Jessica Brannen.
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
https://twitter.com/lavieim

Lately: A new year and sort of peeking at it, trying to get acquainted with it slowly. Hello January. You have the same name as last year, but you're different.

Playing in the snow. Reading. Writing. The time of year I start buying fresh flowers. Wanting to paint, sew, bake. More time for writing projects and long walks.

Listening to: Southern Shores, The Radio Dept., New Order, LCD Soundsystem, The Drums, Max Richter, Four Tet, John Maus

Reading: Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Virginia Woolf, Tove Jansson, Alain de Botton- Essays in Love, Mary Oliver

Watching: Pippi Longstocking

Scotch tape, play doh, book pages and freshly cut grass on top ranking smells list.

Persnickety yet easy-going?
And no more naturally austere than you are naturally vicious. (Charlotte Brontë)

Middle child.

You can make me a Mexican feast and bring me tulips or cosmos.

Bookish, journal-writin' type.

Husband from Scandinavia and 2 kidlets.

Grew up in Chezzetcook on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, playing on the beach and in the woods. Still spend a lot of time there. You can hear roosters.

Lived in Sweden for many years and speak Swedish. Love Sweden and Finland. Visit every year.

Hollyhocks and delphiniums.

Studied art, photo, film and textiles. Have a love of all things arts and crafty. Also gardening, sewing, and writing.

Remember rolling down the hill?

Remember picking Fool's Gold out of the road with butter knives?

Remember that time we sneaked into that white abandoned house and saw a wedding dress in the closet?

Let's go swimming in the ocean.

And go thriftin'.

I can peel carrots really fast.
I'm left handed.
I wish to find secret letters or notes hidden in old walls.
I love good old-fashioned letters.
I love quilts.
I love scraps.
I make a mean pancake.
Collective nouns are funny.

Over and out.

happy muddy pig, Erik Axel, 2

happy muddy pig, Erik Axel, 2

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expressionless horse, Erik Axel, 2

expressionless horse, Erik Axel, 2

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(Source: momomi)

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Jenni Rope Three things, 2011

Jenni Rope
Three things, 2011

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Out

This weekend Astrid collected her first beach-combing haul of the season,

and she arranged flowers into darling bunches tied with ribbons with her Momi (grandmother).

Meanwhile I happily traipsed about with clippers, collecting greenery and flowers and making this bouquet with cedar.

And I triumphantly got a big bunch of lilacs, so now I don’t have to plot where I’m going to steal them from by night in the city anymore.

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pleatedjeans: dorkery: mrfl4sh: lava bbq I lava good bbq Is no one going to mention the fact that the lava has a face and it looks pleased that the sausages are almost ready?

pleatedjeans:

dorkery:

mrfl4sh:

lava bbq

I lava good bbq

Is no one going to mention the fact that the lava has a face and it looks pleased that the sausages are almost ready?

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halfeleven: Modular tent system (via Designs & Ideas on Dornob)

halfeleven:

Modular tent system (via Designs & Ideas on Dornob)

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thank you, dad i saw gleefully riding his daughter’s scooter down the street to pick her up at school

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“Erik Axel! WHERE are your shoes?”

We pretty much failed Parenting 101 forever tonight when we (dun duh dun dun…) Let Them Out of the Cart in a Big Store Close to Bedtime.

I was that mom going “If you don’t stop that runnin yer gunna go straight back in the cart…what did Mama just say? Look at me- did you hear my words?”

But I guess their excitement kind of won me over in the end.

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