and 2010.  Then when I was searching for one for 2011 there were none to be found:(  I was so sad and I searched and searched.  Finally discovered that they had issues with their printer and it wasn't going to happen for 2011.  But they promised they were working on one for 2012.  So I used a different book calendar.  It was not pretty and I very much disliked it all year long.  And I was always misplacing it!  This one is so pretty it can lay on your table and not look like you need to be tidying up!

About September or October every year I start needing a calendar for the next year.  It's where I keep track of stuff so I don't have to keep papers with schedules and appointments laying around.  So last fall I started looking for this calendar.  Couldn't find it.   Nothing was out there about these calendars.  Nothing.  So I sadly ordered another one that was at least cute but it was way smaller than this one.

Then around the end of November I got an email from a friend with a link to Curious Sofa's listing of this very calendar!  You better believe I had one (actually 2! my sis got one for Christmas) in my cart and was checking out so fast you couldn't see my fingers they were flying so fast on the keyboard!

I am so happy to have my favorite calendar again this year.  And I sincerely hope they don't have publishing issues again.  My life runs so much more smoothly with this thing:)

What do you use for a calendar?  Book?  Wall?  Computer?  Is it pretty AND functional or do you go for the just functional?  And would you like to try one of these?  I'm thinking it would be a great giveaway for my blog to do for Christmas this year!  If I remember I will order an extra for 2013 when the time arrives and do just that:)

Cath Kidston

I love the spotty stuff from Cath Kidston

You can find all these things here:

http://www.cathkidstonusa.com/searchadv.aspx?SearchTerm=spot