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Hey friends, Happy Monday!  I hope you all had a great weekend.

Grey and I snuck off to Sweet Salvage‘s ‘Sixer Upper’ market on Saturday afternoon and it did not disappoint!  I was so excited to go armed with my new camera since the past few months we have been traveling when the markets have occurred, so we haven’t been able to attend.  If you are local to Arizona, you have to make it a point to go to their Wicked Faire next month — that is THE BEST one.  🙂

I took a lot of pictures and we also purchased some goodies as gifts for friends and family for the coming months.  Just a few things but we’re really excited about our finds.  This market theme was in celebration of Sweet Salvage’s sixth birthday.  As usual, the displays were amazing and the creativity that goes into them is really something.  The vignettes are full to the brim of beautiful antiques and old things that are so special.

Aren’t those rustic rosaries beautiful?  This was a fun beachy scene with lots of seashells, sea sponges, blue-glass objet d’art, and plenty of texture.

This vignette had ostrich eggs in an urn and old beehives.  Amazing texture here and one of those messily perfect displays that I love so much.

I bet you’re noticing from the pictures so far all of the beautiful pops of green.  🙂  There is something so fresh and cleansing about the color green…

Very cool layered bar cart.

Meanwhile in the warehouse…

A green color story.  🙂

I also am very intrigued by messy displays of vintage silver flatware…

I’m finding it’s one of my favorite scenes to take pictures of.  🙂

Thanks for following along!  I hope you have a great Monday.

This past weekend I was so excited to attend Highland Yard Vintage’s August market, Home Sweet Home.  I don’t think I have written about Highland Yard on the blog before — I have created several posts about Sweet Salvage, another four-day vintage market in Arizona.  Highland Yard is closer to where I live than Sweet Salvage and it is also connected to a huge antique store.  The store is open each day but the market lasts four days a month.  The vignettes are stunning and there is so much inspiration to be found here.  I love going and this was my first time attending one of these events with my new camera!  So that was exciting.  😉

Usually the decor is pretty farmhouse-y, but there are so many elements that you could take and put into many styles of design.  Everything is expertly layered, and that is one of my favorite takeaways — layer your vignettes!  Texture, color, finish, etc. — just layer it all.

Of course since it is still August, there were plenty of Summer touches to be found in these vignettes.  Lots of seashells, some beach glass, rope…

Plenty of beautiful faux greenery around, too — some of which was very convincing!

And just a few pictures of vignettes that intrigued me in the regular store…

Thanks for following along with me!  🙂  Sweet Salvage has a market this weekend so I am hoping to go to that so I can share with you!  I’m also looking for some new silver, so we’ll see how that goes.

Continuing with my li’l travel journal on this blog, I have some pretty pictures from our trip to Lake Tahoe.  We went with Grey’s family and had a great time.  There were a couple of cool wildlife sightings — the bluejays and the occasional squirrel running into the house we were staying in provided really good entertainment.  😛

There were many things enjoyed on the giant outdoor deck — meals, laughs, relaxation, and of course popsicles.

We didn’t venture out from the house very much.  We had the occasional meal out and went to an adorable town called Truckee relatively nearby.  Grey and I found a cute coffee shop near the house, too.

But who would really want to leave our own private beach and beautiful scenery?

Next year on our vacations I plan on keeping a travel journal so that I can actually remember the places that we went!  😉  All of that information is pretty fuzzy a few weeks later…

Good morning — happy Tuesday!  It’s been a while.  🙂  I have been doing a bit of July traveling and my pace has slowed down, which has been so nice.  We went to Telluride, Colorado with my family and Lake Tahoe with Grey’s family, so I thought I’d do a couple of recap posts.

I hadn’t been to Telluride in almost ten years, but this is a place where I spent some time each Summer as a teenager.  My parents invited Grey and I, and my brother and Julia to crash their vacation and enjoy time there with them.  🙂

If you’ve never been, Telluride is an adorable mountain town with the most incredible backdrop — it looks fake!  We always stay at Mountain Lodge, which is just about a twenty minute gondola ride from the town.  Once we parked our cars at the hotel, we didn’t drive again until the day we left.  The gondola station is just a short walk from the hotel, and that will take you straight into the town.

