do i dare disturb the universe?

Home Goods is the place to go for your autumn decorating needs!

• All Hallowe’en Greetings door hanger, $7.99, Anyone who knows me well knows that I’m really into postcards from the Golden Age of Postcards (1904-1914). Inspired from a college magazine class, I’ve written four feature articles on old postcards for three magazines. I love this image — I’m almost positive that same postcard is in my family’s postcard collection!
• Giant Autumn Coffee Mug, $3.99, For drinking the above coffee in, of course. I’m so excited!
• Pumpkin Pie Candle, $3.99, It smells awesome. My apartment is 69 degrees, and if it drops lower, I really don’t want to turn the heat on. This will make a nicely scented alternative!
• Pumpkin Pie Mocha Coffee, $4.99, Yum. I’m so excited to try this! I hope it’s delicious, because healthy it is not. Oh well!

Yesterday afternoon, Kansas City was hot and windy (like really windy) with weather reports all over KC predicting possible thunderstorms and tornadoes come sunset.

The storms missed us. The tornado hit a town a couple hours north. Instead, the weather dipped down to a comfortable 74 with a light breeze and low humidity. The weather was perfect. Matt came over for dinner and afterward we took a walk to my mailbox, located a few buildings away.

On our way back, I spied our neighborhood playground. Instantly, I reverted back to childhood as I dashed through the dewy lawn in flip flops and jumped on a swing. Matt followed suit, though not nearly as enthusiastically. I pumped my legs, stretching for the sky, as I flew higher and higher in the air. We swang while watching very distant lightening and neighbors driving in and out, going on with their lives. We talked about childhood playground games and antics and the like, and I thought of my old blue swing set growing up in Wheaton.

After five minutes of childhood, reality struck. The swing was too tight; its metal smelled up my hand. And instead of jumping off the swing at my highest peak and doing a split and turn in mid-air before solidly landing on my feet as I once did, I did a simple jump at a more conservative height. At least I jumped. And I’m excited to go back more this summer!

It was a nice night :)

A post on last night’s super delicious, healthy, affordable AND fast dinner recipe coming up tonight!!

Happy Birthday, Papa.

I miss you.

This postcard was sent exactly 100 years ago.

Last year, I posted a different vintage postcard daily in December. For more information about this card, click here.

And for some more nerdy Christmas vintage postcard trivia, check it out!

I think I posted this last year, but I like it too much. Merry Christmas!

(via tallgirltales)

Happy birthday Dad!

I love Archie.

(Source: comicallyvintage)

Happy birthday J and K! 

My cousins “J” and “K”, who were like brothers to me growing up, both had birthdays recently. “J”, on the left, turned 19 on Wednesday, and “K”, on the right, turns the big 21  today. Wooo.

Picture taken in 2001.

Are you a criminal of fashion?? I sure am!

(via theswingingsixties)

I kind of like this.

(Source: misswallflower)