Yummmmm- Kale-ing us softly....we heart Kale

What's bright green, pinkish purple, black or red and is SUPER crazy insanely good for you??

Ok...yes and Everlasting Gobstopper is all of that but we are thinking more along the lines of Kale.  That gorgeously rough, feathery, deliciously healthy leafy veggie causing stirs all over the place.

Not sure why it took sooooo freaking long to try this crazy multitasking vegetable.  So far I have never been let down by the superstar.

Kale is a super food...no no an uber food.   It can prevent cancer, lower your cholesterol, its fillllllled with anti-oxidants and Omegas and it has TONS of vitamin K, A & C...I mean come on...what more do you need :)

Oh PS Cuz we heart you so much we have tried each one of these recipes to make sure they weren't poisonous of course and we can say they are all totally easy, unbelievably delicious and crazy healthy!  You're welcome :)

Now for the fun stuff...

The one we have been eating day and night for weeks...Winter Lentil and Kale Soup.

Now don't let the Winter part scare you...its perfect any time of the year.  Oh plus its totes vegan and filled with healthy deliciousness.  Go to Real Simple for the basic recipe***

***We add the juice from the can of tomatoes, butternut squash cubes (trader joes) and white canellini beans*** Hearty-farty (shhh)


Need a salty crunchy snack ASAP but bikini season is coming up faster then we can eat chocolate chips in peanut butter?  Ahem...we digress...

Kale chips are unreal!  And WAY to easy....like WAY...


We have been known to whip this next dish up in no time flat but your guests or family will think it took a master chef...

Kale with Polenta...It's easy, filling and crazy good!

We have been dying to juice for the last month but always seem to find an excuse of why we cant sooooo we found this Kale and Pear smoothie recipe from our fave blogger Joy the Baker which led us to this recipe that is just as delish but since we are a wee bit afraid of spinach it floats our boats even more.

However you eat it...just eat it!  Your body will thank you (and us)  We heart you!

(etsy)

xoxo things we heart

V.C Andrews, we randomly heart you.

(V.C Andrews)

So, we were out at our super fancy "Book Club" the other night... O.K really it's our super fancy

"Ditch-the-kids-with-Dad-&-sneak-out-for-a-glass-of-wine-&-gossip Club"

when the V.C. Andrews books came up, how amazingly creepy and weird they were.... But yet how obsessed everyone was with them as young teens. So random, yet so worth a Things We Heart post!

We know you remember them... Well, if you grew up anywhere near the 90's we know you remember them. If not, this is your lesson.

They were like one step beyond the "Babysitter's club" & "Sweet Valley High" and like one step behind those trashy romance novels from the grocery store with covers like this...

I mean seriously, when I was in JR. High school.... if you DIDN'T know who Cathy & Chris Dollanganger were, you may as well not even show up to school anymore. Social pariah type situation.

V.C. Andrews pretty much invented the Young Adult Fiction book series.

Before Harry Potter....

Before Twilight....

Before The Hunger Games....

There was Flowers In The Attic!

The super creepy story of four super beautiful children who's perfect family falls apart when their father dies and their mother decides she has no choice but to go home to her uber-wealthy, uber-Nutso-McNutso parent's house.

Then the mother is forced to pretend they don't exist and lock her beloved children in the attic for years on end with no sunlight and only arsenic laced donuts to eat.

Makes total sense right?

Anyway, needless to say, the brother & sister start having an affair witch turns into a multi-generational saga of lust and betrayal because, duh, that's what happens in all the V.C. Andrews books.

Andrews books are like incest city. I'm shocked that that fact alone didn't scare off teenage girls everywhere who knew how gross older brothers actually are... Eeeewwwwww!!!!

But no, it didn't, they even made a hollywood movie out of it!

Staring none other then Kristy Swanson, the O.G Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's kind of a must see but of course, not as good as the books.

I think of all the V.C. Andrews book series, my favorite was the Heaven Leigh Casteel story.

See how V.C. did that there? Heaven LEIGH, clever.

