Sometimes it is nice to get away, even if “away” is only 20 minutes down the road!
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Summer Vacation
As a kid, long summer days were marked by floating in the pool until the mosquitos came out, mom’s bean salad, boom boxes in windows and the ice cream truck.
Summer vacation is the best (even if grown-up vacation is just a few PTO days!)
Friday Things
My dearest friend, Miss Brooke (aka Tig) is jetting up from NYC to spend a summery Maine weekend with me. I could not be more excited.
Here is a random assortment of iPhone photos to tide us over.
Unofficial Start of Summer
Rattled awake by a thunderstorm this morning at 5 am, I’m back at the office after a most sublime Memorial Day Weekend.
Some of my favorite moments: dipping my toes in the Atlantic while the younger kids swam the day away, driving to the Dairy Corner with my boy in the passenger seat and his nephew, my sister and her boyfriend in the back – all singing along to the Alabama Shakes, spending time with a Westie, chihuahua, and two doodles, and making friendship bracelets on the upper deck as the sun beat down on me and the ocean lapped against the sand.
Ahhhhh, summer.
Sunshine, Tequila and DIY Projects
This weekend was one of those rare completely-open-calendar ones. This coincided nicely with the fact that it was clear, sunny, and almost 80 degrees.
We are close to ushering in summer. Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of lazy afternoons on the beach, bobbing in the sea on a pink float, late nights singing by a bonfire, top-back Jeep excursions, burgers and dogs, and shaking off the cobwebs that gather during the gray months.
Inspired by a neon manicure, some Milagro tequila and a sun-drenched afternoon, I revisited the fun pastime of whipping up friendship bracelets out of embroidery floss. I plan on jazzing them up and making them more refined with some studs, rhinestones, and other odds and ends I pick up at the craft store.
I forgot how relaxing the repetitive action of making those brightly-colored knots can be, and how satisfying it is to start with some threads and end with a finished product.
Hot Off The Dress 