June 1st couldn't have come at a better time. 30 Dresses in 30 Days is officially over, and it coincides with the day I have to pull on the proverbial big-girl pants in the family. The summer in...
Only one more day in a dress.... I think.... I think.... I think I might not go back. Well, not all the way. I think I like the dress.
I took a cue from a friend who did the same thing this year when the weather go good. I hauled the old play kitchen out from their room, where it sat ignored and dusty and outgrown... and I hauled it...
30 Dresses in 30 Days is settling into it's last week. I have to say I've impressed myself. I really didn't think I could hack the thirty days.... and with one week left I've worn...
I love you. You are my daughter, my first born child. I grew you in my belly and loved you every minute you have been here with me. You astound me. Astonish me. Take my breath away. Make my heart swe...
For six years I've cut my daughter's hair. I think she's had a cut once or twice but someone else willing to wield the scissors, but mostly the blame is on me. You don't even want...
It's that time of year again. The peonies in my garden are about to burst into the most beautiful deep red flowers. I wait for them every year, they take ages to open and it marks the beginning ...
I've become her favorite subject. If anyone knows my daughter they know her in a dress. If not a dress than a skirt. I dare you to try and get her in a pair of jeans. It's like pulling teet...
I've spent six Mother's Days in my thirty years recieving slobbering kisses sticky with pancake syrup and handmade cards squished by the tiny hands thrusting them at me as I peek out from u...
There's something really nice about a dress. I don't if it's the way that people react to a woman in a dress or if it's the way a woman carries herself in one, but a dress creates...
What I have learned this weekend: Most dresses have no pockets. I started wearing all those vintage aprons I've been collecting. Biking and dresses aren't the easiest combo for me. It would...
Okay, so far 30 Dresses in 30 Days has been pretty good, but I'll be the first to admit that it's also been pretty tame. I can't help but feel a little too safe in the dresses I'v...
Reading more about the syphon coffee process after finding this gem while thrifting. Winding the last of the denim colored Anzula yarn I got on my trip to Toronto. It's their For Better or Worst...
I haven't worn this dress for exactly six years. Probably because the last time I wore this dress I looked like this: Like a fat pregnant lady with a bad haircut eating blue cake. I was about to...
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Of course, I woke up today with a terrible, terrible cold. Today is the worst day to begin my adventure in bringing back the pretty. Today, I don't feel like wearing a dress. I don't feel l...
This is me. From the waist down. Most days you will find me in a pair of jeans with dirt smears down the sides, and boots fit for a farmer. My idea of dressing up is a t-shirt made from something oth...
Beginning Tuesday, May 1st! A month-long series about prying off the jeans and bringing back the pretty.
I'm so nervous I threw up this morning. I've never been away from my kids for more than a night, two nights once and I've certainly never been a plane ride away. I'm not used to b...
I totally cried. As I climbed into the front seat of the van and out of the cool spring morning rain, my daughter exclaimed "Mom! My tooth is loose! It's really wiggly!" I turned the k...
I finally got new hair. BEFORE: (messy, frizzy, kind of orangey, ewwww, not looking like a babe.) It was long over due and I had a million reasons as to why I needn't care that much about the ...
I've been so quiet... it's been steady and calm and I've been sticking close to home. The quilt is coming along... faster than I thought it would. I've fallen in love with hand qu...
I recently got to spend four days and three nights with my five closest friends and our ten children combined. I feel like I'm still basking in the love that makes up these ladies... it's a...
Finally, finally, after a few weeks of travel and the busy that keeps us from what we want to do.... I am pinning the quilt for Frankie's bed. I always look forward to bringing the quilt out of ...
On a stormy, blustery day in March, when I don't want to brave the cold and the wet, when the walls around me are physically my shelter and also walls in other ways... I will be wrapped in bla...
Introducing Lucy, our newest family member. We've known about her for a while...I've been barely able to contain myself. Something about getting a puppy brings out the ten year old girl i...
I love this new shirt of hers. Super light and soft, with a very fine line detail in the fabric. To give it a little bit more I took a vintage piece of hand-crocheted lace and used it as the trim for...
I've made a lot of these. They're easy, they layer well and are great for playing in. Frankie loves the big pocket in the front. I usually use an unbleached cotton or linen for the main bod...
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