In my wallet.

These are business cards that are currently in my wallet.  It is fun to see how business cards reflect businesses or persons.  Love everyone of these.  [mine is in the center.  currently very plain.  originally did it as a temporary card until I did new ones but ended up liking the simplicity of them.]

ps.  One of my all time favorite business cards wasn't in my wallet.  I know I have one somewhere and when I find it I will show it off. 

Dustbowl [preview]

Hello Friends. 

Dustbowl just so happens to be this weekend.  Norman Music Festival is going on too.  Oh and we can't forget the carnival happening on James Garner [everyone must fit in a ride on the ferris wheel!]. 

Pistachio jewels at Dustbowl will be looking something like this...

scenes from the weekend.

Little Porter Peaches had a pretty bad weekend.  Ate something that upset his tummy.

Oklahoma storms moving in.

Seth let me buy some flowers to cheer me up [because Porter was so sick].

Belated wedding gift from The Landons.  Completely obsessed with this Jonathan Adler butter dish.

The Verdigris show.  So excited about Beau's Will Rogers documentary & the upcoming album.

Easter cinnamon rolls.

Just a little sweet & salty to end the weekend.

Wild Hare.

I heart my friends.

Sometimes when life starts to feel overwhelming there is no better medicine than visiting with someone about what is going on in their life. [Try this sometime if you are looking to be inspired.]

Today I am talking about Reese.   He is a father, a husband, a friend, a treasure hunter, and a shop owner.  Plus he is pretty awesome at all things he puts his hand to.  His warm and cozy, full-o-treasure, everywhere you look you discover something amazing shop,  Wild Hare Beadery, has been undergoing a lot of changes [of course for the better, duh!].  There is no more navy blue, what were they thinking when they installed it, carpet.  No more mismatched awnings.  No more costume jewelry.  Everything in the shop seems to be placed with thought and it all keeps getting better by the minute.

I will tell you that two things have stayed the same and these things are the most comforting thing about Wild Hare.  1. Reese.  He is always the same, concerned for your happiness, loud laugh, dance if you need to smile, crazy awesome jewelry designer.  Which leads me to the second thing that doesn't change - 2. his jewels!  If I had a bottomless pit of money I would buy a new necklace [Shit! Let's be honest - I'd buy five] every time I go in.  His jewelry is always evolving but you can always count on a necklace that is going to make your heart swoon.

On this particular day he was just putting up the first of his tintype necklaces.  Little pictures that are printed on pocket sized pieces of tin.  They were so pretty and carry a feeling of nostalgia.

Reese had no idea he was in this picture.

Photos aren't the best because I am taking them with my phone.

Look at how lovely his shop [& his jewels] are.

ps. Reese, along with Katie Huskerson [of Birdie] and myself, organize Dustbowl Arts Market.  Something I couldn't be more proud to be a part of.  It wouldn't be what it is without Reese or Katie.  Like I said - I heart my friends.

 

scenes from the weekend.

Mark Gibson show at 5 (the annex behind STASH).

You caught us, we're having a good time.

Estate sale find = new favorite thing.

Happy Birthday Becky.

Picnic at dirtybird lake.

Horseback riding.  Dallas, Peppermint, Molly, Cookie, Buzz, Callie, Whisper.  Horses get to have the best names.

Kabobs with the fam. Delish.

yum.

Last week we had an impromptu taco and basketball night.  Everything was delicious.  But our [new] favorite thing was the spicy corn fritters.  They were delicious.  

 

I mean!  Out of a magazine right?  We added a little bit of red pepper flakes to the batter so they were mildly spicy.  Oh man!  They were crunchy, sweet, spicy and so yum.  The recipe has a dipping sauce but calls for rice vinegar and we had issues finding that at Target and then never made it anywhere else to look so we skipped the sauce but next time we make these we are making the sauce because I can't imagine these getting any better but if they did I would guess it would be because of that sauce.

Topped with black beans, guac, hot sauce, and green onions.  We also dipped them in spicy ranch [so ghetto, I know] and salsa, both were rather good.

I also think for you vegetarian folks this would be good on a hamburger bun with some lettuce, tomato, cheese and barbeque sauce...just sayin.

