My Favourite Articles and Links This Week

This fascinating article on the ‘Christmas book flood’ in Iceland every year was a wonderful glimpse on a culture of readers, and how the perfect gift to give has always been a book.

Stop saying ‘sorry’ and start saying ‘thank you’ instead.

Love the new Pantone Colours for 2016, Rose Quartz and Serenity? Agnes has a great post on yarns that are spot on for this 2016 colour trend.

I found this essay quite interesting- if you’re trying to save print, you’re missing the point.

My Favourite Pins This Week

This looks like it might be complicated, but it’s one of those ‘cheater’ recipes that involves using pre-made pizza dough as a basis for this recipe, and redone to have it’s own fresh flavour. Anyone would think you made it from scratch! Pinterest link is here, and the original recipe post is here.

Any baked goods that have candy coloured sprinkles are always going to induce a bit of happy, and when you have easy slice and bake cookies like this, you can have happy cookies whenever you want! They are dipped in white chocolate in this recipe, but considering my lack of free time lately, I’m going with the the straight up slice and bake. Plus, the batter freezes well- you could slice as many cookies as you need, whenever you want! Pinterest link is here, and the original recipe post is here.

I’m not usually a furniture DIY person, but this side table is so beautiful, and I think would be an amazing weekend project- especially if you already own a pipe cutter (or could borrow one!). Pinterest link is here, and the original DIY post is here.

 I hear so many knitters express nervousness or dislike for intarsia knitting techniques, but it’s super easy- and here is great photo tutorial on how to do it on both right side and wrong side rows. Pinterest link is here, and tutorial is here. 

I adore licorice allsorts candy, so this crochet version really tickles me. It would be pretty whimsical and fun to have a small bowlful of these! Pinterest link is here, and the free pattern can be found here.

Considering most of my days are very small in scope lately- trying to feed the baby, clean the baby, get the baby to nap- my plans for the weekend involve running errands and laundry! I’d love to live vicariously through you guys- are you up to anything fun?