Camping Bliss

Our little camp.  Spaghetti and no meat meatballs.  Blackberry honey wine.  Our little over nighter was so relaxing and needed!  I was so surprised a single night away would be so rejuvenating!

The wildflowers were off the hook.  Rolling spliffs, making a flower crown, and carving our names in a tree never seemed so romantic and perfect.

Can you see the two butterfly friends?  They were fluttering around together and giving each other butterfly kisses before landing on this little bush.

A Mover and A Shaker!

So besides selling vintage, working a little downtown shop job, kissing my babe and kitties and hanging out with my friends and family, I also feel that one of my most important passions in this life is my birth work.

As a women of child bearing age, but not yet ready to consciously conceive a child I was called to research natural birth control methods about 8 years ago.  I had taken birth control pills when I was in high school and even though I would not say at that time I was socially conscious or naturally minded I knew that they were not a sustainable practice (when I was younger I thought I never wanted children!) and I felt they were not good for my body and cycles.  I ended up finding the amazing book, Taking Charge of Your Fertility, by Toni Weschler about this time and I haven't taken birth control since (I also recommend this book for any fertility issues!  It has become like a bible to me!  This book changed my life!  I felt for the first time that I had control over my body with the knowledge of it's cycles and realized there was so much I didn't know and felt like why didn't they (ANYONE!)  tell me!  I think that is when I become passionate about natural women's health, fertility  and body knowledge.

A couple years later a friend told me in passing about Ina May Gaskin and The Farm and wouldn't you know it a copy of her book, Spiritual Midwifery and I crossed paths soon there after and that book changed my life all over again!  Around this same time a friend of mine had a homebirth and was amazingly empowered and I started learning, researching, talking and thinking more about all the knowledge that literally was flowing into me and through me.
I do plan on having children at some point now and I am so excited to birth them!  I feel like I am still developing my personal philosphy and beliefs about birth.

This year, besides starting The Awesome Birth Teacher Training I also started my doula certification through DONA.  Sometimes, I feel really radical about my ideas and views on birth, but then I realize I truly believe in the female body and babies so strongly and lovingly!  I feel babies should be brought into this world as gently and lovingly as possible, as free from interventions and as natural as possible.  I feel that educating families and supporting and educationg mamas and papas is key.  I feel that with birth practices becoming more sustainable we will bring to life a healthier and more peaceful world.  I can't wait to see where this path leads me and what is to come with my birth work and I can't wait to birth my own babies and raise them.

This is a response for the Awesome Birth Teacher Training and I am thinking of documenting each response on my blog!  I really want this blog space to expand!  Each week, I will be submitting a response for this training and I will also blog them!  Also, lots of shifting in my personal life and if everything goes as planned my man and I are going to be moving and fixing up a house on acreage!  We are so excited and I am really excited to document our homesteading adventure as it progresses as well! :) :) I'll keep y'all posted ;)

*All Images Via The Underground Press*

A Beautiful Little Fool

The Great Gatsby was my favorite required reading in high school.  I did my junior year project on F. Scott Fitzgerald.  That kinda blows my mind reliving the story through the movie.  Why did I connect with this story as my 17 year old self?! Haha.  Well, as I continue to Ponder that I now TOTALLY CONNECT with the fashion!  And recently and not so recently I have some beautiful pieces that fit right into that era of beauty, which you can find in my etsy shop by clicking here!  

This dress is outrageously perfect.

Such a cute little mod version of a flapper girl dress!

If this was a tiny bit smaller it never would have made it to the shop! :)

Little blue suede 20's shoes!

Free Spirits

So, an extremely exciting and fun video shoot happened recently.  I feel so lucky to be apart of a community of rad girls who love vintage and are doing amazing things, that I get to be apart of :)

Becky from Blacksheep and Velvet Leaf is opening up a REAL LIFE STORE.  With doors and windows and tons of pretty clothes!  YAYAYAY!  Don't worry her etsy will be alive and well too :)

And I am excited because our little town so needs this and of course I get to sell my clothes there too and hang out with my favoritest girlies :)  

This video shoot included the two babes from BlacksheepVL, Becky and Emily, Me (Bone Tooth Antler Vintage), and the flirty, giggly, sunshiney bright Heather of Moonshine Junkyard.  How lucky am I, these are the girls I get to chill with?!  These are just some shots I took when I could.  This shoot was super fun, we had cute dogs, cute kids, pizza, a meadow, and SPARKLERS!

