Riveted

Retro Breakfast

I think this looks like it would go perfectly in a vintage trailer, don't you?

Available here, but currently out of stock.

Tea Towels!

These tea towels from www.todryfor.com are super cute and I'm having trouble deciding which 15 of 'em I want! :)

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Another no-electricity option for espresso

It's a hand-powered espresso maker that uses no electricity. Just pour hot water into the top, push down both levers to drive the piston down, creating up to 10 bars of pressure and resulting in espresso. Available here for $149. 

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Nice light in the Kitchen

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Elegant storage idea

These are quite lovely (and made to last over a century). Japanese tea caddies in a variety of materials (tin, silver, copper, brass...) from Kaikado. 

They also make tall ones for pasta (pasta measurer included):

...and coffee caddies (also with measuring scoop included):

 

via Inhabitat

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Green and Silver

I found a few cute things at Crate & Barrel that I'm going to add to the Airstream. Two of these small stainless vases, a green grassy scrubby sponge, two more of the Chillewich mats (for when we have guests), and these stacking acrylic green wine glasses (they didn't have orange...that would have been my first choice). Stylin'.

More Magnetic Spices

I love my magnetic spice rack in our Airstream. Here's another design that might also be great in an AS kitchen:

From Zevro ($45).

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Aluminum at Etsy

I was browsing aluminum over at Etsy and found a few things I thought I'd share:

Vintage Mid Century Wards Western Field Ice Chest ($65):

Set of 6 cone-shaped aluminum containers ($13). These are just begging for a custom rack and some polishing:

This vintage aluminum cake carrier ($24) would be such a hit at your next Airstream rally potluck, don't you think?

And these colorful aluminum coasters ($13)? Don't you love 'em? Too late...they're mine now:

But I left these cool red-handled knives for you.

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North Park

Today we met up with some friends over in the North Park area of San Diego. They have a fabulous photo studio called Oh My Dog Photography and yes, they do pet portraits. But not just any old pet portraits. Pet portraits with some humor and edge. Like this one:

You'll see they don't just do dogs...one of my favorites they had up on the walls was a cute little bunny. Anyway, if you're in San Diego, check 'em out! Mike Fish and Tee Taylor and they're awesome.

We went to lunch and visited, then wandered around the farmers' market and picked up some goodies:

A tea towel that matches our decor perfectly, some cool laser cut Chilewich (silver!!) placements, and some salts from Salt Farm (the big jar is truffle salt, and the small ones are smoked paprika, espresso, and chipotle). Delicious!

It was gray and chilly today (uh, oh, I'm getting acclimated already...what is it? 66 degrees? hmmm...) so we didn't go sailing when we got back. Oh well. Tomorrow.

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More interior shots

For those of you who have requested more interior shots, here's a thorough tour of the inside of our Airstream!

Our office. Doubles as the dinner table and occasional lounge seating. (Oops, forgot to take that lounge seating shot!)

Above the dinette on one side is where Kevin keeps the "entertainment center"...the Mac mini, the modem, the cell booster, etc. We grabbed a little bamboo shelf from Storables to use to make a higher shelf and we keep cords and miscellaneous electronic "stuff" underneath the shelf.

Close-up shot of the silver and chocolate upholstery

The sofa and hallway back to bedroom

Front door and new Pixie espresso maker.

Kitchen

Kitchen (not sure yet how I feel about that cutting board there...I think we need something cooler)

Kitchen with spice rack and cute orange kitchen timer.

We now keep our vintage dishes in this slide-out, locking, lip-slide-protecting pull-out (after The Incident with the first set of carefully collected vintage dishes).

I've got a little rectangular basket I use for produce in the bottom shelf...

There's a pull-out with a microwave in the middle cupboard.

And here's what's in the cupboard up top.  It's where our first set of carefully collected vintage dishes used to live before The Incident.

In the cupboard above the stove/sink with the sliding doors, we keep pots and pans and bowls on the left, and dry goods (cereal, bread, etc.) on the right.  We just upgraded our cookware and bowls to more streamlined versions that nest perfectly and take up much less room than our mismatched ones all did.

This set of nesting cookware by Magma is fabulous so far!

These nesting bowls by Oxo have a non-slip coating that makes them perfect for travel.  (They also come in white.)

This is a taller version of the same bamboo shelf from Storables (I think they have three different heights) that we use in the upper kitchen cupboard.

The hallway to the bedroom. Closet then shower on the left, bathroom on the right.


We stuck one of these plastic drawer systems on the right side of the closet, and keep the left for hanging things. Lightweight and works great.

Bathroom.  Fairly minimal.

Pictures I've taken of some other travels in little "Polaroid" frames on the bathroom wall.

Bedroom.  (Yes, we have XBox in the trailer. So what. Shut up.)  :)  Oh and those candles are these great LED candles we got at Target that I swear are so awesome. They flicker, and give the whole place such a nice ambience. We have one on the dinette table too, and we love it. They have a 4-hour timer, even, so you don't burn the place down if you fall asleep. And when I reach over them to pour more wine or something when we're having dinner, I totally keep my arm up high so I don't burn myself. They are THAT realistic!

Cute IKEA mirror ($19.95), bathroom door on the left.

Shower on the right, then closet, from the bedroom.

Did I miss anything?  I've got more organizing ideas for the other drawers and cupboards so when I'm done with that, I'll get inside there too.

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Workin' and cookin'

We just finished up our work for the day and we're starting dinner.  Dinner tonight is tenderloin steaks, roasted diced garnet yams with truffle oil and truffle salt, and asparagus.

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Airstream Style - Kitchen Stuff

One of the first things we installed (in both of the airstreams we've owned) is one of these magnetic spice racks.  We had the smaller one in our first airstream, and we have this larger version (the same one we have at home) in our new airstream. 

They're great.  We got our first one for home initially from Soho Spices (back when I'd never seen anything like this). Now they're all over and I think Lipper International manufactures the original ones.  You can get 'em on amazon in many sizes.

Larra and Ari got us a pair of these fabulous stainless thumb-pump salt and pepper mills by Vic Firth (yes, that Vic Firth), and I just found some similar, colorful mills that I might get and fill with other spices (smoked salt, pink peppercorns...)

I saw his mix 'n match cutlery on Urban Outfitters' website... 

...which reminded me that I want these Laguiole steak knives I found at Anthropologie:

And how cute are these colorful immersion blenders I saw at Sur La Table last week?  I wish I didn't already have a silver one...I'd grab that orange one right now!  Only $29.95 and Cuisinart has a whole line of brightly colored appliances now....blenders, juicers, food processors, etc. Cute!

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