Weekly Wishlist: Wooden Accessories on Etsy

1. Repeating Diamond Necklace: Bird of Virtue/Etsy; 2. Wood LP Case: Steidle Woodworking Company/Etsy; 3. Wood and Cork Glasses: Vision Wood Eyewear/Etsy; 4. Feminist Wooden Heart Brooch: Kate Rowland/Etsy; 5. Wood on Wood Clutch: RWOODB/Etsy.

We've been having a rainy, rainy week here in Seattle, and it's been making every plant I see look the most beautiful brilliant green. That, of course, is making want to run to the woods. But alas, I am a city girl with no car, and thus I shall lust over wooden accessories instead!

I'm hoping to volunteer at Urban Craft Uprising in a few weeks, and while I was looking through the vendors who will be at this summer's show I fell completely in love with Bird of Virtue's gorgeous wooden jewelry. I love this piece in particular with it's semi-honeycomb design and pretty metallic colors.

In other jewelry news, I'm totally obsessed with EVERYTHING in the Kate Rowland shop on Etsy. She makes adorably wooden jewelry that's inspired by all sorts of things near and dear to my heart. I love this feminist brooch and would be thrilled to wear it around like a heart on my sleeve. 

These sunglasses by Vision Wood Eyewear are amazingly beautiful and completely hand made. They're one of those amazing products that will likely remain on my wishlist because, ya know, I wish I had enough money to buy them...

Can we talk about this amazing wood clutch by RWOODB for a minute? How do you make a clutch out of wood??? I have no idea, but I'm so glad RWOODB figured it out because it's stunning.

Last but not least, I'm head over heels in love with this wood LP case from Steidle Woodworking Company. The most nostalgic part of me pictures packing up some of my favorite LPs on a rainy day and heading to a friend's house for a day of lying on the floor listening records, drinking tea, and talking.

What are you guys wishing for this week?

Til next time!

-Becca

Weekend Wardrobe, plus Buddy and Hank!

Cardigan: ModCloth; Dress: Target; Belt: Anthropologie/Similar; Tights: Nordstrom; Shoes: Swedish Hasbeens.

Well, it's been a bit of a drizzly weekend here in Seattle. Fortunately it hasn't been too chilly so I've still been able to bust out some cute spring clothes!

I found this dress on sale for $8 at Target on Friday when I was doing some birthday shopping and obviously had to snatch it up for myself! I think it looks adorable with navy tights and my red Swedish Hasbeens, but will also look great with boots or flats and with or without tights depending on the season. You gotta love dresses you can wear year round!

The cats were pretty involved in the photo taking process today. Buddy definitely wanted to be in the pictures WITH me, as seen above. I was also CRACKING UP while I was looking through the pictures, because I didn't realize while I was taking the pictures, but off to the side of the frame, this was happening:

Hank's pretty intrigued by the sound of the shutter on the camera, so he stared at it for a while and then decided he better go attack it. Sheesh!

Hope you had a lovely long weekend!

Til next time!

-Becca

Friday Night Dinner with Levi

Levi came over Friday evening for a simple meal and some good conversation. While he sipped on some Russian Caravan tea with some of my homemade sour cherry preserves, I whipped up a quick meal of fresh pasta with over easy eggs and roasted asparagus.

Other than preheating the oven, the meal itself took about 15 minutes to make from start to finish! Wanna make it yourself? Here's how!

Ingredients:

• Fresh pasta (I used Manini's Gluten Free Roasted Garlic Fettuccini) 
• One bunch of asparagus
• 2 eggs (or enough for 1 per person)
• Olive oil
• Salt and Pepper
• Pecorino Romano cheese

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F.
2. Rinse the asparagus.
3. To remove the woody stalks of the asparagus, simply hold each piece at each end and bend lightly until it snaps. Discard the bottom tough part of the asparagus. (Discard it well or your asparagus thief cat might steal it in the middle of the night and put it on your bed. Seriously.)
4. Place the asparagus on a rimmed baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil (use your best judgement).
5. Once the olive oil is drizzled over the asparagus turn the asparagus over in the pan until it's well coated.
6. Sprinkle salt and pepper over the top of the asparagus, and then put it into the oven to roast. Let it cook for about 15 minutes turning it once about halfway through.
7. While the asparagus is cooking, bring water to a boil and cook your pasta according to the directions. If you are using fresh pasta, it should only take a few minutes.
8. Once pasta is cooked, drain it, put back into the pan, toss with some olive oil (once again, use your best judgment- I believe in you!), and plate.
9. In a small skillet, heat about 1 tbs of oil over medium-low heat.
10. Crack your eggs into the pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper and let sit for a bit. To make an over-easy egg, I always cook on the first side until the whites look cooked through, but the yolk is still pretty raw. 
11. Once the whites are cooked, flip the eggs and let cook for just a few seconds. This will set the other side but not cook the yolk through. (You want it runny so it will essentially make a sauce for your pasta).
12. Once the eggs are done, pull them from the pan and set them on top of the pasta.
13. At this point the asparagus should be done too! Plate the asparagus next to the pasta and grate some Pecorino Romano cheese over everything. As much as you want! I always do a whole bunch of it. Now all that's left is to eat up!

After dinner, we spent the rest of the night chatting and listening to records. Hank, never one to miss out on anything, made himself at home in the middle of Levi's stack of records. He also left a toy in Levi's boot. Something to remember him by?

It was a lovely night, and I even got a couple of Bowie albums out of it!

Til next time!

-Becca