January.

A few more hours January and you will be leaving us for another year. You've been good to us up here in the Pacific NW. Your weather has held and while cold, you've remained fairly dry (except of course for that flooding that happened a couple weeks ago). You brought us new recipes, mini road trips laden with fog, time with family and friends and cold lazy winter days cuddled under blankets perusing cookbooks and foodie magazines with the slow cooker puttering in the background. Most importantly though January, you helped us find a new apartment, full of light and promise. A new start to our lives together. While your waning days leave us surrounded by moving boxes and bags destined for Goodwill, we thank you January, for being good to us and look forward to seeing you again next year.

Here are just a few things that caught our eyes in January:

Baggu bags - stylish and eco friendly grocery bags.
Mid-century modern furniture - yet another reason to road trip to San Francisco (with a pickup truck).
DIY headboard - I love the wood and the industrial look of this.
Bedding - who doesn't love stripes?
Quilts - comfy and feminine, in a masculine dark gray color (she says we'll accent it with some mustard yellow)
Table lamps - any one of these would look great in our new apartment.
Another take on lighting - I love this idea for a lamp/bookshelf. A 2 in 1 project!
Turning drawers into a credenza - brilliant.

Places we are looking forward to (close-in):
Olympic Provisions in the NW - I'm already salivating
(and far away:)
A getaway destination. 


We hope that your January was as good to you as it was to us.
What are some of your favorite things from January?

(beautiful polaroid calendar by our friend Azuree Wiitala)

Addicted.

 7 episodes down, 53 to go.

In Search of Fog, pt. 2

 

Film photographs from our fog adventure a while back. Photos taken with a lomo LC-A, Olympus XA2, Pentax k1000 and a Polaroid Spectra.

Ch ch changes

Dave is in San Diego for the next few days, so I’m using the alone time to get organized… because we’re moving three weeks from today! We found an apartment with great natural light (very important) that looks out on a tree lined park in the Nob Hill area of town. The timing is perfect, as the trees will be blooming beautiful pink blossoms in a month or two. It will be like living in a pink blossomed snow globe for a few weeks. Well, I like to imagine that anyway. The apartment is on the top floor, so we will no longer be awoken at 3:30 a.m. by the apartment drunk who resides above Dave. Lady Gaga is cool and all, but not at 3:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning. In addition to shorting out the entire buildings electricity, said drunk also flooded her bathroom, which subsequently flooded Dave’s. I feel sorry for whoever moves in below that hot mess and gets to inherit her special treats. Don’t worry though, apartment successor - she comes with a noise complaint free of charge. One more and she’s out of there!  

Having spent my entire Portland life on the inner eastside, I am looking forward to calling a different area of town home. My middle school pipe dream was to live in NW and now 15 years later, I’m finally doing it. Of course twelve-year-old Whitney only wanted to live in NW to be close to Urban Outfitters. Now it beckons me due to its proximity to my workplace. Does this mean I’m getting old? If that doesn’t, I think the fact I got excited picking out a new soap pump for our bathroom does. Its milk glass, guys.

While I hate packing (does anyone not?), I am very excited to unpack and create a cozy nest of sorts.  New color schemes, organizing, (some) new furniture, maybe even a polaroid wall? Stay tuned… 

*Polaroid taken 3/2/2007. Coincidentally, it was taken on the exact same street we are moving too. 

Potato & Bacon Soup

This soup is both filling and tasty - perfect for a cold, wet Portland day.