This is a post just to let you know that for the rest of July I am offering 20% off all orders placed in the shop with the code: CHRISTMASINJULY
So head on over and treat yourself to something pretty! Like maybe this, or this or even this.
Or maybe get an early start on buying those Christmas gifts?
Never hurts to plan ahead... It'll be here before you know it. ;)
During this roadtrip I came across an abandoned Airstream trailer.
(I actually posted some iPhone snaps of this on tumblr already but I'm just now getting around to sharing the digital shots I took)
Over the past few years, off and on, I've gone through various fascinations and dreams about owning an airstream of my own. I mean with people like this and this living their dreamy airstreamed lives, how could I not?
So anyway.
Came across this beauty, snapped a few photos of her, went on my marry way but couldn't stop thinking about her. So I went back again the next day and ended up tracking down the owner, whose name was Freddy, to see if there was any way he'd be interested in selling his airstream. You know, just out of curiosity.
Freddy was quite a character and though he was, sadly, not interested in selling her, he did have a few stories about her he didn't mind sharing.
He told me he didn't really have any plans for her other than to drag her out to the road so people could see her from it as they drove by. But he told me he'd gotten her for $500 at a junkyard and that she was from '51 or so and how he'd once let a guy gut her and start fixing her up when all of her insides (along with a half moon bed and other "goodies" as he put it) burnt up in a barn fire. Ever since then she's just been sitting, unloved, and acquiring dents from when his horses lean up against her.
He said he'd been offered money for her on several occasions but he just wasn't willing to part with her.
I understood.
I named her Stevie.
Because she had a gypsy soul about her.
Here's to furthering and chasing after my airstream dream.
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Check out an explanation in this post here as well as other posts in The Urbexing Diaries.
Shadows dissipating on white walls
Construction on the street drifting up through the window
Coffee in tiny cups
Bread
Billie Holiday
Tracy Chapman
More bread
Knitting
Fans shushing
Shades of blue
French blue
More Tracy Chapman
Postcard writing
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A Parisian morning
Glasses: Firmoo
Shirt: Colopalo
Shorts: Urban Outfitters
Jewelry: Brittany Channel
Watch: Marc Jacobs
Journal: The Rootless Spruce
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This post was sponsored by Firmoo.
Firmoo has really lovely glasses that are not only unique but affordable.
I love this pair they sent me and highly recommend their frames!
You can shop through their online store as well as connect with them on Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter.
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When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls. || Ted Grant
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Some favorites from the most recent shoot with Rosewood Clothing Co.
You can shop some of these pieces on their online shop as well as in their brick and morter location here in Richmond at 16 W Broad.
Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes? || Evelyn Lau
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Here are a few favorite snaps from a senior session last fall.
Because I am missing chilly rain filled mornings, crisp breezes, bare trees, knit scarves, jean jackets and mugs with warm drinks today.
Oh favorite season of mine, you cannot come soon enough.
Time spent in this space with this person is always lovely.
This firecracker of a girl has stolen my heart from the very beginning and to call her a dear friend is such an honor. She just is a kind of authentic, from the top of her enviable wild and unruly mop of curls to her vintage leather clog clad toes, that makes for a truly wonderful being.
I dare you to walk into the shop and not just fall in love with her right there. She's an amazing lady doing amazing things and Richmond is pretty lucky to have her here helping support and build the creatives community.
Also something worth noting is that Rosewood Clothing Co's online shop is finally live!
This lady has worked so crazy hard this last half year or so building her shop and her brand and it's been such a pleasure getting to work alongside her taking photos for her during that journey. For those of you who don't live in RVA and have been missing out on the wonderfulness that is Rosewood Clothing Co, you can now join in with shopping online. Ashley's taste in vintage and handmade goods is spot on. So go take a peek and treat yourself to something nice. It's the best way to shop local. Some current favorite pieces of mine are this fragrance, this denim dress, this top, and this coach bag.
Go have a look and shop around!
Also go check out Ashley's interview on People In Their Homes (my new favorite site and Instagram account) if you want to fall more in love with her.
This is a story about a boat.
We drove all the way to Mattawan Michigan for her, and then we brought her back.
I feel overly fortunate to be able to say that I consider both of my parents to be some of my very best friends. This road trip with my Dad in particular is home now to some of my favorite times with him that are going to be hard to beat to be honest.
Discovering an abandoned Airstream trailer (post with photos forthcoming) during our trip was of course a highlight and culprit to intensifying my Airstream dream, and there was a stop at a yarn shop (no surprise there). But those experiences aside, there's very little that means more to me than just simply being with the people I love and doing life with them, in whatever way it's presented to us. Whether it's having coffee on their back porch, dancing our feet off wherever there's good music (or even when there's not), sitting at a kitchen counter talking while they cook (because we all know my cooking skills leave much to be desired) or sitting shotgun in a truck for twelve hours.
On the first day of the road trip we passed a sailboat off the highway that was sitting in a yard and on her transom was the name Moon Dust. I wrote it down because I loved it so much.
I'm forever making notes and lists and scribbles of words/phrases/lyrics/sentences I like.
But it must've stuck somehow because on the way home, as we were brainstorming the name for her, I couldn't get Luna out of my head.
And so it just sort of came out.
And it just sort of stuck.
So Luna she was christened.
(Not to be confused with Una of course, her sister)
The day after getting home I realized how attached I already was to her. Perhaps it was because I helped name her, and as humans we often get so attached to the things we name, or perhaps it's because of the journey and the memories along the way in retrieving her.
I'm not really questioning it though, whatever the reason.
She's going to be a great new adventure.
Even her old name, Andiamo, which is "Go" in Italian, speaks to a spirit of adventure and seeking out and discovering new waters and places unseen that I think she already embodies.
First Impressions of The Mediterranean Via Instagram
I'm home again.
I'm back from Europe and oh my goodness I am so filled with the beautiful and incredible places/people/things I met during my travels. There really just aren't words to sum up the trip and experience as a whole. Or, if there are, I haven't found them yet. Everything's been a bit of a whirlwind since I've been back.
I think that it will only be in retrospect that I will realize the impact these places have on me to be quite honest.
I think that's often how it is with my various ventures. Only after the fact, once I've had time to meditate on the experience and let it sink in, do I fully see and experience the fullness you get of being somewhere wonderful and new.
Does that make sense?
So many new thoughts and ideas and stories were carried across the pond back with me and I can't wait to share them though.
Along with heaps of photos too of course.
I'm definitely feeling inspired and ready to get back to my routines and catching up on work.
I'm ready to be settled and home for a bit as well.
At least, until the next adventure presents itself...
What puts the wind in your sails?
For me it's...
Rainy mornings
Handwritten letters
1 hour genuine what's-going-on-in-your-life calls with people I love
Unspun fiber
Plane ticket purchase confirmation emails
Well worn leather goods
Late night walks
Donuts
Things handmade from wood
Tacos and margaritas (together or separate)
The sound of film camera shutters
That I'm on-top-of-the-world feeling
Being somewhere I've never been
The color blue
Father daughter dances at weddings
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other. || David Levithan -She's Simply Human
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Some favorite shots from last week's shoot for Rosewood Clothing Co.
Kathy, Erica and Kalie are all insanely drop dead gorgeous, are they not?
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Paloma
Rosewood Clothing Co.
Surface Handmade
Native Nest
