Falling for Fall in a Vintage Way

 Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. 
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr. ~ 

Let's sit & chat

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. 

~ Henry Miller ~
 

Taxidermy Fetish

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
~ Jane Austin ~
 

THIS staircase comes with a house for just $56k

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. 
~ Winston Churchill ~

( I ) Love Letters

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

~ James Herriot ~

Purr-alicious

 History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.  
~ Konrad Adenauer ~

Buy a Bank

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new. 

~ Tony Visconti ~
 

Mix it Up

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. 

~ David Thelen ~
 

I'd learn to cook if I had this kitchen

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. 
~ Benjamin Franklin ~

This Restaurant
via
Haute Living

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums;
others, we take for walks. 

~ Roger Caras ~
 

Free People

and

Anthropologie

Age appears best in four things:  old wood to burn, old wine to drink,
old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
~ Francis Bacon ~
 

 

Drink it Up

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take
between two deep breaths.  

~ Etty Hillesum~
 

Tattered Tush

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times
together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out
on the tough days of adulthood. 

~ Charlotte Davis Kasl ~
 

Roll with it

History never looks like history when you are living through it.  

~ John W. Gardner ~
 

White Elephant

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land,
but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. 
~ Franklin D Roosevelt ~

Art to Wear

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

~ CoCo Chanel ~
 

40 Winks

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.
~ Broderick Crawford ~ 

Light my Fire

 History is who we are and why we are the way we are.  
~ David McCullough ~

Note the Window
 

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

~ Aeschylus ~


Kid Art
 

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend. 

~ Lucy Liu ~


 Closet Case

 

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

 
Take a Seat

 
 I collect clothes - they keep building and building.
I buy them instead of having them washed. 
~ Juliette Lewis ~ 


What to Wear

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.  

~ Spanish Proverb ~

Confection Obsession

Real treasure lies not in what that can be seen, but what that cannot be seen. 

~ Unknown ~


It's a Box-Ful
 

People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.  

~ James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son ~


Just floored by this floor of a local eclectic proprietress
 

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are,
the things you never want to lose.  

~ From the television show The Wonder Years ~


A place to put it

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick
you can hardly catch it going.

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

Wheel it Around
 

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals
and many copies. 

 ~ Alexis de Tocqeville, 1856 ~


Make your own Museum

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot.  
In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
~ Oscar Wilde ~ 

Pretty Purse

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at.
We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. 

~ Thom Gunn ~

The Zebra-keeper

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. 

~ Joseph Campbell ~

Something Silver

We do not remember days; we remember moments.  

~ Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand ~


Barn Bride
 

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds
than none at all. 

 ~ Mark Twain ~


With This Ring
 

History does not unfold:  it piles up.  

~ Robert M. Adams, Bad Mouth ~


It's a Sign
 

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. 

 ~ J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922 ~


Phlower Photo
 

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure,
but I don't know many of them 

~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar ~


Bath Time
 

Memory feeds imagination.

~ Amy Tan ~

 

Oldie but Goodie
 

It was that there are no simple lessons in history,
that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history.  

~ John Toland ~

Old Fashioned Lights

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

~ George Bernard Shaw ~


Own this school for less than college tuition
 

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

 

Comments

[Amanda]

Beautiful pictures...I'm inspired!