Exploring NYC

This weekend, one of our best friend's Charlie told us that his girlfriend was going to be in NYC for a conference, and would we please spend a little while with her. Oddly, I didn't take a single picture of any of us that went out, but I took lots of randoms of the stuff we saw!

 Trailer Park Lounge in Chelsea is one of our favorite places to take out of towers. Since Marla is from Florida, she felt right at home. She introduced me to X-rated liquor, which is pink grapefruit flavored, pink, and delicious.

 This lady guards the cans of PBR & bottles of High Life in a tub of ice.

 Elvis pours the beer.

 Home, sweet home.

 I might have to drunk ebay one of these mirrors.

 The ashtray outside.

 Tuck Shop! I've been wanting to try this place since I saw the Chelsea Market location, and was thrilled to find out that there was one in the East Village.

 Look at those!

 I had Guinness steak & mushroom. It was fantastic.

 Hop Devil Grill. Had a crazy amount of taps, like 24 or something. Met the owner, Markus, who was really nice and eager to make all the customers happy.

 Who would throw away such a great coin organizer?

 I want this cab to pick me up!

Sassy table tops at Yaffa Cafe.

I was amazed when we got home and realized that it was 4:30 A.M. These old fogies haven't been out that late in forever.

I Saw it and I Liked it

Here's some good stuff:

1. Another homemade laundry detergent post! This one is for a dry, powdered detergent. I can't wait to try it when I get to Brooklyn! One thing I've been doing with my homemade detergent is swapping out the zote soap or ivory for Dr. Bronner's Bar Soap. I love their crazy message, and I love mixing the scents up. I've done Lavender-Lemon and Rose-Almond to name a couple! Also, this post came from a blog called Oops, I Craft My Pants! How can you not love that?

2. A Pulled Fruit Sandwich by my real life BFF, Lara, in which she uses Jackfruit. I mentioned this a couple weeks ago and I can't stop thinking about it! I bet it's so much better for you than real pork! I crave BBQ all the time, too. Lara and I used to cook together all the time when she lived in Clifton.

3.The Honey Trees. I can watch youtube on our TV now, and I'll never go back to real radio. Sorry, bedside table alarm...you served me well. I'll save the emergency battery ones to take on picnics, to the beach, etc, but now that the sound actually travels to other rooms with TV radio, I don't need to fiddle with dials anymore.

4. A silicone steamer! This will be sooo perfect for making the whipped potatoes that were on Cook's Country TV two weeks ago. You steam the potatoes before mashing and then whipping them so that they're not totally waterlogged.

Charlie Kimble & Bridget Lancaster, will you guys adopt me?

I saw it and it was good.

I really don't want to become one of those bloggers who do nothing but post links all the time. I wasnt my blog to be much more personal, but I can't help but share some of the awesomeness that I see all the time. I thought about calling this post "shamelessly ripped," and I might just start doing that in the future, since that's all it really is!

Speedy Caramel Pie via Charming Vintage Recipes. A blog that posts a mid-century recipe everyday. Some of them are indeed charming, some of them sound outright mouthwatering, like the caramel pie, and some...are downright gut-wrenching. Skip over those and try not to think about them!

The introduction of Kimbra, by the Blue Eyed Night Owl. This song makes me wanna...I don't know what. Put my hair in rollers, wear high heels and vaccuum? I watched it about 8 times the night that I saw it.

Coconut Vanilla Bean Cupcakes by Woodland Dreams. I see these in my future. What, you think I can't do caramel pie AND cupcakes at the same time? You don't know me very well.

The announcement of FREE SHIPPING NO MATTER WHAT from L. L. Bean. The one-time New Englander (and 8th generation New Englander Mother) in me has a soft spot for this company. That, and they are supremely high quality products. Taking a look now, and I had no idea they'd updated their catalog to be so chic! I'm making a shopping cart as we speak...