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Showing posts with label antiques. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antiques. Show all posts

August 28, 2013

Antiquing

AJ and I are packing in little dates as our days living in the same town are coming to a close.  Last week, I surprised him by waking him up and taking him to breakfast, and then we spent the morning leisurely cruising around (in my mom's convertible bug, of course!), visiting farm stands and antique stores.  So much fun, and so many treasures to be found!
If this wasn't $50, it would have come home with me!
Rolling pins and old buttons.
I'm totally in love with old tin cans!  I especially love finding a brand or product that we still use today and getting to see how it was packaged years and years ago.
These were old advertisements and magazine articles dating all the way back to the 1910s!  I spent a significant of time looking at them...categories that ranged from neckties to movies to WWII home front propaganda....they were so cool!  I wanted to buy one for my room but I just couldn't choose!

ANTIQUING

AJ and I are packing in little dates as our days living in the same town are coming to a close.  Last week, I surprised him by waking him up and taking him to breakfast, and then we spent the morning leisurely cruising around (in my mom's convertible bug, of course!), visiting farm stands and antique stores.  So much fun, and so many treasures to be found!
If this wasn't $50, it would have come home with me!
Rolling pins and old buttons.
I'm totally in love with old tin cans!  I especially love finding a brand or product that we still use today and getting to see how it was packaged years and years ago.
These were old advertisements and magazine articles dating all the way back to the 1910s!  I spent a significant of time looking at them...categories that ranged from neckties to movies to WWII home front propaganda....they were so cool!  I wanted to buy one for my room but I just couldn't choose!

November 12, 2012

PURPLE

as you may or may not know, i live at home with my parents.  in the room that i spent most of my middle and high school years.  i got out, went to college five states away, and then came back.
there's not really anything for me to complain about when it comes to living at home.  i've got it good, and i save a ton of money.

but one thing that i do regret is not repainting and redecorating my room before i settled back into it.  well, i guess if i'm going to regret something, it's that i ever thought picking a purple carpet was a good choice.  (when you're in middle school and your parents let you loose in a carpet store, the world seems like your oyster).

i spent the first month and a half after i graduated from college unemployed and trying to figure out what to do with my life.  (oh, and playing bakery story. and watching bravo. it was winter. i was a loser with pretty much no friends. deal.) what i should have been doing during that time was painting my room and going through my stuff and getting rid of it.

anyway, here i am, nearly two years later (two years?!? has it really been two years since i finished college???) still sleeping in a room with pale yellow walls and purple carpet and a desk that functions more like a storage space for random things that i'm convinced i'll someday need.
i've done some things here and there.  i finally cleaned out a bin that had college stuff in it.  i've decorated and rearranged a few bookshelves and dressers. i've gone through my closet a billion times and taken stuff to the salvation army.  there are little spots in my room that actually do showcase my taste and style.

but i dream of having my own apartment; of starting from scratch and a blank slate; of decorating it slowly and just the way i want.

here's some of the lovely things i envision for that space:

February 7, 2010

Mushaboom

Old dirt road,
(mushaboom, mushaboom)
knee deep snow 
(mushaboom, mushaboom)
Watching the fire as we grow 
(mushaboom, mushaboom)
o-o-o-o-old



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