Inspiration

31 Friday Aug 2012

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food, Instagram, Ivin's Famous Spiced Wafers, Nags Head NC, Nellie Myrtle, Outer Banks Beachcomber Museum, Surfboards, The Outer Banks, travel, vacation

Instagrams from the Outer Banks, North Carolina:

*Child’s spelling game at the Beachcomber Museum, Nags Head. (This amazing space housed Nellie Myrtle’s treasures from 60 years of early morning beach combing in the Outer Banks).

*Surfboards.

*Ivin’s Famous Spiced Wafers. (I got these boxes purely for the packaging with no idea of the contents, but they ended up being delicious spicy ginger snaps. They are perfect for making mini ice cream sandwiches).

*Bright Plastic Boats, Nags Head.

*Fishing Lure Collection from the Beachcomber Museum.

*Parachute with Nan and the Cousins.

Have a lovely weekend!

Summer in a Jar

30 Thursday Aug 2012

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Cape May Ferry, Cape May NJ, Kill Devil Hills NC, Nags Head NC, Roanoke Island NC, summer, treasure jar, vacation, vacation with kids, Wildwood NJ

Ada’s jar of treasures from vacation. Contents as follows: bouncy balls won with tickets on Wildwood boardwalk, ticket from Cape May Whale Watch, sea pebbles from Nags Head and Cape May, Captain Joe Napoleon’s trading card from the Cape May-Lewes Ferry, sharks teeth from the hostess at Mako Mikes in Kill Devil Hills, fossils from pit near the gift shop at the Roanoke Island Festival Park.

Saltwater Taffy

29 Wednesday Aug 2012

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Cape May NJ, family business, food, Fralinger's tafy, James' Candy Company, salt water taffy, summer, travel, vacation, vacation souvenir

Chris came home one morning in Cape May with some of this Fralinger’s salt water taffy. The vintage packaging alone made me ecstatic. This video tells the story of the origin of Salt Water Taffy and the family business that keeps the original alive today. The taffy flavors include: Banana, Chocolate, Lemon, Licorice, Lime, Molasses, Molasses Mint, Orange, Peach, Peanut Butter, Peppermint, Root Beer, Spearmint, Strawberry, Teaberry, and Vanilla. Hooray for the perfect vacation souvenir!

Shell Boxes

15 Wednesday Aug 2012

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Shell boxes that were Ada’s great-grandmother’s. We gave them to Ada for her birthday. She has filled them up with her own treasures. Similar boxes can be found here. Or, you could make some of your own with lots of tiny shells and patience.

Cloth Diapers

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

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cloth diapers, life with kids, motherhood, new baby, new mother, vacation

This is one of those photographs that may not be beautiful to anyone but me. This is a stack of clean cloth diapers on our dresser. We can see this stack from our bed and it makes me feel happy when the stack is high and neatly folded. It feels like a full pantry to me, like having supplies on hand. We have used these for both kids and the routine of washing and drying has become second nature to us. My sister just had a baby girl and I was reminded of how many questions we had – about diapers and sleep and feeding when Ada was born. It is strange how stressed out the tiny details can make you at first, and then those details become the daily routine. And then the routine turns into years and the details are blended into the memories. I wonder what I will remember about the early days with children when I am an old woman. I know I will remember the smell of a new baby head, and how Ada looked curled up against Chris as she slept. I bet I will remember the stack of diapers.

Brimfield for Mother’s Day

10 Thursday May 2012

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antiques, best Mother's Day, Brimfield, mother s day gifts, Mother's Day gifts, peonies, travel, vacation, vintage

Oh Brimfield, how I love you. You never know what you will find there in the mix of strange and beautiful things and wandering around looking at antiques for hours is my idea of Heaven. I get such inspiration from the design and quirky ingenuity of objects from the past. The materials are often more beautiful and sturdy after 50 years than things for sale in stores today. Thanks to my in-laws, I got an early Mother’s Day gift: an entire day wandering the rows and rows and fields and fields of antiques with Chris and without children. Despite the rain, and only a few small purchases, it was a wonderful day.

My List of Favorite Mother’s Day gifts so far (in no particular order):

*Unexpected flowers at my desk at work when I was first pregnant with Ada.

*Big bunches of cut peonies, lilac, lilies and iris – delivered by Ada in her pjs. Chris got her up early, went to the market, and then left me alone to put them all in vases as he and Ada cooked pancakes.

*Brimfield with my love, who walked around for hours in the rain and pretended to be as excited as I was about all of the treasures.

What is on your list of best gotten or given gifts?

Here are some photos from the day: