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Hello!

Updates….coming soon!

In one form or another. :) At present they’re so secret that even I don’t know what they are yet. I mean, for all I know, I might end up posting that this blog is going to be shut down forever. Or I might have a picspam post. Or a recipe. Or…who knows?

I shall leave you with something my boss said. We had two visiting assistant store managers in the place, and this is how she introduced me to them:

“This is Abby. She’s a smart-aleck, and she needs a boyfriend.”

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No truth to either statement, I assure you!

 

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I’m writing a novel this November. What are you doing?

*not my image, and I don’t know where it originally came from. If you know, let me know so I can give credit where it is due.

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Morning coffee in my favorite mug. I stuck it in the very dirty back window for this picture. :)

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I managed to get my hands on the label maker at work today, and now all the little Marshalls employees are running around with code names on their name tags. Mine is Gwendolyn, along with a stupid nickname from my brother that I refuse to tell you. Grace…you can find out what yours are when you work tomorrow. They’re kind of awesome. I want your names.

The head manager gave me a long-suffering eye-roll but a smile, and let me carry on. The second manager would have stopped me, but I told her earnestly that it was all in the name of associate morale, and that code names helped keep the employees happy. Naturally she saw the sense in it, and let me carry on. I work with some pretty awesome people.

I turned the nametag Gwendolyn side out for a while, and as I was ringing up this one man, he asked me if I ever had difficulty spelling my name when I was a little child, because Gwendolyn is a hard name to spell. ;) I explained that Gwendolyn was my code name for the day, because I just felt like being Gwendolyn today. He seemed to find this very amusing, and told me that his wife was the same – that her name was Cheryl, but sometimes she just really felt like being Jill for the day.

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Fabric is yummy. :) This is destined to turn into tote bags for Etsy. I have so many ideas for my little shop, and not nearly enough time! Actually, my roommate Grace and I are putting our heads together and coming up with something pretty neat…hopefully we’ll be able to turn our plans into reality!


This song is really beautiful. :)

Inspiration!

I’ve been obsessively updating my Flickr faves lately; trolling Flickr for images that speak to me. These are my recent favorites; methinks the gray color theme might be a reflection of the weather here – overcast and chilly! Despite the color, I don’t find it at all dreary, though. Even rainy, overcast days have their appeal. Normally I adore them, but these days I’m just not in the appropriate mood to enjoy them the way they deserve to be. Sunshine, come out, come out, wherever you are!

Recent Faves

1. Brittany, 2. bluebirds, 3. pajaritos, 4. maggie, 5. Selina Lake – Peaches&Cream, 6. Tea for One, 7. Newly painted guest room, 8. bike, 9. Happy Pretty Pink Tuesday!!, 10. for the love of polaroid, 11. the wall through the hassie, 12. Ella ya no está, 13. Moonlight beach, 14. bedroom2, 15. autumn on the porch, 16. bodyfull, 17. Untitled, 18. Going_final shots-6, 19. sorting, 20. windowsillinmontmartre, 21. Mirrored Dressing Table, 22. knitting in the windowsill, 23. strawberry cupcakes, 24. Untitled, 25. Untitled

The blank squares are from protected images. They’re still worth a look though – they’re numbers 9 and 13 in the link list above.

I’m Still Alive!

I really am! And here’s a little quiz thing to prove it. :) Stolen from The Graceful Lady.


What is your current obsession?
Spring! It’s been beautiful here lately, and the fact that today is the first day of spring makes me very, very happy. My roommates and I drove to the park in Bex’s little red convertible and played tennis for an hour or so. I think we’re getting better at it! And even if we aren’t, it’s so much fun. :)

What are you wearing now?
Jeans, black tank, grey shirt. And my cherry necklace wrapped twice around my ankle. :)

Do you nap a lot?
No, never. Only in very extenuating circumstances – i.e. I’ve been up for twenty hours, or I’m horribly sick. 

Who was the last person you hugged?
I think it was Bex. She plopped down on my lap so I kind of had to. *nods*

If you were a tree, what tree that would be?
A tall silver birch.

What’s for dinner?
Macaroni with cheese toast and mixed vegetables.

What was the last thing you bought?
A latte. It was yummy.

