The little matchbox girl grows up.

Once there was a girl who liked to build furniture for her Barbie dolls.  She started with match boxes but then her repetoire grew and included all kinds of bits and pieces from around the house, including empty thread spools and scraps of fabric.  She started counting her pennies and saving bits of her allowance to go peruse the aisles of the local art store, as well as the Ben Franklin, where her head would be filled with dreams and she would find many treasures.

And then she grew up and went to college, met a man, fell in love and got married.  But the husband came with a house, a house imbued with the history of a family lost.  The old, the dated, even the broken and nonfunctional was caught up in this dysfunctional history, a history that, she was to learn, was long and convuluted.

That girl, a woman now, was me, of course.  And for a long time that little girl who built matchbox furniture was lost to me.  But the story of how she was lost, for how long, and why is another story, not the story I wish to tell today.  Today I am simply happy because she is back.

However the world has changed and I am no longer playing with matchboxes.  Rather, realizing that I was floundering somewhat, and didn't quite know what I was looking for, much less where to start, I been virtually shopping on the world wide web and gathering my ideas on Pinterest.  Internet-shopping and pinning was a great way to pass the downtime while I was in Dallas at my mom's for a couple of weeks, and it also helped me to focus, both in a broad general sense, in terms of what appeals to me now, and eventually in a more focused way in terms of what I want to do with the house in Moss Creek and where to look when I actually start shopping.  I'm not the worlds busiest pinner.  And the way I look at the world, and the things in it, is very context driven, but I still can't say that my style fits in any particular category.  

July is my play-time month. I seem to be traveling half the month and running around the other half with little time to work on projects.  But I do have fantasy time and this play time is helping me refine ideas and organize what I need to do next.  I don't quite know what the results will be the process is a lot of fun.

Photo Credits:
1. Diamond Match box from menards.com.

2. Holland and Co. Dandy Console from Lee Jofa.

3. Crystal Ball Pendant Light from Circa Antiques.

 4. Table by Jeff Johnson. 

You knew I'd have to throw something modern in the mix, didn't you? I'm just ornery that way sometimes.  Too much homogeneity dampens the spirit.