(Source: brittnyelise)

vintageanchor:

“I always buy another book when I still have ten to read.”
(via BookRiot)

vintageanchor:

“I always buy another book when I still have ten to read.”

(via BookRiot)

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed … No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Eugene Field (The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac)

(Source: booksandnerds)

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

‘Cosmos’ by Carl Sagan

Music to clean to!

You just made a delicious cake, and now if you’re anything like me, your kitchen is a disaster. But you’re so full of cake, you can’t seem to get off the couch to clean it up…

Never fear! Download the Rocky Balboa soundtrack (this link is to Zune, but it’s probably on iTunes too if you insist…) to give you that extra boost you need. Because there are few things more exciting than sliding through the kitchen in your socks to John Cafferty, Survivor, James Brown and Michael Conti… even if it is while you load the dishwasher.

Starting Simple… Coffee Cake! (kind of)

I wanted to start out easy, with something anyone could make out of random stuff in their cabinets. If you bake on even a semi-regular basis, or maybe even if you don’t, you should have the majority of ingredients on hand to make a delicious coffee cake.

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You know you want the recipe for this cake… stay tuned for the next post to see how it’s done :)

You know you want the recipe for this cake… stay tuned for the next post to see how it’s done :)

The first selection of 2012. The praise on the cover has me skeptical.

The first selection of 2012. The praise on the cover has me skeptical.

Really, MJ? A blog?

What makes me so special? Why should anyone want to read what I have to say out of the thousands of consumables out there on the fabulous interwebs? I tell you what… not a damn thing. But on the other hand, it seems that there are some terribly uninteresting folks inhabiting our computers and iPods (ewww) and televisions every second of every day, and if they stand a chance, well then what the hell.

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