I like bread and butter. I like toast and jam!

a few snapshots of the past week not including my delicious pesto pastah dinner, superbowl fun complete with friends, cupcakes, &wine, snowy days, lime green scarves and fox hats, oc marathons, dying over certain tree huggers insanity, board game nights, homemade trail mix, target adventures that led me to buy a SUPER SAVER 35 pack of toilet paper {???????}, screaming... i mean singing at the top of my lungs to the fantastic mr. fox soundtrack, breaking the winter ban on shaving my legs, and too much bread!

the franklin theater had the lighting of their new marquee! and ain't she a beaut! of course it felt like a total tease since the theater won't actually reopen for business again till june! {don't they understand i need to be in walking distance of a working theater at all times?!?! I LOVE THE MOVIES!}

while folding my laundry {yes, yes.. lets all gasp with surprise! i was actually doing chores. TAKE THAT JUNE CLEAVER!} i realized i have a certain addiction. before you sign me up for A&E's intervention let it be known that i'm admitting my obession with stripes! 1, 2, 3...7, 8, 9! lets not even talk about the striped shirt i was wearing when i took this picture! {woops..} and folks this is just my blue stripes collection! {fine A&E i'll do your show but promise me i'll get jeff as m inventionist! and family no bringing up my floral addiction!!}

the beginnings of one of my bedroom walls. my favorite is probably the cat picture. i got the frame from goodwill and picked up the crazy cat picture {i mean the cat is wearing glasses and reading a book?! ADORABLE SLASH THE-GREATEST-THING-EVER!} the butterfly wrapping paper was given to me by the same store i got the card! flower was made with newspaper, felt, and a button!

frosting up some caramel cupcakes.

seems like our 2 day new-year's-resolution-to-eat-healthy slow period is OVVVA! thank the high heavens for people who can't stick with them! you make me proud, city of franklin!

oranges as big as my coffee and coffees as big as my head!

is it obvious that this is one of my favorite ways to decorate the walls?! its just so fun&easy! and my flower anthropologie hook is holding my canon a35 datelux camera!

its my one day off before the craziness of valentines weekend at work. {its like people like giving cupcakes to the ones they love or something.. pshh.} i plan on spending it watching grey's anatomy {season 2- OH HAII ADDISON! way to ruin everything with derek&meredith!}, baking {i've got 4 over ripe bananas calling my name!},decorating, and crafting!

hope your day is simply swell and awfully sweet!

The Newbeats- Bread and Butter

Well, hot and heavy, pumpkin pie, chocolate candy, Jesus Christ!

boy oh boy, me oh my! we've got to stop meeting like this. like a sixteen yr old who just got their license, wrecking havoc on the town and never home anymore. but to cut to the chase january has been a CRAZY month! the biggest change? I'VE MOVED! to the most adorable little apartment. with a most wonderful roommate. and i'm finally now settling down.. almost have all my clothes unpacked {emphasis on the almost, as with every place i've ever lived i always have a box of clothes i never get around to unpacking. i've really got to kick that habit!} with last week having 5 trips to goodwill {and two different locations} and way to many trips to the grocery store {its not my fault i get my dark chocolate covered edamame from trader joe's, my frozen veggies from publix, and my trail mix from costco! i gots to get those low prices!} anyway this week=debit card on lock down. and unfortunately for you that means lots of blog updates! woo! here's a few snapshots of the new diggs.

the vase is from goodwill.. for 50 cents! and what makes the purchase even sweeter? urban outfitters is selling an almost identical one for $19! sticking it to the overly-priced hipster man! huzzah! picture was put together from the help of a printer, discount wrapping paper, and a $1 frame from the cutest little thrift store in franklin-our little thrift store!

two pillows, one from target one homemade. and you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference!

two gals who love to bake?! you best believe our cookbook collection is oh the chiiiz-hain. {okay so i've maybe had two cups of tea and a cup of coffee this morning. i don't even know what i'm saying!} but of course the muffin bible was one of my contributions to the stack... YOU KNOWZ IT GRRRL!

my most favorite new blanket. that basically ties my whole entire room together. and if i could would maybe even hang it up on my wall. thanks ma!

