Monthly Archives: December 2009

Espresso iPhone Stand

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Sometime back I purchased a little iPhone stand called a Batrest. The beauty of this little stand was that it laid out flat to the size of a credit card so it fit in my wallet. Then, when at a espresso spot, I could bend it slightly and my iPhone would rest on it so I could hands-free watch a movie or read some text.

This last weekend, the same company announced a updated version they call the Crabble. It now has a few more cuts so you can sit your iPhone or iPod Touch in landscape or portrait mode. And, the reason I’m mentioning it here, is they now come with designs printed on them. Previously they were white, black or frosted. One new style is the ‘espresso bean’ look. If you go to the Seskimo site, this look is almost at the bottom of the options to the right. Sorry, their site doesn’t offer a way to direct link.

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Found! Fun Espresso Line Art

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I have been looking around for something that shows my love of coffee in a simple bit of art. Mostly what I find is bits of art surounded with text that is witty or product specific. CafePress is a good place to just hunt about for what your looking for on a tshirt or mug… usually though you have thousands of tshirts to sort through.

I happened to hit the right button yesterday and found this quick swash of lines that says “I’m a coffee fan” without words. The art is available in brown line on white, black line or white and white line on black – on caps and tshirts. The links go directly to the CafePress page that has the creator’s offering. I put an email into them asking if they would do a mouse pad with their art… that would be fun to have on the desk!

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Tis the season for Coffee Cake

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While I am pretty much a coffee drinker, even more so a espresso drinker than coffee. For most folks, coffee is one part of a two part event. There is the coffee and there is the ‘some sort of snack’ food. Coffee Cake is by name, the one food item that really wants to be thought of as the perfect coffee side item.

There are the cookies, the breads, the sandwiches and the sweets… all very important for particular coffee times. In case your thinking that there is but one ‘coffee cake’ and then your done. I found a nice list of 21, many of which I had not heard of and even more that will need to be tried.

As it would happen, this list of 21 Coffee Cakes is actually 21 Tempting Coffee Cake Recipes. So, the pleasure wont be ours of sampling many till we spend a bit of time in the kitchen… or convince a loved one that during the festive season it would be fun for a ‘family’ project. Fear not, the list of ingredients for Coffee Cake is short and only involves mixing them all together and baking. Hmmm… baking is a good time to have a cup of great coffee too, this could be  a start of a wonderful relationship!

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Pictured is Janet’s Apple Ginger Hazelnut Coffee Cake