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Inspiration

08 Wednesday Feb 2017

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antique ironstone, antiques, beach house, Carnegie Hall, Clewell pottery, flea market, life with kids, Ocean Grove NJ, Victorian flower painting, Vintagedoors.com

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Some images from the last few weeks…

*Huge Vintage Quilt Hoop in our Etsy shop.  I like this hanging on the wall on its own.

*Spindles from a beautiful custom screen door made by Vintage Doors.  All of their doors are made by hand in the US.

*Wild Rose detail from an Antique Victorian Painting.  Women often painted as a hobby in the early 1900s and I love the look these slightly folky flower paintings.

*Empty Carnegie Hall.  We took the kids to a violin concert this weekend.  It was inspiring for four of us, and not for the youngest of us.

*Antique Ironstone Cup with ‘Safe Harbour’ transfer design.  The perfect toothbrush holder.

*Antique White Petticoat.  I love wearing these as skirts in the summer, especially at the beach and for walks on the board walk.

*Vintage sailboat painting.  I bought this to sell and then couldn’t part with it.  The colors are pretty perfect.

*Antique safety glass in the front door at the Ocean Grove House.

*Vintage Clewell copper-coated pot.  I had never seen one of these before.  It has a pottery vessel inside and a copper coating for a skin.  So cool!

 

 

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Ocean Grove, NJ

29 Tuesday Mar 2016

Posted by jeannerondeau in Brooklyn, Inspiration, Likes, Projects, Uncategorized

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Asbury Park, Asbury Park NJ, beach, family, family vacation, flea market, Jersey Shore, Kids, Ocean Grove, Ocean Grove NJ, summer rental, vacation home, VRBO Ocean Grove

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We have fallen in love with a magic little town on the coast of New Jersey.  Chris and I drove through Ocean Grove one day and were charmed by the tiny square mile of preserved Victorian homes perched close to the shore.  The houses were impossibly detailed and cared for and the town was beautiful, quiet and slow-paced.  The beach in Ocean Grove was voted one of the world’s 15 best by Fodor’s Travel.  A quick stroll on the boardwalk or over two footbridges brought us to newly revitalized Asbury Park.  We joked that we would have to retire there when our kids were grown.

When I learned about the town’s twice annual Giant Flea Market I marked my calendar.  The drive from Brooklyn took me less than 1 1/2 hours and the first time I went to the flea I was hooked.  Wandering around town felt like a dream and each time I visited I liked it even more.  When I returned to the flea this past May I called Chris to tell him I was going to talk to a realtor.  In the whirlwind that followed we ended up looking at 10 houses.  Our plan was to find a house that we could rent when we weren’t using it.  The house we fell for was built in the 1880s and was owned by one family for more than 70 years.   After talking to many incredibly friendly residents we decided Ocean Grove would be the perfect spot to spend time with our girls while they are still young.

The house at 6 1/2 Heck Avenue is calm bright and airy.  It stands fifth in from the beach and has beautiful ocean views.  Many of the home’s original antiques are in use throughout the house.  The town of Ocean Grove was founded by a group of religious leaders as an ocean side retreat in the 1860s.  Our home feels like stepping back into Ocean Grove’s early days when families would escape to the shore away from busy lives.  The home is simple compared to some of its brightly painted neighbors and we love that it retains its original details and quiet beach cottage feel.  Visit our Instagram feed  @oceangrovehouse for more photos.

We are honored to be able to care for the home at 6 1/2 Heck Avenue and excited to share it for 2016 rentals.  For rental inquiries and questions please contact Alfredo Fresnedo at (732)-763-2961, alfresnedo@yahoo.com.  We still feel like we discovered a secret hideout every time we visit our home in Ocean Grove.  So many memories have been made in the short time we have owned the house.  We are so happy to share our home with visitors and hope 6 1/2 Heck will be a place for memories of your own.

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Inspiration

25 Friday Apr 2014

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antique cameo, Brooklyn, Easter Eggs, Flower Kiosk, Inspiration, Instagram, ironstone pitcher, vintage arrows, vintage Bingo game, Webber Pottery

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Happy Friday!

We have been having such a busy spring, (thus the lack of activity here).  We escaped the city for spring break last week and spent time in beautiful Vermont and New Hampshire for Easter.  We were excited to return to spring in Brooklyn!  Our flowers are pushing up and blooming in the back yard, the bees are super busy gathering pollen and the tulips we planted out front are opening.  I found lots of great antiques in Vermont and have been listing them on our Etsy site.  Dare is desperately trying to crawl after spending a week with big kids.  Here are some pieces of the last few weeks:

*Cameo Ring.  I found this Victorian ring in a little shop in VT and fell in love with it.  Then I saw that the box was from an old jewelry shop at 1 Market Street in Portsmouth, NH.  Before I moved to NY I worked at the beautiful Flower Kiosk just a block away on Market Street.  Such a small world.

*Pansy Detail, Webber Vase

*Cloudy Drive Out of the City

*Eggs

*Vintage Bingo Cards and Ada’s New Numbers

*Vintage 1950s Arrows in an Antique Pitcher from Greenpoint Brooklyn.  Who knew that Greenpoint was a huge pottery manufacturer in the 1800s?!

*The Most Beautiful Building in the World

*Pretty Cameo Pin

*Jesse’s Snowman, April Snowstorm in Vermont

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*Have a lovely weekend!

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Inspiration

21 Friday Mar 2014

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Acorn Toy Shop, Ample Hills, backyard bees, backyard gardening, Bedford-Stuyvesant, home, Inspiration, Instagram, life with kids, spring

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Happy Friday and Happy Spring!

