Have We Got A Couple More Stations, or is This as Far as We All Go?

 I've got another. 

It isn't my fault people keep posting photographs of animals dressed like my child.

Guess who let me cut off his hair?

The beard is coming along nicely. I cut him sideburns as well. But no dungarees now, or he'll look like Big Boy

I'm just glad he likes it. His hair was halfway down his back, so this is a very big change. 

In other news, it is snowing! The temperature is expected to plunge to 15 F (-9 C) and that means the Ayres Canadian wool blanket goes on the bed. We're expecting half a foot of snow, depending on drifting. 

I live at the top of a very steep hill. An hour from now it will be impassable, and we'll watch car after car getting stuck halfway up. Every. Damn. Time. I wish I could put a sign at the bottom of the hill warning people. The city was out pre-treating the roads, but this started as sleet, and there's only so much salt brine can do. Fingers crossed the ice doesn't take out the power lines. 

I made some exceptionally nice cinnamon buns this week. I tried replacing the cinnamon sugar with brown sugar and Ceylon cinnamon (it is a fruitier cinnamon than the regular stuff). It gives the buns a much deeper flavour, and I think from now on this will be my recipe. You'd think improving cinnamon buns would be impossible, but here we are. I made the dough with vegetable shortening and used margarine instead of butter, and honestly, I couldn't tell the difference. Maybe butter connoisseurs could tell, but to my unsophisticated palate, they were  perfect. Use a good vegan margarine though. I like Earth Balance buttery Sticks. 

I have a few holiday posts in the works with recipes culled from 17 years of food blogging. I'll post them in installments over the next week or so. 

On the wardrobe front things are still...well, yeah. I guess I will need to unpack my snow boots now. Some under-appreciated jewelry is getting worn though, so that's always nice. 

The grey wool skirt is vintage from the 70s. There's a matching jacket that I keep meaning to crop to a more wearable length, but haven't got round to it. Maybe a pandemic at-home winter will see it finally done. 

My favourite belt. Getting tighter, but that's ok. 

Looking for some exciting clothing?

This metallic brown skirt that reminds me of a Quality Street is an autumn staple.

And it always looks so good with copper accessories. 

It took a long time for the brown/black combo to enter my wardrobe, but I think it works. In the past I've always worn the skirt with blue. 

Now here's something different (no, not really). A vintage wool skirt with a vintage velvet jacket. Oooh, original. 

But the skirt is Pendleton. And the jacket is ACTIII. Primo vintage. 

Not easily impressed, huh? 

That's fair. Vintage Napier necklace though! I'm not sure it has ever been worn on the blog, so this was a perfect time to show it. It is as heavy as it looks. 

Speaking of big necklaces... this Edwardian one is quite light. 

This skirt is really old. I bought it in London in 1999! The velvet on sheer fabric had a moment in the late 90s, but this skirt was one of the nicer pieces I had. Probably why I'm still wearing it. 

Styled it pretty much the same as I would have in the 90s. 

Anyway, that's it for the exciting clothes. Here's a social distancing sign I liked...

Saw it online, not in Nebraska. Obviously. 

Anyone remember that Halloween we went as The Penguin and Lola Lasagna? 

Or Perseus? Making that Medusa head was no easy task. I wish we'd kept it.

 The year he wanted to be Uncle Pennybags from the Monopoly game...because what's scarier than a banker, right?!

But my very favourite costume was when he was Frank the Combine from the Cars movie. 

I sort of miss making the costumes. 

If I don't blog before then, Have a happy Halloween.