Here are this week’s Thursday Things:
1. If you’ve ever wanted to smell like birthday cake, blueberry, bourbon, or brownies, Demeter Fragrance has you covered.
Scents in their Top 30 scents include: Sex on the Beach, Jelly Belly Blueberry Muffin, and Cannabis Flower. You probably wouldn’t want to wear them all at once.
2. This Oxo Multi-Purpose Scraper & Chopper ($9.99). I like that it has measurements etched in so that if I really want to be precise and cut my bars 2-inches-by-2-inches, I know exactly what I will yield from an 8-by-8-inch pan and everything will be precise. I don’t own it yet but have no idea what I’m waiting for. The OCD precision-loving cook (me) must have it.
3. Rainbow Glam Wrap – Crystals meet friendship bracelet. Why my 7th grade self never thought to put crystals into the friendship bracelets I made all summer long I will never know.
4. Crystal Covered Cocktail Ring – Somehow I don’t think you’re supposed to wear the friendship bracelet and the ring together unless you want to look like you just raided your mom’s jewelry box and are five years old and playing dress-up, which sounds kind of fun actually. Skylar does it all the time.
Both the bracelet and ring are from Bauble Bar. If you’re feeling weak or don’t have your credit card locked up and 10 rooms away, don’t open that link because it would be so easy to get extremely carried away. Kris I blame you for turning me onto this site.
5. Plastic that looks like China from Pottery Barn. Set of 4 plates for $28. Or at least could pass for finer China in pictures, which is all I care about for food photography.
They are a little “busy” for food photography but sometimes a “boring” slab of chocolate can look fabulous with some busyness. I never know until I plate it up what’s going to work and what’s not. However, in all reality, it’s hard to make chocolate look bad.
6. Lots of talk of jewelry in this post. Well, it’s been a hot topic in our house this week. Skylar wants to get her ears pierced and has been asking me at least 17 times a day. My mom made me wait until my tenth birthday but there’s no way we will be holding out four and a half more years.
She’s five and going on fifteen and the thought of getting her ears pierced is all she can talk about. That and her red boots.
7. All this talk of ear piercing and my “baby” growing up makes me want to have a cold one.
Peach Mango Pineapple White Sangria
8. I wish it was hot enough outside for cold ones. Unfortunately San Diego, especially near the coast where I am, is not hot this time of year. It’s maybe 72F at the warmest point of the day and when I run in the morning , it’s cool enough that I have to wear a hoodie. “Hot summer days” are just a pipe dream.
Even this day was from from hot. We were all wearing light jackets.
9. Do you like frosting? I do.
Especially peanut butter frosting
This post has links to 16 bloggers’ favorite frosting recipes. Wow.
10. I bought this Calphalon 8-by-8-inch baking pan a few months ago and can vouch for it being the best little 8-inch square pan I’ve ever had.
Heavy-weight, very durable, extremely non-stick, and I’ve been loving the results I’ve been having with it.
What are your Thursday Things? Any favorite baking tools, supplies, dishes or fragrances?
Feel free to link up anything you’ve made, done, seen, or bought that’s especially fabulous.
How old were you when you got your ears pierced? Is there a “right” age?
I was 10 and felt that was “ancient”. My friends got their ears pierced around first or second grade. For me it was the summer in between fourth and fifth grade and for years I wished I could have gotten them sooner. Skylar and I have watched some YouTube videos of piercing in the act so she would know what to expect if holes are in our future. She gets so excited and claps for every kid on the videos in the ear piercing chair who didn’t cry. It’s cute.
Ironically, I rarely wear earrings, if ever. Maybe once a year. Scott wears his earrings more than I wear mine but the little girls at her school have started getting pierced ears and it’s monkey see, monkey do.
I wasn’t allowed to have my ears pierced until I was 12! I had to be old enough to care for them myself.
I totally understand the ear piercing dilemma! My parents made me wait until I was thirteen and it seemed like everyone else had them! I guess in hindsight I kind of like that I had to wait though to make sure I really wanted them. Those scents look awesome and so unique! My Thursday Things are drinks – I’ve been making smoothies and slushies and juice all week because unlike where you are (which looks gorgeous), it’s super hot here. Here’s a link to one of my fave drinks from the week: https://digintobooks.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/sparkling-watermelon-lemonade-on-the-rocks/.
Those plates are cuuuuuttteee-aaaaa.
I used to wear Demeter’s Dirt fragrance! It sounds weird, but it smelled so earthy and fresh– I loved it!
Happy Thursday, Averie!
I would have never guessed that smelled good…but earthy, I can see that!
I just got a 3 tiered cooling rack, and that is making my life 3 times easier! Ha! Love the list of things you got here! I want that bracelet!
Crazy but I don’t have a cooling rack!
