My husband and I carpooled to San Francisco yesterday. Him = business meeting, me = Japantown (again).
I grazed on oyako donburi and daifuku, purchased more Japanese masking tape* from Kinokuniya Stationery and Gift for upcoming items in the “shop“, and finally, stalked by a pigeon outside of the Peace Plaza.
* You can purchase Japanese masking tape here, here, and here.
A mural inside the plaza:
My stalker, the pigeon:
Next stop was Kara’s Cupcakes at Ghirardelli Square – if you are a local or tourist, it doesn’t matter. Leave your things – and go now! Yum!
Smores cupcake to go (chocolate cake, marshmallow frosting, graham cracker crust on the bottom):
Ghi_ardelli:
I blame this one on my husband. *grin*
This album is unlike any other by the Beach Boys (as I am not a big fan of their earlier stuff) and has been an on-going theme in our household for weeks now.
Current song(s) obsession:
On A Holiday
Heroes And Villains
This is one of my latest illustrations and now for sale as a square note card with a raspberry-colored envelope – take a look in my shop.
It could pair up nicely with homemade bath salts, soaps, or tea samples. A spa gift certificate, perhaps?
What do you think?
Also, an updated thank you note:
I turned this wedding menu wheel (so cute!) by Rifle Design into a Valentine’s Day card for my husband. A little silly and a lot of fun to make! It is obviously not a masculine-looking card, so I used blue and neutrals to help balance it out a bit. Placed in an envelope made out of red construction paper, sewn around the edges – leaving the top open for a punched hole and red + white baker’s twine.
A few photos from the annual Santa Rosa cat show – can I adopt all of them?
A butterfly exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco:
A trip to San Francisco is not complete without a visit to Kinokuniya Stationery and Gift in Japantown. My big purchase for the day: colored and striped mt masking tape.
Celebratory chocolate coconut shortbread hearts (weird combination?) – I used the ingredients for the chocolate dough from this recipe:
In love with my new, but thrifted, chipped ceramic container:
Handmade valentine (more photos and link in the next post):
We are heading off to the local cat show tomorrow and then eating at this Indian restaurant with friends of ours.
Quite the romantics, aren’t we? *grin*
Have a lovely weekend!
A few photos from my first outing with Diana, taken at Bodega Bay.
They look like photos that I could have pulled out of my grandmother’s photo album…well, with the possible exception of the second one down.
More to come…
