Our Apartment!

As requested by Jackie, here are a few photos of our new apartment:












Bookshelf: discovered in the dumpster area of our apartment building, disinfected, and promptly filled with our small arsenal of books that made the trip cross country. (If you look at the large image of this photo, please note the giraffe and dan's "fat fat" hawaii change holder)













Accent wall in the living room: note the fan from China c/o Paulette, the boomerang from goodwill, and 1/2 of the cutting board from Costa Rica c/o Mar. That bright spot is my Arizona liscense plate (I used to say I wanted to move there just so I could have the cool liscense plate, then Dan bought me one of the liscense plates, so we moved to Oregon instead). The folding table and chair set we bought for $50 from a huge warehouse-type furniture/everything store in SE Portland called City Liquidators.









This is our most recent addition: Futon from a friendly Craig's list merchant. It cost $130; not our best deal, but when we went to pick it up, we got to meet the family who had just recently bought it before they knew they were relocating East to...guess where...Maryland!!! It folds out to a full-sized bed, so we are now fully equipped to have visitors! First one here wins a special treat!!












Now we move to the bathroom where we have a world map shower curtain :) This helps when I am listening to NPR and have no idea where the country is they are discussing.

Next to the kitchen area...












Here in Portland, our recycling container is bigger than our trash. Note the beautiful flowers and sage celebrating our 2 yr anniversary ;)













Our fridge is already decorated with some pretty awesome stuff, but one thing we are lacking is MAGNETS!! If you have a cool magnet, send it to us! Right now we are holding everything up with tape which is not nearly as fun.













This is the product of Dan's imagination and his thriftiness. We crafted an enormous dry-erase calendar for about 1/10th the cost of one at Office Depot, and it is constantly full of cool stuff from our Portland papers.

From left: Hush Puppie, Oreo, Claire, and Marmot.

We're all waiting for you to come visit!!!!