First off, I cannot keep a secret, even about my age...I just turned sixty years old in May and have adopted Naomi Judd's catch~phrase I am "aging gratefully"... I truly am grateful every day for the beautiful things at this stage of my life... I am content... Sometimes when I am with my little sister Jill (she will always be my "little sister", when we were kids our mama used to say I was Jill's "other mother")...we act silly and giggle alot and you would think I was that little girl again I showed a picture of in my last post... other days I feel every one of my sixty years...My family is my number one priority in life...we are all so close, not a day goes by that we don't see or talk to each other...
I grew up in the small rural town of Bountiful, Utah, which adjoins the little rural town of Centerville I live in today... my childhood memories are also such an important part of my life today...I was taught values and traditions, and I never break a family tradition and have started some new ones of my own as well... I have a deep respect and love for all things from the past, objects and people included...I love to see old buildings and homes restored (like the little 1940's cottage my sister is restoring) rather than torn down... A perfect day for me is going to an estate sale and finding something really lovely to bring home... I always feel a closeness to the person who the object once belonged to, and believe that person who has passed on knows this and is smiling down at me...
I collect a number of things, with no real rhyme or reason as to what I choose... the objects really do "call out to me"...A few of my favorites are vintage pie birds, vintage mini French perfume bottles, vintage rhinestone jewelry, anything vintage with roses, vintage garden and nature books, the list goes on and on... my most treasured heirlooms are the ones that were in my family...
My love of Nature is never~ending and each day I am amazed once more by her beauty.. I love all living things, and believe they can sense that... I cannot go for my walk without stopping to pet each dog we pass along the way...or stop to smell a beautiful rose... or talk to a dove cooing at me from a wire above...One of my favorite sayings is "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"... I am trying to remember that and "slow down" a little, I tend to always be on the go and hurrying to get things done (there really are not enough hours in the day for all the things I want to do!)
I love talking to people and hearing their interesting and inspiring stories... I believe that is why I am enjoying my blog sooo much, I have met so many lovely ladies who have shared parts of their lives with me through emails, or their blogs, and I want to know more about ALL of you! I have featured some of my favorite shops and ladies on my blog, I love to share good things, and would love to share thoughts, or pictures or anything else you would like me to on one of my next posts... please drop me an email if you would care to... Till then...
P.S. I just noticed today that Alice's husband, (at Painted White, my previous post) has a blog and a shop himself... click on the little photo of "Renoir" their Cairn Terrier on my sidebar to go back to Painted White and read about Joshua too...
8 comments:
So nice to get to know you a little better and we are so much alike and love and appreciate the same things. I was so excited to learn that you don't live far from me. I know the town where you live, have been there several times. I live in Yorba Linda and we are a little more than an hour apart. I hope that means that I'm getting closer to one of my hopes of meeting a blog pal in "real life". I'd love that opportunity with you one day!
Thank you for being so open and candid, you really are such a lovely lady!
xoxo
Karyn
Thank you Karyn for your sweet comments! I live in Utah however, and I believe you are in California, so we are a little farther apart than you thought... would be so fun to meet one day in person though!
Julie, I think you are the big sister I always was looking for, but could never find. I have 3 brothers and no sisters. You could have helped me stick to tradition. I have been making a few traditions since my kids got older, and now with grandchildren but what I use to tell my daughter was that my tradition is, shacking things up, being different, following my senses, making everything special with the needs that persist.
I love your style, I think that we all need each other. We could have alot of fun.
Oh, by the way, I think "60" sexy.
That's my goal, I have 3 more years.
Sweet Cindy, you always leave the kindest remarks! Maybe someday I will meet you at Brenda's shop! I didn't have any brothers, my dad had hoped for a boy when I was born, instead he got me! I was named after him (his name was Jules) and I got lots of toy Army jeeps and toy soliders to play with when I was a little girl... I loved them though! I had another beautiful sister named Jo who passed away several years back from breast cancer... I miss her so... one day I will do a post about her, if I can write one without crying...she was the strongest, bravest woman I have ever known...
Hi Julie, I thank you for the sweet message you left for me. White Wednesday is sponsered by Kathleen at fadedcharmcottage.blogspot.com. All you have to do to join in is go to her site and let her know you want to participate and voila! She will add your name and link to her side bar and DONE. I love whites and seem to have a lot of them so I enjoy it.
I so loved getting to know you better through this post. We sound like we could be very good friends.
Hope so.
Smiles,
June
Hi Julie, I hope I look just as good as you when I get to that age, which is coming very fast. The whole setting with you is lovely. This is my first time over here and I just had to meet you because of a comment you left on some ones blog. Darn it I forgot who it was but she was raising a dove. I have to hand it to you for doing the same thing in the past. My whole life was saving many types of wildlife and it has been a lot of work and money. I admire anybody giving a helping hand when it comes to animals. They need all the help they can get when in trouble, and it take a special person to do it. Not many care to do so.
Take care and have a Great Day-
Julie Marie,
I know you more with this actual post.
I will like to see your collection of vintage mini French perfume bottles.
I have myself a collection but they are stocked in a box. I never see the bottles since more than ten years. Oups!
Au plaisir.
Anne;-)
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