Life from my iPhone

I am currently in the courtyard at the Courtyard Cafe, enjoying writing blog posts and just being out of the house. I just took the above photo of my apple caramel latte and it. is. AMAZING. The perfect fall drink. (Though Casey would argue that their pumpkin spice latte is better. I'm just not much of a pumpkin fan myself.) I was pretty excited that I got the Charizard table marker.

(This photo is from the last time I was here... last week.)

I got in the mood to blog and dug through my photos on my computer only to remember that I've not been carrying my DSLR around much, so... I've got nada. But I have a ton of photos on my phone! They may not be high quality photos, but they are high quality memories. (Yes, I'm aware of how lame that was to say.) So here's my life lately from my iPhone camera!

After living with my mom for several years, I'm so excited to finally have a home of my own again! We're renting an old house, and my decor style fits with it perfectly! I have a ton of antique pieces passed down from my family and they fit perfectly in this cute old house. This dresser was my great-grandmother's which my mom painted. It currently stores a portion of my cookie making supplies. The clock is an antique as well and doesn't work but it's so cute. Honestly I just took this photo because I was excited about my new pink plant!

This is my favorite spot in our house. The papasan chair is so cozy and comfy. I always hated that green color but it works so beautifully here that I've decided I like it! The yellow pops in the pillows look perfect with the vintage yellow chair on the other side of the living room, and Casey loves that it correlates to our yellow bathroom. (I love it too.)

Oh, and that ladder! It's new. Well, new to us. We got it from an antique store a few weeks ago when we were enjoying a Saturday in Ponchatoula. I sure wasn't planning on buying a ladder that day but thankfully it fit in the car! I recently added a few tiny pumpkins to it to make it fall festive. Next to it is a vintage milk jug which wins all the heart eyes.

The lamp is from Target and I was so excited to find it. I've literally spent years looking for lamps I like and found two from Target recently! (The other one looks exactly like it but is a table lamp.)

We got a new oven recently and I've been doing more baking! Our kitchen gets so much natural light and it is positively dreamy. 

We got a new Indian restaurant in town and Casey and I go like every other week. It's inside a gas station. Like, literally. You go in to get a snack and are met with a buffet and tables. At first it seemed a little sketch, but the food is amazing and reminds us of Asia. (And makes us miss Asia!)

Casey loves golf and putt putt (on our honeymoon he got done playing a round of golf, saw a putt putt course on our way back to the AirBNB, and then we played a game of putt putt) and has been on a major putt putt kick lately. I'm terrible at it (and anything else that requires coordination) but still enjoy playing. Last week we went to Baton Rouge for the day to play a course and... it started raining. So we played in the rain. We had a blast.

After putt putt, we went to the Asian market! I was so excited to check it out. We got some snacks and drinks that are similar to things we had in Singapore, and I was thrilled to find... pandan leaves! I didn't know what they were, but knew they were used to make kaya, a traditional Singaporean coconut egg jam. I crave it like once a week and haven't been able to find any around here. So I bought some pandan leaves (which I learned is similar to vanilla) to make my own. As soon as I opened the package, the smell took me back to Toast Box where we love to have breakfast when we're in Singapore. I found a recipe for Hainanese kaya (caramel flavored kaya, like they have at Toast Box) and gave it a shot. Besides burning my finger terribly (don't put your hand in hot caramel, k? But you probably already knew better) it turned out amazing!!!