another sweet year

christmas reminds me a whole year has gone by.
i'm getting so far from childhood.
but it's sweet. it's sweet. it's sweet.
and scary and sad.
and fine. and merry christmas.

xx

chloe

black and white mood

delicate, flower-printed teacup
tangled-up legs
vintage hips
patterns
this dress.

early morning and i can't sleep for dreaming.

xx
chloe

i haven't forgotten you

its just... the leaves began to change, and i had to look out the window
and watch them fall
and daydream
and tell myself stories about all the places i'm going to go. and all the dreams i'm going to live. and how everything will work out just fine. because it has to.

love,
chloe

fall

one day it was summer and the next day it was fall. i love the change of seasons here in new england. there's something magical about it. the crisp, cold air and the leaves beginning to change. it makes me feel anything could happen.
and it makes me want to buy boots! lovely tall wintery boots to wear every day until they are worn thin. and high-heeled booties to run all over in. with short filmy dresses that blow in the wind.
i love the boots by born. and their gorgeous, wild models dressed in layers like gypsies. oh i am craving boots like these!

i hope all of you on my side of the world are enjoying these first nips of cold.

xx
chloe

a little explanation and so so sorry-ness

oh my goodness, dearies, i just cannot seem to post here with any regularity anymore! i feel quite guilty about it. but perhaps i have just entered a new stage of life... one in which there is much less time! i am such a grown up these days. sometimes it makes me quite sad.

but know i think about you all often, my little collection of readers. someday, i hope, i will be able to visit you again...

love and misses,
chloe

at last!

hello loves. finally i am able to post some photos to show you a little of what i have been up to.

i went to a fabulous wedding!

i strolled prospect park in brooklyn with my dear friends (i am the one in the hat!).

and had girl time.

but most of all, i have been decorating the new rooms!

they are far from perfect and not anywhere near done yet. but i am making progress bit by bit!

it's so hard to make a place feel like home.

here's the kitchen, which is still mostly bare:

and here's our gorgeous porch, also nearly empty.

i keep telling myself it will come together, that it just takes time. but i am so impatient. i so want it lovely and homey now!

xx

chloe

one more little thing...

if you have a moment, do please stop by the blog i do for the vintage boutique where i sometimes work. this week my boyfriend and i were the models! i feel quite silly when i look at the photos... i don't think my calling is modeling afterall, heehee... but come visit anyway!

the worst blogger ever!

sweethearts, so sorry i cannot keep up with this blog these days. it seems like every time i turn around there is some new project waiting to completed, and this little place of mine just falls by the wayside. it makes me so sad not to visit all of you and say hello. sometimes i wonder if this whirlwind is ever going to stop! but i have faith that it will, which is why i keep posting, even though it is not very often or very much. thank you so much for still stopping by and sending me little notes. they really do mean the world, even though i never reply! and thank you so much for all the gorgeous decoration websites! they were so very helpful and now my apartment is coming along quite nicely. here are some of my favorite finds. just some simple, prettiness that makes me inspired and excited.

i love the brightness of these rooms. the mismatched patterns and furniture. the way the spaces seem so loved and lived in.

oooh, i am in love with this:

it is so gauzy and girly! what a wonderful idea to hang diaphonous clothing in the windows for curtains.

that is all for now, loves. i will post pictures of my own rooms just as soon as i can! oh, and these photos are from galadarling, decor8, and designsponge, but i can't remember which is from where!

xx

chloe

a new home!

what a beautiful day it is! i have been wearing a wide brimmed hat and riding my sea-foam colored bike all over town. i feel like a character from a movie!

and it's done, we have moved! my boyfriend and i are buried beneath a mountain of boxes, in the sweetest little apartment i have ever seen.

i cannot wait to set up every room and make each one perfect and exactly right. oh how i wish i had more money so i could buy some beautiful treasures with which to to fill it. but since i do not, all the old, well-loved belongings will have to do.

i want our rooms to be unkempt but not messy, cozy but not sloppy, girly but not prissy, surprising, lovely, and maybe a little bit classy. is all that possible?i am searching the internet for inspiring photos of how to decorate. if anyone knows a wonderful site for this, please share!

(all photos from the divine couture carrie)

oh dear

i'm afraid more apologies are in order, sweethearts. i just can't seem to sit down long enough to blog these days. though it is not for lack of wanting, i swear! it is just that my boyfriend and i have found an apartment. a light and airy little space in a tiny town with a balcony that hangs over the river. we are moving this weekend! i cannot wait. i will be sure to post pictures once we are all settled in. in the meantime, here are some lovelies that struck my fancy lately.

i so want one of these adorable cartoony prints:
but how will i pick just one?
there's something about this hel-looks girl that is just so sweet.i adore her shoes and bag. plus she gave a shout-out to one of my favorite bloggers, the drifter and the gypsy.

and this gorgeously girly skirt:
and these words:

Miracles

by Walt Whitman

Why, who makes much of a miracle? 

As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,  

Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,  

Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,  

Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,  

Or stand under trees in the woods,  

Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,  

Or sit at table at dinner with the rest,  

Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,  

Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon,  

Or animals feeding in the fields,  

Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,  

Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright,  

Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring;  

These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,  

The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.

love to you all, out there in the world.
xx
chloe