flea market finds

I found an old frame at a flea market a few weeks ago, it was ugly. And I think Ryan and Beth and Scott thought I was nuts for wanting it.

But jokes on them cause look at the beautifulness I turned that sucker into!

BOOYAH.
An old frame turned chalkboard! An idea I got from pinterest.

We also got that old matches holder (turned chalk and eraser holder) at a flea market. Not sure if I'm gonna leave it like it is or paint it. I like the "MATCHES" written on it, but it's kinda rusty. Ugly rusty. Not pretty rusty.

I like to write nice things on it.
Such as, "All you need is love. And food. And water. And lots of other things." or "'I love The Smiths!' -Summer, 500 Days of Summer" or "Do FRIES come with that SHAKE?" Which may or may not be on there right now. Which also may or may not have been there when our favorite maintenance man came to fix our dishwasher. Aaaaand...he may or may not have asked me, "The real question is...What kinda shake you talkin' about?!"
He's awsome.

We also got some little trinkets to put in our letterpress tray.

(Which has found a home!! More on that to come later.)

 

 

Have no fear, I totally realize that it looks disgusting. My flash brings out the nasty! I promise it doesn't look that terrible. I spent a long time cleaning it out.

date night

Ryan and I went on a long overdue date night a couple of nights ago. We went to Dave and Busters and essentially spent $20 to get some candy, but we had a blast while doing it. That's all that matters.

We also sat next to the cast of Billy Elliot, the Broadway musical that is in Philly for a few weeks. And saw the sweetest old couple playing the "Deal or No Deal" arcade game :)

Ryan learned how awesome I am at silly arcade games, due to my years of experience at Chuck E. Cheese. Years that may or may not have ended only 2 years ago, at the young age of 21.
I ROCKED at Smokin' Token and was strangely addicted to Token Roulette, haha. Which is why I don't want to go to Sugar House Casino, even though Ryan insists we wouldn't waste more than $10 there.

I also forgot my camera in the car. I said, "If we see one of those photo-booth-sketch-your-picture things, we have to do it so I can have at least one picture of tonight!" And then just my luck, we spotted one!! And just my luck, this is what our picture turned out as.

HAHAHA! Can you see us? Cause I can't!

Afterwards we headed over to Franklin Fountain, because my mouth had been watering thinking about a Mt. Vesuvius sundae all evening. And then we got there, and just my luck (a trend for the evening), I only had $4 because I had to use my $10 bill for parking. Gosh darn parking. So after digging out some spare toll-booth change from the car, we mustered up $7.00 and got a couple scoops of coconut and black raspberry ice cream to share. Ahhhhh, fantastic. It was no Vesuvius, but it was still delectable. I love Franklin Fountain. It is expensive, but SO WORTH IT!

And then I asked our night security guard to take a picture of us in the lobby, so we'd at least have 1 picture of the night :)

We're super cute, I know.

snackie

This is our favorite snack lately.

Pears (sometimes bananas too.)
Plain greek yogurt (Chobani or Fage are the best. Don't even bother with Activia or Dannon Oikos. I'll save you some time and tell you they are sick-nast.)
Honey.
Chopped pistachios.

Yum.

upitty, up, up, up.

I've taken an unintentional-turned-intentional break from blogging. I've said this before, but I really don't like blogging when I'm not inspired. And lately I've been in "a mood." And everyone and everything are getting on my nerves. And I'm sick of life and disappointments and blah-dee-blah-dee-blah. Ugh. So I stopped blogging because I knew my posts would quickly turn to something like...
"Life is stupid. And I hate Philadelphia. What are YOU doing here, reading MY thoughts?! AHHH!"
I thought a little breakski would be best for all involved :)

Anyways.
In the past 3 hours I have become obsessed with Up. Haha. Yes, the movie. Yes, 3 hours. I mean, I've always loved the movie, even though I'm guaranteed to be bawling within 15 minutes. You know what reminded me of my imense love for Up?

THIS PHOTO SHOOT!

Photo credit: the goodness and blue lily photo

(I'll give you a one-photo glimpse into the shoot, but be sure to visit the blogs linked and look at them.)

Oh. My. Goodness.
I die.
I can. not. handle the amazingness of that photoshoot.
So much so, that I'm using "amazing" to describe something...which is something I almost NEVER do (mostly because it bugs me, but this scenario is actually fitting of the word.)

First of all, I NEED THAT HOUSE. I need to own it. I need to live in it. I need to mow its little lawn and sweep its little porch and make cookies in the blue oven. I should probably also change my name to Ellie and force Ryan to go with Carl. Because it seems fitting, and that way we can keep the mailbox.

Second of all, I diiiieee. Again. Because I seriously can't get over these photos. I want to be them.
GAH!

Up next (pun totally intended, bahaha)...
THIS CHILD.

Photo taken from my modern met (although, this can be found practically everywhere)

 (Same as above, be sure to visit the link cause there is lots more of that cuteness!)

I know he's been blowing up pinterest and facebook for a while, but he is so cute I can't leave him out. Oh my goodness. He motivates me to look into kidnapping (not really.) (But maybe, kind of.)

So now that I have rediscovered my love for Up...I have also discovered that WE DON'T OWN THE MOVIE?! WHAT THE HARICOTS VERTS IS GOING ON HERE?!
(Hee hee, we had haricots verts with dinner and I've also become obsessed with saying it...haricots verts...haricots verts...haricots verts...I really like to say it in an English accent.)