Rehearsal dinner.
45 years of adventure.
Love you Mom & Dad
Snowy Day in Harvard Square February 17, 2010
Or alternately titled, the day I did NOT get my tonsils out.
Mantel January 12, 2010
I have never lived in a house with a mantel. I am kind of stumped. What do you put on the mantel? Do you rotate collections? 
This is Valentine’s inspired. Why yes, little astounded 17 year old self, I DO decorate for Valentine’s Day.
Got the tin in a box lot at an auction, cheap. The striped box is an old record case, FULL of old 45’s. Including some children’s music with great graphics I am going to put into our shop.
I love all things vintage metal. Particularly when they are red. Thrifted at various spots. Starting a collection. Wish I had not donated some old ones in the move.
Not mantel related but a follow up on the evolving guest room walls.
Do you decorate for Valentine’s Day? Are we dorks? Leave links!!! Plus, any mantel advice would be much appreciated.
Paint By Numbers December 28, 2009
I finally found a home for my (growing) collection of vintage Paint by Number paintings.
Here is a quickie iphone shot of our guest room.
I would take some more but my parents and their 2 large dogs are inhabiting the space at the moment! My mom is a great hunter and found lots of these for me in NC. (thanks Ma)
I just found this great online exhibit and thought I’d share. I was going to post it to Facebook but those folks are tired of my chatty a**.
I particularly like the part where they have included peoples’ memories of PBN.
I’m on a Roll…
I’ve got butter on my pants! Ba-dum cha. I will always love that joke.
But I came here for help, not guffaws.
What is the name of this plant? The one that looks like little grapes.
I think it’s in the succulent family. I covet it but can not find the name.
Any help and/or cuttings would be much appreciated.
Science Museum December 26, 2009
We took a trip to the Science Museum, we are lucky to live so close to some great Museums and even more lucky that my FIL bought us a family pass!
I was smitten with the color of the walls in the Human Body room. Any guesses to the make and name?
-Struggling with the age old question… 
Bones overlooking the Charles.
Deconstruction.
Painless deconstruction…
I DON’T KNOW!!! GET OFF MY BACK SWINGING GNOME, PLEASE.
Doesn’t everyone get chocolate milk at the Science Museum? Our habit is chocolate milk and Space Ice Cream. (dehydrated wafers of yuckiness but space in the title and it’s SOLD!)
I am well out of the habit of writing and sharing. Funny how quickly one can fall out of the groove. Maybe my mind has been taken over by Bejeweled Blitz ( 279,250 suckahs!).
Uh… November 29, 2009
so, remember me blathering on about being too busy? Well I didn’t. My friend Hannah and I just went in together on a booth at a local antiques cooperative. Zoinks. It’s a good outlet, right?!!! Like my etsy shop without all the annoying shipping hassle.
So if you are a MA person and want to check out our wares, drop by the Massachusetts Antiques Cooperative, 100 Felton Street, Waltham and go to town. We’re the cool booth (at least that’s what our mothers think).
Update: Here are new photos of our space. We will eventually have vintage Valentines and other bits and bobs on that divider screen but for now it’s covering up the neighboring stall’s grungy screen. One of the guys that works there walked by and said, “It looks like somebody lives there.” We were pumped as that was what we were going for. Second only to, “It looks like somebody shops there.”!
Short of buying it, we still can’t figure out how to cover up the neighbors art work on the other side.
The beginnings of our booth.
It’s not that fuzzy in real life. We have work to do to make it more cozy and inviting but we’re proud of our start!
Went to the last flea market of the year in Rowley this morning. SUPER SCORES.
Close up of the crazy divine fabric.
Salty wants you to SHOP.
These are rusted to perfection.
A pair of these for a ridiculous price. They are NOT leaving my house though. Not for a good long while.
Close up of one side of our “booth”. We are working on some partition ideas. Anyone out there who has a booth, we’d love any tips you had to offer!
Cheers and goodnight!
This Post Brought to You from a (temporary) Resident of Sickville November 24, 2009
The quickest path to a blog drying up, imho, is having stuff you want to say but for whatever reasons you feel like you can not. It makes it hard for me to shoot the sh*t. Nothing serious, stop your guessing. Just stuff to process that probably is not best done in a public forum. How’s that for a juicy post? Meh.
I hold out hope that I shall ride again. When I was a stay at home mom, this venue (and the way it connected me to your blogs) was a lifeline. It was a way for me to feel creative, inspired and part of a larger community. I do not want to let that go but the reality is that I have to let some things slide now that I am working outside the home. My friends who read this blog and who started work before me or were always moms with paying jobs are smirking right now (Hi Kath!). It’s okay, I deserve a smirk or two for thinking I could move into a new house, start working after 7 years at home, transition my youngest into daycare for the first time, put my heart and soul into my job (that I love), do wonderous things like cook dinner, keep up my Etsy shop, write a blog, read your blogs and have time to enjoy my amazing (and growing) boys not to mention checking-in with my loving husband who is my partner in this all. One step at I time, right?
I should say that the reason I have time to type this at all is that I am a temporary resident of Sickville. 2 nebulizers, buzzing at full blast. Turkey what?
So I am going to surprise you now with MORE photos. Maybe I should just set up a link to my Flickr account…
On Flickr, I named that last one, “Zipline to Heaven”.
I just reread this and I wanted to say this is NOT my goodbye, just a ramble in the wind.
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Over the Thanksgiving break I have some photos of the craft room to finally share!
Classroom September 22, 2009
I have been remiss in posting.
Going back to work after 7 years at home will do that to a blogger. That and the fact my keyboard has decided it will no longer put out the letters ‘h’ or ‘y’ so every time you see them, know that I cut and pasted each badboy . Not fun. And not to sound like a complete whining baby but something is seriously wrong with WP and/or my computer because it took 13 minutes to post each photo. And now to rapidly move from whining to bragging, photos taken on my new iphone (using the Polaroid app). Woot!!!
Sharing of a bit of what has kept me from you:
My teaching partner and I worked really hard to set up the classroom this summer. She has taught in the room for a long time so even though we made some changes, I am not taking even half the credit!
Art area.
Wall in the math area.
Monarchs!
The building area.
I particularly love the chalk board where kiddos can plan a building, make a representational drawing of their structure, or just doodle!
Dramatic play after some serious work of play.
There were more photos but due to the crazy time thing, I’m holding at 5.
The transition from stay at home mom to a working outside the home one has been a relatively smooth transition. Ok, the first week we did leave the house at 7:30am, both of us thinking the other had locked up. I came home with the boys after school, errands and dinner out at 7:00pm to find our door WIDE open. Two nice police officers walked through the house to confirm that yes, we were at once the flakiest and luckiest residents in town that day.
So schedules will evolve but the good news is that I was ready to go back to work, I got my dream job at a school of amazing teachers, I highly respect the game of my teaching partner, I love our sweet little class of kiddos, and I still GOT IT (it just moves a little slower)!
So just a check in to say that I miss your blogs, I miss VPF (keep ‘er strong), I miss blogging and I miss you but I will ride again!
