Made for each other

While I was walking home the other day I passed an area that is typically filled with cast-off furniture waiting to be sent to the landfill and spotted a chair with some sleek, danish style legs. Something was broken where one of the arms met the back of the chair but I thought it might be worth a closer look. I brought it up to our apartment and started to cut away the damaged vinyl on the back of the chair when I saw that there was some significant damage to the part where the arm connected. Rather than add another project to my ever-growing list I took it down next to our dumpster and went on my way. The next morning John took out the trash on our way to work, I noticed it was taking him a particularly long time to come back and I realized what had happened.... He'd seen the chair. A few seconds later he calls my name to come take a look. I told him I knew what I was coming for because I was the one that put it there. He gave it a good look and said the profile was just too charming to not try to fix it, so fix it we shall. We just can't help ourselves when it comes to furniture.

Yes, we are pathetic... yes, we are obsessed with chairs... yes, we are made for each other.

Here's the before, we're playing around with a few ideas and can't wait to get started on it this weekend!

Molokai, Part 1

This past weekend we took our first flight in 10 months. 

(It's not that we'd normally fly really often, we are just beginning to get island fever on Oahu.) 

We traveled with Tami and Eric to Molokai for our first inter-island trip. 

Going from a population of nearly 1 million to the equivalent of a small farm town (the entire Island's population is around 7400) was quite a relaxing experience in itself. 

Molokai is known to be the 'Most Hawaiian Island'

We camped for 2 nights on Papohaku beach and spent our days swimming, napping and exploring the vastly different topography of the island. 

We arrived early Saturday morning and went 'to town' for some fruit from the market and to stock up for the weekend. We came upon some extremely friendly people, it felt just like visiting a small town in the midwest. It was obvious to anyone we came upon that we weren't from the island and so many people started up conversations to find out how we were enjoying our time on Molokai and offered up several suggestions of things to not miss during our visit. There is said to be a hostility between native Hawaiians and people who move to the island, we've noticed it some on Oahu, but not at all in our time on Molokai.

We spent just as much time relaxing and taking the island in as we did documenting our trip so be looking forward to a Molokai video and plenty more pictures to come!