:: Take a Ticket To My House ::

the title is an homage to The Nields, one of my favorite little folk bands from when I was a kid

In my alternate fantasy life, I live within walking distance of a sweet little cafe and a nice, busy-yet-peaceful park. And I go to the park each day with Evan. And I am always dressed like this (especially the first one), even in winter (it's a fantasy world, people):



I write notes to friends instead of emails, or maybe in addition because I still kind of like email, and I always use letterpress stationary or notecards. In fact, even though in my fantasy life I actually own my own vintage letterpress and make my own things, I still often use these by 12fifteen, at etsy) because they're so lovely:



I meet friends for lunch several days a week and people just drop by my house in the afternoon to say hello. Sometimes, we all walk together with our kids and pets and all and we get ice cream or go to thrift stores where we always find the coolest things supercheap, like cool mugs and quilts and stuff like this:

1. Untitled, 2. thrifted mugs, 3. sat 1 mar, 4. GE, 5. Fire King!, 6. Franciscan Dishes

Also, I take beautiful photographs like the lovely ones above (which I did not take -- follow the links to see who did) and my house is sunny and I make money in some creative way, which is to say that I create things of some kind and people pay me. My hair is redder so that no one ever says to me, "Where does your son get his red hair?" and then follows that up with, "Your hair is almost red."



And Brian cooks dinner every night. (I stole this from my real life because it's good enough to keep in my fantasy life.) But we never use paper napkins that cost 99 cents for 250 of 'em. Instead we use napkins I made from the vintage sheets I thrifted with my supercool thrifty friends.

Oh yeah. One more thing: we have a pool.