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Petticoat

It is time for my quarterly bonus! Yes, another quarter has already gone by, unbelievable! I don’t understand it and before the wink of an eye it’s Christmas. Well, I LOVE Christmas so no complaints about that. Bonus money is spending money, a little spending is allowed although I have to save for our trip to the US in February. So I have invested in a petticoat:
Yep, a petticoat! I love the fifties and always dress fifties style. Back then women looked like women. But I have a confession: I have never owned a petticoat although several of my dresses would look lovely with such one underneath:
The mole brown dress will soon enjoy my latest investment. I am not brave enough to wear it at my job, but I will use it at every formal occasion. I have bought it at Doris Design and it cost GBP 65 (there are 36 metres of fabric in a skirt). The shop is situated in the UK.

And to stay in the fifties department – I’ve found my favourite singer (besides Elvis, of course) on vintage vinyl at Amazon – Sam Cooke:
I look so much forward to play his music on my record player, it is so much more charming than just putting a disc in the CD player. Do you know him? I am sure you all know Wonderful World, everybody knows it and it has been used in many movies:

I just love his voice!

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Halloween Nails

At Monday it's Halloween, so I've made Halloween nails:

I gave myself Opi's Halloween set with a glow-in-the-dark light green polish, Zom-body to Love (I love Opi's polish names) and a black crack polish. I really like the idea of a glow-in-the-dark polish, but at daytime it is just a snot green colour. You can see it glow-in-the-dark at this link.

I wanted Konad's Halloween disc, I have the Christmas disc (and no, it does not play neither Last Christmas nor Rocking Around the Christmas Tree) and it is so nice, but the Halloween disc (M13) is disappointing, so I had to invest in M28 on which there is a nice spider.

At my thumb and little finger I have the glow-in-the-dark with the black crack polish over, at my ring finger are drops of blood from M13, at my middle finger I have a pumpkin from M13 and at my index finger I have spiders from M28.

Happy Halloween to all of you. :)

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Baking Recipes

I love to bake, but I don’t do it very often. Either I haven’t time, nor energy or both at the same time. Usually we also agree that it is not good for us, since we always have to drop a few kilos, sigh. But although I decorated for Halloween last Sunday, I already look so much forward to Christmas. In December it is legal to decorate all over the house, eat lovely dinners and surround you with family and good friends – but it is also BAKING TIME! And I have just invested approx. 3 dollars in this great recipe book (unfortunately only in Danish):
Yes, only 3 dollars, for a nice hardback book, filled with lovely photos and classic as well as new recipes. And what can you get for 3 dollars – almost nothing. Here are some references:
I have the complete series of baking books, it was a colleague who recommended them to me and gave me my first. What I especially like is the concept “one dough – 7 cookies” or “one dough – 3 breads, buns and Danish”, you get the picture. Genius!

I know it’s not fair recommending a Danish baking book, and I do hope you have something like it abroad.

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