Happy 2012

I am pretty sure I did not have a single blog post in 2011. I am not making any promises that 2012 will be much better, but here I am today with some photos of vintage dresses that I took for my mother-in-law. She wanted pictures before she turned them into a new Communion dress for my niece. My niece will get a dress that is made from her mother and two grandmother's dresses, which brings reduce, reuse, recycle to a whole other level of meaningfulness.

First Frost

Rockport

Last weekend my husband and his parents went up to Rockport for the day. It was a beautiful, clear crisp day and being Halloween weekend, and out of season, it was relatively quiet (we didn't have it in us to try Salem). I can't imagine how crowded it gets in Rockport in the summer. It was filled with little shops (literally, small. We felt like giants.) and galleries.

We visited the Rockport Art Association. I really liked the exhibition of Zygmund Jankowski's work. These were two of my favorites:




We walked around, ate veggie dogs (and cheese fries!) at Top Dogs and took some photos. Here are some of my photos from the day:

Dahlias

I picked up some dahlias yesterday. One of my favorite flowers - they almost glow.

Cozy Sunday

Vanilla cinnamon black tea and a fresh cider apple donut. My kind of Sunday.

Mirror, mirror

I felt inspired, by fall, halloween and a poison apple to create a treasury. I was thinking more spooky - Grimm not Disney - Snow White.

Organized

We finally went through our closet and dressers. We have 2 gigantic bags of clothes to donate, and now my closet doesn't give me an anxiety attack when I open it. So satisfying.