Moonshine Junkyard

twas my birthday on saturday! to celebrate i wore (for the first time) a beautiful vintage indian dress that i thrifted back in the early summer. it has some of my favorite colors: raspberry wine and cherry blossom pink, with a quilted yoke and dangly bell ties. i went with darin up to the mountainy forest where an unexpected winterland awaited and an icy wind blew, snacking on figs and tabouli in the warm car, listening to leonard cohen, daydreaming, reading, exploring, wrapping myself in an old quilt. it's weird growing older, and i love it, pretty much everything about it. i love silver hairs and confidence and being stoked on my one and only loveable body just the way it is, hips and thighs and belly and rounded edges and healthy hair. i love laugh crinkles and expansive tastes in foods and drinks (when you're young you think you hate avocadoes, eggplant, bleu cheese, how wrong you were!), love the ability to walk anyw...

remember our big witchy-full-moon-girls- gathering back in january? well we've been trying to plan a follow-up full moon themed girls night for months now and it finally happened. GYPSY NIGHT! rachel planned it so that we could have it at her rad airstream trailer in the woods ( which i've written about before here ): perfect setting for a full moon gypsy caravan forest spread. are you ready ladies......okay, check out this magic she created..... seriously, i died and went to heaven.   every detail was perfect: candles, colored strings of lights, rickety chairs, velvet couch heaped with instruments, scarves and tapestries hanging from the branches, a record player in a wheelbarrow draped in pink gauzy fabric, flowers and herbs and bells and baskets. pure gypsy summer outdoor loveliness. beautiful busy rachel, she's got the magic touch. brittney looks like a real romany, we decided. em, bedecked and bejeweled. happy m...