SallyJean: Falling for Fall in a Vintage Way

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

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 ~