What I Wore

I stole the sweater from my mom years ago.  My dad bought it for my mom when she was my age.

The jacket is from Fringe and Fray, my favorite clothing store in Spokane.  I had store credit so I got it for free!  It was only $18 bucks though, they have such awesome stuff for great prices!  The shoes are Minnetonka Moccasins, funny story- I ordered them online while I was in labor. Sam thought I was crazy, while he was rushing around packing last minute items in our bag, I was filling my shopping basket at midnight entering in credit card info. in between contractions!

My mom knit the scarf for me.  The basket was bought at Hansen's last year.  I love it and use it all the time!

Man, as I look closer I keep seeing things people made for me.  I have a crafty family!  My dad made me that silver ring on my ring finger from an old spoon.  The other ring I got at a boutique in Colorado.

This blanket was made by my grandma for my brother.  I'll have to get another picture of it one day, it's awesome.  The yellow sweater she is wearing was made for my oldest brother- yep that was before ultrasounds revealing the sex, it's a pretty girly sweater if you ask me.

My mom crocheted this adorable little hat for miss luna bug.

I'm eager to try some new things out with my hair.  I have gobs of it, so I figure I should do more than just a plain pony tail, or leave it down and boring.  Pinterest has my wheels turning for new ideas. I tried out this hairstyle.  I don't know, I kinda liked how it turned out- but I also think I look like a cross between a German masseuse named Helga and Princess Lei, nevertheless I tried something new!

 I'm toying with the idea of posting some daily outfits.  I'm nervous to do this because I am the last person on earth to look at for style cues or inspiration on what to wear.  I have been inspired by Rachel and Rubyellen's Vintage Here, Vintage There feature and have been wanting to try it for a while.  I love dressing my little girl up in fun things, mixing old sweaters with cute little jeans.  So I thought I'd share my clothing and thrift store scores with you.  I think this will also be a good way to share all the handcrafted love that we've received.  It will also get me wearing more than the same 3 outfits all the time!  I'd love it if you comment, or link up with your own clothing post.  You can be honest, and I hope you will (I'm thinking my little sis especially- she has better fashion sense than me and she's truthful)  I think this means I'm getting old enough to not care if I have some weird outfits going on, it's my style and it works for me.  I think you can make anything work if you like it and wear it with confidence.

Happy Halloween

 While we were out in Denver for my friend's wedding she surprised us with this gnome outfit.  And the Everyone Poops book and the little knit shawl.

 I think this is her halloween outfit, I need to still make sure it fits and make it a little more girly by adding some pink and flowers.

 Here are two silly ones, this could pass for halloween too.  It cracks me up!

Glacier Park

 I didn't realize till I saw these how much I'm looking like a hippie again.  Yeah, the hair is so bad- it's to the point that I may have to trim it before I go to get it cut, just because I'm so embarrassed by how bad my split ends are!  I'm thinking about bangs.

Yes, that flat section is the road back there, no shoulder whatsoever one slip and you would be off the road flipping over the cliff.  I would cringe every time a car would pass by in the other direction, I always felt like I was going to hit the car!

We went to Glacier National Park over Labor Day weekend.  We left Sunday at 1 pm and stayed overnight.  We had been wanting to go and it isn't that far away, maybe a 5 hour drive.  It is gorgeous and it's a huge park.  We stayed at a dumpy hotel- it would have been more fun to camp, but we didn't have our act together.  We bought an annual pass, so we will be back and next time we plan on taking the van and camping.  The trip was mainly spent in the car driving.  I did most of the driving.  The first picture proves Luna was with us, she slept for most of the trip!  We drove the going to the sun road, it is an amazing road, very steep and narrow- it was a white knuckle drive for sure.  It was good to get away- as our life was so crazy then.  Being outside in gorgeous surroundings always puts me back in a good mood.

Apple Picking

It's that time of year, or almost past that time of year.  We had a late summer, so I was late in picking apples.  Greenbluff is my favorite place to visit.  I look forward to going to Hansen's Orchard and picking apples every year.  Sam has to go away for work this weekend, so he got off early today and we had a lovely afternoon.  We had lunch at the Alpine Bistro on Monroe Street.  I had a yummy chicken pot pie.  It was so nice to see my husband in the middle of the day for once!  He has been working a lot lately, and we have been busy getting things done around our house, so we haven't spent much time doing fun things.  It is so rejuvenating!

This fall has been sunny and gorgeous, but today got a little nippy.  Nothing to complain about, but chilly-yes.

Our Little Luna bug had so much fun today.  She was just giggling away.  The cold weather didn't bother her one bit!  I think she must be the happiest baby on the planet!  The trees were the perfect stroller height, those apples were on there tight, it took some work, but she got them and she knew what to do with them right away.  She wasted no time in shoving them straight in her mouth!

