Pretty. Quirky. » This ain't your mama's vintage

Some weeks ago my friend Linda, who runs Possum Valley Vintage, was cleaning out her storage space and offered to let Shara and I have a look to see if there was anything we wanted to buy (there was. OF COURSE.). This was back in February, and we were all bemoaning the fact that there […]

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Do you guys mind a photo dump post? I got the idea from my junking buddy Shara …I’ve been so slow about posting lately that I have a backlog of pictures that you might not have seen unless you’re following along on Instagram. (By the way, DO follow along on Instagram! I’m much better at posting there […]

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We moved from Chicago to Arkansas two-and-a-half years ago, and, until last weekend, I had not been back. That’s not how it was supposed to be. In December of 2012, I promised my current crop of seniors that I would be back to see them graduate in June; but, unfortunately, by May of that year […]

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Sorry, friends, for being away for so long. My father’s illness — something that had previously hampered his quality of life but had not been life-threatening — worsened in March and April and we lost him on May 11th. I wrote about it in exhausting detail over on the family blog, so feel free to […]

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I think I’ve probably mentioned before on the blog the weekend deal my husband and I have had since the twins were babies — I get Saturdays and he gets Sundays. Meaning, I sleep late on Saturdays and/or head out to do some junk searching for the booth and he sleeps late on Sundays and […]

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