Like everyone else in the world, I do like a good Moleskine notebook. Portland-based company Engrave Your Book produces beautiful reuseable leather Moleskine covers, laser engraved with artwork by up-and-coming artists and graphic designers, including Amy Ruppel.
Aren’t these just fabulous? I might try and get some of these in the shop. Currently available here.
I mentioned last week that I’d been knitting secrets and now I can finally reveal all.
As you may know, Megan of Not Martha fame is eloping to Vegas with her fiance’ Scott (check out her wedding blog here) and last Friday we attended a little soiree in their honour.
I decided to knit them some Doctor Who dishcloths as I know Megan is a fan. The colour scheme was chosen to coordinate with their spatulas. The patterns for the Dalek and Tardis dishcloths were found on Ravelry of course, though I had to chart up the Cyberman myself using this fabulous software and a basic chart I found. All details on my Ravelry page.
A propos of not very much I do like close up photos of knitting. Don’t you? (More secret knitting to be revealed after I’ve picked up the Minx and planted some sweet peas. I know you hardly contain yourselves. )
In its wisdom the all powerful Random Number Generator chose Jessica from Esthetic-Eclectic (which is a very fabulous new blog BTW) as its victim and she will shortly be receiving the four pretty puzzle books.
Jessica, if you’re reading this, get sorting your receipts and please get in touch with your postal address (I’ll also email you)
The rest of you – go and clean out your handbags and manbags immediately.
Everyone seems to be doing pretty patterned bookcovers nowadays – I posted recently about the Virago special editions and Penguin has recently got in on the act with foiled hardbacks designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, which I would dearly love to own. (More images here).
You too can now jump on the patterned book bandwagon with the new Spring collection of gorgeous little puzzle books from Andrews McMeel and the Puzzle Society.
Each book is about the same size and shape as a Moleskine notebook but features a different, beautiful, embossed, foiled or flocked cover. It makes sense really – we take care to find pretty notebooks and pens to stash in our handbags, why should puzzle books be ugly?
To have a chance of winning all four of the books pictured, just tell me in the comments below what is the prettiest or ugliest thing you currently have in your handbag. I’ll keep the competition open for a week and choose the winner using an unbribable random number generator (though you are welcome to try bribing ME). I’m also happy to ship anywhere in the world. You will need to make sure you leave an email address with your comment so I can contact you if you win.
Good luck!
I am so tempted to keep these for myself, as they really are rather attractive, but the chances of me finding a spare moment for puzzling, are, shall we say, somewhat remote.
We knew it might happen, but it seems from customer feedback that the Hannah Tofalos stacking eggcups appeared on UKTV’s Market Kitchen.
I don’t suppose any of you saw it, or better still recorded it? We’d sort of given up on it happening so hadn’t been watching and I would love to see mirrormirror’s 15 seconds of fame.
As someone who is in the process of knitting thousands of interminable small stitches for my blanket, I do hope this video was made by some sort of camera trickery, and not by someone knitting every frame.
– Thrilled that Slumdog won. Such an amazing film.
– When they brought the little kids on at the end I cried. Sorry.
– Thrilled also that AR Rahman won Best Score and Best Song. Seriously the soundtrack is absolutely awesome and has been playing on a loop here at mirrormirror’s intergalactic headquarters (aka my bedroom office)
– Also very glad about Sean Penn as I can’t quite manage to look at Mickey Rourke’s face.
– What am I not getting about Hugh Jackman? He leaves me stone cold.
– RDJ on the other hand was looking HAWT. Excessive drug taking is obviously good for the complexion.
– Speaking of acronym people, when is SJP going to realise that she is no longer an ingenue and that people with long faces shouldn’t wear centre partings and hippie hair?
– Lots of lovely British accents on the podium tonight. How come Brits always looks so scruffy? Wouldn’t you at least get a haircut if there was a chance you were going to win an Oscar?
– Except for Kate Winslet. I swear her hair was carved out of marble. And her dress looked like armour. Scary stuff.
– Kate Winslet’s Dad should have won the ‘Best Dad’ and ‘Best Hat’ Oscars.
– ‘Best Dressed’ and ‘Funniest Person’ was Tina Fey. I adore her.
– Hated all the frothy fishtail pouffery. And Miley Cyrus. (Why was she even there?)
– Halle Berry is just insanely beautiful.
THE END
Miniature Knitting
{via Abigail Percy}
Fun in Bed
Video for Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie {via Uncle Beefy}
Susan Sarandon is 62 years old. I think I need to do some exercise.
Last Saturday evening, I lit the scented candles, cracked open a bottle of Baileys, got out my knitting and settled down to watch Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day. We like to live fast and die young round these parts.
The film itself is slighter than slight, though perfect Saturday night fodder, and utterly redeemed by Frances McDormand's perfectly judged comic performance, the incredible Art Deco costumes and interiors and lots of lovely shots of Art Deco London.
It's not really my taste, but there's something about the sophisticated colour palette; the handpainted wallpaper; the sheen and glamour; the fur and the padding; the satin and chandeliers which makes you want to spend all day lying in bed eating oysters, drinking champagne and receiving gentlemen callers.
Here's the trailer so you can see the sets in action.
