Well, we’ve had a change in plans. Now, I will definitely be making the triple chocolate mousse cake as we’re going to have a small get together at my apartment on Saturday. Some extra ramekins have been purchased, and I’ve located the never before used parchment paper that’s been sitting in the back of the pantry. Wish me luck! I promise to post pictures no matter what the outcome. I’m pretty bad about editing out all of my less successful cooking/crafting endeavors, so this time I’m going to come clean.

This past weekend, it was unbearably hot in my apartment so we escaped to Ikea. [Have you seen Ikea's Dream Kitchen web-site? I’m not in the market for kitchen cabinets, but this site is really fun to look at.] Ikea never feels like real shopping to me. It's more like being inside an air conditioned adult theme park. And there inside the magic kingdom of Ikea shopping, we found these very cool napkin ring/place card holders.

I love place card holders and have absolutely no reason to own them. I've only had one dinner party in the last 4 years, I believe. And that was only a few months ago, so I will probably need to wait another 4 years to have a second one. Sometimes I'm tempted to whip them out just for me and Mr. Slippers. I've confessed my obsession to him, so I think he'd understand although we both know where to sit. Place card holders are enough to make me want to find more friends and invite them all over to dinner.

To top it all off, earlier this week I stumbled across the Papayalicious site (via Pam Garrison). Look at the amazing enclosure cards! I love these and think they would be perfect for place cards (not sure exactly how big they are). I guess they would be sort of expensive ($2/each) if you were ordering up enough for a large dinner party. I just placed a small order to start. I also love the happy place cards and place card holders at Plum Party. I’ve been slightly obsessed over the squirrel place card holders for a while now.). I'm not going over there to look right now. I can't bear it.