It is wedding season. This is usually a busy time for me but I haven’t had too many wedding gigs this year. My husband, on the other hand, has a new second job working for a caterer, so he has been the busy one most weekends, mixing drinks and serving meals. I do the singing […]
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They say parenting little kids is “Long days, short years.” Very true. My youngest child is 10, which is still a sweet and magical age, but the exploration and wandering time I had with my kids when they were little – walking (painfully) slowly in the woods, keeping track of bugs, leaves, birds, pushing a […]
I am so excited that this Etsy Thing is going really well! https://www.etsy.com/shop/tinybirdvintagehome?ref=hdr_user_menu-shop I have been selling and shipping pretty, old, breakable things all over the country and even Australia. Last week I was walking to the post office from my car with a stack of boxes full of Jade-ite, porcelain, ceramic and other breakable […]
Christmas starts too darn early. Can we all agree on that? I love this time of year and I don’t want to speed through it. Autumn! It has finally come to Philadelphia with a major storm -taking all of the leaves and a lot of people’s power for a few days -ushering in crisp and […]
friends | loss | thrift stores
One of the reasons I love old stuff is that it has survived through so much. When I buy a plate from 1943 or a vase from 1900, I think of who bought it, how they used it and what journey did it travel all these decades. I am not as interested in very fine […]
When I was a little girl, I loved Holly Hobbie. My mom has a cassette tape recording of me opening my birthday presents for my 3rd birthday, May 9th, 1978. On the tape I loudly exclaim “HOBBIE HOBBIE!” after opening one of the little doll playsets, clearly my favorite gift that year- (a much bigger […]