A Well Spent Saturday

Today I -

Thrifted for two hours with my sister.

Took a long, cozy afternoon nap.

Read a magazine on the couch.

Took a few new shop photos. 

Listed new spring vintage.

Drove to town with Owen to get coffee and a juice (^ I got the carrot, apple, ginger, beet).

Walked by the lake for five minutes until the freezing cold temps forced us back into our cozy home.

Listened to Oh Wonder "Without You" on repeat.

Went for a wine and cereal run to the grocery store.

Searched for a new home since we are moving out of our house soon (crossing our fingers an appointment tomorrow goes well).

Wished that it was spring already, goshdarnit.

How about you? Happy weekend everyone : )

Making Maple Syrup

We are back in Vermont after spending a fun weekend with family in New York. We stayed with Owen's parents, who make a ton of maple syrup every year that they give out as (very welcome) gifts. Its the first time I've gotten a chance to see how they do it, and it was so fun to see the process! My mom, along with Owen's sister and family, came over for the afternoon as well. Even though it was pretty chilly, it was toasty by the fire, and everyone had a great time hanging out watching the sap boil, drinking beer and roasting hot dogs. Now that I am back in snowy Vermont and looking at these photos I have spring fever! Hope your weekend was just as fun.

boiling sap

keeping the fire burning

holding a nice warm Hannah : )

frozen sap dripping out of the tree

happy with grammy!

my mom, home from California for a bit : ) miss ya mom!

swinging

cheesin

adding more sap

sap buckets // climbing on her pop

enjoying the fire

happy to be back in the nice warm house! (and eating her puffs)

a tired dog // finishing the syrup on the wood stove 

clean jars ready for maple syrup

A Morning Neighborhood Walk

Yesterday morning I woke up to the sun shining and a temperature I could walk outside in without a coat. Obviously, this put me in a GREAT mood. Around this time of year I start getting pretty antsy for nice weather and just sunshine in general. I grabbed my camera and my coffee and went for a long walk around my neighborhood and down to the lake. Maybe I have been watching too much Fixer Upper (can you watch too much Fixer Upper? #loveChipandJoJo), but I found myself on the lookout for cool houses and special details. I'm always surprised by the amount of brightly painted houses around my neighborhood, which really does make for a more cheerful look especially during these grey winter months. There is now snow covering the ground again here in Burlington (boo), so this post will serve as a reminder for me that spring is on its way. Whoo!

A Snowy Rainy Tuesday

Today I:

Took photos of new vintage

Listened to the new Being Boss episode

Went to the grocery store, was very strong, and bought no junk food and lots of veggies

Did a load of laundry

Listed new items with Gilmore Girls on in the background

Admired the good job I did decluttering the basement yesterday and the carload of items going to the thrift store

Texted a little with a friend

Enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate while watching the snow/rain come down outside

Got overly excited when I realized it was Tuesday and there is a new episode of both New Girl and Fixer Upper on tonight. Score!

Went to ship a few orders and realized my printer was out of ink. Unscore.

How about you guys? Hope your day / holiday weekend was great!

Thoughts on turning 29

I am turning 29 in a couple weeks, and have been thinking a lot about what that means. Around New Years Eve I was talking to a friend about making resolutions, and I told her how my resolution for 2016 is narrowed down to just one word - Stability. Stability in all things - where I live, how much money I have, my career, my relationship, friendships, even how I spend my days. I feel like I am at a turning point where its time to move from a place of trial and error to one of calmness and confidence in the place I am in. Getting real deep in this post folks, hah.

After a decade of moving around the country, working a bajillion different jobs, and going through multiple attempts to "figure it out" career-wise, this makes sense. To sum it all up, my twenties included attending three different colleges, living in four different states, and moving into 10 new apartments/dorms. I worked in six different restaurants as a bartender, busser, waitress, and manager. I got married to my best friend. I worked at a ski shop, a boutique, Panera Bread, and a Norwegian sweater company. I was an intern for a fashion design company in Times Square, a temp in a hospital billing office, a seamstress for a small screen printing company, and the owner of a vintage clothing company. Quite the smorgasbord of things, not much different from a lot of other twenty-somethings. But man am I ready for, yep you guessed it, stability.

Looking back I am so happy I got the chance to do all the things I did, and know I learned something different from each one that I will bring forward into my career and life now. Of course I know trial and error will continue to have their place, and make life interesting. But I have a great feeling about my birthday, and hope my experiences throughout my twenties have set me up for the next stage of my life - a more stable, but still happy and full of learning, stage. Thanks for listening to my ramblings, and here's to 29! : )

(photo taken by my husband on a snowy night walk around the neighborhood)

The Arctic Tundra

Yesterday Owen and I headed down to the lake at sunset dressed in every piece of warm clothing possible, since it was the windiest, coldest day ever, but also really beautiful out. And for this reason you won't see my face in any of the photos because I was NOT about to take off my gator for a photo. Yes, the struggle was real. On a side not how cute is my gator? My sister made us all one for Christmas because she's superwoman and finds time to sew after spending long days being a chiropractor. Impressed.

Anyways, we had just had a long day of driving in the car, stuck behind snowplows, so it was nice to get outside in the fresh air. We had a couple very ungraceful slips on the ice, and then an icy wave splashed water onto our camera lens, but other than that it was all good. Haha. 

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend, and I am happy to say after a bit of a hiatus I am back at this whole blogging thing, and happy to be doing so! Thanks for checking in with me : )

Puffball! ^^^

Around Here Lately

Scenes from around here this week. Lots of raking, organizing and shooting new vintage, burning Christmas scented candles, a couple gorgeous sunsets, puppy sitting and enjoying settling into a new schedule where our work days end at 5 (for the most part) and we feel like real adults. Oh yah and I got bangs (!!). We are still having fun messing around with our new photo setup so the photo above is a fake-guitar-playing-me with new said bangs and pretending to be cool. Happy Monday everyone!