Boxes, Books and a Babe (not me)

We got boxes of boxes today!! Not very exciting, you say? Perhaps not but we are moving in a bit more than a month so finally being able to start boxing up stuff is definitely good. Plus, we are moving out of military housing and anyone with any experience there knows just how much of a trial that is. I have never had to move anything other than myself and maybe a suitcase before, so it absolutely boggles my mind the number of boxes it takes to pack up a single room. Somehow, when I wasn’t looking, the two of us have completely filled a four bedroom house! Now, they may not be the largest bedrooms, but still! I decided to start with something simple, like our books. Simple? Yes but not as small a task as I had anticipated. Our single bookcase yielded three boxes even with the two shelves destined for the yard sale and that is not all the books residing in our house. Amazing and a little exhausting to think of the work that lies ahead to pack up the rest of the house. Okay, a lot exhausting! Enough talk of that!

So I tried to be artsy with my outfit shot today and decided its not my forte! My husband’s first comment when he saw my outfit today was, “Cute! You look like a little school girl!” That inspired me to try and emulate that with a little out of doors reading under a tree with pretty bits of its roots poking back up like stools. Looks nice enough; that is until I tried to get up with aforementioned roots stabbing my poor knees. Not so cute anymore! Hopefully my picture posing skills will improve!

Speaking of posing skills, I am totally smitten with Johanni’s photo stream on flickr! Great thanks to theclotheshorse for introducing me to this gorgeous gal! This beauty looks straight from the pages of vintage vogue and I am quite sure that My favorite pinup artist Gil Elvgren would have clamored to have her as a model. Perhaps, in a past life she was!

On tonight’s schedule, there is more packing (joy of joys), a little mending and perhaps I can FINALLY get started on my first lap quilt. Pictures shall be forthcoming if I do. And a little wine makes everything more pleasant!

Till next time,

Emmaline