View of our built in bookcase next to our fireplace.

Send a Little Love

January 28, 2026, Leave a Comment on Send a Little Love

I caught a cold near the end of 2025, and as a result we skipped celebrating and decorating for the New Year, and after taking down Christmas and a nice deep cleaning, we went straight into Valentine’s Day. I honestly started shopping for Valentine’s Day decor back in October, and found a few items online,…

Myself, wearing a blue western wear shirt, cream cowboy hat with blue stars, leaning against a barrel bar.

A Return to the Kern County Museum: Home to Country Legends and More

January 21, 2026, Leave a Comment on A Return to the Kern County Museum: Home to Country Legends and More

Back in 2021 Patrick and I made our first visit to the Kern County Museum, an outstanding museum with over 50 buildings across 16 acres in Bakersfield. Our visit was amid COVID restrictions, and meant that few of the buildings were open, and between then and now, it has opened a Bakersfield Sound exhibit and…

A mannequin family sits at a card table playing Monopoly. A stone fireplace is on the back wall, which is painted pink.

Mining, Gambling, and More all on Display the Clark County Museum

August 20, 2025, Leave a Comment on Mining, Gambling, and More all on Display the Clark County Museum

While Las Vegas may be the literal bright spot that everyone flocks to when visit Nevada, just a few miles to the southeast is something anyone who loves Nevada should visit, the Clark County Museum. The museum sprawls over 30 acres, and features relocated buildings, train cars, antique farm equipment, and more. The adobe-like building…

Exterior of a blue, white, and orange subway car from the 1960s.

New York’s Transit History Unfolds in a Literal Underground Museum

July 1, 2025, 2 Comments

New York City is known as a place that loves its public transportation, especially its subway system, the history of which is on display at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. Located in a decommissioned subway station from 1936, the museum showcases the creation of the subway tunnels, features numerous vintage subway cars that…

A massive broken neon sign features a roller skate with wings and large red letters reading "SKATELAND"

Gems of Tennessee

May 29, 2025, 1 Comment

From Pigeon Forge to Memphis to Nashville, I fell in love with Tennessee and all it had to offer. Like with many road trips, we made several stops that just didn’t make the cut as a blog post on their own, but they were just too good not to share, so please enjoy this post…

Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards Vol. 4

February 5, 2025, Leave a Comment on Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards Vol. 4

Vintage illustration art is one of my favorite art forms, from magazine covers to children’s books to greeting cards, there is something so delightful, charming, and wonderful about the warmth of these illustrations. For a long time Patrick and I didn’t celebrate Valentine’s Day, let alone decorate, but these cute illustrated valentines eventually won me…

Spread a Little Love

January 22, 2025, 3 Comments

Patrick and I are in the middle of our office renovation, and opted not to ring in 2025 by hosting a New Year’s Eve bash. So after Christmas we went straight into decorating for Valentine’s Day, after a good deep clean of course! This year I added a few more “laundry lines” to the house…

Myself, with my red hair down and wavy, wearing a white t-shirt featuring the exterior of the Mexican restaurant El Coyote on it, red and tan corduroy shorts, standing inside the museum, with a large banner reading "Out with the Stars Hollywood Heritage Museum" and featuring images of old menus and matchbooks from various restaurants.

Dining with the Stars at the Hollywood Heritage Museum

July 17, 2024, 3 Comments

Back in April Patrick and I visited the Hollywood Heritage Museum for the first time, we also became members when we heard about the variety of planned exhibits slated for the year, and last month they opened a new exhibit, Out with the Stars, a look at Hollywood and its relationship with food and restaurants.…

Exterior of the top portion, which features a tower of neon reading "Studio City" below the marquee reads "Bookstar" in neon and "Barnes and Noble" on the marquee.

From Movies to Books: The Studio City Theatre Barnes & Noble

June 5, 2024, 1 Comment

As mentioned before, I love a good small neighborhood cinema, and it’s always sad when one of them goes dark. But it’s even more sad when they can’t have a second life. Many go on to become music venues, but others get a little more creatively repurposed, such as the CVS in East Los Angeles,…

View of the neon for the Formosa, which is green and sits within white script letters on a red building. A black and white stripe awning juts out from the front.

The Formosa Cafe: Watering Hole for Mobsters and Movie Stars

May 1, 2024, Leave a Comment on The Formosa Cafe: Watering Hole for Mobsters and Movie Stars

L.A. Confidential is one of my all time favorite movies, and any time I can make it to one of the filming locations, I’m overjoyed. The Formosa Cafe is not only where parts of L.A. Confidential were filmed, but also where one of its most iconic scenes (ironically not in the book) happened. The scene…

Atomic Redhead

1930s

Send a Little Love

A Return to the Kern County Museum: Home to Country Legends and More

Mining, Gambling, and More all on Display the Clark County Museum

New York’s Transit History Unfolds in a Literal Underground Museum

Gems of Tennessee

Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards Vol. 4

Spread a Little Love

Dining with the Stars at the Hollywood Heritage Museum

From Movies to Books: The Studio City Theatre Barnes & Noble

The Formosa Cafe: Watering Hole for Mobsters and Movie Stars