Happy Weekend

Happy weekend everyone! We are getting quite a bit of snow here in Vermont, and its feeling nice and cozy and warm inside my house looking out. My plans the next couple days include some shifts at the restaurant, yoga and brunch with some ladies, organizing my inventory and snuggling up with a good movie. How about you? Hope its fabulous ; )

Organizing

Today I tackled a few projects that have been on my to-do list for a while. One of them was to create a better organization system for all our household paperwork, which just seems to turn into a big jumbled mess every few months no matter what I do. My skill set has never included great

 organizational abilities. I have to every once in awhile press "reset" on things and get everything back in order, which is probably not the best life habit to continue on with.

So in trying to come up with some solutions I might stick with, I've come across a few things online that seem like they could be helpful. I figured I'd share a couple here, in case anyone else has the same problem keeping some sort of system in order:

You Need A Budget

Free Organizing Printables

A "Command Center"

Color Coding Binders

Hopefully I'll have a post soon showing how my new system worked miracles! (fingers crossed) Hope everyone's having a happy Thursday : )

Recipes : My Daily Smoothie

So yes, I do realize that there are about 45,483,394 different smoothie recipes out there already. Many are much more interesting than the one I'm giving you here. But I realized lately that whenever the topic of smoothies comes up, I always immediately drill the other person about what they put in theirs, just in case they have some genius idea that I haven't tried yet (this is probably an annoying habit to have - sorry friends).

So I figured I'd share what I have in my daily (4-5 times/wk) smoothie, in case you're weird like me and like to see what other people do. I love my smoothies. They give you such a boost of energy and all around good-for-you stuff. I'll have them sometimes for lunch, or sometimes as a mid afternoon snack after the gym.

My basic, usual recipe always includes:

Banana
Strawberries
Greek Yogurt
Orange Juice
Almond Milk
Baby Spinach
Ice Cubes

Other variations I like to throw in are:

Chia Seeds

Kale

Apple

Mango

Blueberries

Granola

Peaches

Ginger

Coconut Water

Avocado

I have been meaning to try a peanut butter / cocoa variation but haven't yet. If you have any other suggestions for me, you know I want to hear them!

Vintage Inspiration 2

Photo Source Coat Sweater Skirt

Photo Source Hat Blouse Shorts

This and That : Around Here Lately

Working on new ideas for the blog, getting excited!

The view from my desk - sunny, snowy neighborhood streets.

An amazing cheese plate brought over by a friend for girl's night! With pâté, who knew I liked pâté? Also I've been on a goat cheese craze lately, so addicting.

I signed up for a half marathon in April. Yikes! We'll see if I can make it to the finish line without passing out. Its definitely been great motivation to keep going to the gym though. 

I love coming across old childhood toys at the thrift store.

Happy weekend everyone!

Coffee Date

This morning Owen and I braved the cold weather and decided to go for a walk downtown since it was so nice and sunny outside. For those of you who haven't been to Burlington, our downtown go-to is called Church Street Marketplace, which is a blocked off brick street lined with fancy restaurants, cute boutiques and cozy cafes. During the summertime its completely filled with people walking around, street performers playing guitar or violin, and on the weekends lots of different festivals. One of our favorite things to do is to grab a cup of coffee at a table outside and people watch. Let me tell you, you see some good stuff. And some weird stuff (I'm looking at you old hippie man with no shirt). But mostly good stuff. Lots of cute babies and dogs too : )

During the wintertime its still pretty fun to walk around, you just have to brave the brain numbing cold wind. There's white twinkle lights in all the trees and people bundled up going from store to store. Today we decided to do a winter version of our summer activity, and sat upstairs in a bagel shop drinking coffee, eating egg sandwiches and people watching from the window. OK, after writing all this I now realize we sound like creepers. We aren't the only ones who do this, are we? Maybe we need to get out more...

Anyways, it's been great having Owen home more lately, as he spent the last five months student teaching in a middle school as well as working at a restaurant four nights a week. Between both our jobs some days we barely saw each other, and I missed him! I'm glad to have some husband hang time back (and also to have one who's not nodding off every time we talk because he's so tired!)

Lots of shipping to do tonight and listing some new items, so check in with me at the shop!

Oldies but Goodies

My mother-in-law recently sent us some photos she took over Thanksgiving, and although I already wrote about our time in Plymouth here, I had to post a couple more because she's just so darn good! I love how she can capture moments when people are relaxed and not so posed. We are having a sunny day in Vermont (freezing cold, but sunny) so I'm happy to be sitting in my window filled office with a busy day ahead of me : ) Hope everyone has a great day!