hi there! this first post has been a very long time coming. i've been urged to begin blogging for at least a year now and i've finally mustered up the courage to enter this new world of communication. not that i've been against it in any way - just apprehensive about putting myself out there, keeping things interesting, and by far the biggest thing for me...just keeping up with the posts. we're all super-busy, i realize, but if only there were 4 or 5 more hours in a day. what i would do with that extra time! taking that extra-long hot shower, hiding away in my tiny home office, actually sitting down for a meal...oh the possibilities!
first and foremost, i'm the wife of a generous, sweet and sensitive man named adam. he allows me to indulge (and shares) in my passion for collecting the small, strange and detailed trinkets that fill my shop and overflow into my home. i'm the mom of two little kiddles, lucy (5 1/2) and jasper (3 1/2), two children that have changed my way of looking at the world. lucy is very feisty and intense and so much like myself that it's a bit frightening. jasper is hilarious, kind and so very snuggly. my time is spent frantically jumping back and forth between my 5-year old baby of a retail business and my kids demanding schedules. finding balance is the current goal.
i'm hoping that once i get rolling with this blog, it will prove to be the outlet i'm looking for - a way to further connect with like-minded creative souls and to steal away for those few precious alone-time moments. i figured that the best few first visuals to share with you are those of my little hideaway of a home office. this tiny space (about 6' x 9') is actually hidden behind a faux bookcase in my living room (last photo is courtesy of country living magazine, who featured my home office along with my shop about 2 years ago). the miniature room sold me on the house, and has maintained a shrine-like quality to me - it's the only space in my home that i completely call my own, and can justifiably kick everyone out of (not that more than one person can fit at a time!) i crammed this enormous old teacher's desk through the doorway and other than a side bookcase and some stacks of boxes on the floor, that's all there is. small as it is, it's pure heaven to me
the reason i'm mentioning this in such detail is because this is where the idea for my business all began for me. there and in a blanket trunk that i filled with ephemera waiting to be re-purposed. behind my hidden bookcase, i conjured up a world of vintage collections, all things paper, packaging, party, pretty. not knowing whether it would ever become a reality or if it even made sense to anyone else, it was my safe place to imagine and dream and play "store". and then it did become a reality.
and i have lots more to say about that.....
