dwelling small

April 24, 2013

Our Home

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– function + form .. or multipurpose decor .. or because sometimes you just run out of space.

i have never been a particularly practical person because practicality doesn’t suit me … because … well why not? i have always had this slightly spontaneous side, making special trips for ice cream late at night, hours after we’ve been ready for bed or wanting to take vacations on the spot just for the fun of it. this can drive camden crazy at times. he who wants steadiness and consistency doesn’t always see eye to eye with spontaneity. however when it comes to dwelling small, pragmatic i sometimes have to to be.  in our current home we have had to give a few functional items a decorative purpose because frankly there is just nowhere else for them to go. i find, for us, this works best when keeping it simple … not cluttering walls with an overbearing amount of stuff but here and there, adding small functional things in a decorative way.

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weekend brunch

April 23, 2013

brunch

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like i mentioned earlier this week, we made this lemon thyme cake that’s had my mouth watering for weeks now. first off let me just say, i really need to start reading the entire recipe before undertaking a new one. sort of like it would have been nice to know this particular cake needed to bake for over an hour … if i had read this say when i first found the recipe or even the night before, i may have started making the cake slightly earlier. having said this though, it should be noted here that for us anyhow, this cake doesn’t need a full hour in the oven. we may just have one of those extra toasty ovens but our cake seemed slightly overcooked at only forty five minutes in the cooker. mumbo jumbo aside, this cake was quite tasty and at our later than expected brunch hour, we devoured almost all of it … lucy, the whole gang and all. 

because sometimes it rains …

April 21, 2013

Miscellaneous

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this weekend has been quite the stormy one. friday night we took kramer out for his last walk of the evening when it started to rain … and i mean rain. by the time we got home we were all completely soaked even through our “rainproof” jackets we had worn incase of the expected downpour. we wrapped kramer in a towel, lit some candles, and relaxed together on the couch while listening to some of the most perfect music for a rainy friday night. it was honestly one of the best evenings we’ve all had together in a long time. incase it’s been raining wherever you are lately or you just need a good (according to me) playlist, i have included one below … enjoy!

because sometimes it rains … by Sara Charlesworth on Grooveshark

a “pinterecipe”: a recipe found on pinterest

April 18, 2013

Miscellaneous

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you know those recipes you find on pinterest that look so good yet you never get around to making? or in our case, making anything not straight out of the freezer… well last night i decided it was time to try one i’d been eyeing for a while and get out of our frozen food rut. we made “skillet baked stuffed rigatoni” and … wow! was it good. besides being slightly difficult to prepare in a tiny kitchen (but then again, what isn’t?) and stuffing each noodle with the combined cheeses, which was a bit time consuming, i think we would make it again. plus we have plenty of leftovers to last us a few nights this week. and seriously … it was so nice to sit down at our actual dining table and give our poor coffee table a rest for once … i mean really … that is what it’s meant for anyway! next week i’m thinking of trying this “lemon thyme cake”. maybe for our weekend brunch?


*p.s. you can see the recipe mentioned above as well as the pin’s original home here.

i wore this when…

April 17, 2013

Wore

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sunday on our way up to park city, we decided to take the “scenic” route in order to see how far spring had made it up the canyon and possibly take a few pictures of the pretty flowers and blooming green leaf buds on the trees. only about two miles up the canyon we realized spring hadn’t really made it very far at all. in fact, by the time we actually reached park city, the air had cooled down to a very crisp thirty nine degrees and my three shirt layering action was no longer keeping me warm. there was actually still large patches of snow covering about fifty percent of the city’s ground. so much for my picture idea …. if this cooler spring means anything, i hope it’s a sign of a cooler summer that is not scorchingly hot? please!?!?

i wore: jean shirt, j.crew // plaid shirt, madewell // printed tee, alexa chung for madewell // pants, madewell // shoes, vintage // camera bag, vintage