SallyJean

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 ~

 

 

Feeling Blue...That Summer is Ending

Summer.  Beach sand, perfect tans.  Day walks, night talks.
Sleepless nights, pillow fights, & spending every day with those who matter most.
~ Unknown ~  

Fit for a Queen

All lovely things will have an ending,
All lovely things will fade and die; 

And youth, that's now so bravely spending,
Will beg a penny by and by. 

~ Conrad Aiken ~

 

Wood-nt it be Nice?

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~   

Four-Way Fantasy

How lucky I am to have something that makes
saying goodbye so hard. 

~ 

Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie ~

 

Sweet Beads

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

~ Lazurus Long ~ 

Framed

Summer.  Beach sand, perfect tans.  Day walks, night talks.
Sleepless nights, pillow fights, & spending every day with those
who matter most.
~ Unknown ~  

 

String me Up!

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is. 

~ Bernardo Bertolucci ~ 

 

Let's play Dress Up!

Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was
to lose something you never had.
~ Unknown ~   

 

Two-Seater

Change always comes bearing gifts.
~ Price Pritchett ~  

 

Bow Tie for Enzo

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
~ Unknown ~ 

Take a Joy Ride

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me
there lay an invincible summer.
~ Albert Camus ~

Mounted in the Kitch

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course,
on where you stop your story. 
~ Orson Welles ~  

Innocent Art

Why does it take a minute to say hello
and forever to say goodbye?  
~ Author Unknown ~

  

Roll It Up 

In my end is my beginning.
~ T.S. Eliot ~

Shop-A-Holic

Good seasons start with good beginnings. 

~ Sparky Anderson ~

Write Me!

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it,
change the way you think about it. 
~ Mary Engelbreit ~

Paper Flowers

 To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
~ George Santayana ~  

Lay Your Head Down

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.
~ Unknown ~  

Underwater Fantasy

Growth is the only evidence of life.
~ John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864 ~ 

 

In The Picture

I've always felt that life is a novel,
and part of it is written for you,
and part of it is written by you.
It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.
~ Lynn Johnston ~

Where to put it

Moving on is simple, what you leave behind that makes it difficult.
~ Unknown ~

 

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

Don't be dismayed at good-byes.  
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes,
is certain for those who are friends.
~ Richard Bach ~

Play Date

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is the best ending for one.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
 

Reflections

Every end is a new beginning.
~ Proverb ~ 

 

 

 

 

It's a Party!

 A conclusion is simply the place where someone
got tired of thinking.
~ Unknown ~

Wrap Yourself Up!

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning
ends some thing.
~ Paul Valery ~

Handmade

 The world is round and the place which may seem like the end
may also be just the beginning.
~ Ivy Baker Priest ~ 

Bathed in Luxury

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr ~ 

 

She's Lit...

May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back. 
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields. 
And until we meet again,
may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
~ Irish Blessing ~