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 […]
Category: loss
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 […]
arts | chronic illness | family | loss | thrift stores | using pretty stuff
I know I could save myself a lot of time if I stopped worrying about how my house and garden look. When we were getting ready to move last year, I had little paper doll pieces of furniture that I moved around for months on graph paper trying to make sure I got the room […]
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 […]