Stop, hammock time!

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I was just perusing uncrate.com (yeah I know their tagline is “The Best Gear For Guys” but I love it) when I saw this image.

Gimme, gimme that hammock! At a price point of $19,500 – it is safe to say it is out of my budget. BUT, that being said, I couldn’t stop thinking about how amazing it would be to have a hammock on our patio.

Here are a couple more budget friendly options.

Red Star Traders’ Hammock Bed Set with Frame on Gilt

Sunbrella Hammock Bed on Overstock.com (Frame sold separately)

NOVICA Maritime Brazil Hammock on Gilt

Nothing like a hammock and a slight breeze to fit perfectly with a good book and a refreshing drink.

xx

-h

Street Pianos Worldwide

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What’s wonderful today? British artist, Luke Jarrom’s Play Me, I’m Yours installation in Salt Lake City. One of many worldwide places where upright pianos have been painted by local artists and placed around the city for the public to play. Anyone is invited to sit down and play at any time. Learn more here.

Love this video of young Roman playing in SLC.

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We should bring this to the Seattle/Tacoma area!

xx

-h

Tuesday Shoesday: Pumped up Kicks

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You know that song, Pumped up Kicks by Foster the People? I thought the lyrics were “run faster then your grandma” for the longest time. Apparently, that isn’t true. Anyways, when you want to make a pumped up statement reach for those platforms that are sky high. No, you can’t walk in them for more then 10 minutes. Yes, they look hot as hell.

At 5″ these Ann Taylor Dana Leather Platform Sandals are a force to be reckoned with. I’m picturing these babies with a pair of white jeans, a flowy top, and a smoky eye for a night out.

Gimme.

xx.

-h

Lavender Mint Lemon Bars

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Lemon bars are by far my favorite dessert ever. My mom received this recipe from her grandmother, Ri, who was an excellent cook. The interesting part about these is that because you use 4 eggs in the lemon part, they develop a custard like crust that has this amazing flaky texture to it. Although this recipe needs no adaptations I decided to incorporate the lavender that is blooming like crazy in my yard right now and because when I passed the lavender, I saw the mint, I added that in too.

Lavender Mint Lemon Bars

Mix 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup confectioners sugar together and cut in 1 cup butter. Press into 9×13 pan and bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. I usually do about 17.

While that is baking:

In a food processor or blender – 2 cups granulated sugar, 3-4 teaspoons lavender buds, and 5-6 sprigs of mint. Let ‘er rip until the lavender buds have broken apart. It will smell glorious.

Mix 4 beaten eggs, the sugar you just processed, 1/3 cup lemon juice, 1/4 cup flour and 1/2 teaspoon baking powder using an electric mixer.

Pour this over the baked crust and cook for an additional 25 minutes at 350. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving if you like. I usually find that unnecessary though.

Enjoy!

xx

-h

Before and After: 1940’s Patio Chairs

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When we moved into our house Milt and Judy (the previous owners) left enough crap to fill a landfill. Not a joke. The garage was full, the yard was full, and there was still stuff in the house. I guess they thought we would want their towels that were hanging on the rack. They were wrong. We did not want most of the stuff. Scratch that, we didn’t want any of it. Luckily our amazing real estate agent had their agent take care of the majority of the stuff, but there was still a lot of things in the yard. Including two 1940’s style patio metal chairs and two tables that matched. I decided this was the perfect project for spray paint.

Here are the before and after photos.

I used the hose on high pressure to wash off any dust, dirt, and spider webs. The tables had been painted before, and I scraped as much paint as I could off of them, but in the end, decided it wasn’t that big of deal to paint over it. I wouldn’t recommend that tactic since you can see where the paint was before. I lightly sanded everything with steel wool, then went to town. It took one can of yellow for each table and two cans of blue for each chair.

xx

-h

More Pendant Decisions

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Remember how I was trying to decide on lights for our dining room?

I saw this today on Joss & Main and I think I might pull the trigger. Hopefully it’s not brownish and is more greyish like they say.

Not a member of Joss & Main, click here to get on board!

What do you guys think? Should I do it?

xx

-h

Tuesday Shoesday: Frye Flats

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Last week I was dinking around downtown waiting for a friend to get off work before we heading to the stadium for a ballgame. I popped into Nordstrom to peruse for 20 minutes or so. After a pass through the shoe department, I decided to try on a pair of $59.95 bp. flats. The kind sales person brought back a pair of $149.95 Frye Carson flats, explaining that they didn’t have my size in the shoe I originally requested. I know we have all been there, the sales person brings out a shoe more than twice your budget and you cringe, try it on and politely say that it doesn’t fit (aka: I can’t afford these).

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Lucky for the sales person, this tactic typically works on me and this time they got me again. They were comfortable, cute, versatile and are Frye, so they will last (see me justifying…). If you are in the market for some expensive, but very well made, leather flats – these are the ones. I went for the “silver multi”, but they come in black, cognac, violet, green, orange, white and bronze leather.

xoxo

-s

Monday 4th of July Inspiration

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It’s a little hard to concentrate on the Monday of a work week that has a big holiday smack dab in the middle. Here’s a little inspiration to get you through to Wednesday from Glassy Baby.

Glassy Baby donates part of the proceeds from their sales to charities. Each one is hand blown and when a candle is lit, the colors change according to the tint and reflection of the light.

Happy short work week!

xx

-h