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

Lazy day for you, me, and the honeybee.

on the mornings i manage to wake up at a decent time {and i'm thinking like 9:30 since i don't usually work till 1.. yeah i know, i hate me too} i like to take my time and savor the morning. and while some nights i stay up way too late having o.c. marathons and live tweeting the event {late night tweeting is dangerous! my greatest downfall!} therefore resulting in a complete loss of my mornings.. i try my best to pencil in some good ole lazy time! {i mean it is one of my new year's resolutions... no it's not. okay yes, yes it is. that and eat more muffins. i'm a mother's greatest nightmare!}

a visit to the tea drawer.

quickly becoming one of my favorite drawers in the house.. that is of course after our cheese drawer. {sharp chedder cheese drawer!} EVERY HOME NEEDS A DRAWER DEDICATED SOLELY TO CHEESE AND TEA!

listening to the beach boys high water record is a sure fire way to start the day off just wonderful. 'God Only Knows', 'Heros and Villians', 'Good Vibrations', 'Fun, Fun, Fun' all on the same record. well hootin scootin bungee jump sign me up! {see?! gets you saying things like hootin' scootin'! i mean is that even a saying!?}

early morning craftin'. folks i've got a whole apartment to help decorate! museum walls are my favorite. and tend to be popping up all around our lovely little place! plus with my budget of a couple bucks its quite easy to do!

oh look its my "I Love Your Style" book from Staley! {and girrrl do I love it!} also another one of my most favorite books ever, "The Daring Book for Girls!" i love my little reading corner. i just need a great chair to complete it. i'm thinking floral vintage with a k-mart plastic lawn chair price tag! also the bundle of letters were a golden flea market find. all written during the 50s and 60s to a Mr. Max Pentecost.

if you haven't made my signature muffins yet then i don't know if we can continue on being friends. loljkiloveyou! but for real.. i pop these bad boys in like tic tacs. it needs to stop. but they are just SOOO GOOD!

hope your mornings are gloriously swell and filled with joy!

p.s. post title inspired by this 60s classic by spanky and our gang. going to try a new thing on the blog... every post title will be from a song!

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!