she swings so cool and sways so gently

i've been feeling some online love lately, and i really appreciate it. the comments from my last post really mean a lot - it was such a weird experience but it feels good to have a few listening ears out there :)

last week guest-poster heather (of the gorgeous gathering spriggs blog) and holly from decor8 were kind enough to post about mushroom & moss vintage shop on last weeks etsy take five tuesday post. thanks so much ladies! and a few days ago my friend summer did a cute post about girls with cameras and included a shot of mine i'd nearly forgotten about. thanks summer!

i also wanted to share a few things that have been cheering me up lately. it's been rainy and gross for what feels like weeks here in portland, so at this point i'm looking for inspiration wherever i can find it: this beautiful video, the first cherries of the season, banksy's amazing, hilarious, thought-provoking movie exit through the gift shop (you can see the trailer here), totallylookslike.com, finally meeting sabrina ward harrison in person (and seeing her amazing art, and giving her some of my postcards and showing her my cute camera, because i am a huge dork :), fresh peach and strawberry smoothies, this adorable wire bird cage tutorial by julie collings, and this song (on itunes: garota de ipanema (single version) by joao gilberto & stan getz).

hope you're having an inspiring (if not sunny) week!

ps - i'm on the lookout for a new digital camera. don't need anything too fancy but i'd like something substantial with good depth of field. any thoughts or suggestions would be *greatly* appreciated!!

ours is just a little sorrowed talk

when i was 16 i was obsessed with a guy. not just obsessed, but obsessed. if the world didn't revolve around him, i most certainly did. he was the most charming, adventurous, gorgeous guy i had ever met. there was some wooing, some kissing (ok, a lot of kissing), some drama, and many tears. and i wrote about him. i wrote notes to friends, i wrote letters to him, i wrote in my journal, i wrote cheesy, angsty poems, and i sent one of these poems in to sassy magazine (oh sassy, another tragic memory from my youth...). because my parents were very religious, and because i'd used the word "damn" in my poem, i only put my first name. and sassy published this poem.

three years later this boy killed himself. and i tried to tell myself that it wasn't that big a deal, that we hadn't even talked in over a year, that he had so many problems and was in a better place now, but it really, really hurt. and by then my issue of sassy with my poem in it was gone.

every now and then i'd check ebay for sassy magazines, but i wasn't even sure which issue my poem had been in. a few years ago my then-husband actually tracked it down and was thisclose to winning it for me for christmas, but it didn't happen. then today i finally got around to reading tavi's blog post about sassy. it hadn't even occurred to me that i might find my poem, i just loved sassy. but there it is.

17 years later.

my poem.

what a strange, strange world.

*** update: tavi mailed me the sassy magazine with my poem in it. thank you tavi :) ***

i'm on the line, one open mind

i got to help abby with her table at the big crafty wonderland sale this weekend in portland. we had so much fun and as usual it was so inspiring to see everyone's gorgeous, creative booths. i bought a little bowl from the amazing ceramic artist michelle summers (you can see more of her work here) - seriously sooo stunning in person.

abby's photos were of course so beautiful as well, especially seeing all of them together. if you weren't able to make it to crafty wonderland, she's having a big clearance sale on all of her prints, bookmarks, postcards, etc through the end of the week ~ don't miss out! she'll be closing her shop during her big move to austin, so get them while you can!