What are you listening to right now?
Nothing. It was Rascal Flatts earlier, though…

What is your favourite weather and why?
I absolutely adore fog. But they don’t seem to have very many foggy days in CO…so, warm and sunny with a nice breeze. :)

What is one thing you have always wanted to do or learn?
I would love to learn to play the piano, but as of right now, I just wouldn’t be willing to put forth the time or effort. Ballroom dancing! I want to learn that. A lot.

What is your most challenging goal right now?
Finding out who I am, really, and staying true to that. Growing in my faith. Becoming less…intimidated. It’s a big scary world out there, you know! ;)

If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where you wanted it to be?
On the East Coast by the ocean – a little blue-and-white beach cottage with a green lawn where we sit and have al fresco lunches, and play tennis and croquet afterwards. A narrow little path bordered with salt roses that leads to a secluded beach area – not too much sand, there’s quite a lot of rocks to explore too…nights are warm with sweetly scented salt breezes, and the daylight hours are idyllic and joyful, with strains of some familiar music filtering out through the opened windows of the house.

Favourite vacation spot:
Anywhere so long as it’s with my best friends. :)

What movies can you watch over and over?
Oh, way too many to list! But just off the top of my head:

Daniel Deronda
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Arsenic and Old Lace
Anne of Avonlea

What is your favourite tea flavour?
Twinings of London’s Earl Grey! But I’ve developed a liking for their Ceylon tea lately, too.

What are you reading right now?
“The Complete Sherlock Holmes” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I just finished “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell” by Suzanne Clarke. I like big books. :)

What is the landscape of your mind?
Lilacs and roses and dandelions and yards of linen and embroidery floss and Earl Grey and coffee and jellybeans! Vintage patterns and all my favorite books, old and new! Late nights and playdates at the park and blue skies!

What is the latest quotation which made you impressed?
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around. -Katherine Hepburn”

You have one wish:
I wish I knew what to wish for. Whoops! Oh, well.

What’s in your pockets right now?
I’m still wearing my pajamas, which don’t have pockets. And my robe, which has…hm, a teabag in the right-hand pocket. Earl Grey.

 

Here are the rules:

1. Respond & rework the questions on your blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, add one more question of your own.

2. Tag eight other un-tagged people.

I’m not tagging anyone. I don’t like tagging people. *sulks*

Changes

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here. And since then, some seriously crazy changes have been taking place in my life – well, mostly just one, but it’s a doozy! :)

Short of it is – I’m moving to Colorado in January.

I live in Connecticut. So this is me, literally travelling halfway across the country to be on my own. Until this past June, I’d never been out of New England in all the twenty-one years I’ve lived here. So needless to say, it’s exhilarating and frightening and I am so scared. And looking forward to it like you wouldn’t believe. They take turns getting to be my foremost emotion. LOL!

And when I say on my own? I don’t quite mean that. I do mean that none of my family members are going with me. I am, it would seem, cutting the apron strings in the most dramatic possible way! But I’m going to be renting a house with three of the dearest girls in the world; true kindred spirits and I love them to smithereens. :)

So yes, that is what is taking up all my time. Plans and packing and working hard to earn the necessary moolah. I haven’t had time for any crafting! I hope, however, to revive this blog come January – fill it with, perhaps, photographs of our new little house and how we make it home. :)

(PS. The basement is named Panama. :D An imaginary prize to anyone who gets the reference!)

How many days has it been since I’ve updated this journal? Weeks? Months, even. Either way, it’s been entirely too long!

There have been some pretty big changes going on in Abby’s world; the main one being that I am pulling up stakes, as it were, and setting off on an enormous adventure. This little Connecticut girl is headin’ out West – does Colorado count as “out West?”

That’s right. I’m moving. Out on my own, halfway ‘cross the country. I shall be setting up residence in a tiny, adorable white house (there are lilacs, and yes, a white picket fence!) with three other girls. Why, you ask? The answer isn’t exactly simple. You see, I’m not entirely sure myself. I’ve never done anything half this big before, half so frightening, half so exciting. I tell inquisitive people it’s because “that’s where my best friends in the world are,” and perhaps it really is as simple as that.

Maybe I’ll be fortunate enough to discover myself in the process.

Tales of the ocean…

Finished at long last!

At very long last, I’ve finished my afghan!

(Sara, I’m still working on getting the pattern for you. I haven’t forgotten! Expect it up shortly.)

I meant to take a picture of the whole afghan, but the lighting was rather hideous today, and it was all I could do to get a decent detail shot.

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