candles, flowers, and birds.

i starting to see a slight unintentional theme to my room!

eek! i can't wait to share more with you! while the move has been stressful.. its been the most wonderful and exciting adventure. complete with {and not limited to} flickering lights {thanks ghost betty!} crackling fuse box, broken locks, overflowing dishwasher {classic movie style... and completely my fault... woops}, and fire alarms walling off the walls... like i said definitely been an adventure. and while i'll miss living in nashville {and my most wonderful roommate there!} i'm only a bike ride's away from sweet cece's. and that my friends is more dangerous than the fuse box that almost caught on fire!

hope you day is marvelously outstanding!

12 Days of Christmas: Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

remember as a kid when you sat down to make paper snowflakes.. you'd cut and cut and then finally after what seemed like hours of careful cutting, making tiny triangles and diligently zig zagging your scissors, you'd get ready to open it up to see your masterpiece {and i swear sometimes i could hear the chariots of fire theme song playing} it was like a mini christmas morning, quickly ruined when you see that you've created a giant square with holes cut out every which way! and as i cursed the high heavens, my sister would weep on the floor holding her sad square piece of paper.. WHAT WERE WE DOING WRONG!? well its been a journey to get here.. here being profesh paper snowflake making skillz that is.. but i finally can make a snowflake!

all you need is paper and scissors! i love how magazines and newspaper turn out. and if you have an old christmas themed magazine its even better!

the key is all in how you fold it!

take your paper and fold it diagonal to make a square. then cut off the excess paper. you should have a triangle! then fold it again to make a mini triangle. then hold in half and overlap the paper. cut off the excess paper.

now the fun begins. go on with yo bad self and get to cutting!

VIOLA!

i even made pink and green snowflakes for the bakery i work at!

and mini teeny tiny ones for the register and tip jar {anything to draw people's attention to the tip jar... am i right?!}

buddy the elf ain't got nothing on me!

alright who am i kidding.. i stay awake at night dreaming of having the decorating skills he's got. in another life i was an elf!

hope your day is filled to the brim with holiday cheer!

la casa de chelsea.

when i say casa i mean 5x5 box

and when i say chelsea i mean chelsea+roommate

but it was home nonetheless!

in honor of the fact that {God willing} i never see that dorm again, here is a memorial to my home for the past year! thanks for the memories {and the cramped space} south carrick. here's to hoping that my life living in dorms is over forever! {apartments are the new black!}

my teeny closet. bursting at the seems. {i dream of the day when i have a closet like carrie a la her apartment with big} but i dream... until then i'm perfectly content placing hooks everywhere and making my room a closet!

bookself. with some of my favorite things!

chicago cityscape, BOOKS GALORE {yes, thats a confessions of a shopaholic book! aka my life story}, my C mug, and a daily reminder to have kisses errryday!

woooah, gotta love that lighting.

and those cinder block walls! {i don't know why elledecor hasn't had a ginormous cinder block spread in the magazine yet?}

the one time i made my bed!

{but for real, "i ain't gonna be part of this system i'm an ADDULLLT! please"}

my medicine cabinet {stashing my flintstone vitamans and loads of midol... you know the important stuff} transformed!

lots of quote garland EVERYWHERE!

its my oh so sturdy blast from the past tv!

{which always has jimmy fallon blasting at precisely 12:35!}

is that a vhs player? why yes, yes it is. i get to play cool runnings and all the mary kate&ashley dectective videos whenever my heart desires! bonus- you can see my "remote" at the bottom. you never know when my hearing will go out and i'll need to blast the volume!

ta-da. oh good times. good times.

now its time to revel in my new diggs for the summer which include a kitchen, {imagine that!} a living room, and a bedroom! it's only been two days and i've already had the best two nights of sleep ever {without the roomie waking me up when she goes to her early classes} its a wonderful thing!

hope your day is simply swell!

p.s. since i moved i no longer have the same address! {which makes mo sense to me...} for the first couple weeks stuff will be forwarded to me but it costs money so just incase you were about to use my old address.. if you do need my new address just ask!