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Saturday, June 2, 2007

1. IMG_2397, 2. Wash Day, 3. bike alleyway, 4. Windows without windows, 5. Shhhhh…, 6. Grandpa relaxing place, 7. Old typography, 8. Foggy Dew, 9. Front View, 10. Bicycle in the Rain, 11. dragonfly / Virginia Beach, VA, 12. seahorses, 13. a, 14. zincletters, 15. i’m a famous drummer and i’ve lost my arms, 16. vernazza stairway, 17. behind the green doors, 18. good smells, 19. Typewriter Paper, 20. perfectly formed, 21. round, 22. Lichfield Road, 23. Blue Boat, 24. Año de 1842, 25. unfurling fern

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Tammy - June 3, 2007 - 8:24 am

Thanks for stopping by my little blog and for your sweet comments! I’ve been lurking around yours for awhile now, so it’s fun to “connect”. Hang in there with the job thing…what a bummer, and how stressful. Sending you lots of support…cheers…

PAT - June 3, 2007 - 2:02 pm

I enjoyed these photos and the ones from British Country Living!

Sorry to hear about your work troubles. I lost a job during a big layoff at a large microchip firm, in the early 80′s. Definitely no fun!

Pat
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Rosemary - June 4, 2007 - 11:10 am

Hi Sara,
Love the pictures!!
So sorry to hear about your work problems. I hope it gets better soon.
Rosemary

BECKY - June 4, 2007 - 2:29 pm

Sara, I hope you don’t mind but I tagged you on my blog. I just love your blog and web shop, and all your pictures.
Thanks,
Becky

Jen @ The Cottage Nest - June 5, 2007 - 6:23 am

What a great big bunch of flicr beauty. Thanks for sharing!

Amelia - June 7, 2007 - 10:10 am

I love the favorites you chose! I’m especially partial to the “A’s”…those are great! ;o)

Amelia

bitter sweet

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Yesterday was another tough day for me. The mortgage company I work for had yet another lay off. (Only 2 months after the last one). We all knew it was coming the night before, making Thursday a very rough, sleepless night. I worried not just about losing my own job, but also about the fate of my sister, and my very close friends, who work with me.

Friday morning came and my sister and I were spared, but unfortunately some of my very best friends were not. While I am of course relieved to still have a job, (I was demoted), it will not be the same without my friends there to make it the place it once was. This one was particularly tough on me because the friends I lost were the ones I actually went to work to see. They made work fun, they were my lunch buddies, and they were the friends that made the mundane job I have worth having.

I will miss seeing them everyday, I will miss the sarcastic jabs, and I will miss having them as a fixture in my everyday life. My life already does not feel the same without them.

I will miss you my friends! Please stay in touch.

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Jamie - June 4, 2007 - 1:18 am

I’m so sorry Sara! Sometimes it’s not the job, but the people that keep you walking in the door every morning. I am, however, glad that you and your sister were not let go. At least you have each other:) Hang in there sweetie! I LOVE the inspiration photos you posted. I don’t know what’s in that last cabinet, I just know I want it! LOL!! Love, Jamie

cari - June 4, 2007 - 6:35 am

Oh Sara, so sorry to hear about work, I went through that with my old job several years ago and in the third round of cut-backs they let me go. I was the only one who didn’t get mad and saw it as a business move and not a personal attack. They let me stay the rest of the day to clean out my desk and let me come back to help out during the busy season. When one door closes, another opens. What good can you find in this? Will one of your dear friends find their dream job? Or start their own business and be ten times happier? I have seen it happen first hand several times to my friends and I know it will happen to yours. Just why does it suck so much right now!?!?!? Hang in there honey!

lucinda - June 5, 2007 - 4:12 am

I’ve gone through that w/my own company and it’s a sick kinda panic in your stomach. I’m sorry you are going through it. I have a customer that is huge in the morage industry and their have laid off and now they are hiring again. That business is very up and down…still it’s hard to not let it effect you. You are in my thoughts!

Jen @ The Cottage Nest - June 5, 2007 - 6:25 am

Sara-That’s just horrible! There is nothing more stressful than having your job hanging in the air. I’m so sorry for your friends.

inspiration friday

Friday, June 1, 2007
For some reason, my brain only seems to remember to post inspiration photos every OTHER Friday. :) But hey, I’m trying! Today’s pictures are somewhat random…. I have no theme.

Most of these pictures come from the British Country Living magazine. January 2007 issue. I only have it because my friend Cathy sent it to me as a present since she knew I had never seen the British version and I just love Country Living and Country Home. This one is a keeper. Just look at all the lovely images it has inside! I hear it is available in book stores, I just haven’t made time to pick up another issue. I highly recommend it, if you love magazines as much as I do. :)

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Rosemary - June 1, 2007 - 9:34 pm

See, now I am going to have to go to the bookstore and see if I can get a copy of these magazines.
Beautiful!
Have a great weekend!
Rosemary

Cathy Louise - June 2, 2007 - 4:58 am

So glad you liked it… I love the photos you chose… To me it is one of the nicest photographed magazines… Just amazing….

Amelia - June 2, 2007 - 7:10 am

Oh my gosh…I LOVE the linen cabinet!!!!!

I have to share a picture of Avery’s spindle bed, it looks so much like that first picture!

Amelia

these flowers, this moon - June 2, 2007 - 8:27 am

I love the photo of the hallway from the vantage point of the wall-papered room. Everything in the line of sight is calming.

I would die for that cabinet. What amazing potential it has for a work studio!

Nice post; it is inspirational.

Kelly

Jen @ The Cottage Nest - June 5, 2007 - 6:26 am

Your inspiration Fridays are worth the wait. I think your theme this week was Sara Style Beauty. Well done!

Kristin - June 11, 2007 - 4:56 am

Cette armoire rouge est de toute beauté ! Jusque dans le détail les pochoirs “I. II. III. IV. etc …) incitent à venir découvrir ce qui se cache à l’intérieur.
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