Rugs

We're decorating our apartment still. I think our next big buy is gonna be a rug for the living room. Mikey suggested a southwestern print rug. In my fantasies, we buy something along these lines...

 

jenny

Because I am a 19 year old female hipster at heart.

My wife wants me to post more. So here I am.

When it comes to music I am an androgynous being in her sophomore year at a liberal arts college.

Shit I've been listening to recently:










Next post will have pictures of my ironic tattoos.

Best,
Mikey


P.S. I hope I lose my virginity soon.

Sewing

For Christmas, Mikey gave me a sewing machine.  It's a Brother LX2500 and I know how to use 6 out of the 17 stitches (them is fancy). 

So far, I've learned how to make pillowcases.  Don't laugh!  No one taught me how to use this thing, I just followed the quick handbook that came with the sewing machine.  Pillowcases were my test run.  Here is my ultimate goal for sewing...

Eventually, I want to be able to make this ^.  But so far, this is what I can actually make...

TA-DA!

The fabric is cute, right?  It was an old fitted sheet I found at Thrift Town.

I didn't have a pattern so I just folded a small scrap of the fabric until I figured out how to cut and sew it together.  There was a lot of trial and error.

I also made some Euro sized pillowcases...

The fabric is also a repurposed bed sheet from Thrift Town.

There's no zippers or buttons on any of the pillows.

My next project is to alter some shorts and tshirts.

Jenny

Really?

Did this bitch really just make a post about how to french press coffee?

Best,
Mikey

French Press

Just bought ourselves a new french press because Mikey broke our other one (sorry Jessica Wong, but thanks for the great wedding gift!).

I don't want to live without it anymore.

I bought our new french press at Marshall's for 20 bucks and here are my intructions on how to use this thing:

Things you'll need (besides the french press):
-Kettle
-Coffee (grounds)
-table spoon
-water
-stirring spoon or chopstick (for stirring)

1. Bring water to boil in your kettle (enough to fill the french press to the top, and if you don't have a kettle any pot will suffice)
2. Start with the french press uncovered (without the plunge).  Measure out 1 tablespoon of coffee ground for every cup of water and dump directly into french press (so if you're making enough coffee for two people, let's say that's roughly 5-6 cups of water, so you would add 5-6 tablespoons of coffee grounds to the french press).
3.  Pour boiling hot water into french press, over the coffee grounds (be careful, it's hot!(duh)).
4.  Stir the water and coffee grounds mixture and then let it sit for 4 minutes.
5.  Place the top on, with the plunger thing poking out all the way, so that the mesh sits on the surface of the coffee, then push the plunger down slowly until the grounds are on the bottom of the french press (be careful it's hot!)
6.  Pour coffee into drinking device immediately, don't wait or you'll cook it too long and it'll taste weird.


Best of luck!
Jenny

Red & Gold

I'm no fairweather fan.  I don't just wear my vintage Niner stuff because their winning.  I wear it because their vintage stuff looks cool....and I grew up loving the Niners because my family loves the Niners.  This is one of those conventional things instilled upon me that I didn't oppose. The religion I grew up with didn't stick, but my teams did.  Giants and the Niners, baby!

I have so many memories growing up and a Niner game is the background.  Empty, tumble weed type streets in Hercules because a Niner game was on.  No way you were leaving the house on a game day.  Playing outside with my cousins, riding bikes in the backyard, and hearing hooting and hollering from the upstairs bedroom window.  My mom was watching the game.  That's my childhood.  Joe Montana, Steve Young, Jerry Rice.  I didn't have to Google those names to know they were Niners.  I'm sure I missed a lot of very important players from those legendary years, but you get the picture.  I don't even know anything about sports, and these are household names to me. 

Win or lose, I love them.  I loved them last Saturday before they won (uhhh-ma-zing game, by the way).  I'll love them this Sunday before they play.  And I'll love them after, no matter what happens. 

let's make it an exciting one,
jenny

Sea Foam

If I died tomorrow, without really knowing who I was, you could tell people my favorite color was sea foam green.  They'd probably feel really sorry for you, seeing as we were so close.


<3 this color,
Jenny