By the time you read this, we'll be on our way to New Mexico! I thought while we were gone, I'd tide you over with some photos from the vacation we embarked on about this time last year, to Ireland. These are all from Inis Mór, the largest of the Aran Island, where we had a wonderful day trip. And the best ending to a cool, rainy day. Locally caught fish and chips!So this time last year we were enjoying the cool, damp ... Read more »
Travel and Adventures
Viva Las Vegas round-up
As of last night, we're officially home from our trip to Las Vegas. Home, sweet home!The trip was fun, but I must admit that both Mel and I wished we'd had a better time. We both had a lot of moments when we really felt VLV had gotten bigger than the space allotted for it. And I think we've learned that whether we like it or not, it's just not how we like to spend our vacation time. But my blog isn't for complaining ... Read more »
Red ready, amber set, green let’s go!
With the exception of a few last minute items and toiletries, our bags are packed. We are ready for vacation!On the top you can see clockwise from upper left: a vintage blouse, a Nudeedudee feedsack blouse, my pool set (swimsuit and matching teatimer cover up), my handmade castles skirt, and two grocery bags containing a couple of my pairs of shoes. My elephant sweater outfit did indeed get scrapped. In its place I'll be ... Read more »
Birthday weekend round-up Part 2, Instagram style
Part two of my weekend round-up, this time in Instagram photos. There's no narration for these, you already got the main round-up so you can fill in the blanks. I just love the old feel this app gives photos (when it works right). It's so much fun to tinker with! I hope to have a mini tutorial on making vintage-inspired earrings up a bit later this week, stay tuned! ... Read more »
Birthday weekend round-up Part 1
After work on Friday, we picked up two of our close friends and hit the road, heading to southwestern Wisconsin to spend a couple of nights in Dodgeville. Saturday morning we headed "downtown" (since I live in Chicago, quotation marks are definitely needed when talking about the downtown of a town of 4,000) in search of coffee, tea and breakfast goodies. I wore my Freddie's overalls (they were my weekend staple), a ... Read more »
First day of spring
Happy spring, to those of you up here in the Northern Hemisphere! Yesterday morning we decided it was the first weekend day that was nice enough to kick off the outdoor season for us. We love going to state parks and forest preserves for day trips and start doing that before it's really warm enough to go camping. I looked for a park close to the Wisconsin border since we also had an ulterior motive: drive to Kenosha, ... Read more »