viva la vinyl!

A new design!
















We love playing records and recently had our turntable fixed up after being out of commission for awhile. Well actually...it's already broken again but hopefully it's a quick fix. So anyway...we were totally inspired to make a fun design showing our love for vinyl! I made adult shirts with black and yellow ink on brown, a few onesies, and a small batch of bibs. These items will be added to my etsy shop this week.

new vintage shop!

So Chad and I have been talking about opening a Vintage & Supply shop on etsy for ages. We love hunting for fun vintage finds and have lots and lots of stuff to destash so it just makes sense. The new shop is called REVISITED and deciding the name was probably what took us this long to open the shop. The only other name we could both agree on was COUNT DRUNKULA which makes no sense but makes us laugh. Luckily revisited was available.

So far I've just added some vintage card sets and coasters to the new shop but there will be lots more to come including fun vintage housewares, vintage art pieces, and collage paper packs.

If you dig vintage check it out!
:)

Key Lime Pie

I thought that I couldn't make a good pie and then I found this simple recipe on allrecipes.com that looked too good (too easy) to be true. Here's is my slightly altered version of the recipe:
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(1) 9" graham cracker crust
(2) 14 oz. cans of sweetened condensed milk
3/4 cup key lime juice
1/2 cup sour cream

combine sour cream, lime juice and condensed milk and stir until well blended (I just whipped it up in my mixer for a minute)

pour mixture into crust and bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 8-10 minutes or until tiny pinhole bubbles start to form. do not let it brown!
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I had lots of help from Lars with the lime juice. We had a totally fun time making this pie for Chad's birthday!! It turned out delicious. I am totally inspired to try baking more pies now!

my brother knows the answer to everything all of the time...

...and he can fix pretty much anything, too.

I'm feeling grateful for my baby brother tonight, can you tell? I have to say that I wish some of those good genes would have come my way. I am scattered and impatient - he is organized and mellow...and thank goodness somebody is!!

Tonight I was having a mini-meltdown trying to figure something out in photoshop. I finally called my brother who knows the answer to everything and he quickly helped me through it. He is truly a life saver. I think I will be baking something delicious to send his way tomorrow!

In other news, we had our record player fixed and will be getting it back tomorrow. Yay! I have been missing our dinner time dance parties and plan to kick tomorrow night off with some sweet music. The guy who fixed is said that it sounds GREAT. Now that I think about it...I bet my brother could have fixed that, too...

The weekend is gone! Boo! Chad and I went out on Friday night to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. We ate at a favorite Mexican restaurant, bought a new computer monitor and watched the Dark Knight, finally. The movie was fantastic, the computer monitor is lovely and the food was okay. Saturday we headed down to the farmer's market where we got our usual delicious treats and let the kids take turns pulling the wagon. It was a beautiful day! And today we spent some more time downtown having a leisurely lunch on State Street and then down to the grand opening of Funky Monkey Photography. My kids had a GREAT TIME at the grand opening. The studio space looks great and they had so many fun activities for the kids. Lars and Jette were both thoroughly worn out and had good naps in the afternoon. When Lars woke up he said "can we go to the monkey party again?" SO cute.

Chad made an awesome drawing of Elvis last week and I'm in love with it. He actually already sold the original. We decided to print a couple of copies of the colorized version to make into mirrors. I LOVE my mirror. Something about this drawing just makes me swoon. If you're an Elvis fan you can find this mirror HERE in Chad's shop.

welcome Mario Sunshine!

Last weekend the in-laws got our son Lars a fish. He immediately named it 'Mario Sunshine.' Yes, after the video game. You may be able to see Mario Sunshine in the picture below...he is hiding out in the corner of the tank, apparently not quite used to his wild roomates yet.

custom shirts for bachelorette party
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I've been working on a couple of custom orders this week. Here are some shirts that I printed with my gocco. They're for a bachelorette party and turned out pretty cute.

Chad and I will celebrate our 10 year anniversary tomorrow. We are going OUT! Hooray!