Infinite Cookbook!

Idea of the day:

Rosewilde and Canderley’s Infinite Cookbook:
We’ve been given to an obsession with foreign cooking styles. Also, as the eldest children, we’ve had plenty of opportunities to help prepare meals for our large family. We’ve realized that food in any culture falls into a variety of patterns of cooking methods and ingredients. Based on these patterns, comes Rosewilde and Canderley’s Infinite Cookbook, which allows you to take a set list of common ingredients and methods, for any listed type or nationality, and use them to formulate your own recipe. Of course, included you’ll find classic recipes, thorough directions for preparations, and lists of combinations known to work well together. But after that, the world is yours!

Something about this concept strongly appealed. And it also seemed to apply itself well to another love of ours. Which brings us to:

Rosewilde and Canderley’s Infinite Gift-finder:
We've been talking about this one for a long time. Since that autumn we went to five weddings and three baby showers. We realized--we REALLY like putting together gifts. Unusual ones. Ta-dah! Rosewilde and Canderley’s Infinite Gift Finder! Use your knowledge of your intended recipient along with a list of both common and original items for any occasion to formulate unique and meaningful ideas to help direct your shopping. Find thoughts on appropriate handmade items, how to personalize your gift, and how to package it in delightfully unexpected ways! Honor memorable moments with something perfect to the people and location. The options are infinite and easy-to-use!


Now to get this written and--self publish?

Hello!

This is beth-claire, the detail-oriented voice of reason for R&C. Liv is the gem and I am the polish. We've been dreaming about the things we write here for a long time, and they are what keeps us going. Hope you enjoy!

beth-claire

A New Start

Beth and I began Rosewilde and Canderley a number of years ago; we were 20 and always dreaming about new things. Life took us in different directions for awhile. We went to separate colleges. Circumstances taught us that we had lots to learn about our goals. I served a religious mission MI, she in GA. We tried to grow up and develop better life skills, have practical jobs, etc. There were lots of great and wonderful changes! But we couldn't give up on that desire to create and imagine. So we're coming back.

The truth is, all these years, we’ve been piling up ideas, and never seeing them accomplished, due to their being too expensive, or because we don’t know who to turn to for help or knowhow. Through this, I’ve developed a sense of self-doubt that is often crippling. But I’m letting them sit and waste no longer! I’m posting them here. And if it benefits your creative pursuits, or if I can point to this and say ‘HERE is what I can really do’, or if I can break out of my private world by sharing it with someone, then so much the better. So it’s all going up! From clothing, costumes, interiors, to whimsy, stories, poetry, anything.

And we’re coming back even better prepared for the fun. We’ve picked up a few things along the way, such as an ever growing international music collection, a bad case of Hinduphilia (is that a word?), and a host of how-to, historical, and inspirational reference books—Thank you Sister, for getting that job in a bookstore! We’ll be wracking our brains for things to study, and ideas for unique DIY projects. And if we can’t put them into practice, maybe you can! Let us know!

On we go!

liv-cate

A Little More Fancy In The Everyday

Greetings from liv-cate and beth-claire!

Hello and welcome to Rosewilde & Canderley! We are here looking for a place to discover and share projects relating to our ideas and tastes, in a wide variety of subjects. We wish to encourage a reach into the fantastical, in a way more refined than one generally sees of late, based more upon the elements of classical education. Everyone these days knows how to dirty up the classics, to "make it REAL...", from Clueless to Wicked to The Tudors--what about the other way around?

This blog, in future, shall contain designs, various notes, and whimsy concerning decor, hospitality, and fashion, both contemporary and historical. Our hope is to inspire others to fill their lives, not with just the new, but rather with what is thoroughly their own taste, well-informed.We look forward to providing, as is our motto, a little more FANCY in the everyday...

Educated informality. Energetic gentility. Creative practicality. This is Rosewilde and Canderley! We hope you can find a place with us.