Well let me tell, you her life was anything but heavenly! Growing up with a dead mamma, a dead-beat daddy and a evil- slut bag sister in the Appilachian mountains isn't easy for anyone, especially a drop dead gorgeous girl like Heaven. Good thing she had that tall and brave BROTHER around.

But of all her works, the most sick and twisted,

the most totally F*Cked up story is that of

My Sweet Audrina.

Like, it is so twisted and cray-cray, we can't even tell you the plot-line.

You are just going to have to trust us and go pick this book up for yourself. We bet you anything it is sitting at your local library high up on a shelf covered in dust, along with the rest of Andrews' books...... just waiting to be rediscovered by a new generation of young women.

Get your read on people....

Books, you never know where they will take you!

XOXO- Things-We-Heart

Fashion-smashion- Skating on Thin Ice

We have all dreamt at one time or another of being an ice dancer...gliding gracefully on the ice...twisting and spinning...well that is until you fall flat on your tush.  Just because your dreams of being the next Michelle Kwan are left on your pillow doesn't mean you cant dress like her.

For months now we have been oogling and googling skater dresses...saving them in our carts...emailing them to each other and gettting more and more obsessed.  After seasons filled with uber hipster, dowdy boring clothes spring brings us cute, girly and bright freaking trends...we heart it soooo much!

Skater dresses fit every one...no seriously...EVERY one...

-Got amazing legs like Miss Me?  √ Skater dresses will hook them up
-Got not so Miss Me legs but a killer waist? √  Skater dresses will let you show it off
-Love your boobies? √  Yup you know it
-Hate your bootie √  ok ok you get the picture

Here are a few of our faves...and maybe just maybe a few shoes to go with them...

Oh ps...boys (you know who you are...the ones we lovingly call baby daddies, this is basically a wish list ...as is every fashion post...hint hint...)


  Ok...the one that started our hearts a fluttering....this cray cray cute skater dress with cut outs from Asos...

The print is reminicent of a certain MJ dress we hearted last year...so maybe our hearts grew fonder from that...

This candy striped beauty should for SURE be worn with these gorge, delicious, insanely rad Mulberry Wedges!!!

Dear Asos (yes again), you had us at alphabet print...maybe its because we both have new(ish) bunnies or maybe we are just super young (like just outta high school young...cough cough) so we remember the alphabet like it was last year...

Loving the letters printed on this cutie bean SD (skater dress...obvs).  Great neck line, waist and  perfect flirty skirt!  It would die to be worn to Coachella and paired with these beauties...

 Hello Topshop lacey frock.  How quaintly awesome are you with your neon lime/yellow lining!?!?  Super awesome?  Yep...you is.  We heart you and all you represent!

 Ok, so our real life obsession started last year with this super sexy SD from Australian line, Lover.   Perfectly named because we heart it like a secret lover.   This dress is perfection...sexy, saucy, sweet, chic and can be worn ANYWHERE and literally with ANYTHING!  

Pair it with a moto jacket and these stupidly gorge Margiela booties and you my love will be the belle of any ball.

Oh, that Lover dress is crazy moolah....no shit!  We found this little number for you from (yeah yeah) Asos.  You're welcome!  

And maybe instead of those M booties (again...they belong to us in our dreams....or at our birthdays..hint hint boys...HINT mother f'n HINT) you can grab these Rachel Zoe-esque wedges from Aldo.  

How ever you wear it...wear it with sass and style...try not to opt for flip flops and a cardi...spice it up and who knows...you might end up with a gold medal for the style Olympics (if they gave out medals for that...which they like, totally should)

Its good to be back...no no...its GREAT to be back!!!

We love you guys!

xoxo things we heart

Random Hearts??? Lana Del Rey

(Lana Del Rey promo shot: Stolen from Idolator.com)

We know you guys, We know.... We've been gone almost over a year, with two beautiful babies to show for it... And endless good intentions to sit down and post a wonderful piece for our true blue readers and supporters.... And we come back for Lana Del Rey?!

