Happy 4 Years

Happy 4 years of marriage to my hubby and I!

And here's to many, many, many more! To see other marriage/anniversary posts go here and here.

And, here's one of our lovely love songs to add more love to this lovely post ;)

Recent thrift finds

I have a small collection of wall decor piling up in my box :) 

Wall decor just makes me happy!

Several weeks ago Kyle and I hit up Idaho's largest garage sale. Overall I thought it was worth it. I didn't leave with much, except a full belly from a yummy slushy and a little serving dish/platter that I plan to hang on the wall. 

25 cents! yep, that's all. 

Later that day we decided to go to a favorite thrift store of ours, which ended up being a more successful trip than the garage sale. 

This hanging, "Bless Our Home," almost made me squeal in the middle of the DI :). I saw this sign here on a blog that I regularly read [check above the stove in the pics]. I fell in love with the sign. Lo and behold, months later I'd find it at my local thrift store! Score! 

$2.00

 Framed embroidery. Now, I don't know what caused it, but I have really fallen head over heels for embroidered pictures. I'm not sure where to hang them. Do I add them to my gallery wall? Or do something different? Any suggestions? :)

$1.00 for both

Ok, now THIS is something cool I found the same day as the couch incident. It almost made up for not getting the couch! (well, almost). Embroidered antique cars! I thought of my dad as soon as I saw them. My dad grew up loving antique cars and even built up his own business around them. I think they'd be perfect in a little boy's room.

$1.75 for both! 

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Thrifty finds: weird edition

So, an apology to those ahead of time who really like what I'm about to show you.
Let me preface myself. I loooove going to thrift stores!
Not only do I love finding random treasures and things from way back in the day but I love to laugh at all the random crap I see!
Some of the random crap is pretty terrible. Here are a few pictures I encountered a month ago:

Space dolphins!

Umm...

This was something we saw today in the record section. I can't remember the band name.
Maybe I was too distracted by the awesome styling and the amount of chest hair showing.

DEEP v-necks...

The couch that wasn't

Everyone please cry with me right now...

Amazing orange leather couch

We saw this beauty soon after we entered a local thrift store and immediately ran toward it.

It already had a SOLD sticker on it.

NOOOOOO!!!!

:::shakes fist angrily at early-bird customer::: 

For so long we have searched for an affordable, but cute, couch for our living room. A colored one was a MAJOR plus! Like many of you, I am a Pinterest-obsessed person. All over Pinterest I have encountered the most ADORABLE couches! Yellow, red, blue. Covered in pillows. I want a colorful couch. And the Amazing Orange Leather Couch was gonna be the one...until I saw the evil SOLD sticker on it :(

Other than that, we are doing good :P 

Hope ya'll are having a nice weekend!

Shout Out!

Today I have to do a shout out to Bountiful Baskets! It is a company that distributes baskets of produce, and even includes breads! Baskets are distributed by volunteers and different places all over the US. After hearing about it months ago I decided to set up an account and try it myself. You never know what kind of produce you're gonna get. I guess that can be both good and bad, but I loved the idea of not knowing what to expect! My haul from my very first experience included:

6 corn

1 lb. celery

4 tomatoes

1 head iceburg lettuce

2 green bell peppers

2 red bell peppers

6 pears (one didn't make it home thanks to my hubby's hungry stomach. Haha)

4 lemons

1 lb. concord grapes

1 cantaloupe

7 small bananas

7 kiwis

Quite a lot of food for just 2 people! I was pretty pleased with what I received: some basics mixed in with a few unexpected things. I feel like it will push the monotony of my cooking. Kiwis? Does anybody have good recipes for kiwis besides fruit pizza? Also, concord grapes aren't your normal type of grape. I've never used them before! If anyone has any advice for them that would be great :)

I have a few recipes in mind. I've made lemon curd before and I loved it! I plan on doing that for the lemons. I found a good recipe for spiced pear cookies (if the pears last long enough). Anybody have recipes they'd like to share? Let me know!

July and Craftiness

July has been pretty busy for us! Our Fourth consisted of an overnight camping trip with Kyle's family in Cascade. It was full of swimming and of course a lot of food! Kyle was excited to try the new jumbo sized marshmallows they now have in stores. Those make for some pretty large smores!

Lately we've been having game night with some old high school friends. Everyone just brings dinner/snacks/dessert and a game or 2. Friday, we went thrifting and found a brand new Pirates of the Carribean Scene It! It's super easy compared to Trivial Pursuit though... We also have a new game, Rummikub, given to us by my friend Misha (we miss you guys!). I think we'll bring that one to the next game night!

Lately I've been a little addicted to Pinterest ;) and I love browsing through the recipes and craft ideas! I don't have pics yet of what I have made but I'll put them up as soon as I find the camera charger :P

About a month ago I went to a baby shower and made some cute bows to go on a headband

I also had fun making Misha's little girl Eliza some bows

Thanks for being my guinea pig, Liza!

Making a comeback!

I'm making a comeback to blogging! Haha maybe I will have stuff to write about :)

We have some friends that are moving soon and one way to keep in touch with them is blogging so here we are again.

I don't have any real posts set up yet so here's a little video to chew on while waiting for future posts :P

p.s. I love how he's playing a lot of my favorite songs! Wowza.