Happy February Everyone! Here are some of my favorite things this month:
1. favorite TV guilty pleasure: The Vampire Diaries/Pretty Little Liars
It’s a real toss-up. I love them both and I’m only a little ashamed to admit it! {photos from cwtv.com and abcfamily.com}
2. favorite lip gloss: Charlotte Ronson A Perfect Kiss Lip Gloss in Annabelle from Sephora
I’m a sucker for lip gloss, especially lip gloss that makes your lips look like you’ve been eating cherry popsicles. And the tube is heart-shaped. So cute!
3. favorite place to buy vanilla beans: Vanilla Products USA on eBay
That’s right, eBay. Those little bottles from the spice aisle at the grocery store that contain 2 crusty beans and cost $8? That’s a racket! Vanilla Products USA has a huge selection at great prices. I use them to make my own extract. Big, nerdy kitchen fun! {photo from igourmet.com}
4. favorite childhood memory spotted at Costco: Ducktales, Talespin, and Rescue Rangers on DVD
I practically screamed out loud when I saw some of my favorite childhood cartoons on DVD at Costco. I couldn’t decide which box set to get, so for less than $10 each I went ahead and bought all of them! {photo from amazon.com}
5. favorite cute kitchen thing from Anthropologie: Chalkboard Spice Jars
I fill mine with salt and keep it next to the stove, but I know for a fact that it can also be filled with Swedish Fish (idea via [dandee]). {photo from anthropologie.com}
Now for the even-more-fun part: because I just had a birthday, I’ve decided to give some of this month’s favorite things away to one lucky reader! If you win, you’ll get
Fun!
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Happy Birthday Melissa š
How fun! Happy belated birthday!
I would love to win! I must try that lip balm!
Happy Belated Birthday! Those Chalkboard Spice Jar’s are such a great idea!!
What a sweet thing to do on your birthday and sprinkle a RAK on to someone else!
Thanks for sharing such cute little things with us! Hope your birthday was Happy!
ooooh my neighbor makes her own vanilla and i’ve been wanting to try too– thank you for the source! xoxo.
Those jars are just too cute! Love your blog!
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Im in love with your blog im fixing the carmelitas tonight cant wait !
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What an interest, eclectic giveaway! Vanilla beans! I love them. Do you cut up your “used” ones (the ones you have scraped the seeds out of) and bury then in a container of sugar? Vanilla sugar is so good in cakes and cookies. Just replenish the sugar as you use it and give it a stir. The vanilla beans last forever. Happy belated birthday!
I have vanilla sugar and never remember to use it! Note to self–begin immediately!
What a collection of fav things. Thanks for offering up a set! Delana – contact info: [email protected]
I recently found your blog and am hooked! I think I have shuffled through everything on it at least once and am now going back each day to read entries in detail. Love the spice jars. Happy Birthday.
i would love these!!!
The lip gloss is so cute! I’m new to your blog, here from a Carmelitas pin on pinterest, but I like it a lot! Happy birthday!
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I would love to make some vanilla sugar, Thanks!
What a fun giveaway – those little jars are the cutest! I had to laugh at the Duck Tales DVD, I loved them too š
This is such a great idea! I loved the rescue rangers and Duck Tales!
I was looking at pinterest when I saw the post about carmelitas….Then i came here and found more things i’m gonna want to make….love to win….
thanks!
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The Duck Tales took me back to my childhood, where the VHS crackled because I watched “The Treasure of the Lost Lamp” 10,000 times. Awesome.
Hi! I started following your blog, after I pinned your Carmelita’s on Pinterest! (you totally should’ve won that contest!). And I really enjoy getting your emails! I love baking and your recipes are all new ideas for me to try! M
Hope you had a great birthday! I also stumbled across your blog through Pinterest. I made your Carmelitas for a scrapbooking retreat last weekend and they were a GREAT hit! Gonna make a double batch tonite for our superbowl party at work tomorrow! I look forward to making more recipes from your blog! Happy Weekend!!! Jean J
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Happy belated birthday! I look forward to reading your blog everyday š I try pretty much every recipe you post!
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I have really enjoyed your blog!
HaPpY BiRtHdAy!!!!
Happy Birthday! Thanks for such a great blog! Kim Landon
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Love your blog and thank you for the giveaway!
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Well Happy Belated Birthday! And thank you for giving a giveaway in honor of your Birthday, that’s so nice of you! Well I can’t say I wouldn’t love to win…that are loveley things…especially love the jar. I think the lip gloss would get swiped my my niece…I’ll have to remember if I win to hide it…lol. Thanks again!
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That was a wide range of favorite things. Great list. I love lip gloss in every color.
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I almost screamed when I read that you can buy all these cartoons on DVD now!!!!!
Happy Birthday! I think I am going to be picking up some movies this weekend.
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Hope you had a happy birthday and thanks for sharing.
so cute!! thank you for the giveaway!
happy birthday!
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