Posts Tagged ‘yellow’

Spring Color Week: Yellow Wednesday

March 10th, 2010 | By jen in Style, Vintage | 1 Comment »

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Poppytalk is doing Spring Color Week and while I missed the first 2 days I thought it would be fun to jump in (especially since today is Yellow! Yay!) and post this photo of things I’m looking forward to wearing once the weather is more consistently warm.

  • Ruffle copped cardigan wit after market vintage mother of pearl buttons: F21
  • Vintage 1970s ’30s-style flocked dress: local antique market
  • Vintage 1920s dress: Clever Nettle

Is anyone else here participating?

My Kitchen in the Fall + Free Download for You

November 7th, 2009 | By jen in Free Stuff for You | 11 Comments »

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One of the best things about our little house is the lighting in the kitchen.  This main window faces the north/northwest and the light does not change much the whole day.  Even on the grayest of days there is plenty of light and I’m ever so grateful for this; I’ve lived in places that were dark and, really, I found it depressing.   This is the light in our kitchen right now: very bright and soft and white.  Yes, some of the doors are hanging off their hinges, the 80+ year old sink has seen better days but it’s really quite cozy, especially now.

My parents got us this Kitchen-Aid mixer as a wedding gift.   I know, I’m super fancy now.   I mean WE are super fancy.  So far I’ve made rapid rise bread with it (from the recipe book that came in the box;  pretty good but I’d like to try others) and some super fluffy cake frosting.   You know what would be really cool?  The pasta attachment.  Then I could make homemade pasta to go with my homemade lamb ragu (a household favorite).

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And right now the weather in L.A. is perfect.  Very comfortable in the high 60s, bright and sunny, but not too hot to turn up the oven.  I’ve been brewing up all kinds of things lately which inspired me to make some fall-ish recipe cards.  I decided to post them as PDFs for free because, you know, I like you that much!

We’ve got a 4″x6″ recipe card:

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And a 3″x5″ one too:

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(Click images or links below to download.)  Just print them on your color printer, “best” setting, cut and go.

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» Download: 4″x6″ Recipe Card

» Download: 3″x5″ Recipe Card

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Oh, by the way, THANK YOU for the swan-love!  I’m so pleased you liked her.   She’ll have some friends soon.

Have a lovely fall-ish weekend!

Blog Housewarming Handmade Giveaway: Winner!

July 1st, 2009 | By jen in Free Stuff for You, le Shop | 4 Comments »

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Wow, thank you all so much for such a warm response!  I loved every single one of your comments and well wishes for my new blog home.  I’m so glad you all come by my little place to visit and I hope you will for many posts to come!

Anyhow, the winner of the giveaway is

Sophia!

Sophia, I’m going to email you as soon as I post this so I can get your mailing address and send you your tote bag.

Thanks again, everyone, really.  And there are DEFINITELY going to be more giveaways in the future.  :)

Blog Housewarming Handmade Giveaway!

June 8th, 2009 | By jen in Free Stuff for You, le Shop | 81 Comments »

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Welcome!  the fabled needle will now live at http://blog.loveliette.com.  My old blog, http://thefabledneedle.blogspot.com, will still be online so you can refer back to it, if you wish, but all new posts will be right here;  So I hope you’ll visit often as I have posts a-plenty in store for you!

To celebrate my new blog location and to thank my dear readers (Thank you for all the blog-love lately!), I’m giving away this handmade Scalloped Lemon Tote based on my Wendy Reversible Tote Bag pattern (Coming soon).

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A pretty and festive summer bag to start off the season.  Just leave a comment in this post (giveaway is open to all readers, worldwide) and I’ll randomly pick a name and announce the winner July 1st. (Giveaway closes June 30th at midnight PT.)  Good luck, sweets!