Well, I unceremoniously almost missed it yesterday...

but happy St Patrick's day :)

by Camilla Gough. Amazing.

ohhh the shoes! and the bracelet! and the hemline!

Hugh Jackman

It was rainy and cold today so Erin and I crashed on the couches with our lunch and watched Scoop this afternoon before we attempted to motivate ourselves to do something that did not involve almost-napping.

dreamy

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you…”

-Captain Wentworth, Persuasion

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

—John Lubbock

oh! the table and chairs!

máquina de coser

I want a sewing machine. :)

My Spanish friend took me all over our neighborhoods looking for a place that sells sewing machines but they were really really nice (read: expensive) so I'l keep looking.

In the mean time... I have sewing on the brain

{sigh}

{sigh} the dress...

love

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.

— Washington Irving

I can’t go back to yesterday

because I was a different person then.

— Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

It's like a cottage...on steroids... wow :)

I would have a bbq on that porch and walk down those steps and swim off that dock.

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like."

— Lemony Snicket

Obviously I don't subscribe to the idea that my life's events are determined by "fate"...this still made me laugh.

turquoise

I have a thing for the color turquoise.

I affectionately refer to it as my "accidental favorite color" :)

(many thanks to B who I stole this from)

I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want - oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"

— Mark Twain

{sigh} dream

advice from Hudson

Hudson: "That guys stupid." {Looks at my mom} "That not a nice word, I not supposed to say that, right, Patti?"

Mom: "Right"

Hudson: "But I like it. Try it Patti, try saying that guys stupid. You will like it."