today i said bye-bye to my super messy bedroom (see above… oh my!) and left for Chicago with my favorite boy. it's a 9 hour drive, so we spent most of our day in the car….
(driving past St.Louis….)
and then… out of nowhere, something AMAZING appeared….
we did some quickie shopping and then got ice cream cones to go. jeremy had vanilla and i had birthday cake.
best day ever. ever. ever. XO. elsie
ps. tomorrow we're exploring Chicago all day! i'm excited. we have a huge list of places to visit (thank you for the great suggestions!). i'm a little behind on e-mail, so if you're waiting for a response please be patient. i'll catch up this weekend! L O V E youuuu.
pps. all of these photos were taken with our iPhones & the Hipstamatic application.
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LOVE that hipstamatic app… and totally makes me want an iphone! i would be heaven driving past that antique mall and i’d make my husband stop too! oh and we’d def get ice cream too! have fun in chicago!!!
so fun!!
this post pretty much makes me want an iphone, for sure. I love these photos! So much easier than carting an slr around, and great for photos on days like these! (my blackberry takes crappy pics)
Glad you had a fun day!!
xo
i l-o-v-e this pictures! 🙂
wow, that looks fantastic! all strange and lovely.
These pictures are fabulous!
Love.
totally jealous of that antique mall!
sweet!
That antique mall is cool!
Luv the Hipstamatic app too. I need to use mine more often.
i LOVE antique malls. when i was in montana i was on overload because they are EVERYWHERE along the 15. i’d love to see this one you visited!
Wow! What a fab find 😉
Twistee Treat!!!!!!!!! We had one of those in my college town (Sarasota, FL), but it closed down a few years ago. You have no idea how much that picture just made my night.
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That antique mall looks amazing!! Going to have to check that out one of these days…
I’d love to see a list of where all you go in Chicago! We’re hoping to plan a trip there in the fall.
Have a fantastic trip!! <3
yep. i woulda freaked too. my fav is the space ship – could you go inside?
I’m pretty sure I need to try a birthday cake icecream before I die…!
gotta LOVE the hipstamatic! it’s my new favorite toy!!
xo.
looks like you’re having a great time! 🙂 have fun on the rest of your trip! <3
Art institute and Sears Tower. If you do nothing else, it’s okay. Chicago is very forgiving.
How fun! What did you buy?
I’d stop just for the ice cream stand, an antique itself!
Cute app – need it! 😉 Looks like a great day – the ice cream cone stand is too sweet!! 😀
Wow, what an awesome place! Looks like great fun. Love the ice cream cone stand 🙂
It looks like a perfect day to me. And perfect photos. Right now I’m so sad that I have an Android and not an Iphone – I really want that app….
Did you say your ice cream was birthday cake flavour?! I wonder if I can get that here? (in the UK) I could do with some ice-cream, it would make my poor throat less hurty! xx
looks like a fun fun time!!
Sounds like a fabulous day!
There’s a UFO house a few miles from me. I always forget about it… thanks for the reminder!
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That place sounds fabulous! & i have a totally random question… but how do you get your photos all old, kinda green, & vintage? i think it looks amazing & ive been trying for like a year now to make my photos look similar to yours… please answer back…
☮Emma
love this. you two are so cute. perfect day for sure.
xo.
Where is this Antique Mall at?!
love the pic with the flower eyes, super cute! Plus, isn’t bday cake ice cream da’ bomb!
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I use the hip app sooo much.
p.s: you have just inspired me to demand we stop when I see an interesting road sign
had the worst day of the week today and your post made me smile! I downloaded the hip app immediately after reading your post! awesome!
The antique mall looks like fun. That space ship reminds me of old playground equipment I used to play on when I was little. That put a smile on my face.
Welcome to Chicago!
Where is this Antique Mall?! I want to take a day trip!
Well, I live ohhhhh 25 minutes from this place and always want to go and I never do. Well, I just got some good motivation! 🙂
First, can I just say how relieved I am to see that someones bed room is as messy as mine 🙂 I need to put laundry away big I am living out of baskets at the moment 🙂 Also that ice cream stand is the cutest thing ever!!!! I almost want to do a roadie from CLE just to see it in person 🙂
emma, the photos are made with the hipstamatic iPhone ap. it’s like a photo filter.
i’m so excited to visit Chicago today…. yay-yay-yay!!
