0055 -- our first visitor!

This weekend our old roommate and dear friend Dawn came up from LA to visit us. We have been so excited to get to show some one around as well as finally get to put our newly finished spare room to use! Of course I woke up for work on Friday and it was snowing. Yes, you read that right, SNOWING!!! I was too excited to see it, but with it came some seriously cold weather (duh)! Here's what our street looked like on Friday morning!

Fortunately the snow stopped before I had to drive back home, as much as I find it really neat and pretty, I'm still nervous to drive in the snow. We picked up Dawn from the airport and headed right over to grab some dinner and drinks!

Saturday we headed over to the NW to feed Dawn the best donuts up here (sorry Voodoo)! From there we shopped around at all the cute and painfully hip shops in the Pearl area. We headed over to a neat little gift pop up shop back in SE before finally heading up to Mississippi for some lunch and oddities shopping!

We walked around Mississippi picking up fun decorations for Dawn's new place and stopping into a few bars along the way for refreshments! How cute is my Dawny?! Love this girl to bits!

Check out what we ended up creating with all the awesome goodies Dawn found! I hope to make something similar to this soon!

Jordan and I also picked up a new little creepy plant for our house too. Meet Seymore, our Venus Fly Trap! Apparently this little guy will attract his own food as long as we make sure he gets enough sunlight and water. 

Jordan and I wanted to make a nice dinner for Dawn Saturday night so we made some pork chops, apple sauce, and sweet potato curry latkes. YUM! After dinner we walked over to a local bar to meet up with some other friends. Of course, we thought we were so tough walking the few blocks to the bar in 11 degree weather...

On Sunday we started over at City State Cafe, a little breakfast spot over by our house. One look at the menu and we knew we had make the right choice, I mean look at that bloody mary pyramid! 

After breakfast we headed down to Hawthorne to show Dawn some other fun shops and areas of Portland! We paused in one of our favorite knick knack shops and she snapped this hilarious shot of me in a pug mask.

As always, it's hard to let our friends leave (even Larry didn't want Dawn to go). We had such a great time and are really looking forward to having more visitors!!

Update again soon!!

xxo

0001-- a welcome of sorts

i've been meaning to get back into blogging, but let's be honest, who has enough hours in the day? apparently these days, i do! although i'm not sure how exactly this sucker will take form, i'm sure it's bound to be a fun process! (and many thanks to Emily for inspiring me to get back into it, thank you doll)

i suppose as a good first start we should begin with breakfast, although one of my least favorite meals of the day it's easily some of my favorite comfort foods, i mean poached eggs and toast with some applewood smoked bacon, yes please! like most LA locals i have my breakfast spots (Village Idiot for a proper english breakfast or Brite Spot for some french toast) and i tend to not stray too far away from them. this weekend was an exception, our wedding cake maker and dear friend Chelsea was in town from Arizona and insisted on showing us to one of her favorite little new spots called Sqirl in east hollywood. right on the corner of Marathon and Virgil lies this tiny little hole in the wall that made one of the most precious breakfasts we've had in a long time. the sign outside says simply "toast and coffee" and that's exactly what we had. their signature dish seems to be burnt toast with homemade ricotta and their housemade preserves which we tried and loved! other breakfasts included a baked egg, or the most amazing roasted potatoes with greens, coarse salt and a mustard sauce. with their constantly changing specialty items and a menu board, i cannot wait to add this place into our regular routine!

^ photo stolen from Chelsea