Fresh Figs

Home Again, Home Again

Home at last... Without going into tediously boring detail, our family has arrived back in more or less one piece after 2 weeks in Poland & the English countryside. Our trip was an eclectic mix of traditional Polish celebrations, quaint strolls through Old Town Warsaw, complete family insanity, rolling green hills of the British countryside, all of my favorite family comfort foods, London sightseeing, beautiful lakes and blueberry picking.... just to name a few. I think I might share our adventures with you in various categories but I have to admit that among the strange things that I love are.... British countryside doors! I know, doors, who would have thought. But there is something so charming and personal and quaint about these doors that I just can't resist. I go around like a dork, taking pictures of doors while people stare at me with polite smiles! On top of it all, did you know that in Britain most of the homes have no physical address, only the "name" of the house and not just any old names like House 12... oh no, names like Burburry Cottage, Mill House, Brambleberry Manse, Peony Cottage, Countryside House, Honeysuckle House, Birch Lane Cottage, Geranium House, Rose House, Chester House... just to name a few. Aren't those just wonderful? I think I have decided I am going to name our house. I just don't know what exactly. Fig Cottage. Fresh Vintage House. Fig & Roses Cottage. Figs & Insanity House :-)..... I'm open to suggestions...

Talk to you soon.

A Little Family Adventure

Day #1 of our trip..... London!   No pictures yet... beautiful weather... will post when I have a better connection...

A bit more Market...

Well... here are a few more shots of the booth from Market and look someone actually managed to get me in the shot... that's a rarity! I have a few more to share after this with a couple more great MODA booth shots but with all that has been going on around here... Well lets just recap: We are still trying to tie up Market orders as they have been pleasantly overwhelming; Fresh Vintage auto ships are almost all out; working on tieing up our next collection; designing patterns to go with it; we're trying to work out the kinks in a couple of website updates we are doing; I'm training a few new people this week; our entire network and phone system crashed a few days ago and we have been building it back up from scratch ever since... you don't even want to know more about that; all 3 of my munchkins have end-of-year activities this week and my beloved husband is in Tahoe for a conference for his other job... need I say more? If you have emailed and I have not responded, please bear with me. I am not ignoring you all! On the sane side, Ella and I have picked some beautiful herb and flower bouquets this week; I have played card games with the boys and I have completely redecorated my living room... well, maybe I have just reslipcovered and redecorated my couch, but it makes the whole room feel brand new! What do you think?

Talk to you soon.