How to Make Chocolate Bark - Halloween Recipe Ideas

If you needed a reason to buy Halloween candy that's currently on sale here's one. Plus, you can freeze it and save it for Christmas!

This is so easy to make even the bartender (me) can do it!

What you need:
1 lb bitter sweet chocolate chips
3 Skor bars smashed into irregular pieces
8 peanut butter cups broken into wedges
1/4 cup honey roasted peanuts
Lots of M&Ms or Smarties

What you do:
1. Line a 12x10 inch baking pan with tin foil
2. Stir chocolate chips in a medium saucepan over low heat until melted and warm (not hot)
3. Pour chocolate onto foil and spread to 1/4 inch thickness
4. Sprinkle with smashed Skor bars, peanut butter cups and nuts making sure all pieces touch melted chocolate
5. Scatter M&Ms or Smarties over melted chocolate. I chose blue ones, however, by the reaction I received from the finished product one would've suspected they were the green ones.
6. Chill bark until firm - about 45 minutes
7. Peel off foil and cut into large irregular pieces

Style Inspiration David Bowie

c. 1966

via Awesome People Reading

How to Wear a Sweater

Shop smart this winter. Make a list. Here's your starting point.

1. Black or charcoal grey cardigan sweater
left - 08 SIRCUS - Mohair and Wool Cable Knit Cardigan Sweater
right - All Saints Charcoal Wool Cardigan

2. Cashmere V neck sweater
left - Pringle of Scotland Cashmere V-neck Sweater
right - Dior Homme V Neck Sweater

3. lambswool or merino wool crewneck or V
left - Johnston's Crewneck Sweater
right - Burberry Crewneck


4. Merino wool T 5. Polo or shawl collar sweater
left - Pringle of Scotland Wool Long John Sweater
right - Acne Normandie Wool Sweater

Vintage Roche Bobois

1979

Currently Reading

Remember my post on cable spools?



Converted into Houses - found at my library but available on Amazon.

Very inspiring and worth a place in your personal library.

West Vancouver Home Demolition - My First Abandoned Home Tour Video - as is

turn down your volume before listening. one take, no editing, molding is referring to panelling.

Another midcentury West Coast Modern tear down.

PLEASE NOTE
1. This video was done on one take, unplanned, unrehearsed and unedited. We only had an iPod to film with.
2. You must imagine I'm talking to you on a cheap phone because I couldn't figure out how to access the sound equalizer.
3. When I say molding I mean panelling.
4. I am available for work. Obviously, not editing work.

Quote of the Week - Walt Whitman

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

What makes you feel uncomfortable?

Do certain human performances make you feel uncomfortable? Plays make me feel uncomfortable, 'singer songwriters' I hardly know playing guitar and singing in my living room make me feel very uncomfortable and this Twizzle dance makes me feel uncomfortable. Starts at 7:44.

My apologies, the user has deleted the videos from YouTube. However, I did find the whole episode on Hulu here.

I must admit however, that the dinner party and Laura's outfit at the beginning of Part 2 suit me just fine.

Last Weekend

Last Friday, as you remember from my Facebook page, I was craving a dimly lit, kilm and velvet pillow filled room where I could enjoy some vegetarian Middle Eastern or Indian food. You recommended I go to East is East - which I may add is fabulous - and thanks for the heads up that there is one now on Main St.

However, before I could read your comments I'd decided to play dress up and turn our place into a dimly lit kilm and velvet pillow filled room. There was no way I'd walk into East is East in this vintage velvet Indian dress thing-a-ma-jig, (although MK and I could def hang out. MK give me a call, I have one in deep blue as well, we could hang matching), so there was no time like the present!

and the pussy cats could join us at home.

Saturday we ventured to the Tomahawk - which you better get to because Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives has already filmed there (apparently airing in February). Unfortunately, they stop serving breakfast at noon. I had a #pawpawty to attend and couldn't make it out until later. This French Toast pic is from a few weeks back. I highly recommend it - just like Mom makes! On this visit, I had the Seaburger and a piece of banana cream pie.

Here's the inside. He has one of the largest collections of West Coast First Nations art. I hope the place doesn't ever burn down.

Saturday night we headed out to a birthday party. I'm a Libra and most of my friends are too.

the stylin' pad

Birthday Girl!

Gabby the Tabby wasn't keen on the Sambuca whip cream.

Mexican 'tradition' calls for a cake in the face. Tradition honored.

Sunday we were going to head downtown to the Diwali festival but I didn't want to deal with the bridge and lack of parking so we decided to 'take a beer' at the beach instead. To be precise it was a Lindemans Lambic Framboise.

Tim Stephens, the astrologer in the North Shore News, is good. Brad's a Taurus.

Some stuff I left behind

Vintage Huskies Jacket - Danish silkscreen
70s luggage - I used to sell that floral stuff for a pretty penny way back when
a pseudo Eames chair knockoff at our back dumpster
milk glass - I love this stuff displayed en masse
Dutch pewter coffee set - men's leather biker jacket (North Van SPCA thrift approx. size M go get it!)

Forever

'Even after the dust is frozen, about eight people are needed to monitor the arsenic and treat the water year-round, forever.' Adrian Paradis

I dropped out of Metaphysics as soon as the prof started talking about pink elephants. It was the only class I ever dropped in my long eight years of university. My buddy Barry, whom I signed up with, went on to earn a PhD in Philosophy (focus on Søren Kierkegaard), and the last anyone heard of him, he was living in a monastery in Tibet. To think he was the one smashing ashtrays on his forehead before the Metallica gig. Excuse me, I digress.

I heard the opening quote above on CBC Radio One this past weekend. It was part of a story on a contaminated gold mine in the Yukon. To use forever in this context is careless. As a matter of fact, I think most of us use forever carelessly and in vain.

You said you would love them forever. 

Is it still forever now? And it's a great LP, may I add.

Being the Metaphysics dropout that I am, can someone attempt to explain to me what forever is? 

Thanks.

Style Inspiration - Britt Eklund Peter Sellers

circa 1964

Behind the Sofa

images Stacy Reynaud

We finally put some more of our art up - now we might be moving - same building, bigger apartment. This is exactly what happened to us before. We installed new lighting and hung all our art and then had to move. At least when you're renting you don't have to worry about waiting around to sell a house. Unfortunately, you do need to worry about the ugly carpeting and paint on the walls.

On the wall behind the sofa - The Clash London Calling I bought in 1982 off the wall of some record store in Hollywood - this is the first time it's been up, I knew I'd eventually get around to it. The next two are gelatin silver prints of WWII Cologne, Germany taken by an RAF pilot after the bombing - I won them at an Emily Carr grad auction. The last photo is Marilyn from the Milton H. Greene Photoportfolio, I think I've had that one since 1982 as well.

Tilley is sitting under a 1978 lithograph by David Lance Goines for the University of California School of Optometry. We found that one at a thrift store in Palm Springs on our last visit.

We changed up the wall behind the table a bit. The piece on the floor is a new one I thrift scored last weekend. It's a 1978 watercolor of Vancouver by Noal Betts (part of his Images series). I also found the Carnival glass fruit bowl while I was out.

That's Sherman on the stool.

Quote of the Week - Buddha

One who, while himself seeks happiness oppresses with violence other beings who also desire happiness, will not attain happiness hereafter.

Vintage Chloe

1980