morning rituals

i want the macbook touch!

The Macbook Touch

I don't know if this is real, but if it is.. I'm so gonna get one! Wow. <3. x


source: gizmodo.com

the lost coin.

the day after we visited the wiggins house, the weather was still puttin' on the Tease with plenty o'warm sunshine and gorgeous blue skies, which meant i could go out in the 1950s shorts i got from design archives.

my brother and i hit another stop on the eastern north carolina tour: brock mill pond in trenton. my fondest memories of trenton are going there with my aunt in the summers when she was working at the junior high school there. we would go to this supermarket called 'oz's' and the guy was really called oz! there was a big wizard of oz theme and i just loved it....of course it now has a new owner and has lost some of the oz feel, but, as you are quickly learning reading these past few entries, i hold onto my memories and don't let go!

i had never been to the mill pond, not that i remembered anyway. and man have i been missin' out! a bit of info about the dam:

'A dam was built prior to the American Revolution and it powered a sawmill and cotton gin during the earlier years and beginning in 1917, it provided the town with electric power. The present gristmill was built in 1944. It ceased operation in 1964. This dam was damaged during the hurricane Floyd flood of 1999; restoration has been completed to its prior beauty.

another door we couldn't get into, we could only look in and wonder how it once was. and daydream about who'd been there and what happens when it gets dark (!).

after basking in the sun we drove around downtown trenton, spotting some more deserted beauties along the way.

i couldn't resist a stop on the way back, a stop i like to make nearly every visit, to my maternal grandmother's school.

the adams schoolhouse in the huffmantown road, with its lovely tongue-and-groove walls and welcoming stoop, makes me long for a time machine that much more.

Advanced Style Vintage Submission

I just received this wonderful photo from Holly at Lucitebox.com, a wondeful vintage clothing site. She writes, It's a found photo that I got in a thrift store easily twenty years ago. I almost cried when I found it. Anyway--here's a link to my favorite stylish and advanced lady. I have her framed in my kitchen and every time I look at her, I think, "That lady has such style!"

Pull Up Tonight's Darkness Like A Quilt

Since my camera is out of action....

Here's a bit of a crazy brain thread of what's going on in my head.

1. Lobsters

2. Schiaparelli (both Elsa & Gogo)

3. Quilts (again...)

4. My love of everything ever posted on this blog. I love the way that vintage isn't something kept in the closet for a special occasion, instead it's celebrated everyday.

Hope to be seeing you soon, with a brand new outfit/look at what I bought post!

banjo in the morning

my arms are too strong

recently resigned in order to relocate and have, as a result, a few weeks of freedom (time to take quick pictures of outfits while the sun still shines) before working again! exciting, though a little bittersweet as i will terribly miss my friends and co-workers behind those infamous red doors. the last two dresses were gifts from a friend i am heart-broken to leave behind (one friend of many). los angeles you have been kind to me, i will think fondly of you (even though you have made my arms muscley and kept me kittenless for two whole years.)

forget all your troubles, forget all your cares and go...

southern downtowns, once neglected by sprawl and now embraced by young entrepreneurs, (and the easily heart-broken, myself among them!) are so romantic. i felt it more on this visit than ever before.

it's wondering what you missed.



remembering what you had (and missing it more than ever).

(wishing for that time machine again.)




daydreaming about what comes next.

and smiling just knowing that for a moment, time stands still.

it all makes me long for lazy sundays and john londei photographs.