These are the pretty condos at Mountain Lodge.  We stayed in one equipped with a kitchen, which made breakfasts easy.  Typically we would eat breakfast at the hotel, and then head down into town for the day, having a linner before heading back up.

There are several great park-type places to sit in the grass and relax, and plenty of beautiful Aspen trees.  They look like the leaves are waving to you when the wind blows.  🙂

Of course there are a multitude of awesome restaurants.  The only place that we went to that I would not recommend is Steamies — they serve burgers, but you can find a better burger anywhere else!

And of course the shopping — there are so many cute shops that all seem to specialize in different things.  Even pop into the drugstores — they all carry their own array of handmade soaps, lip balms, lotions, etc.  And fun snacks, too.  Be sure to go to Gardenstore if you like to sip on wine while you shop.

I had some pretty severe altitude sickness while I was there, which was the only unfortunate part.  Since the elevation is at 10,000 feet, drink tons of water, and if you need oxygen, stop into Atmosphere Spa.

Good morning, friends!  We are back from an awesome trip to Telluride and ready to tackle the week.  I’ll have pictures from the trip to show you later this week, but for today I thought I’d share some photos I took on my birthday.  Every year, Greyson takes me to a place called the English Rose Tea Room for a little tea party.  😉  He’s obviously very kind and thoughtful to do this considering this is honestly the frilliest place I could possibly choose to go.

The owner of the tea room is from England and so I love how authentic the experience must be.  We always get the Cream Tea, so each of us get our own pot of tea that we select and then two scones, delicious jam, and Devon cream — like incredibly thick whipped cream, the consistency of butter.

Each place setting at the tables has mismatched teacups, bowls of sugar, delicate spoons, and glass tabletops with sheet music, post cards, fabric, and photographs displayed inside

The walls are covered with all sorts of girly things.  Faux greenery, beads, crystals, birds, mirrors…

At the front of the tea room, away from the dining room, there is a little shop with many fun trinkets and, of course, tea.

I love going here each year and it’s something that we save special for my birthday.  We definitely could go more than once a year, but I love that this is our little tradition.

Hey there!  In case you didn’t realize from yesterday’s post, for my birthday I got an awesome camera so that I don’t have to take pictures on my phone for the blog anymore!  😉  It’s very exciting.  I’m still learning how to use it but so far so good.  When we were at my in-laws’ house on Saturday, I got to photograph some of my mom-in-law’s Summer decor, and of course I have to share.

I love this wreath and it did double-duty for Spring and now Summer.  During the Spring months there was a cute little bird on it, and my mom-in-law just took that off and added these shells for the warmer months.  The faux boxwood wreath she bought on Amazon, I believe.

Here’s the foyer scene.  🙂  I love how this area is always decorated because there’s just something about coming into the house through the front door and seeing something so pretty that makes me happy.

All kinds of pretty details, but as you can see, a good apothecary jar is something that you can never have too many of.  😉

This little urn gets updated for each season, and I love this rendition with white rocks and some shells.

This is the library centerpiece — faux pearl strands, shells, and candles!  I also love how my mom-in-law tied a white string around a silver dollar and decorated one of the candles with it.  A great example of using what you have!

And of course, my favorite room, the brick room…  🙂

Starfish, a ceramic shell (it’s huge!), crystal, candles, and petite rocks.

Have you decorated for Summer yet?  What do you like to use in your vignettes?

Good morning!  Happy First Day of Summer to you.  🙂  Yesterday was pretty epic — temperatures in Arizona reached 120 degrees…it was a hot one!

Summer… Things that speak Summer to me are pretty simple…  Stripes, lots of texture, crisp vegetables, berries, flowy blouses, patriotic patterns, and soothing blue palettes.  This time of year really is all about effortlessness, right?  Relaxation, recharging, inspiration, and a slower pace.

This is Summer as a feeling…to me.  🙂

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