Brian and I knew from the moment the sonogram showed a little blip that we were having not only a baby, but the heir(ess) to our delicious empire. Our little espresso monkey will one day inherit everything.
The onesie was obtained through Sweet Marias.
I've mentioned before that I started drinking coffee seven years ago when it became necessary to stalking the object of my affection. We celebrated our 5 year anniversary this weekend, so it certainly worked out well for me.
I've contracted some sort of sore throat disease, in addition to being pregnant, so my coffee consumption is at an all time low. Good thing for me that even tea looks good in these new mugs!
We ordered a trial run from a place online and hope to have them in the Bookish coffee shop sometime toward the beginning of next year!
Other than tea and soup, the day holds for me an assortment of sick day treats- reading, You've Got Mail, and cuddling with the cat, at least until Brian comes home.
Part of the coffee life that's expanding every week, is that we are meeting and learning about coffee lovers in Denton we never knew before! It's such a neat experience to go from selling to friends and neighbors to selling to strangers, and very affirming. In fact, our delivery day has become a full day's work driving around the neighborhood to drop off friendly little packages from the roastatorium.
This is one thing I have been doing instead of posting. There are a few more HUGE projects in the works, that I have to keep under wraps for now. But I wanted to drop in and say I'm still here, and happy.
It's here! Check out Bookish Coffee's new website!
We have been waiting for this day for oh-so-long. My husband wrote the text, took the pictures, and created the logo. He also is the master roaster.
Truly, I am so proud of him.
This is our new roaster, freshly unwrapped and waiting for work. Today I am drinking the first batch of Bookish coffee from the inaugural roast. I must say that it's good.
However Brian, my sweet roastmaster, is passionate about coffee and plans to refine his skills with the new machine until the coffee is not merely good, but the best. I love that about him. When it's the best coffee to ever hit your lips, we'll start shipping orders.
Also, there is a new mini satchel design and an elephant wallet hitting the shop today, so click on over!
Slowly I am adding to the online shop, with the Spring Bazaar in my sights.
The Leisure Toile Wallet is a lovely combination of chartreuse toile and brown with a brown and white striped vintage button. Everytime I make a new wallet, I fall in love with them over again. If only they weren't so dang cute.
Tomorrow Brian and I are making a landmark trip for Bookish Coffee. We're going to pick up the commercial roaster. We're going to hold our breath, bring it home, and be one giant step closer to the coffee roasting industry. The barn (with the constant help and patience from our master builder) has been built and primed, we've tasted and ordered the coffees we plan to carry, and we only feel excited about this consuming venture. I dearly hope you all have a lovely and commercial-free Easter, and come next week I plan to post pictures of the new roaster!
and all of a sudden, it's fall!
Long sleeves, falling leaves, and wrapping up in blankets. Of course, also coffee. Always coffee. In fact, there's a whisper in the wind that we may not always hoard this coffee only for ourselves.
There is something about this delicious brew that is so heady, comforting, and delicious at any time of day. I was a late coffee convert, in college, when I found myself completely enamored with a man who worked in a coffee shop on the square called Bochy's.
I started with espresso drinks. Because I didn't know what I liked, we started playing this game where I would explain how I was feeling and how my day had gone and he would brew me the perfect drink to match my mood-- sort of like the movie Chocolat. I remember the culmination of my coffee experiments which was not, when I married my coffee guy, Brian, and gave up coffee for good, but when he made me the most delicious, soul-searchingly good latte I've ever had in my life.
It had been a hard day and a rainy, sleepy day when I stumbled into his second coffee shop, Uncommon Ground. By this time I was his serious girlfriend and not just the girl who shadowed his footsteps just to see more of him. He understood perfectly the sort of day I was having and how I was feeling so he made me a cinnamon toast latte. I still don't know exactly how it all came together, but I know he steamed cinnamon into the milk. And it was so completely perfect.
Anyway, this morning I was going to pass along the coffee making find (Brian's find, but he doesn't have a blog) that makes our coffee brewing lives so much easier.
This is the AeroPress by Aerobie and I highly recommend it for the serious coffee lover. Smoother, faster coffee cannot be found in a more simple home method, in my opinion. I made a cup of coffee this morning and it took me less than one minute, and of course it was delicious. The delicious part depends mostly on Brian's freshly roasted coffee, but the ease is all AeroPress.
I am drinking a cup of black coffee right now that makes me want to quote poetry and then spontaneously combust. It is that good.
If you're coming to the Make Urban Street Bazaar this weekend, then please stop by and say hello! There's free yoga on Saturday, a cute little beer place (commonly called "a bar") down the street for you to stop and look at all your handmade purchases, free demonstrations, and lots of unique and pretty things just waiting for the right home!
