friday favorites

ladies and gents, please find below the freshest instance of friday favorites - some of the neat and pretty things that have caught my eyes in the past week. this week's post is filled with all sorts of bookish things. enjoy and be inspired.

last week in pics

as i mentioned before last week came and was gone already before i could realize it or catch my breath. i had to work three days only, as i had thursday and friday off, and i enjoyed the long weekend immensely, and filled it with some fun activities.

ms pattigrew leaves for a day

i have been meaning to write this post for at least a week, but life has been quite busy, filled with events, and i never got around doing it earlier. so a couple of weeks ago i hopped on the train, and i was off, on my way to visit the bright lights and the big city.

sunday evening

 

 mood: a bit tired, but very excited about the upcoming holiday season. feeling very festive already.

friday favorites - the sunday evening edition

wow, so it's sunday evening already, is it? and i haven't managed to write a single silly little post the entire week. well, what can i say? i have been quite busy lately, and these past six days have been like a whirlwind, come and gone before i could catch my breath.

in my mailbox (6)

alas, i haven't managed to make much progress with the books i am currently reading, as it's been a busy week workwise.

sunday evening

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 mood: exhausted but cheery. it's been a fun and busy weekend visiting my friends in budapest.

october reads

as it's the middle of the month already, i reckon it's high time i wrote about the books i thumbed through in october. with five chick lit novels and a young adult novel, it was definitely the month of easy reads.

friday favorites

ladies and gents, please find below the freshest instance of friday favorites - some of the neat and pretty things that have caught my eyes in the past week.

in my mailbox (5)

my mailbox  - or rather: harddrive - has been flooded by novels in the past couple of days, so i don't even know where to begin the account of the new additions to my never-ending 'to be read' pile. earlier this week i downloaded adobe's ebook reader software, so i could read the ebooks i have stacked up on my computer in epub format. then on friday when i got my new clever phone, one of the first applications i downloaded was for ebook reading, named aldiko. and since then there's been no stopping me in building my digital library and compiling the books i am going to read in the next 3 or 4 months.

sunday evening

 
mood: shiny, happy, excited.

weather: baby it's cold & dark outside. and smells like winter.

the belated photos

of the aforementioned bag and shoes.

friday favorites - the sunday edition

this week's instance of friday favorites  comes a bit late, as on friday my super duper clever phone was delivered and i was pretty much like the little girl on christmas morning with a brand new barbie  -  my new toy was practically glued to my hand and there was no way i was putting it down.

smart phones | stupid people

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"wow, i have some serious anger management isssues", i kept thinking the other evening once i was calm enough to sit back down and continue the thing i had been doing - right after i broke my already dying, three year old phone into numerous pieces by literally smashing it to the floor with all the force and the raging anger i had in me. the only fault of the phone was its incapability of connecting to the computer via a usb cord. but it was a fault i could neither forgive nor forget. so, when my pulse went back to relatively normal, i signed into t-mobile's webshop and purchased, finally, a smart phone.

happiness is a pair of new shoes and a red-hot handbag

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today i bought a pair of deep rose-colored combat boots and a large handbag in the prettiest shade of dark fuchsia.the boots i really needed as, believe it or not, i did not have a single pair of shoes i could wear in this wet late autumn weather. and the bag? it was a total love at first sight. i was strolling around in the different stores looking for the right pair of boots when i spotted this pretty handbag outshining all of its companions hanging on the display. ah, that perfect shade of fuchsia! and that simple clean-cut style i love so much with the steady shape and the firm handles, without any added glittery kitschy decor. and just the right size to hold all the gazillion things i like to stuff my bags with. plain and simple but clean-cut and ever so stylish, just my thing. my heart skipped a beat, and in that moment i knew i just had to have it.

in my mailbox (4)

similarly to last week, my mailbox has been rather empty this week too, without any new books bought or borrowed from the library. nevertheless, let me share with you what i am reading at the moment:

sunday evening

 

mood: much better than last sunday. in fact, quite cheery and a bit excited.

weather: chilly and bit foggy. winter must be just around the corner.

the battle of the cookies: the pumpkin edition

just as october began, the leaves started turning yellow and the air was all of a sudden chillier, my seasonal admiration of pumpkins arose again. in no time the interwebs was filled with all sorts of autumnish recipes that required pumpin puree, most of which came my way, accompanied by beautiful photos of the pastries. being the same old me, this was yet another band wagon i just had to hop on and ride along with the rest of the blogger crowd. this is how, on one gloomy saturday afternoon, i ended baking three different kinds of pumpkin cookies. because, you know, baking only one kind of cookie on long and lazy saturday afternoons is, apparently, not enough anymore.

friday favorites

ladies and gents, here is this week's instance of friday favorites - some of the neat and pretty things that have caught my eyes in the past week.