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southern rose, a new collection of outerwear + accessories coming soon. very soon!

thrifting is good :: kid stuff

last weekend i popped into this junk shop that i go to every so often (the kind where the more you buy, the cheaper it gets) and i hit the motherload in the vintage wooden puzzle department. kinda couldn't believe my eyes when i saw the stack. i have a love for wooden puzzles, so you can imagine my excitement. some of these are a little bit advanced for dotty right now, but i have no problem setting them aside :)

 

another thing i don't mind tucking away for later is dresses. good golly, is that any surprise? as soon as i found out that i was pregnant with a girl, i went nutso and just really had the best thrifting luck e-v-e-r. her closet is chock full of fabulous girl's dresses from the 50s, 60s and 70s. most of them are sizes 2T through 6X but a few of them won't fit her till the year 2020 or so! but can you blame me? who knows if she'll be interested in wearing them past, say, the age of 5 or 6... she may think i'm crazy. 

anyhow, the good stuff is out there, you just have to spend a little time looking!

happy thrifting!

stuck inside

lots of time playing indoors this week due to some seriously wet weather. i mean it is just yucky out there, i have really barely been outside. here's hoping the weekend shapes up.

dotty is really into drawing (shawww? shawwww? which is how she says that she wants to draw), magna doodles, puzzles and MUSIC. music, music, music (meeeeh? meeeeh?). and henry has been spending a lot of time doing origami, dot-to-dot puzzles and of course, legos. 

and me? i've been baking and doing my best to keep things tidy. because lots of time in the play room means lots of toys spread out across the house. picking up after an 18 month old is a job in itself!

my guy

matty and i celebrate 9 years of marriage today.

it's a cold, grey, rainy wednesday and we don't have extraordinary plans to dress up and wine & dine at a fancy restaurant. instead, we will have a regular evening in our house. we will juggle homework and violin practice. i will cook and we'll chat about our day. a chat that will likely be interrupted more than a handful of times. and we will smile at each other as we turn our attention to whatever burning question or crisis is causing the interruption. we will have dinner as a family and afterward, one of us will clean up and fix a bowl of ice cream for the big kid, and the other will head back to give the baby a bath. we'll kiss and cuddle those two little people, and lovingly tuck them into their beds. and when it's all said and done, we will be thankful for a sliver of adult time, but truth be told, we'll both feel pretty tired and all we'll really want to do is snuggle up in bed and watch a movie. we might fight the urge just a little bit and celebrate that sliver of adult time with a glass of wine and a slice of cake. maybe.

but one thing for sure: we'll be thankful for each other and for everything we have and for the life we have together.

and we won't be the least bit bummed about not going out to a fancy restaurant. because really, this is what it's all about. this life and this family. and neither of us would want it any other way.

those pesky elements

so i have this rack of fantastic (and i mean FANTASTIC) vintage coats that i am just itching to get photo'd and in the shop for you but darn it if the outdoors are just not cooperating with me. it's either gorgeous and sunny yet windy as all get out or it's grey and dark, thus making it impossible to take lovely, crisp photos of these stunners.

what to do!? i hope to get them added to the shop this week. there are wool coats, faux + real fur coats, a couple snazzy rain coats and a cape or two.

so much beauty

right in my own back yard.

i wish this part lasted longer. the fall foliage peek week is winding down and the winds are rushing it just a bit for me. i want these colors (and these warm temps!) to hang around and i just know that by this time next week, we'll be in full raking mode.

i think a drive along the parkway is in order. and maybe even a picnic in the woods too.

first frost :: part 2

another batch of 100 (yes, 100!!!) items are being prepped for the shop. i mentioned that i had collected a ton of stuff for fall, and i wasn't kiddin' ya'll!

lots more wooly, tweedy, sparkly, paisley print, floral, dotted, pretty things for fall. and coats! more coats, too.

keepers

 

i have a new Big Love for tapestry lately. and paisley. i've been really loving the vintage paisley prints i've been seeing. and vintage coats from the 50s and 60s with big fur collars. the other day i tried on one in royal blue, and it had a giant fur collar which was so swoony. i didn't get it, but if it haunts me enough, and it's there next time i go back to this particular antique mall, i just may treat myself. i think my fall look will be colorful tights paired with my cute new swedish hasbeens with pretty wool dresses and fur collared coats and tapestry totes. and crochet gloves! i want a pair of crochet gloves.

so naturally, when i found these two totes, i set 'em aside for myself. but i promise that i have some other pretty handbags in the pipeline for the shop, never fear! in fact, i have been very busy working on another huge fall update- i actually have another 100 items to add, can you handle it?! i will start off by adding a dozen or so things today/this evening... but will get the rest added hopefully by the start of next week. sound good?

happy wednesday!

stained

one of my favorite vegetables to eat in the fall + winter months. and i absolutely hated these things as a child. not only are they tasty, their color can't be... beet! arg, arg, arg....