Roots

This weekend Seth and I found ourselves in McAlister, OK.  This is where Seth spent a good chunk of his childhood growing up.  We spent about an hour and a half driving around town and Seth pointed out all his old hang outs [which were mostly canals, wooded areas or soccer fields].  He also drove me by his old house which was something to see because he used to live inside the gates of a prison.  His dad was the Warden at Jackie Brannon.  He has so many fun stories surrounding this time in his life.  He rode his bike everywhere.  I got to see where he had his first kiss, where he used to watch prisoners mow his grass, how big his dad's garden used to be.  So many of these stories screamed small town honesty and trust.  I don't know if I will be able to let our kids ride there bikes anywhere other than our street and I don't know that I would just let them wander around the woods behind the cool kid in town's house.  It made me think about what things I didn't tell my parents when I was growing up and how things have changed so much since we were young exploring the world.  I wonder how much more it will change before we have kids that are doing their own exploring.

Loved this old theater. 

This is the old high school.  Seth told me stories about being bussed over there for advanced classes.  He discovered secret spiral staircases in the round sections of the front of the building.  He also explained that this is where he first realized he loved old buildings.

We drove through 'Old Town' which is the original part of town that backs up to the railroad tracks.  Most of these buildings had antique shops in them.  I am dying to come back and discover lost treasures.

McAlister is known for the prison rodeo that happens once a year.  They have a couple of these statues of prisoners riding a horse or a bull around town.  I am going to the rodeo this year, no question about it.

This was Seth's house growing up.  I have heard so many stories about this house, it felt so good to finally lay eyes on it.  We couldn't get very close to it because all the prison gates were closed.

This is a [not very good] picture of the state penitentary.  It was so interesting seeing this.  Jackie Brannon and it are actually separate prisons just basically on the same grounds.  Jackie Brannon is a minimum security prison where the inmates take care of chickens, tend to the gardens, and get to play baseball [inmates even took care of Seth's yard].  I think I found all of this so interesting because it was a huge part of Seth's life but something I knew nothing about when I was his age.  Seth always tells stories about his dad taking him and his friends on tours of the prison...I bet there is no better way to scare a kid into behaving.

This is a picture of the prison grounds from behind.  You can see the penitentary [the white structures in the background] and the grounds that the Jackie Brannon inmates take care of.

 This is the sunset from over the hills of the prison grounds.  Prisons have pretty sunsets too.

Seeing all these memorable places in Seth's life made me think about the memorable places in my life.  It made me realize how important it is to me to have roots.

life list

In past months, years even I found myself wishing and/or wanting things I know I can't have.  A friend recently said "you can have both, you just can't have them at the same time."  Seems a little unfair.  Life isn't fair though.  And if life doesn't turn out the way you want you really only have yourself to blame.  --- All things I know to be true, doesn't mean it can't suck though.


This is my [running] list of things I want to do in my life:

• eat whatever I want [including gobs of cheese and loads of cookies]
• be skinny [or at least healthy]
• live on a farm [aka own chickens, wear wellies a lot, have a field to run in]
• live in a cool loft in a big city
• live in a modern home with a great view
• have an voluptuous outdoor space [with a dining area and a hammock]
• eat meals out of my own garden
• be an amazing cook
• buy, refurb, and sell old furniture
• plan/carry out crazy, awesome, exquisite events [weddings included]
• own a lamp shop
• be able to pick flowers out of my yard to create breath taking arrangements
• live without a care in the world
• be responsible
• have a short bob [haircut]
• have amazing, luscious long locks
• be glamorous
• be the kind of person who always feels great in a sweatshirt
• be content after a day filled with nothing
• never be content because then I would never be growing as a person
• make amazing, huge, beautiful hair accessories
• make jewelry and purses
• make cloth napkins and table cloths and cake stands
• own a pecan orchard
• have roots/traditions
• have small, quaint vintage home store/ stuff you can rent for parties store
• live on a beach [or any body of water]
• live on a whim
• be a baker who makes beautiful cakes
• own a big huge empty barn to have parties in
• take risks

*photo is of Union Hill Inn [can't you imagine a little wedding taking place right in front of the barn?!?]

ps.  I think I might need to win the lottery.
pss. apparently I'm into making lists.

this weather!

This weather makes me want to lay out in a hammock to read or nap.  I searched around the web dreaming of which lovely hammock I would like to purchase. 

Of course the one I am lusting after the most is the one that would put the biggest dent in the ol' bank account.

I also love this luscious cotton hammock.

 And I am girl crazy for black and white stripes so I would take this one too!













 Maybe I should get all three, that way I have hammock parties!