Friday Favorites: Things To Try, Eat, And Listen To This Week!

What's old becomes new again!  After a year of being home all the time our Ikea couch was looking worse for wear. One of the positive things I learned from the pandemic was buying less and investing more in fixing or maintaining what I already have.  Instead of scrapping it for a new one, we found a great shop on Etsy that makes custom covers for anything Ikea. I love the Soderhamn Sofa style but Ikea changed their covers and we didn't like any of the new color ways. No problem, with Petbitat Studio they have dozens of colors and textures to choose from including leather, suede and velvet. We settled on a robin's egg blue velvet to add a pop of color to our living room. It took about a month to arrive, after we ordered swatches (which I recommend doing because it's hard to tell accurately what colors look like on a computer screen) and made our final choice. We are very happy with the final result, and wish we had taken the plunge sooner!

Sometimes you hear a song for the first time and it feels like a song you've known forever. This is the day by Mama's Gun is that for me. It sounds like a Marvin Gaye classic, all sunny and warm a soundtrack meant for strolling on a hot summer day. Mama's Gun is a five-piece London based band that named themselves after Erykah Badu's second album.

Yes, I have become one of those crazy Air Fryer fans, waxing poetic to anyone who will listen about how great my Air Fryer is. I had debated for over a year about whether or not to pull the trigger on one. Did we really need another appliance? Was it really as good as people said it was?  The answer is a resounding YES! It's great! After reading countless reviews I settled on the Instant Vortex. It's the perfect size for our family of 3 so that it doesn't take up a lot of counter space and is big enough that we can fry in one go. It heats up in a minute or two and is amazing for re-heating anything. Since it's a convection oven it heats up evenly in minutes, seriously anything frozen you put in there it cooks in about half the time. It also gives us new take on veggies, which I'm always trying to incorporate more into our daily diet.