On Faith

Hmm, what to write, what to write?  Well life has been a little hard lately.  We haven't been able to live in the house that we bought a few months ago.  I have been spending time reading books and having chats with lawyers.  I do know that God is here and I have faith in Him.  It's not always easy when things aren't going your way.  I have been stressing, but everytime I start to feel sorry for myself I say a little prayer and ask for strength and comfort.  Sure, I complain and am stressed out and I don't really know why this has to be happening to us, but I do know that I have been met with the strength I need from God.  It's not like the stress of dealing with our problems goes away.  I still have to research it all and deal with this, but it has been more bearable.  I think I've only shed tears once, which is pretty remarkable for me.  Having a little dialog with God before I want to feel sorry for myself has been so good.  I still worry more than I should, I should trust more.  At least I know now that the more I trust the more at peace I feel.  I do know that in a few months we will be past this.  We will learn a lot and be much stronger.  One more chapter for the book of Becca and Sam's crazy adventure.  It seems that doing a conventional thing such as buy a house is a little more complicated for us.  I have been able to laugh at it all!  I do know that things could be so much worse.  We are all healthy and that is so good.  We aren't dying of starvation, we are safe.  Our life isn't going as we would have planned, but that's ok.  Hmm, sorry I can't really share more than that on here.  But I wouldn't be able to do a post showing that life is pretty and sweet right now.  In some ways it is, but behind the scenes we are dealing with a lot.  I am taking it one day at a time, and asking for patience.  Because the patience is starting to wear out.  Sam has been really swamped at work on top of this.  I do think our past experiences have made us more prepared for this.  And as Sam would say, we will definitely appreciate our house much more after all of this!

Friends With Berries

 This was so cute and typical.  My friend's boy was interested in pulling, swinging and jumping on the tree, while my friend's little girl was more interested and delighted in picking the cherries!

 I always anticipate seeing the fun little outfit that she comes up with.  It is always bright, and cheery and has many layers.  She usually is wearing more than one skirt!  She is so sweet and adores my baby.  The feeling is pretty mutual.

You all know I love Greenbluff.  I could go every week in the summer.  But this last week I didn't have to. The berries came to me.  Our church community garden has strawberries and raspberries.  My friend gave me a little jar of fresh raspberry jam.  My friend Lindsey invited me over to pick raspberries.  Yum, I think they are my favorite berry.  Then, my friend Amy told me she had 2 cherry trees that we could pick from.  She was so sweet and even rented a ladder for us.  The berry season goes by so quickly, you must hurry and pick them and eat as many as you can!  My freezer, fridge, and tummy is currently filled to the brim of berries!  Courtney has a fun post about the cherries.  We had such a good time!

A Random Summer Day

I did manage to finally print a picture of my baby girl.  Yes, she is 8 months old now, and I just printed my first picture of her.   Oh the negative side of digital photography.  I even got some frames for them.  This beautiful picture was taken by my talented friend Jessica (Jeff Loves Jessica Photography) at my friend Amy's wedding. I got it in a 12x12 size.  It's a fun photo size.  I must brag, I love this picture, and Jess just snapped it-not planned or posed, outside of the aqua VW van as we were decorating it, just like that.  Aren't the best photos the unplanned ones? Yes, I am so spoiled and blessed to have a best friend who happens to be a professional photographer!  And I would kill to be able to grab my camera and just casually snap a pic like this!

Blah day.

I'm feeling blah
I want to get projects done on this house.  I've learned that it's best to get the idea out of your head and into reality, it helps bring on new ideas and more creative thinking.  I've waited so long to paint a house, I have so many projects in my head, they just need some execution.

I'm just about finished with my dining room, a few final details and it will be done.

I realize I've been away from my Bible for too long.  And for some strange reason I keep putting off reading it.  I know I will feel better, but I'm being weird and avoiding it.

We have 2 big bass amps in our little house.  One needs to go.  We have 2 coffee tables in our living room.  One needs to go.  I have a vintage sled in my entry way.  It needs to go to the basement.  I have an ugly couch on my porch.  (The couch is not ours, it's our neighbor's)  Our Christmas tree stand is still on our back porch.  I have an extra bedroom that needs to be turned into a bedroom/studio.  I cannot walk into said bedroom.  Did I mention I have a baby on the brink of crawling?  She scoots backwards and rolls all over the place.  The clutter is driving me mad.  You might be thankful that you don't buy and resell things as a living if you saw my house today.

I am leaving for my brother's wedding in two days.  I need to make practice cupcake cheesecakes and make some cupcake wrappers using my silhouette machine.

I have pitted cherries, and homemade pie crust sitting in the fridge begging to be made into pie.  Apparently you need tapioca to make homemade cherry pie.  Who knew?  I don't have tapioca sitting around.

This is a silly thing, but I had to take a photo.  I sold my sugar jar to the people at Etsy.  It is going in the Etsy office space in Brooklyn.  So I may not have many sales, but if the people who work at etsy want to buy something of mine to have in their office I might be doing something right, huh?  It gives me a little nudge to list all the other crap I have sitting around here.  I kinda geeked out about this!

Another big accomplishment for me is that my kitchen floor is clean.  My floor is always gross and I hate it!

So there is my brain dump for the day.  It's nothing pretty or nice, but it's what is going on over here.  I think I want more posts like this.  The reality of my day.  The challenge of wanting to get things done, versus actually doing them.  And you know what, after posting this it is giving me the motivation to scratch some things off the list.

The summer is slipping by.  I will enjoy it!