Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Portland Pizza Tour - Gladstone St. Pizza and Saint Pizza Lounge

Visited Gladstone St. Pizza and Saint Pizza Lounge last week! The building is basically divided into two parts, one with a bar and one more traditional dine-in. Both serve the same pizza. We ate in the lounge for our trip. The pizza was New York style again, which we are loving! We ordered the Meat Combo pizza which had Italian Sausage, Pepperoni and Canadian Bacon. It was amazing. I mean how can you go wrong with an all meat pizza? There were so many other great pizzas that I would love to go back and try! Great experience!










Our ratings below!

Kendra's Ratings

Pizza - 7.8

Environment -  7
Chris' Ratings

Pizza - 6.5

Environment - 6
Ron's Ratings

Pizza - 8.5

Environment - 8
Lisa's Ratings

Pizza - 8

Environment - 7.5

Portland Pizza Tour - Escape From New York Pizza

Escape From New York Pizza was awesome! Pizza by the slice is always really fun because we all get to try different things! On the night we went they had pepperoni, cheese, mushrooms and green peppers and onions, sausage and mushrooms. We tried all of them between the four of us! Obviously this is New York style pizza so it has the thin crust. We all had fun and tried different pizza folding techniques!







Our ratings below!

Kendra's Ratings

Pizza - 7

Environment - 5
Chris' Ratings

Pizza - 6

Environment - 4
Ron's Ratings

Pizza - 7

Environment - 7
Lisa's Ratings

Pizza - 7

Environment - 4

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Garage Sales 5/1/2015

Mom and I had an awesome day of sales this past weekend! Got some lovely treasures as usual. We were lucky enough to stumble upon a Nike Employee's garage sale and scored lots of shoes and snapbacks. My bother scooped up the shoes before I got pictures. Today was mostly home decor and studio stuff which was awesome!

Paid $3 each. They still have the $28 price tags on them!

Leaf bowl was $2 (brand new and still wrapped in the box!). The Aloe Vera plants were $.50 each. I wasn't intending to pair them together on my kitchen cart but I kind of love how they look! 
 Clothes are $1 each! 
 Garage Sales are the best for Christmas decor! My tree is going to look fabulous this year. And why not for $.25 an ornament?!
 More $1 clothes for the studio! Shorts were actually $.50.
 Fashion book for the studio - $1.
 This one is an imatation Prada bag but I still loved the look for a shoot. Yay for studio props!

 This chair is real leather and I am absolutely in love with it! By far my classiest furniture find yet. $35 both pieces.

Always looks for lovely seating options for the house when we have parties. I got 3 of these faux leather chairs. Paid $10 for all 3! 

Jim and Tresa's 25th Anniversary Party

Chris and I hosted a 25th anniversary party for Chris' parents last week. I had fun getting the house all prepped and everything decorated. We did a taco buffet for dinner with snacks and dessert. Fun night! Here are some of the decor photos (I was too busy cooking and hostessing during the party to take pictures then)!










Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Portland Pizza Tour - Old Town Pizza

Round two of our pizza tour last night at Old Town Pizza in Portland! This place was so nice and quiet on a Tuesday, we loved all the space and the seating of our choice. The whole place is decorated with awesome antiques and very eclectic. We ordered the House Pizza on both thick and thin crust (we just had to compare) and the Pulled Pork BBQ one on half as well. I think we all liked both but maybe more of us preferred the thin crust and how crunchy it was. The pizza is really hard to categorize because it's not thin enough to be New York Style and not thick enough to be Chicago Style, our waitress fondly referred to it as Portland Style with no comparison. I think my personal favorite component of the pizza was the fennel italian sausage, it had so much flavor packed into each bite! It was a super fun trip and we all enjoyed the pizza and environment.

*Blast from the past* My parents said that they visited this place in the 80's and everything looks really similar, even the couches that are in there as seating options!










Our ratings below. Surprisingly we are all really on the same page for once!

Kendra's Ratings

Pizza - 7.2

Environment - 7
Chris' Ratings

Pizza - 7

Environment -7
Ron's Ratings

Pizza - 7

Environment -7.5
Lisa's Ratings

Pizza - 7.5

Environment -7