Razzle. Dazzle.

Decorating small spaces. Baking for my husband. Becoming a city girl and figuring out my new home. And being the best mama I can be to my lil Boston baby girl!

Plus many things that I love or make me think.

by Ginny G.
Need me? ginny2222 {at} aol {dot} com

Sep 28
“Girls always wait for the world to give them things. To see what sweet, smart, obedient girls they are, then paste a star on their foreheads. It doesn’t work that way. The things you really want in life, you have to take.” The Flamenco Academy by Sarah Bird (via quote-book)

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Jul 9

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be critical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.

© Max Ehrmann 1927

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Jul 5
npr:

cheatsheet:

discoverynews:

that back seat is pretty crazy!
gotagirlcrush:

Got a Girl Crush On: Emily Finch, mother of 6 with no car and 1 incredible bike
Call her crazy. Call her a Portland stereotype—although she claims she doesn’t do it to save the world—“I cancel out my bike riding every day with all the other terrible things I do,” she admits. “I don’t compost, I stink at vegetable gardening”.
But, Emily (34) traded in her SUV for a bakfiets (a traditional Dutch cargo tricycle) to haul her brood of six (ages 2 to 11).

In three years, Emily estimates she’s spent about $135 dollars maintaining her bike.
It also saves her money on exercise equipment or a gym membership. She’s lost 25 pounds since she got the bike in 2009 and says she never thought she’d get back to her pre-birth weight after having six kids. When I asked her why she doesn’t get an electric-assist system, she replied with a big smile, “Because I like chocolate!”


Talk about a POWER-FREAKIN-HOUSE!


Moms are incredible! 

Yes! And they are all wearing their helmets. —Daisy 

That’s awesome.

npr:

cheatsheet:

discoverynews:

that back seat is pretty crazy!

gotagirlcrush:

Got a Girl Crush On: Emily Finch, mother of 6 with no car and 1 incredible bike

Call her crazy. Call her a Portland stereotype—although she claims she doesn’t do it to save the world—“I cancel out my bike riding every day with all the other terrible things I do,” she admits. “I don’t compost, I stink at vegetable gardening”.

But, Emily (34) traded in her SUV for a bakfiets (a traditional Dutch cargo tricycle) to haul her brood of six (ages 2 to 11).

In three years, Emily estimates she’s spent about $135 dollars maintaining her bike.

It also saves her money on exercise equipment or a gym membership. She’s lost 25 pounds since she got the bike in 2009 and says she never thought she’d get back to her pre-birth weight after having six kids. When I asked her why she doesn’t get an electric-assist system, she replied with a big smile, “Because I like chocolate!”

Talk about a POWER-FREAKIN-HOUSE!

Moms are incredible! 

Yes! And they are all wearing their helmets. 
—Daisy 

That’s awesome.


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Jun 29
boston:

THE BIG PICTURE
Extraordinary Microscope Photographs 
The Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition honors the world’s most extraordinary microscope images and videos of biological subjects.

For Tay!!

boston:

THE BIG PICTURE

Extraordinary Microscope Photographs

The Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition honors the world’s most extraordinary microscope images and videos of biological subjects.

For Tay!!


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May 15
tallgirltales:

By Kristy Gammill
[via whiskeysoaked] 

Nice palette!

tallgirltales:

By Kristy Gammill

[via whiskeysoaked]

Nice palette!


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May 4

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Mar 1

xeno

emphasisadded:

n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.

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Feb 23
“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn’t make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.” Amy Poehler [via muchtoyourchagrin:drinkyourjuice:littlelaur:whatthehale] (via tallgirltales)

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Feb 6
gastrogirl:

layer and lollipop cake.

Audrey’s only 15 mos., but I’ve already decided that the theme of her 2nd bday is Lollipops & Big Bows! This cake should suffice!

gastrogirl:

layer and lollipop cake.

Audrey’s only 15 mos., but I’ve already decided that the theme of her 2nd bday is Lollipops & Big Bows! This cake should suffice!


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Feb 4

emphasisadded:

The Color Run in action!  Ahhh!

Liz, let’s get cheap strollers & do this in Denver!!!

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Jan 3
tallgirltales:

Kate Moss closing out the Louis Vuitton S/S 2012 presentation in Paris.
[via musingsinfemininity:browneyedbellejulie]

Love this.

tallgirltales:

Kate Moss closing out the Louis Vuitton S/S 2012 presentation in Paris.

[via musingsinfemininity:browneyedbellejulie]

Love this.


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Dec 16
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”

Anne Lamott (via myquotelibrary)

Anthony sent this to me today in reference to my mother. It made me cry while I was feeding Eleanor cottage cheese. Motherhood!

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Dec 6
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”

Walt Whitman (via misswallflower)

I love Walt so.

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Nov 12
Because I haven’t posted in foreva! Sorry, just chasing a (very fast) baby around these days!

Because I haven’t posted in foreva! Sorry, just chasing a (very fast) baby around these days!


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