Manhattan Print

I've been watching Secrets From a Stylist on HGTV, and a few weeks ago I fell in love with the Manhattan print I saw on the show. Emily Henderson, the host of the show, posted about the artwork and where you can purchase it.

Manhattan Poster details click here. I'm hoping the artist will do prints like this for Los Angeles and Portland.

Here is another picture of the print with some of the rest of the artwork from the TV episode.

image via Emily Henderson blog

Hood River, Oregon

We are so happy that Jeff is done with winter quarter at school and to celebrate we decided to take a trip to Hood River. It's about an hour drive from Portland to Hood River. We left Friday afternoon and came home Saturday. It was a bit rainy and cold (at least for me), but it was nice to get away for a couple of days. We stayed at a little quaint hotel in downtown Hood River. The location was perfect because we were able to walk around the main street and check out all the shops. We ate at a fun restaurant called Celilo, I had the salmon and it was delicious.

Here are some pictures from our weekend.

Hood River at night.

Jeff standing in front of our hotel.

Me, also standing in front of our hotel, I couldn't find anyone to take a picture of us together. You can see a little bit of the Columbia river on the right hand side of this picture.

I love to climb stairs for a workout and I noticed this set of stairs close to our hotel. It looks like the stairs go on forever. Next time I'm definitely bringing workout clothes and running shoes.

Downtown Hood River during the day.

Another picture in front of the hotel.

We had a wonderful weekend and I can't wait to go back.

Mma Ramotswe Is Back!

I'm thrilled to hear about a new "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" book coming out later this month. I LOVE these books. I wasn't expecting another book in this series, so this news totally makes my day. I've blogged about these books in a previous post, click here to read. Now we just need to get HBO on board with filming a season 2 of the show.

Image via Amazon