SOWA Antiques Market and New Uses for Clip-ons

Sundays are made for brunch, gin before noon, and browsing. The newest drink of the day around the homestead is the French 75, with it's lovely mix of gin and champagne. You can't go wrong.

We also had crepes with nutella, biscoff, bananas, powdered sugar, etc...but we ate the whole batch before I thought to take a picture. Oops.

We then headed out on a mission to find clip-on earrings. Not something many people go looking for very often, but I had a plan. In Boston's South End neighborhood, the SOWA ('South of Washington Street') market offers an outdoor arts fair and farmers' market in the summer and an antique market year round. 

It is housed within old mill-style buildings with a variety of sellers offering home goods, objets d'art, clothing, and of course jewelry.

It's a good place to find a special gift, an interesting accent for that blank wall, or just to take a stroll through time and taste.

I did find my clip-ons for $5 and with a few furniture sticky felt pads, turned them into collar tips.

Volia!

Ugly Sweater Party

In honor of the festive season, I like to institute craft and baking nights in the lead up to Christmas. Tonight's activity combines both into one handy project.

Sparkly camera filter?

My mom bought us this 'Ugly Sweater Cookie' kit during the marathon eight hour black Friday trip we spent chasing after my aunt and cousin. Who doesn't love decorating cookies?! If only to eat them...

Tools

Naked sweaters

We ran out of powdered sugar (and brown sugar and most sugars) the first evening so we had to go back the next night to decorate but this meant our palettes were nice and cool.

Mmm, blood frosting

A worthy palette 

Art in motion

Most proud of my Christmas tree pattern

Bloody hell

Chevron

I'd say these are spectacular examples of ugly sweaters in edible form, which has to be the best form. We got the kit at Sears, but I definitely saw it at a few other places. 

Ta-da!