House of Bennetts

Some of you may not know that my second favorite dude in the world is embarking on an epic road trip soon, and LB and I are just coming off of one ourselves. He asked LB and I to put together separate epic road trip songs playlists for him. I obliged and decided that he should not be the only one who gets to benefit from my musical research and love all of the things road trip music. Thus, I am sharing with you, my lovely bloggy peeps. As a heads up, my musical taste falls more on the slow/methodical/emotional nonsense side. However, I clearly do love a good bluegrass... that I can understand. I hate bluegrass where the lyrics are lost to the music (and yes, purists. I totally get that the MUSIC is traditionally the whole point of bluegrass, but it's not my point, so there).

In fact if you click this little circle, you can youtube stalk me and my liked songs on youtube. A BUNCH of these are on there as are some others that didn't fit the road trip vibe.

Here are my top 25 road trip songs for 2014. They are TOTALLY RANDOM.

Flying - Green River Ordinance
Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen
Carousel- Miner
Take Me Home Country Roads- John Denver
Riptide- Vance Joy
The Heart- Need to Breathe
Shroud- Nathaniel Rateliff
We Were Us- Keith Urban & Miranda Lambert
Wagon Wheel- Old Crow Medicine Show
Grow Old with Me- Tom Odell
Come Pick Me Up- Ryan Adams
Gorilla- Bruno Mars
Stay- Rhinna ft. Mikky Ekko
Another Love- Tom Odell
Latch (Acoustic ONLY)- Sam Smith
Youth- Daughter
THE ENTIRE CHET FAKER ALBUM
Fracture- Prawn
Into the Mystic- Van Morrison
Back in the World- David Gray
Lanterns- Birds of Tokyo
Kiss me Slowly- Parachute
Hey Love- Miner
Difference Maker- Need to Breathe
The Cave- Mumford & Sons (Only the live version at Red Rocks... best. ever.)

So House of Bennetts team... what are you favorite songs to jam out to lately?

I posted last Tuesday about Volume twenty five and their adorable prints. Along with the awesome laundry print I got, I also ordered these bad boys: I love the rain in this one-- reminds me of home and how even with rain, things still work out. Sometimes, even more beautifully than before. I just went back to Volume twenty five's site and saw that they are from Washington... this all makes sense now! PNW for life (from a distance). This one just evokes a sense of whimsy and I dig it.

Truth be told, these prints are probably going to end up in a baby room at some point... they've just got that kind of vibe. But I am digging them for now as something to add a little color to the gym room. That room just needs a ton of help. Speaking of, I had LB hang this old school painting that I did. I am thinking that the two prints above would look great flanking this one:

I think it is poetic in a sense that my craft supplies are sneaking into the corner of this picture talking about where you invest your love. Because really, I do LOVE making stuff and learning as I go. Also, let's just appreciate how AWESOME this blue paint color is (Black Pepper by BMoore)!

How did I do this? So easy.

Buy a colorful old painting at the thrift store on a half-off Saturday.
Get a fun color of Martha craft paint and a cheap brush.
Then buy sticky letters... they are usually in the back of Michaels by the poster boards.
Measure out your design/saying with a ruler and stuff.
Stick the letters down and then paint the entire canvas.
Let dry for about 5 minutes and then carefully pull off the letters-- cleaning up any paint edges where the paint might have bled through.

The letters look like this: