back from the beach + hair ties on sale!

 alrighty. back from north carolina and virginia. it was a great packed 10 days and we are gearing up for saranac (our month in the adirondacks).

here's a quick snapshot of us at the wedding we got to be in. jude was the ring bearer (pictured below), philip officiated and i was a bridesmaid. the wedding was the one of our dear friends.

jude did not really fulfill his duties as ring bearer. he got fussy right before i walked down the aisle and i had to carry him. then he exited the ceremony shortly after with our friends who watched him.

but for now, hair ties are on sale at buffalo brickyard...so pop on over for a deal on them!

massachusetts house update. living room!

so much has happened with our house progress, but have not really taken the time to update you all besides on instagram. things are really coming together. yes - there are some serious gaping holes in the whole look of the house. not literally, but you know, design holes. incomplete projects. we still do not have porch furniture...our yard is cleaner, but still a mess....we do not have a headboard...lots of walls are still bare, but let me tell you, this place is shaping up. i am really liking the way it looks so i am going to try to give a few room tours in the next few weeks.

so here is the living room...

this is the view from the entryway. so many thrifted, craiglist, flea market finds...just the way i like it! some details below

mantel found at a flea market (from a harvard apartment circa 1800s) which will be white soon!

bench - my parent's old bench - painted martha stewart sea glass

basket at the door...needs to be moved, but found in ipswich on the side of the road

rug...ikea

wait, refresher...

one of the big changes we wanted to make was to cover that pointless bookshelf over the fireplace...so we did and moved the tv over. then in the funny little nook to the right of the fireplace, philip built a cabinet and shelves. right now the shelves are just sort of filled with random things - hope to do something a little more functional, yet stylized in the future. 

the chair was one i found on the side of the road and recovered myself. 

love this little table we got last week at todd farm flea market. 

which matches my quilt from my g-ma, which are throughout the house. 

(apparently my grandfather liked to collect quilts, which i think it brilliant and i am enjoying parts of his collection)

we love restoration hardware couch that we got on craiglist for $20 - insert happy dance! 

we still have a few things to do...

not sure what to do about the plaid chair...hopefully recover it - not myself - with something that matches the room. 

peace out girl scouts! more tours to come. 

hope.

one of my favorite blogs mentioned this quote by mr. rogers, as well. i liked the whole video verses the quote i mentioned in my previous post.

"...because if you look for the helpers, you'll know that there's hope." 

thankful for his wise + true words. 

perhaps i'll be back sooner or later with a post. 

k

boston.

i had started to draft this post on sunday. obviously, everyone now knows the marathon was on monday. it was patriots day, our first patriots day here. did not know that was a holiday until recently. the town we live in started hanging flags over the weekend and philip initially thought it was in preparation for memorial day. saturday we had a trip planned into the city to see Philip's family who had come in town to watch a cousin run. we took the T in and had a great day. Jude really does pretty well in the city - happy to sit in his stroller and look around. 

we got off the T here. which is still a wow for me. this was the site of the boston massacre. and i am starting to know my way around, which makes us feel like locals even though we have been here less than a year. 

we went to lunch at the union oyster house - the oldest restaurant in the country still in operation...pretty crazy. they have a booth called the kennedy booth because JFK loved to eat in privacy in this booth. 

we walked around the city for a few hours - stopping by bunker hill to let Jude run around some. (side note, looks like the washington monument - have heard it was built first here, not sure though)

there was an excitement in the city preparing for the race. yellow and blue jackets symbolizing you were running scattered through the crowds. i love watching races. i even sort of love running races. i ran cross country and track in high school and ran a marathon at the end of college. now whenever i watch races, it makes me want to start running again. don't hold me to that though. 

we have some friends in the city and we had a friend coming to run. we had considered coming back in town and on monday to see them, but then our judgement as tired parents was - i don't think judah will like sitting there watching...it will be crazy on the T...

so we did not go. and we are so grateful. i know that the likelihood of us being anywhere near the bombings would have been so slim, but we would have taken the train and the chaos and fear that people endured while in the city the on monday sounds terrifying. 

so today, i am grateful. grateful that God spared us of that. thankful that while this was all happening my sweet boy was napping at home in his crib. and sad for others that were not spared this tragedy. sad that this begets fear. and that i will be slower to spontaneously take a trip into the city because of the uncertainty of what went on and the unknown of why. and we want to know why, but does it really help? there is no good reason for this. 

we live in a fallen, broken world. but there is hope. hatred does not win. i love this quote by mr. rogers that you have probably seen circulating... “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”

and more than that, i believe there is a God of peace that desires justice in this and his heart is even more broken over this tragedy than we are. and that he heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. (psalm 147:3). 

rainy friday thoughts.

rainy friday. i guess i just go through times where i feel like blogging and times where i don't. i don't think i am the best writer in the world so it feels some what pointless. however, i guess you don't have to be the "best writer" to blog occasionally if you know what i mean.

here are some random friday ramblings....

it's finally mid-april and it's sort of spring. today is one of those gloomy days where its 40 degrees and cloudy and rainy, but because the weather hasn't been too bad lately its a little easier to stomach.

i finally "splurged" and got a chambray shirt and i am happy with it. i sort of wish i could wear it everyday, but i think that would be too much. and i say "splurged" because it was only $18 at target and i don't know if one can consider that a splurge, but it is for me.

my sister thinks i should start a series about adventures in beantown (aka boston). i haven't decided. especially since i am a slacker blogger. i have got to go some cool places - like martha's vineyard lately, but we'll see if it goes anywhere.

the other night i told philip - there are a few words i just can't remember how to spend. decision being one of them. it was funny to say something like that out loud when you realize i just auto-correct it all the time. i felt sort of dumb, but he said he sometimes misspells "pursue" so there you have it.

this is a super-rambling post, you are welcome. and deserve a prize for reading.

in effort to continue the random-ness - i am wearing one the fabric headbands i used to make. i love them, but they were too hard to make in the transition of moving last year, but i love wearing it when i am having a bad hair day...should i bring them back?

happy friday. weekend!!

xo

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oh hello!

it's been awhile. i haven't been considering blogging a top priority lately...as you can tell. 

however, here i am. still here. and it's wednesday. we had a brief reprieve from winter for easter weekend and it was amazing. we mayyyybe hit sixty and seriously, i saw many a new englander out in a tank top. they are crazy. it's back to the 40's though and i have mostly packed up my winter clothes in hopes that it is officially gone! 

this is what i am wearing (today actually)...

infinity scarf by my sweet friend: the taylor bag

h&m jeans

green chuck taylors

von zipper glasses

zara cardigan

enjoy your wednesday!

thinking.

so - i have not blogged much. have you noticed? yes, you my sister, my two friends and the occasional reader that reads this. i just wanted to say i am thinking. i am doing some soul searching and some God searching on what He really wants from me and my work, life. 

i really love one delightful button. and sometimes i love this blog (no offense to you, just sometimes writing isn't my thing). but as i am trying to reflect on how i spend my time, i am trying to figure out what is best. because sometimes what i think is important - like this little business - causes me to miss out on little things with my son or my husband or other important people in my life. or sometimes i don't feel like cooking dinner, cleaning the house, or exercising, but honestly, that is probably a personal problem. 

and i want to make sure i am not trading something good for the best. does that make sense? 

in the mean time, i am enjoying making a TON of button earrings for young life camps, the fact that we are on the verge of the spring (although, this week may have just been a teaser - 30's next week forecasted in new england) & that i am sitting at starbucks on this lovely wednesday morning. 

and in honor of spring, here is a somewhat spring outfit. it's still cold here...this is a wishful thinking spring outfit. 

jcrew jeans

green converse 

zara sweater from plum consignment ($12!)

scarf is a gap scarf from years ago that i cut and turned into an infinity - booya