Oh what a pleasant surprise to come across that! 🙂
Thanks so much for that app tip! I just loaded it and took a few pics around my office and they are so awesome!! I love it!! I live in stl and pass that antique mall on trips a lot but have never gone in.. now I’ll have to wait because we have similar taste and I fear you may have purchased all the “good” stuff! 🙂 You’re blog is sweet and I like it! Thanks!! xo
Very cute antique mall! On Rte. 66 about 50 miles south of Chicago, there’s one of those huge muffler men holding a space age rocket in Wilmington. But what’s even neater is there’s a cool 50s/60s era auto dealership sign if you turn around, a bunch of retro soda machines on someone’s porch a block south, some beautiful industrial decay and a sad fading depot about a quarter mile from that, a gorgeous downtown that’s in various stages of repair and decay, and so much more I never found because my family kept calling to have me spend more time with them! 🙂
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that place looks amazing! I love when fabulous places come out of the blue like that 🙂
Have fun is CHI-TOWN!
Can’t wait to see what goodies you pick up along the way.
now i want ice cream!!!!! <3
I LOVE THE HIPSTAMATIC APP its my fav, me and my boy take all sorts of great pics with them.
I want to see a picture of your newest tattoo please! 😀
Really really cool photos! With this effect on them everything looks a bit like a wonderland 🙂
Have fun in Chicago! I’m about an hour north. We are having beautiful weather today just for you!!!
wow, such a cool app!! Have lots of fun shopping and exploring Chicago. Birthday cake ice cream is my all-time favorite flavor!!
haha that is such greatness! there’s one of those spaceships down the road from where i live here in texas too! Apparently back in the 60’s 70’s they were suppose to be the “homes of the future” but I guess the idea kind of bombed seeing as how they’re kind of rare now. SWEEET POST. im going to keep an eye out for this antique place if I ever go up there. thanks =)
kat
geez, now I went and bought another app, but I’m so glad I did! Hipatamatic is the best!!
OH wow!! That place looks like heaven! Where is it at? We love taking road trips and that place looks amazing!Did you find any goodies there?
You two are too cute!
XOXO
Amber
Have fun in Chicago!
I’ll have to check out that app, cuz those are great pictures! I’m completely loving the ice cream cone store! 🙂
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sooo amazing! totally jealous of that antique mall stop. 🙂
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I love muffler men! Welcome to Chicago!
I love muffler men! Welcome to Chicago!
Oh I am soooo jealous. I wish I lived closer to Chicago but alas Vancouver Canada to Chicago is a long comute:(
i love your pics!!
antique mall looks fabulous..
oh, I love that antique mall! I stopped in a couple years ago after taking my little sis to the airport. It was an old school; I remember talking to the lady behind the counter. I still remember what I bought: a cupcake shaped Avon perfume bottle and pink cat eye sunglasses!
It makes me feel so much better when people I consider to just be fabulous in every way also have messy bedrooms.
Horray for just having too much to do to pick up that blouse you just dropped. <3
Greetings from Finland! The UFO house, Futuro, was designed by the Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. Director Mika Taanila has made a documentary called “Futuro – A New Stance For Tomorrow” in 1998 (worth watching if you are really interested in the Futuros). More info about the film & Futuro: http://www.phinnweb.org/circle/ektroverde/futuro/
And Elsie, I <3 you blog!
I have family that lives in Houston, MO, south of Rolla, and we drive by that place every time we go! Which is about once a year. I have never been in there though. But we always used to get excited when we were kids and we saw the big man and the ice cream cone. 🙂 I will have to stop in there sometime!
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i am cracking up because that is on 55 outside of litchfield – about 20 minutes from my house. it always looked so fun to visit. love your pictures!! i bet you freaked when you saw it off the highway. it screams elsie!
Wow! Where is this? I’m coming back to the mid-west, namely Chicago, for Renegade in September & to see my family… you said this antique mall was on your way there? Do you remember where? <3
And now I need a roadtrip for great finds like this!