Last Weekend’s Shopping Haul!

Not sure if you guys remember from our last post or not but, WE LOVE GOODWILL. We love all things vintage and all things cheap! And at goodwill we always find some really awesome things, that are not only vintage but generally cheap! SO. Today we are going to show you guys the mini shopping haul that we had!

Sunday afternoon was crispy, sunny, and warm. As in, the perfect treasure hunting day! To us going thrift shopping is probably in our top five of favorite adventures! So off we were, we put our hawk eyes in and our minds went to work looking for adorable new things to get for our little apartment!

As you can imagine our constant thrift shopping has definitely filled our house to the brim! But hey, if there’s a will there is always a way, to find a place, when there really isn’t a place. Our kitchen has especially received too much attention and is overflowing with different things! I’m sure you guys know that apartments aren’t always known especially for their spacious kitchens, and ours in no exception! But we wouldn’t trade that kitchen for the world! Not only has it provided us a fun place to decorate but it has also been a wonderful provider of food and baked treats! And if we don’t have our food and treats we are very grumpy people!

So of course we bought some items for our kitchen, even though it is full! Imagine that. We are so good at making responsible life decisions.

One of the items we bought at goodwill for our kitchen was actually a pineapple shaped pot holder! We absolutely love it because number 1- it’s a pineapple. Number 2-we love pineapples. Number 3-it is vintage. Number 4-Once again—it’s a pineapple!

The copyright on this awesome pot holder is 1976! And it is B-E-A-UTIFUL. We love the gold color and fun design. And can you just imagine the history of this little guy and how through all of that he ended up in our hands? (Yes, our pot holder just developed a gender.) We scored this little guy for a pretty good price of $1.99.

This was only the beginning of our little goodwill adventure. We were just settling into the whole thing. The next item we found for our kitchen was an adorable little bread tile. We had never heard of anything like it until we saw this at goodwill. You heat it up in the oven and then place it in a basket with your bread to keep it warm. We love, bread, especially warm bread, so this was a good find! Plus it’s pretty cute looking in our kitchen so, we needed it. We did not say want, we need. Bad. This jewel was only .59 cents. We couldn’t beat the price so we got it!

The next thing that we bought for our kitchen was an adorable vase! It fits perfectly into our Mexico/desert theme we have going in our kitchen. We are so happy about this purchase as well. Not going to lie, he and our pineapple were probably our absolute favorite finds over the weekend! However, we have to slow it down a little on the kitchen decorations. (Like that will ever happen!) Anyway, check this little guy out, we got him for $2.99!

Our final find at goodwill is something we definitely do not need more of. We found a set of four vintage cups. They are country blue speckled mugs. And they are soooo cute. They reminded us of the metal version of these mugs that you take camping! The brand of the cup is Mikasa Ultrastone and they are made in Japan. We really love Japan glassware. When we saw these cups we knew we just couldn’t live without them. They just called our names from that metal shelf amongst the rest of the items. Waiting for us to take them home! These cute cups were only .59 cents each. Take a look at them in the pictures below! We only took a picture of the 3 but we do have four.

We hope that you guys enjoyed coming on this little adventure with us! It certainly was a fun one to share! Goodwill has consumed our lives (whoops)! Anyway guys until next time!

–thecosmicpineappleblog (aka Madeline and Derek, aka batman and lola, aka two dorky pineapple and a blog, aka the infinite adventurers)

Cheese and Crackers

We’ve always been big fans of food, and one of our biggest obsessions right now is CHEESE!

What got us started on this kick is the cheese section at the grocery store. You know how it is, you walk by something and have the double take, the mouth watering desire for something you don’t need. The conversation that ensues next is “oh we will just take a look”. “Maybe we will buy just one cheese”. Well $25 later and a basket full of cheese and crackers we were home pretending we were the fanciest people you’ve ever met. Yes, we believed for a moment we were the top of the food chain. Delicious, luxurious cheese and dollar store sparkling apple cider to compliment it with. Our fabulousness was short lived though until we decided we needed a cheese board set.

One quick trip to Bed, Bath and Beyond though and we were set. We had it all, the grapes, the cider, the cheeses, the fancy cheese cutting set and some different flavors of crackers to compliment it.

The types of cheese that we decided to buy were:

Applewood Smoked Cheddar (Yes we are drooling right now as we type this)

Applewood Smoked Gouda

Garlic and Basil

Then we decided to also try some of the snack cheeses by Babybel to see what they were like.

We tried the Sharp Cheddar, white cheddar, original and mozzarella cheeses.

The crackers we ended up buying were the tomato basil crackers by Wheathins and the roasted garlic crackers by triscuit. We decided at a later date to also try the garlic herb pita chip crackers by wheathins and we did not like those at all. They didn’t have a flavor that either of us liked and they especially did not compliment our cheeses.

Collectively our favorite cheese was without a doubt the Applewood smoked cheddar. It had a rich smoky flavor that wasn’t overwhelming. It complimented the cheddar so perfectly. We would probably live off this particular cheese if it wouldn’t be entirely too unhealthy.  And well, we wouldn’t die. Or need X-Lax. A lot of it.

Our next favorite definitely would be the Applewood smoked gouda if not at the same level as the Applewood smoked cheddar.  Although the smoky flavor didn’t come through as well as it did in the cheddar the flavor of the gouda was just to die for. These two cheeses absolutely complimented our crackers perfectly.

We did love the Garlic and Basil cheese but it would probably have to be our least favorite. The problem we had with it is that the cheese flavor was outweighed by the garlic and basil. We might as well have just been having garlic and basil thrown on top of a cracker. Still good, but not quite our favorite.

All in all we enjoyed all of the cheeses, the babybel cheeses are definitely perfect for a snack cheese, but not necessarily a luxury cheese.

Either way we have given ourselves something new and delicious to be obsessed with. PLUS a new chapter to put here in our blog of infinite adventures.

Well until the next time, these two cosmic pineapples have some other pineapples to cut. Talk soon!

-D & M (Aka Derek and Madeline, Aka Batman and Lola, Aka thecosmicpineappleblog.)

The Cosmic Pineapple Blog

Adventure starts within your heart and floats up to your mind. It starts deep within and blossoms out. So let’s find some adventure!

I think we get so caught up sometimes in life and all the trivial things that we forget that each day, each experience, and each moment is a brand new adventure.

We want to remember, every day, to live the adventures we are handed.

So here we are, two unique people cosmically in love and of course best friends ready to meet each day as if it were the adventure of a lifetime. We don’t  have to go anywhere special, or spend a lot of money to find an adventure. We just have to find it in the moment. We have to find the spark, the inspiration, and the passion to drive us, and remind us of the adventures waiting just inside our soul.

Our lives are short, but these years don’t have to be meaningless. Especially the years we have together.

So come on an adventure with us. It doesn’t have to be spectacular or flattering on the surface to be important and meaningful. So come on, take our hands, and together we’ll be explorers of adventure.