My mom made me wait until I was 10, too! I remember it was SUCH a big deal- I felt like such a grown up. I think it’s a good rite of passage for a ten year old! Now I have 3 in each ear and I’m planning on more by the end of the summer… or a tattoo. Don’t tell my mom :)
I’ll make sure to keep it on the down low :)
I was 5 or 6. My mom is a hair dresser and her friend/co-worker pierced ears so she actually came over to our house to do mine and my sister’s at the same time. Then later in high school (senior year) I actually pierced 3 more holes on my own. Ouch.
I wish I could have private housecall ear piercing!
Ha! I have those Pottery Barn plates AND that square cake pan. Adore them both!!!
And love, love, love those friendship bracelets! :)
Your Pottery Barn link reminded me of some plates I saw there that had a rope embellishment around the edge and I was positive it was china. When I picked it up to check the price, surprise!…plastic! I’m waiting for them to go on sale because…well, I’m cheap. :)
Thanks for the frosting link, you can never have enough recipes in your arsenal.
My Thursday thing is my Pampered Chef adjustable measuring cup. I had one for about 5 years, it broke and I replaced it with a cheaper one that only lasted 3 months before the plunger stopped working. You get what you pay for and I’m so glad to have a high quality cup back in the house!
It’s hard to remember that far back but I think I was around 11 when I had my ears pierced. I think my stepdaughter must have been around 8 or 9 when she had hers done. She just bought a set of spacers but I’m not sure if she has them in yet. She is 19, figuring herself out and feeling out everyone’s reactions to her methods of self expression!
So many pretty things to look at in today’s Thursday Things! Those crystal friendship bracelets are adorable! I got my ears pierced when I was 4! I now have 3 in each ear and my right cartilage pierced. Those fragrances are mind-blowing – I would LOVE to smell like birthday cake 24/7! Although, it would make me rather hungry. ;)
I’m checking out that frosting link now… 16 fabulous bloggers’ frostings? I’m so there!
Averie, do you line your baking pans with parchment when you’re making bars? I can never get it to smooth all the way down into the pan and line up the edges properly.
I line all my pans with foil, not parchment. You cannot get a tight seal with parchment and the batter just slides around and creates more of a mess than if you did nothing. Sometimes the foil punctures and some batter drips onto the pan (that’s why I said I know it’s very non-stick) but overall, I am a foil girl with pans. That way I can just lift it all out, too, and cut it on a cutting board. With photos, precise cuts are key and anything to make things easier, I am all about it. Not to mention, cleanup and elbow grease is saved!
I’ll try foil next time! Parchment paper is so fussy and hard to seal down. Thanks Averie!
yes…as in, impossible. It has it’s purpose, i.e. melted chocolate work but never as a pan liner. I hate it for that purpose. I’d rather use nothing than try to line a 8×8 or 9×13 with parchment and make a tight corner. Doesn’t happen!
I was 8 when I got my ears pierced. I was a hard core thumb sucker for a long time, so my parents bribed me with getting my ears if I stopped. It worked. And now 13 years later I have 10 ear piercings. It happens.
I bought a lemon ginger candle the other day. It was $5 but was on clearance for $1 and smells amazing! Cheap thrills.
Hey, whatever works :)
It was ears pierced at 5, double holes at 12, eyebrow at 17, and a tattoo at 21 haha. Not sure what’s next ;)
Life is a journey. It’ll be fun to think of the what’s next…
I got my ears pierced when I was in Kindergarden. My parents took me to a place in the mall. They sat me up in the chair and did one ear with their piercing gun. I was so scared/in shock to get the other one done, I didn’t let them pierce it until a week later…I walked around with one earring for a week. Haha, I always chuckle when I think about it.
Skylar will do just fine though, she seems like a real go-getter and she’ll be brave :)
now that’s a story!
I was 11 when I was allowed to have mine done — it was AGES upon AGES of waiting! :)
Not sure if you have thought about piercing guns vs. needles, but I strongly recommend needles – a google search should give you all the info you need about it if you haven’t considered both sides yet! (I had my ears pierced at a Claire’s w/ a gun – my sisters had theirs done at a doctor’s office w/ a gun….and knowing what I know now, I would only do needle piercing!)
I’ve had both ways done (First set and second set) so if and when the ear piercing happens, we are thinking about how, too.
Yes to needle piercings instead of ear gun piercings. If you would like some expounding as to why, I’m happy to do so. :-)
Oh wow, I think ten was when my mom said I could get my ears pierced too!
As for Thursday things, I wish I had some fabulous recipe is recently made to share…I could reiterate my love of my immersion blender I suppose. It’s wicked wonderful to blend up adult shakes like this: https://scrumptiousgruel.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/dark-days/
you know what’s crazy is I bought an immersion blender on Wednesday! I was at BB & B and decided for 34.99 minus a coupon that I needed one…your drink looks fabulous!