We KNOW!!!

But you guys... It's just something that can't be helped.

(Sixteen Candles image stollen from Cinema GOD, John Hughes)

We are officially obsessed. Going through the day checking and re-checking google images to make sure that, yes! Lana Del Rey does still look EXACTLY like the older drugged sister from Sixteen candles!

(as our dear & insightful friend Emily pointed out)

(Image match stolen from an unknown genius)

Checking to make sure that, yes! She is still some what annoyingly slow and pouty in her singing style....

And finally that YES, she does have the same name as the man-hungry 1970's O.G cougar from Three's Company!

(Image of Lana & Jack from Three's Company)

We are going for full honesty, pour-out-our-guts-ness here.

Paula Abdul style, STRAIGHT UP NOW.

We really want to hate her.... It has been so long since these feeling of confusion, stomach churning dislike mixed with secret admiration and jealousy have reared their ugly heads inside of us. Almost exactly, since high school actually.

She is THAT girl!

Oh my God you guys! Look at her!

F*CK!!

Lana Del Rey is like a young Julia Roberts that you just absolutely, positively, Just do NOT want to be besties with... That is unless she wants to be besties with us and then, in that case, sure, call me and I guess we can hang or whatever.

(Image of Mystic Pizza stolen from: Donald Petrie)

All we hear about these days is Lana Del Rey.... Our husbands listen to her in the car, in the office and are constantly trying to convince us that her songs are actually really new and innovative and that her lyrics are amazing...

Yeah, thats true.. Ok, we really DO like the lyrics to Video Games..

She MIGHT even actually be a Gangsta Nancy Sinatra or WHATEVER.... But we know 96% of it has to do with the fact that home girl looks like this....

(Image stolen from: Pastarunmusic.com)

Lana is like every indy, musician , skater boy, graffiti guys dream girl... In the end does it really even matter if she was manufactured in a record company board room?

She wears short, shorts and red high top converse in her F*cking videos people!

She wears ringer shirts and Esther Williams style flowers in her hair!

If she was created in a board room, then there were some genius decisions made that day!

As much as we want to be haters, we kinda can't... And why do we want to be anyway? Why did we spend/waste time finding her before and after plastic surgery photos?

(Image: Interview magazine duh.)

We live in HOLLYWOOD.... Who hasn't had a little work done? Although we do love the gals who openly cop to it, (because it's a little insulting to think we are that naive?) does it really make a difference? She was pretty in the before pictures anyway....

BITCH.

(Image: unknown source)

True story: One of us actually sent this before photo to her husband like,

"Look at your girlfriend before her lip job. Not trying to be a bitch..."

A. I was totally trying to be a bitch

B. his response was "Whatevs".

C. Seriously, just trying to remind you that my lips are ALL real dude.

See? That is some high school shiz... Why is this girl getting under my skin?

Is it because I don't like her? Or because when I borrow my husbands car I totally enjoy listening to her album and then change it to the Beastie Boys when I get out so as not to be discovered? Hmmmm?

Whatever it is we are torn... TORN, torn as her high waisted short shorts...

How do you feel? Let us know in the comment section.

Unless you live with either of us, in that case keep it to yourself mister.

X*O*X*O

Things We Heart

Happy New Year...stay tuned for the new and improved TWH!

Happy New Year TWH lovers!!!

Hope you all had a blast ringing in the new year and we are sure some of you don't remember if you did or not :)  

May this year bring you everything you wish for and more...

cheers to you and yours....

We miss you and heart you sooooo...

SEE YOU SOON!  

(after the 1st birthdays...then you wont be able to get rid of us)

xoxo twh

Happy (happy) Turkey Day

We are SOOOOOOOOO grateful for you guys! 

Thank you for loving what we LOVE to do! 

Sorry we have been out of sorts these days... we promise we will come back more (and better than ever) just gotta hang out with these bunnies as much as possible...cuz before we know it they will be on College!

Thank you for coming back and telling your friends....

WE HEART YOU!

xoxo M & E