I Heartsy You!
For the next couple days my shop will be featured on Heartsy.com, head over there to get 50% off some fabulous vintage!!!
“The Past Is Never Dead. It Isn’t Even Past”
(This William Faulkner quote has run around in my mind constantly since I first read it sometime last year.)
A few days ago Sarah and I scurried down to the Miner’s Foundry (home of the Nevada City Bizarre and the place I saw the secret Red Hot Chili Peppers show) to bust out a quick photo shoot in front of a gorgeous stone & ivy wall.
The Foundry is less than half a block away from us, but we drove my van anyway so that we’d have a semi-private place to change ;-)
All of these items are already listed in the shop.
I realized that our booth at the most recent Bizarre was on the other side of that window on the right. Heather’s was behind the window on the left!
This car is somewhat infamous around town, and I cracked up when I looked to my right while snapping shots of Sarah and saw this little scene. Curious cat!
Crazy story about this dress- I found a similar one in black last month, and Kerry bought it at the Bizarre as a secret xmas gift for Nicole before I ever had a chance to list it in the shop…
(Here’s the other side of that window!) I can’t believe I found a slightly different sequined Egyptian dress by the same maker only a few weeks later.
Lucky Girl & the Media Files
Congrats to Suzanne for winning the Giveaway!
First rule of blogging: never make a statement about when you will post something or about what you will be posting. I can’t count how many times I’ve regretted doing that. This post is now two days late, thanks mostly to the fact that I was just too excited about my awesome New Year’s to put off sharing it.
I loved reading about everyone’s favorite books, movies, and songs of the year. Apparently I need to pay a lot more attention to Florence & the Machine, I appreciate the reminder to re-check out The Civil Wars and Radiohead’s latest album, and I look forward to exploring all these musicians I’ve never heard about (I am really, really bad about keeping up with new music). I am, of course, in agreement with you Manon about Alela’s record being a highlight of the year.
As for the movies, I obviously am with you Stacie about The Muppets being my favorite of the year. I love cerebral, “artsy” films, but my goodness I’ll take singing and happiness and triumphant love over that stuff any day. It helps too that it’s really the first movie that I feel that Mycie and I truly share. My other favorite movie I saw this year, though it came out in 2009, was Get Low. I am also really, really bad about keeping up with new movies.
Life’s a Happy Song
Seriously you guys, it is.
This last year brought so much change and turmoil to my life. Heart-wrenching, family-breaking-up, crying-every-day-for-months kinda change and turmoil. I didn’t see how I would pull my life back together. I worried and fretted and wrung my hands about the future and my finances and my living situation. But I took Winston Churchill’s advice and, when I was going through hell, I just kept right on going.
And as the old year slipped into the new, I looked around and saw that I was surrounded by the loveliest friends in the sweetest town with my darling daughter and amazing boyfriend by my side. And I knew I had made made it through, and that this here was my own little slice of heaven. I felt sun bursts of gratitude pouring out of my heart as I celebrated the passing of 2011 and the beginning of 2012.
On New Year’s Eve our friends John & Lily hosted a party in their new house. Those of us with kiddos went early in the evening and were home getting them off to bed by 8 o’clock.
Their house is pretty rad, what with the huge living room/kitchen/dining room and this atrium with a giant rock and plants.
And the cozy fireplace and the action figure stairwell shelves.
The kids were their usual goofball selves and had tons of fun.
