Wall Hangings

So as I'm sure none of you know Lilly and I are about to move out of our apartment at the end of the month. Which means this blog will go on hiatus for a while. But as a final post for the time being I thought I'd document a few of the things on our wall that were super cheaply obtained that I really enjoy. The first is this fish, which is actually a plastic plate/serving platter. It's just so funny, and we got it at Savers, though it was probably just as cheap brand new. Below is a painting we got at a random second hand store that we are 99% sure is a paint by numbers. But it's so great. 

Both of these items live by our kitchen sink:

Above you may recognize those little red ornament cutouts (which are plastered in glitter) from my holiday post. I convinced Lilly to let me keep them up all year because I like them oh so much. They were gotten in the dollar bins at Target. Below is a small painting Lilly got at another random second hand place living above the moss terrarium! 

These two items live on a wall in an in between space in our apartment. The painting on the left we got at Savers and the mirror on the right Lilly got at a thrift shop, but it used to be blue and have a few stickers and what not on it. She cleaned it up and gave it a few coats of paint and now it's the delightful mirror we know today. Well, that's all for now, see you in some future unknown Tuesday!

Beans

Okay, let's talk about beans. And no, not about how they're the magical fruit, but about how the hell did I never really eat them until college?! They are just about the easiest, cheap, nutritious thing for simple meals (the number of times I've eaten beans and rice and in the last year is crazy, and I'm still not sick of it). Until very recently I had only ever bought beans in cans, but knew that I could make this already cheap food even cheaper if I started with a bag of dried beans. But for some reason I was intimidated by the cooking process of beans, which probably stems from my complete inability to cook rice on the stove top successfully (all hail my rice cooker and microwave). But as it turns out, way easier than rice.

The above picture are the dry kidney beans and chickpeas in jars, on top of some that have soaked in water all day while I went to work. And after I drained them they looked like so:

Then into new boiling water with a pinch of salt. I just stir and check on them periodically (ie: during commercial breaks) until they're done (I eat one occasionally near the end of the cooking process to figure that one out). Way easier than cooking rice on the stove. Then rice and beans for ever! (or hummus :) See you next Tuesday!