a little pop up shop and a day full of scones...

well hello there!

how are things in your little part of this big ol world? daily icing land has been... good. i would like to say busy, busting at the seams with, well, things. but i cant. to be honest ahem... genuine. I would have to admit things here have been up and down. isnt that life though?

i have been busy making. art. pretty things. messes. yummy things. just making.   its been lovely.
and now here we are, easter weekend is upon us.

we arent really doing much this easter, which seems strange. just dinner. weird.

what are you up to this holiday? anything hippity hoppity? fun?



i made scones for breakfast this morning... ermagerd.

 

 

i always forget how simple scones are to make, for real. why dont i make these more?!

 

 

Ingredients:

 



2 cups all-purpose flour 1/3 cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt

8 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold

1/2 cup cranberries

1/2 cup sour cream

1 large egg

 

icing:

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1/4 tsp almond extract

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 cup milk

 

Directions:

 

♥ preheat oven to 400

 

♥ In a medium bowl, mix flour, 1/3 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. cut butter into flour mixture (mixture should resemble coarse meal), then stir in raisins.

 

♥ In a small bowl, whisk sour cream and egg until smooth

 

♥ Using a fork, stir sour cream mixture into flour mixture until large dough clumps form. Use your hands to press the dough against the bowl into a ball. (The dough will be sticky in places, and there may not seem to be enough liquid at first, but as you press, the dough will come together.)

 

♥ Place on a lightly floured surface and pat into a 7- to 8-inch circle about 3/4-inch thick. Sprinkle with remaining 1 tsp. of sugar. Use a sharp knife to cut into triangles; place on a cookie sheet (preferably lined with parchment), about 1 inch apart. Bake about 15 to 17 minutes.

while scones are baking  mix all ingredients in bowl till smooth, if icing is to thick add about a tablespoon of milk till it thins out to how you like it...

Cool for 5 minutes and drizzle with icing ... voila!

 

* i added white chocolate chunks {about half a cup} and a bit of lemon zest... yum!

 

these are so good. i doubled the batch so the tiny diva could have high tea this afternoon..which has lead to me munching on scones all day. i aint complaining.

 

 

 

this is also happening this easter weekend...

do you instagram? i do. and this weekend on instagram you can find California Jane Pop Up Shop { @californiajane_shop } all weekend long i will be offering awesome deals, grab bags & even a giveaway!

i hope everything is wonderful where you are! are you loving spring? i love it! little buds are popping up here and there, the days are long and warming up nicely. i could do without the allergy attacks, but i guess we have the good with the bad.

have a happy easter!

love y'all 

 

 

Valentines Day Sale @ California Jane!

come celebrate the grand opening of California Jane this weekend!

all weekend long from Feb.1st to the 4th you can take 20% off everything in the shoppe as well as free shipping on all domestic orders $25 or more!

stop by and check out new wrap bracelet designs as well as new stationary items!

get your valentine something special & handmade!

20% off coupon: BEMINE13
Free Shipping{$25 or more}: CALILUV13

there is still time to place a custom order for valentines delivery!

california jane... the girl who inspired something new.

meet california jane...

{she is the lovely lady without the hat... if this photo was labeled correctly}

a few years ago my granny gave me the honor of becoming the keeper of the family history, she handed me a shoe box, few envelopes and a couple of barely held together black tar paper photo albums, filled with magic.
 i get lost in old photos, pictures of smiling faces trapped in time at a wedding reception, or those strange baby photos from the 1800's, with little chubby scowls, cheeks tinted pink.  i love them.
  one of the envelopes contained a copy of a family portrait taken in the very early 1900's. my grannys brother had painstakingly gone through records and wrinkles in time to try and name each face in that large 20 to 30 person gathering, and wrote them in chronological order on the back.
  {i really wish i could show you that photo, but it didn't get scanned into my computer before we moved, so its tucked away in storage. insert sad face here.}
 one of those faces in that photo simply jumped out at me, this awkward, smirky smiled girl, maybe 18, maybe 20... standin all sassy in the back row sporting her straw hat and pants and blouse.  i turned the picture over to officially meet my alter ego, {who clearly i got my attitude and fashion sense from ;) } and to my udder joy her name, was California Jane.
  no one can tell me much about "jane" {as she was labeled in the photo above, that was taken with "jenny"}.
 my great uncle john passed away long before i was given these photos, and i think he took the secrets with him, my granny may have known a few years ago, but lately she spends most of her time sorting through her sparkly ear rings and forgetting who i am.
 so i am left with just her face. this california jane.

as i have mentioned before {& im sure you are all getting tired of hearing it} i'm at a strange new adventure in my life, i have been given this amazing gift of time, to rest my mind and recharge myself. and my creative brain is taking advantage of it to the fullest! it began slowly at first, a soft tickle in my finger tips, and has finally come into reality.

i may never get to meet california jane, in so many words, but i feel like she has given me a new idea as to who i am, and want to be. its like that hundred year old smirk is telling me, who cares what they say! just do it! be genuine! be california jane!

so here it is.

a little silly, a little vintage, toss in some circusy type things and you have just a bit of california jane!
im really excited! like lots of exclamation points excited!!! this shop will be a sneak peek into my brain. so step right up! see the man eating chicken & his wife the bearded lady! and pick up a lovely bauble made by the tattooed girl!

i hope you will check it out!

you can also like my Facebook page.... that would be awesome!