Miniscule progress on Rambling Rose. I lopped off all the yarn balls and am dealing with several yards of yarn at a time instead. Better. But still messy.

I tried on a sleeve and boy. it is tight. I really hope this turns out because if it doesn't I just might have to hurl myself off the roof. I just might.

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OK. So. In an effort to get myself back on this blogging horse I have devised a scheme in which every day (heh) I will post about a topic which will differ day-to-day but remain consistent week-to-week. ie I will post under the same topic every Tuesday. Topics are to be determined by myself and rules may change at anytime.

So for today, Tuesday, I bring you...My Favorite Things. Besides Knitting.

These are candles from Diptyque, a perfumerie based in Paris that also sells soaps and house sprays at - I will not lie - kind of exorbitant prices. Except I think it's worth it, and who doesn't deserve to splurge on themselves every now and then?

I love this place. Unlike walking into say, YankeeCandleCo. and having your little body pillaged with a freight train of a million headache-inducing scents, walking into Diptyque is a subtle, tranquil, zen experience. And if you're lucky the lady working there will actually be FRENCH who speaks perfect English with that wonderful French lilt, and if you're really lucky, she also distributes wine on the side, so when she's describing to you a scent, it doesn't simply smell "good" or even "fruity," but has a base note of "bananas" or reminds one of "ghosts in the closet." Hee hee!

My favorite one included Feu de Bois (Firewood). It was like Santa Fe on chilly nights, but I came away with wanting Paris a little bit more. Myrrh. It smells like a 600 year-old French cathedral, dusty, damp and cavernous. So while it's burning, you have to talk in hushed tones.

Cathedral in Aix-en-Provence, France. Taken August 2007

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