Cause you and me have stood the test of time.

I got an email from a dear friend of mine Sarah earlier this summer. She is recently engaged and asked my friend Rachel and I to do a "Yay, I'm getting married photo shoot" for her:) Of course we agreed. My friend Rachel (who I previously posted about) is super talented and was going to photograph, Sar had asked me to do all the styling for the shoot because of my attention (or obsession) to details. It was really lovely. Sarah is a super history nerd, so of course I wanted to use all my vintage goodies. I wasn't the photographer, but I had my camera handy and it was near impossible not to take pictures because everything was just so enchanting.

For you Sar, I love you..

I am so thankful I get to be apart of things like this,

I live a really beautiful life.

.bird.

Tonight I'm like a paper doll.

So of course I have time to make a post and I have no new photos uploaded. Fail.

But I do have a very beautiful find I came across a few weeks ago.

On my way into work one early morning I passed a small barn with its doors open and what looked like tables filled with "stuff". I was unsure if it was a sale or just summer clean out but i stopped anyway.

There I was met by an adorable elderly couple who invited me in to look around. They had a lot a really beautiful treasure but all had been accurately appraised, way out of my price range. I went into a small shed next door where they had told me they kept the antique furniture. My eyes were locked, could they really be selling this? I had come in contact with a beautiful antique dollhouse. It was what I have been looking for. I have an old victorian my Dad built be when I was little, but this is what I wanted a very simple 5 room house, straight clean lines. I looked and looked for a price tag but couldn't find a thing. Finally, I asked the woman to come over and see. She explained to me that it was an actual dollhouse from the thirty's and I was welcome to have it for free.

.. mouth dropped ...

I told her there must be some mistake, if I could even give her ten bucks I would. She said it had been there forever and I would be doing her a favor to take it off her hands. I wanted to just hug her, but I also didn't want to break her.

I thank her about a million times and happily carried my new toy to my car.

I KNOW. You're staring at those pictures in disbelief, I'm sure. But really its mine. I plan to do some renovating to it, but just want to be so careful not to ruin any of its distinct original features.

Okay, off to get some work done. I'll try to update later this evening.

Hope you all enjoyed the long weekend.

Love,

J

Oh Saturdays.

Oh delayed posts.

These pictures are from LAST saturday. And I have so much more I want to share, but feel like I need to stay somewhat in sequence haha.

So after Joy and I had stayed up far too late last Friday, we rolled out of bed early and picked up some friends and headed to the market.

The day was BEAUTIFUL and the market was really alive.

Joy treated us all to coffee, shes so sweet.

Then we came home, Boyfriend finally got home, Joy made us an awesome lunch, and then threw together an apple pie like nobody's business.

No seriously, Yum!

Tomorrow I have literally dedicated entirely to crafting, I'm getting somewhat nervous with Hearts and Crafts right around the corner. I'm still in an adjustment period funk, so my mind is everywhere. I have good people helping me hold it together though.

Hope everyone has the day off tomorrow and can just enjoy company with loved ones.

Goodnight,

J

Staying classy.

In my resistance to ever grow up, one thing I still love to do is play dress up. In this fairy tale head of mine, I still love the thought of becoming a completely different person and going to a completely different time. That's why there was no way I would ever pass up the chance to go to a 1920s-1930s theme party.

We had cheese and wine, and watched a silent film. We listened to excellent music danced about, and took silly pictures. We was a really magic sort of evening.

It was lovely, after Pete and I hopped in my car and headed to the house show. The rest of the night was filled with music, african dancing, scootering, tea, and good chats. oh summer.

First day of classes went well. I feel really old, but I know I'm doing the right thing by going back. I just want to keep growing.

xoj

catch up.

Life is in motion.

I feel like I'm not catching my breath. But its good, because I've been going through a lot lately and the busyness helps me to not dwell too much. I need some serious blog catch up, so be ready I plan on posting about 5 times in 2 days. (fingers crossed)

Last week I had the amazing opportunity for a nanny playdate, ekks. Joy and I were nannying in neighboring towns so we decided to both pack lunches and take the kids on an adventure together. It was fantastic! Joy brought her four little critters and I brought my two high energy tots. Playground and picnic, then some Hullabaloo on the tennis court. If you've never played Hullabaloo your seriously missing out. AMAZING game helping kids with, categorizing, sharing, colors, shapes, and they get exercise while playing. yes! best part of the game will call out "do a funky dance" and you can only imagine the looks the eight of us got as we went all out with ours moves, hilarious.

Lunch!

Joy brought delish eggplant parm to share with me!

nannies dont wear makeup. haha

Our amazing kids!!

They make us want to pull our hair out sometimes but we do really love them so so much!

I hope this happens so much this fall, it was really amazing to watch all the kids get along even though they had never met. Kids can teach you so much, they are so non judgmental, they just accept everyone without any reservation. They love so purely! Ah, its so refreshing!

Ok, so I actually have to go to CLASS now. I can't even believe it.

happy monday,

j