Don't worry

if you were thinking recently about how much you wanted to get me a gift, but just couldn't decide on what to get me, I have narrowed things down for you.
You can get me a diana camera. which would allow me to take lovely pictures like this:

OR a flash that I can attach to my Holga which would allow me to take pictures that aren't blurry and underexposed, and would look like this:

OR film, which is now almost extinct, and much too pricey for my budget, for my polaroid. Then, I could take pictures like this:

If none of these things sound reasonable, please remember that I also except cash or check.

a good day for thrifting

I went to two thrift stores on the 3rd, and have taken pictures of my new items for your viewing convenience.
First I went out with Brooke, Kaylie, Kendra, Katie and Claire to Kneaders and felt joyfully back at home. We're supposed to be friends, I know that because of how dearly I love them, and how quickly everything fell back into place.
I don't have any pictures from the day, but I think Kenj does, at least from that evening. We just need her to put them on her bloooooooog. Then Brooke, Kaylie, Kendra and I went to the DI.
I bought these things:

This is a high-waisted pencil that also happens to be tuquoise and cost me a beautiful 5 dollars. Thanks to the DI.
Then I got this little 6 dollar jacket with short sleeves, pockets and this funky little plaid.


And Lana hates this sweater, and has come up with dozens of mean names for it. I think it upsets her that it turned out so badly, because she made it. But I got it for two dollars so it's absolutely worth it. Also, I like it. It looks like something meg ryan would have worn in one of her earlier films, you know, in the eighties.
Then Coal Umbrella had their "going out of business" sale, although it was paraded as a flea market at Velour. Travis and I went after the Freedom Days Fair, and I got these shoes for 3 dollars. Huzzah!

p.s. Please take a moment to adore my new kitchen. My favorite thing about it is the checkered floor.


Then Travis bought these two ooold polaroid cameras for five bucks a piece. It's awesome, because they're both totally functional. Add them to Travis's point and shoot, pricey canon, and my holga and we're starting to accrue a healthy number of sweet cameras.
Okay, yes. They're almost all his, but I have full access, and have even been there for the purchasing of many.

Anyway, the fourth was... the fourth. Parades, snowcones, water skiing, fireworks, and obscene amounts of traffic.
You know, the same as it always has been and will be.
God bless America.

perfume factices

Hi friends.
I made another blog.

Grandpa Patch and I are working on selling his factices online, and I still don't quite have the hang of ebay. (Honestly, how hard can it be? and yet, I can't sell things on it. Bah.)

But please check out all the bottles and factices that I have for sale, and email me if you are interested, but even more awesome would be if you would put a link on YOUR blog. No pressure.
(rebeccah.louise@gmail.com)
Here's the blog:
franticfactice.blogspot.com

my grandmother is a teenager

this is her at 16. with her boyfriend.


* we have the same sleeping patterns. unlike my grandpa, my grandmother and i stay up well past midnight, and get up after ten every day.

* she watches american idol. obsessively. and spends time roaming itunes and buying american idol music.

* she listens to jason mraz, matt costa, feist, ingrid michaelson, and all the same music as you.

*she knows the theme song to the O.C. and can sing or whistle it to you at your request.

*she spends all day on her blog, or reading her friends blogs, and has more hits than anyone else i know.

* she chats online, and emails back and forth people that she's met online. several times, she's even arranged meetings and gone out with these mysterious internet people.

* today we went into Trader Joe's grocery store. it's all organic, and super healthy. as we stood in line with avacados and shepards bread in hand, my grandma whispered, "you better go get some cookies quick. quick!" i came back with two types. "we'll just get them both," she said.

* i made a cake. together, we ate it.

* she enjoys watching arrested development, and we're making our way through the first season.

i fit right in here. we are the same.

a slew of dresses

I have so many dresses to show you.
I can't keep them all here to myself unless you see how cute they are.
Sorry the pictures are so bad, I was pushing the picture button on photobooth, and running back and forth while on speakerphone with Travis.

Admittedly, these first two dresses are not as neat. I bought them at the Gap (they were SO cheap! I think 15 bucks a piece.)




This grey one is from the Gap, too. I think grandma's going to have to take it in a little. I ended up buying an eight, even though it's way too big. They just didn't have anything else, and how could I say no?
This dress, however, is not from the Gap. It is home made.
My great-great grandma made this dress for my great grandma when she was a teenager.
I'll be honest, I almost died squeezing into that stinking dress. It is SO skinny. It does make me much better behaved, though. Good posture, no reaching, crouching, or running or the dress rips.


This was also my great grandmother's dress, though from a little later in life. It definately fit me better.
I felt like Jackie O. wearing it, and it fits perfectly. The only thing is that it is made of wool, and it's so blasted hot! I guess it's a winter dress.

Look at the detail around the neck line! I love it!! It was homemade, too.
The blue and green dresses were similar to the white except that they weren't as fitted, and they had gathered waists, but they were also home made wool dresses belonging to the great grandma.


Aren't they sweet!

Just a few weeks ago a friend said to me that she found some of her grandma's old dresses and was wearing them.
I complained, saying "My grandma has nothing of the sort lying around her house!"
Oh, how wrong I was.

The dresses all belonged to Babalou, or Grandma Louise (the woman after which I was named.)
Isn't she beautiful?
This is her at twenty-one, and below is a picture taken just a few months before she died of breast cancer.

Check out my grandpa's (her husband's) very sweet blog here.

A few more pictures around the house

Turns out I couldn't stop myself, and I had to keep taking pictures.
And I had to keep cropping them together.
Anyways, this is a beach house, a grandparents' house, and a quilter's house.

a darling house

Did you know that I am living at my grandparents house?
It is beautiful here, and today when they left, I took it upon myself to play photographer.

I am lazy, though. So I took pictures, and then did not edit them besides cropping them next to each other.

This is my current home:






More photos to come, I'm sure.