I think I saw our tulip shoots push up another inch or two yesterday. I need to get out back and remove my over-zealous straw mulching from the fall.  This is our second year of growing a garden and we get very excited when plants actually grow out back.  I think I even see the start of flowers on one of my hellebore plants, which everyone else in our neighborhood seems to be able to grow except us thus far…Maybe this is our year.  One of our bee hives was bringing in lots of pollen this week.  I am so amazed that those girls know when and where to find the tiniest bit of pollen in the otherwise gray landscape.  I need to take a peek inside and see if we need to feed a bit more before the flowers really start providing nectar.  We are keeping fingers crossed for a warm weekend.  Hooray for Spring!

Instagrams from the week:

*Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

*Headband Crown Production for the lovely Acorn Toy Shop

*Ice Cream Weather, Ample Hills

*Long Shadows

*Dare

*Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

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Inspiration

21 Friday Feb 2014

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abstract painting Etsy, Aztec Hot Chocolate, Inspiration, Instagram, Jeanne Rondeau Etsy, Liberty of London, life with kids, MarieBelle, paper party decorations, Purl Soho

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Happy Friday!

I have been with only one baby for a few days and must admit it feels like such a vacation!  The two oldest girls went to Nan and Pappy’s house for the school break week and Dare and I have been hanging out and crossing things off of our lists.  How ironic that when we were first-time parents we were too new to realize that having only one baby was simple.  Here is a bit of our week:

*Dare, Sitting Up.  She has officially figured it out.

*Orange, 2014.  I’ve been listing some of my paintings for sale on our Etsy shop.

*Aztec, MarieBelle in Soho

*Daddy and Dare

*Decorating for Josie’s Birthday Week

*Liberty Prints, Purl Soho

Have a great weekend!

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Inspiration

17 Monday Feb 2014

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Etsy decor, home, home style, life with kids, metal advertising sign, Museum of Natural History, NIchol Kola, Valentine decoration, vintage decor

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I hope you are having a good long weekend if you had the day off. Here are some Instagrams from our last few days:

*Valentine Decorations and Vintage Metal Sign

*Dare Learning to Sit Up

*Snow.  Again.

*Museum of Natural History

*Giant Snowman in the Back Yard

*Sleepy Dare

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31 Friday Jan 2014

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Air B&B, Bed-Stuy, home, Ikea, Inspiration, Instagram, Kittery ME, life with kids, Portsmouth NH, Warren's Lobster House

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Happy Friday!

We are looking forward to a weekend around the neighborhood, with rare above-freezing temperatures.

Here are some Instagrams from our last couple of weeks:

*Dare and Josie on an Ikea Run.  (What else could we do in this weather?)

*Warren’s Lobster House in Kittery, Maine

*Flamingo, Bed-Stuy

*Pretty Tag, Bed-Stuy

*Running Through Ikea (Our second trip in two weeks)

*Sleepy Dare

*The New Memorial Bridge, Portsmouth NH

*Car Wash

*The Friendly Toast, Portsmouth

We stayed in a beautiful historic old house last weekend in Portsmouth.  Chris found it on Air B&B and I would be happy to share the link if anyone is interested.

Have a lovely weekend!

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Inspiration

04 Saturday Jan 2014

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baby carrier, back yard snow, home, Inspiration, kids Brooklyn, life with kids, New Native, Shrinky Dinks, tulle, tulle fort

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Happy 2014!

I hope you all are having a wonderful new year so far.  We have snow here on the East Coast and it feels all cozy and wintery around here.  Here are some recent Instagrams:

*Back Yard Snow

*Dare Inside the Fort (Long lengths of tulle are perfect fort building material)

*Sleepy Dare (The New Native Sling is still our favorite piece of baby equipment after five years.  It knocks my girls out every time, and folds up to fit in a diaper bag)

*Shrinky Dinks! (I had totally forgotten about these until Aunt Laurel gave Ada some for her birthday – so fun!)

*Bunk Beds

*Big Girl Dare

Have a great rest of your weekend!

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Haircut

03 Tuesday Dec 2013

Posted by jeannerondeau in Inspiration

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bob haircut, child haircut, childhood, donating hair, first haircut, hair donation, haircut, life with kids, wig for child, Wigs For Kids

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Ada would not let it go.  She begged daily for a haircut until we finally reluctantly gave in last week.  Her hair had been given only two small trims in her five years and now she wanted to cut it short.  I cried a bit for a couple of days, and then made an appointment.  I warned her I would be a wreck at the salon.  We realized her ponytail may be long enough to send to Wigs For Kids and she liked the idea of donating her hair to another child.  When Ada sat in the big chair and we measured and snipped I saw her instantly grow up a little bit.  Although it was just hair and it would grow back, there was something magic in that moment.  This new short hair of hers marked one of many points where we as parents have to let go, trust that we have done our job, and then let our children be their own people.

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Inspiration

04 Friday Oct 2013

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backyard bees, Chris Harp, Deerfield Fair, Deerfield NH, fair with kids, Honeybee Lives, honeybees, Inspiration, Instagram, life with kids

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Happy Friday!

Here are some of our recent Instagrams:

*Sleepy Dare

*Ice Cream, Deerfield Fair

*Honeycomb at Honeybee Lives Class

*Ada’s Baby Quilt from Gram, On the Line

*Last of the Tomatoes from our CSA

*Hat Weather

*Chris Harp Pulling Honey for Harvest

*Josie’s First Candy Apple

*Piggies

Have a wonderful weekend.

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