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shop update tomorrow

a small collection of gorgeous vintage coats + a handful of vintage granny totes and cocktail clutches are finally ready- the southern rose collection will be in the shop tomorrow at noon EST. that's 9 am for you west coasters, and for the rest of the world- i have a feeling it might be in the middle of the night? anyhow, timing it for all corners of the globe is next to impossible, so 12 noon EST it is. i hope that works.

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on a personal note: this collection proved to be one of the more difficult ones for me to put together, even though it's significantly smaller than most before it. a combination of obstacles (weather, bad light, colds, holidays, life), but the biggest probably being the fact that i R-O-C-K at setting unrealistic goals for myself. i mean, i am so good at it, it's crazy. it's like i forget that i have a busy 19 month old running around or something? file this one under I Try To Do Too Much At One Time/I ain't quite what I used to be. I nearly lost my mind trying to get it all together, thinking that it was actually reasonable to toss kids and coats and accessories into the car and head out the door for like, just an ordinary day doing some on location photo shoot, when truth be told, ain't nothin' ordinary about that. mama has a crazy job, that's what i tell mister henry. two pieces of good news though: 1) i didn't toss the coats into a big bonfire pit in the back yard and light them afire like i threatened to (i know, crazy), and 2) my kids are incredibly patient and tolerant (and so is my hubby) and when i got super discouraged, they rallied behind me and said, mama, you can do this. just buy us an ice cream cone when we're out and about and we'll be just fine. 

so. there you have it. for what it's worth.

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in the shop, at long last, tomorrow, tues 12/1 noon EST. see you there.

XO

*ETA: further proof that i am losing my mind: i received an email inquiry from a lovely girl named JESS and i replied with "HI MARGARET!"

she kindly replied, "Hi Jenny, it's Jess here (not Margaret - I have been called a lot of names, but Margaret is not one them - lol)"

thank goodness for her sense of humor.

the most beautiful thing ever

i came across this video a while back and have been meaning to share it ever since. isn't it lovely?

i'm so sorry for the silence around here, i just hate to disappear without warning and for so long, but you know how things go- with kids and school and vacations and holidays and freelance projects and deadlines and out of town guests and sicknesses and leaky roofs and zillions of leaves to be raked and and and... i was completely overwhelmed with life. but i think i am back and feeling ok at the moment. i hope you all are doing great, and for those of you that celebrated turkey day, i hope you had a great day with those you love.

in shop news: at long last, those coats i've been dangling in front of your eyes will be available tomorrow. more details on that shortly.

love to all!

like a polaroid

shake it.

best 99 cents i've spent in a long time!

southern rose

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.