Hello and happy weekend friends!  Thanks so much to all of the participants in the Craft Link Party, you amaze me!  There are 600+ holiday projects to explore so I encourage you to hop around and get inspired!

I was out of town this week in Atlanta for a quick trip so this week’s Friday Finds is a short one, not too many links today.  I’m still recovering from several nights of very little sleep so I’m happy to spend a quiet weekend at home and decorate our Christmas tree, perhaps do some local shopping too.  Here are a few interesting links I came across this week, enjoy.

Perhaps you’ve heard that Emerald was announced as Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2013, following what’s been hot in fashion.  Are you a fan of this jewel tone? 

Starbucks has a secret menu?  I never knew!

The 50 best food products to cook with

30 baby animals that will make you go “awww”

Your brain while holiday shopping

Ten steps to boost your creativity

Most outrageous baby names of 2012

25 great closing lines from the movies

The Holiday Home Link Parties continue next week so I’ll share a few more scenes from our home this season. 

Have a lovely weekend! 

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Greetings all, the Friday Finds are back and these are some good ones!  Enjoy these links and your weekend too! 

Make these paper poinsettias (plus several other holiday paper projects) with templates available at House and Home (right click on the site to open PDFs).

If you can’t make it to New York City for Christmas, you can still see the famous annual Bergdorf Goodman window display courtesy of Heather at Habitually Chic.

The Million Dollar Decorators are accustomed to shopping high end but here they are roaming the aisles of Kmart and Marshalls for stylish finds. 

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Hello everyone and welcome to the weekend!  Drizzle and rain are in the forecast for the next few days here in the Bay Area so we’ll be doing some indoor sprucing, making homemade soup, getting cozy by the fire, those kinds of things.  Here’s the list of Friday finds for the week!

There’s an interesting and detailed discussion about the interiors featured in some of the November shelter mags over at La Dolce Vita.  BTW, I absolutely love  this room by Nate Berkus.

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Custom repeat wallpaper made from tiny stickers by Flat Vernacular.  Amazing!

I’ve read Smitten Kitchen for years and blogger Deb has a new cookbook which is on my Christmas list – all of the shots for the book and Deb’s blog came from this small kitchen!  Here’s the tour.

Thanksgiving is all about family and friends together and I adore this shot by Iowa Girl Eats, those grandma hands holding this sweet baby?  Picture = 1,000 words. 

The recycled and mundane reinvented as porcelain cans and crinkle vases.  Impressive!

I stumbled across Harabu House this week and fell in love their fresh finds, and they offer several products by by Ferm Living.   Robot pillows + chic canvas buckets, heart! 

Other articles I enjoyed this week:

Holly of Decor8 reminds us to never give up on our dreams.

Find yourself and find your niche.

Helpful pie making tips.

Favorite cooks and chefs talk Thanksgiving this Sunday on the Food Network.

50 celebrity chef Thanksgiving recipes.

Waterfalls frozen in mid fall.

The 50 most stylish male musicians.

(I can think of many others but I do love the Ray Charles quote). 

Wow!  Penelope rocks it in red. 

Christmas sweaters are now both chic and crazy expensive.  Huh ? 

Our life on Instagram:  this weekend we will be making progress on the hall bathroom remodel now that the vessel sink arrived, and I’ll be decorating a colorful tree for the kids’ room as part of the Michaels Dream Tree Challenge…

See you all on Monday for a short blog week and then the much anticipated feast!

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Hey all, it’s a late delivery of some Friday finds I spied around the web this week!  We’re off on a three day getaway so I’ve been rushing around trying to get everything ready, but had to share these with you!

Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan have very pretty home in Manhattan that was featured at Architectural Digest.

I’m just so crazy about this black and white space by Tobi Fairley I spied at Effortless Style with its blush and gold details. 

Cardboard, I’ve never seen you look so good!

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