Lydia Courteille's Skull Jewelery

I have just discovered the most exquisite jewelery from the French designer Lydia Courteille. If I had a home to hock to invest in these gems I probably would. Then I'd wear all my finery to Mickey D's to eat from the Dollar Menu for the rest of my life.

Lydia Courteille creates her hand-crafted, limited edition or one-of-a-kind masterpieces from diamonds, rubies, green garnets, white and yellow sapphires and other precious and semi-precious stones such as jade, pink jasper and onyx in white gold and rhodium settings. There's only one retail location where you can fondle and purchase these fantastic pieces of art, in Paris on a quiet stretch of rue Saint Honoré.

Mere words don't do these justice....

At approximately $10,000-$30,000 per ring, I don't harbor any illusions that I may one day own a design from Lydia Courteille but they're so beautiful that I'm happy just looking at them.

Bacn.me

Bacn.me - Your long URL needs some shrinkage

You probably have seen link shortening services before, maybe even used them to send your friends a link and this tool works the same way. Brought to you by the bacon loving people at Bacn.com, you enter a too-long URL and it spits back out a bacony short URL.

For the more advanced, you can also login to the site using an OpenID, so you can see how many clicks your links are getting. Also featured are a bookmarklet for easier link shortening and the list of top bac’nd URLs.

Bacon Ale from Brooklyn Brewery?

Well, not yet, but this story about one of NYC's local breweries has my panties all in a bunch.

It seems that Brooklyn’s Brewery's brewmaster, Garrett Oliver, has created a special malt that was smoked in the same room with some of the bacon made by the Allan Benton. “It’s almost terrifying how much the malt smells like bacon,” Mr. Oliver said.

According to the New York Times Diner's Journal, Mr. Oliver plans to brew about 15 gallons of barleywine with that malt. In the meantime, he’s been infusing a brown ale with the flavor of Benton’s bacon fat through a technique known as “fat washing.” And the bacon-fat-infused ale was also aged in bourbon barrels. (Win, Win, WIN!)

Eventually, the plans are to blend the barleywine with the bacon-smoked malt and the bourbon-aged, bacon-fat-infused ale to create one smokey bacon monster beer.

“One of two things will happen,” Mr. Oliver predicted. “Either this will be the most amazingly disgusting thing you’ve ever tasted in your life. Or I shall rule the earth.”

I signed up for Brooklyn’s Brewery's mailing list as I imagine that this brew will be limited and in high-demand.

via Bowling For Brews By Pete Wells

Jansport Skull Backpacks

Almost back to school time, and while that really doesn't affect me so much, I know most parents are already starting their back to school shopping. Jansport has some great skull backpacks this year.

JanSport SuperBreak Backpack - Cuban Brown Splatter Skull
$29.90 @ Amazon & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping (you have to use the drop down to search for the style)


JanSport SuperBreak Backpack - Carbonic Grey Skulls - $19.95

JanSport SuperBreak Backpack - Blue Paisley Skull - $24.99

JanSport SuperBreak Backpack - Black/Queens Purple Splatter Skull - $24.00 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25

JanSport Axle Backpack - Black & Grey Skull - $55.90


And moms, when you're done shopping for your kids, here's a few new skulls bags for you:
Black And Gray Skull Clutch - $36.00

Sugar Skull Floral Tote - $48.00


Skull and Sparrow Wallet

The Grease Business

mmmmm Yellow Gold....



It's a slow news week for bacon. ;)

Skulls From China!

I've been working crazy hours and haven't been able to rustle up as much free time as I'd like to come and post here. I'm trying though, I hate to feel like I am neglecting Skulls & Bacon!

Yesterday I came across this fun little Skull Cup Holder for your car. It clips to your air vent and pretty inexpensive even coming from China ($6.69 & $5.49 shipping).



The best part however, are the descriptions on this website. Some good Engrish always gets me smiling.

"It makes you drink handily and really enhance your enjoyment while driving."

So obviously I had to look around the site some more to see what other gems were floating about. This one is insane...
Battery Powered Like Real Hamburger Sonant Prank Trick Funny Toy - $7.19



You can use Tricky Hamburger Toy as a perfect gift!
When you open this Tricky Hamburger, it will come out a skull suddenly and it is fearful.
The fearful skull inside the hamburger is flexible and can be folded together.

I must have it!

PC Desktop Computer Skull Fan Grill Dust Cover - $2.69


Pretty awesome although the back of my computer pretty much never sees the light of day.

Funny Grinding Skeleton Grinder Kids Toy - $21.69


-This Funny Skeleton Toy is a very funny Kids Toy with a famous proverb: Money makes the mare go.
-A super funny Grinder Toy for your kids who is ups to 3 years old
-Open the up cover of millstone, put some shampoo in it.
-Put a coin into the rectangle hole and then you can see the skeleton is grinding for money with flashing. When the foam falls off, open the up cover, put some shampoo and water in the millstone will be ok.

Wow, ok. Money makes the mare go? I'm really confused.
Especially cool is that this is good for kids up to 3 years old. Who's handing their 2 year old coins and shampoo?

This one is included just because of the description:
Jeans Gas Cigarette Lighter - $5.69


-Brand new high quality lighter, never used
-Great GIFT for birthday, Christmas, anniversary, wedding ... etc

Really? Awesome, I know what my friends are getting for their wedding present! Anyhow, take a look around the site, it's pretty amusing. And I'm real close to getting that prank hamburger skull thingy.

Bacon Camp Columbus 2009

Do anything exciting this weekend? Me neither. But the bacon lovers of Columbus, Ohio got down this past weekend with their own Bacon Camp held at Wild Goose Creative. Luckily for us, bloggers were in attendance and Hungrywoolf did a wonderful review and took some great pictures.

There definitely were some creative entries and bacon creations that I have not seen before. I love that people are continuing to innovate with bacon.

Bacon Bouquet - just gorgeous. Better than some dying red roses anyday.
The winning entry - bacon stuffed pierogies (with piggie butter!)
BLT - bacon liquor tinis with bacon peppercorn infused vodka
Bacon and blue cheese ice cream - I would love to try this, bacon and blue cheese go toether so well.
Bacon mustard with a pretzel chip - I bet you can't eat just one.
Spicy bacon chocolate strawberries - this one is my favorite. I want some NOW!

These pics were all posted with the gracious permission of Hungrywoolf and there's more so please visit her blog and drop a comment if you like them.

Someone with good organizational skills please get a Bacon Camp NY/NJ going. I suck at organizing but I'd eat my way through there like a champ!