Becky has her own matching dog to this guy, but this is her Dad's doggy.

Heather can even make a dog smile, ahhh yeah she's just that good.

Dogs crack me what can I say?  Pretty girls and dogs, it was a good day!

The major babes.

her hubby is the camera guy!  can't you tell by Heather's eyes?!

 

Oliver sees his mama, Becky.

Emily is totally pretty. 

And then we got a little witchy.

It was so much fun, I can't wait to see our finished product, and of course share it with everyone.  And don't forget to check out Heather's blog for her pictures!!!

God Bless Our Pad

Well gosh guys, I moved again.  I'm trying to get settled and set up shop again.  I live with my boyfriend now.  Our cats have finally became a family, we've got his big Maine Coon, Junkyard, my silver and white sleek lady, Galaxy, and my little perma kitten 5 pounder at going on two years old, Olive.  They are adjusting quite well.  They kinda act like that have all been a cat family for years already.  And they have known each other's smells for  quite a while now.  Olive got out and didn't come home for two days.  I wept!  I cried for 2 days and had major anxiety thinking, she would get attacked by a dog.  This cat LOVES every animal she sees!  She touches noses with skunks, she cuddles with wolf dogs a moment after meeting them!  She was bitten by a rattlesnake this summer, and my garsh if I wasn't relieved when on the 2nd night I heard her girly, little high pitched meow at the door.  She got hugs and kisses for an hour!  And she didn't have a scratch on her :)  

It has been fun making dinner and coming home to my guy.  This is still a temporary place for us though.     

The Last Day of Summer

I'm 1/16 Miwok.  I'm an Indian.

These wildflowers made it throught the hottest days of summer.  Tough little mamas.

I'm a pisces on the cusp of aries.

I am an animal lover and a cat friend.  This is one of my buddies, Cheechers.  He's a sweet guy.

These photos were taken a while back- the ones of me by my boyfriend.  The Cheechers photo I took.  All edited by me.

Heather's Birthday

It was my roommate, Heather's birthday on September 20th!  So we had her a little potluck at our abode.  I recently missed out on my friend, Mo's 30th birthday bash and I'm quite bummed.  I think I even shed a tear while reading her blog about this party of a lifetime, but this little party was also a good, sweet time with friend's celebrating a birth that is very close to my heart.

Ha, this was the cake I made her.  You think I am a crazy cat lady, well Heather is one in the same.  I found this recipe and idea on some blog sometime ago.  I had to make it!  Behold the LITTER BOX CAKE!

Doesn't it look disgustingly real?  It's chocolate and white cake crumbled together with vanilla pudding and crunched up vanilla sandwich cookies.  The turds are tootsie rolls, that I scuplted myself!  And I went to the dollar store and found the tub and scooper, which I still washed a hundred times, just because!  I surprised Heather with this cake and of course she loved it.  Everyone thought it was hillarious and REAL! 

Heather has been bartending on and off since college so she invented and made the special birthday cocktail, which we dubbed "The Enchantment".  It was amazing.  It was vodka, elderflower liqueur, homemade ginger simple syrup, muddled mint, lime, and cucumber, and a splash of club soda.

  

Not so much a cocktail man, even Jordan thought it was bomb.  He's cute.

Heather's boyfriend, Willie made Jumbalaya.  We had three batches, the veggie version, the gluten free version, and the meat eater's version.  It was good!  I made cheesy, garlic mashed potatoes, they were good too!

I don't mean to brag, but Heather had to work all day so Jordan and I cleaned our whole damn house and lit candles and set up Christmas lights outside!  I was proud and Heather was super grateful.

Barbeque chicken and veggies galore grilled with oil and balsamic vinegar.  We also had fresh french bread and a big green salad.  A PERFECT potluck!

I hope you made a good wish birthday girl!

I was so afraid no one would eat my cake!  But look, a few drinks and everyone partook!  It was a good night!