Things We Said Today

I've been in a kind of blogger funk lately. Not feeling very inspired. This morning, as I was running errands, I had this song on repeat. It is one of my all time favorite Beatles songs. I've loved it since I was a little girl.

love, maude

Do you L O V E love, maude ? Her profile makes me want to meet her, pull up a cozy chair and spend the day with her.

"I like pretty. Just because it's pretty.

I like kind words and happy people. I adore manners.

I like traditions. Using my grandma's blue willow dishes for special occasions and looking through boxes of holiday decorations carried down from the attic year after year warms my heart.

I like red lipstick. Even though I am quite tall, I love to wear heels. I prefer to wear skirts and dresses. I'm just more comfortable in them.

I love to sew. I have a chinz, overstuffed chair in the corner of my living room that I call "my stitching chair". Curled up in my chair with a needle in hand, coffee on the table and stories in my mind makes a perfect afternoon."

Cat from Olive Bites is hosting a giveaway from this amazing artist!

This is what you could win.

All you have to do is visit her blog and leave a comment. Super easy! For additional entries: follow her blog, post to twitter, facebook, or blog about it yourself.

Go enter! here

My Camera Might Be Dead, But My iPhone Does Pretty Good.

Today we visited The Gardens of the World in Thousand Oaks. Its small and charming. The lilac throughout the gardens smelled heavenly. Not much else was blooming. There were only two roses in the entire rose garden. We plan on going back mid Spring. I LOVED the Spanish style courtyard the best. I managed to capture a few flowers with my phone.

Then it was off to Forest Lawn Cemetery. We FINALLY found Bette Davis (a future post on that). There must have been a lot of death this week because we saw too many fresh graves to count. Some of the tribute flowers were way too beautiful to pass up. It was a lovely day in Los Angeles. Enjoy!

LIQUIDATION SALE

The entire month of March Sylvia-Louise Handbags is having a LIQUIDATION SALE. Our apartment has become crowded with handbags looking for a new home. Most bags are priced $25, $50, $75, $100. We have all kinds of new ideas, but the current inventory MUST be reduced first. All ready made bags must go. Shop early for the best selection.

Every day this month we will be having a DEAL OF THE DAY! A different bag will be featured for $25. For example: today's deal of the day is $25. It normally sells for $175. That's 85% off! We're practically giving them away! 

Maybe you're saying to yourself, "But I don't have an Etsy.com account." It's super easy and free to set one up.

Or maybe, "What is wrong with these bags that they are selling them so cheap?" NOTHING is wrong with them. They are all brand new, never used. 

There has never been a better time to own a one of a kind handmade Sylvia-Louise Handbag!

Laugh out loud

I realize I've been neglecting my blog, so while I was going through some photos I came across this and thought I would share. It's a birthday card my sister received last year. I laughed then. It gave me a chuckle today. So there you are.

Deadly Sweet

How adorable is this owl? He is a creation of Michele from Deadly Sweet. I met Michele through a Valentine's Day Swap. She lives in Moncton, Canada, is vegan & loves skulls. She made this owl just for me! I named it Howell the Owl. It's hand stitched! And so sweet. I love the fact that even though it was a Valentine's Day Swap neither of us sent hearts & flowers. Which would have been a little weird since we're strangers. She opened her Etsy shop last year. While she's currently working on custom orders, she hopes to have more selections in her shop come Spring. Check her out! Heart her shop!

Howell the Owl

I L O V E her tags! She has them made by another artist on Etsy.com. RobertoSand of Bullfrog Laserworks, custom laser cutting and engraving. I'm contemplating FlyAKite tags for some new things we want to add to our shop.

Look at the hand stitching!

So fabulous! Thanks Michele!

p.s. I'll do another post about what I made for her. If you're my friend on facebook, you already know.

Wuthering Heights

. . . he shall never know how I love him: and that because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same . . .

. . . My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. . . . My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath . . . I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

. . . Catherine, you know that I could as soon forget you as my existence! . . . I have not broken your heart---you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me, that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you--- . . . Would you like to live with your soul in the grave? . . . may you not rest as long as I am living! . . . Be with me always---take any form---drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! . . . I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

Wuthering Heights. The title itself is romance. If you've never read it, it isn't one of those happy ending romances, but the depth of feeling expressed reaches me to my core. I started re-reading it this weekend & these particular passages jumped out to me. And today being Valentine's Day I thought I would share. Some where out there is the person that is more myself than me, or at least more the person I would like myself to be. So to hopeless romantics everywhere, find your Heathcliff (or Catherine), and love them for the time you have.