summer reading

Happy June!

I love that one of the feelings I still get in the beginning of every summer is that it's time to read lots of books! Growing up, as soon as school was out I liked to always have stacks of books around and plan out which ones i would read next.  

I thought this summer i would re-read some of my favorites.

The List:

My dear friend Kate gave me my first copy of The Secret Garden for my birthday when we were little, and i remember my mom reading it aloud to me and my sister that summer.


Anne! I loved the movies always, and read the books when i was a teenager and they are simply the best. I think summer is a pretty good time to 'be' on Prince Edward Island too.

This is a book my Grandma found at a school library sale. It's about two sisters named Sarah and Evelina and their family during the civil war. They are best friends and have a sweet little adventure in each chapter.

I grew up watching the June Allyson/Elizabeth Taylor/Margaret O'Brien/Janet Leigh movie version, (and the Winona Ryder one too!) and finally read it a few years ago. It was one of my favorite movies, and now also one of my favorite books. Marmee is so smart and wise!

A few from the Betsy Tacy series. I love these books! I just love everything about them.  One of my most common re-reads. Plus, they are set in Minnesota, so I feel pretty cozy when I read them.

American Girl!! I haven't read these in forever. I just finished Happy Birthday Kirsten, and now i want to have a birthday party just like her.  I plan on getting some more of these from the library soon. I think Molly and Samantha need a re-read too.

And there it is!

Are you planning on reading any old favorites this summer? or have any new favorites?

january

After putting away the Christmas decorations i always want to organize things and decorate around the apartment,

new year, new giant calendar!

My mom gave me her milk glass collection, and i brought the first piece back with me.

 New Christmas book on the shelf.

Some old records of my dad's that i brought back from the trip.

lots of clean laundry to put away.

And a little show and tell of a few more Christmas presents,

instax mini!

 colorful children's books

 cute little black apple notebook

more pretty tapes

my sister painted this mini portrait of Fig!

anniversary

last friday was our wedding anniversary!

we spent the day together, going to the record store and the bakery to get an anniversary cupcake,

and i opened some anniversary prezzers from mike. he also got me the whole series of boy meets world! it was the most romantic thing ever.

then later we went out to dinner,  where we sat by the window and watched it rain and rain just like it did on our wedding day. 

ahh memories. xo.

ps, thank you all for the anniversary wishes on my last post!

lately

farmer's marketing:

staying inside most days away from the heat and sewing a lot:

thrifting:

snippet

here's a little snippet of the weekend.   i went to fabrika in savannah and got this red riding hood fabric.i'm so excited for it to turn into a dress! i also cut out fabric for three other dresses. i found this to be easier to do when mike is home, so he can hold fig. i have to lay out the fabric on the floor, and she always wants to come and lay on top of it and tries to eat the pins.
i also read some in one of my favorite books. my mom read it to us when we were little, and i was really happy to learn that it's actually the first in a series. so i got the rest on my kindle all ready to go.
and lastly, this weekend we ate lots of guacamole!

nowadays

picking flowers in the alley behind our house during fig walks

an especially honey sweet and crispy honeycrisp apple. an apple with peanut butter is my favorite food right now.

my dala horse on a bookshelf mike just finished building.

a new pink polish. and tangerine chapstick from my cousin Miranda's new shop , i love using organic beauty products,  and she makes the chapsticks from organic honey and bees wax in delicious flavors. yum. me and mike keep stealing it from eachother back and forth..so probably time to get some more.

sewing all the time. i got a whole lot of colorful fabrics for some spring dresses and tops.

picture an hour

i love picture an hour posts! and i finally remembered to try it out on saturday. it was a staying home and working on orders kind of day, and it was fun to have the assignment of taking a picture every hour.  next time i want to try an out-and-about picture an hour day too.

10:00 am

eating honey-o's with extra honey

11:00 am

getting ready for a run

12:00 pm

oh she glows detox salad for lunch

1:00 pm

working

2:00 pm

 organizing some supplies

3:00 pm

dark chocolate break

4:00 pm

working on some valentine ideas

5:00 pm

more crochet

6:00 pm

leftover mexican rice bowl for supper

7:00 pm

folding laundry

8:00 pm

planning some new dresses

9:00 pm

looking at blogs and working on a grocery list

10:00 pm

fig sitting by me while we watch i love lucy..and crochet some more

11:00 pm

reading in bed