Plates!

This weekend was cwaaaazy. Will and I are going to be living separate for the next few months...he's moving back to Vermont, and I'm staying down here and living with a couple of awesome gals from college. So we've been packing and running and checking things off of lists and packing and running some more. I hate moving. We've moved at least once a year for the past eight years and I'm really getting tired of it. I'm so ready to just put my feet down somewhere for a little bit. I've always been somewhat transient, often coming up with new places and things that I want to do and experience. And while that's served me quite well thus far, I've been feeling lately that I'm ready for something different...like I just want to dig in a little bit. I don't know, it's hard to explain. Will and I talk about it a lot, and I'm really glad that he's feelin' it too. My mother says that it has to do with turning twenty-eight, and how in Anthroposophy that specific age is one in which you start to yearn for something a little deeper, a little more permanent. Regardless, it's where we're both at in our life and the moving this weekend...yet again...really felt sad and tired and over-done. 


Anyyyway.


We just got back from the Goodwill store a few hours ago. Aside from a kick-ass green coat, some really sweet shoes and a pair of bright red corduroys, we picked out quite a few plates. They are mostly all different, some are old and some are new, some are ugly and most are not. Ha! We still have to get a couple more plates, some silverware, cups, and other items that have to do with food. This is a huge start though, and seeing everything together makes me even more excited. We decided to buy used items at second-hand stores to reuse what was already out there, to cut cost where we could, and to pick out mis-matched items just because. 


Check it:

Ignore all the price stickers if you please.

ohhh love. Also that blue thing on the right side of this photo is an old glass bottle. We're going to use different bottles, mason jars, and old vases to put wildflowers and flowers from my mother's garden on all of the tables.

Uh, this is upside-down. It's all in French though, and that made me happy.

These two plates are the only two plates that were "state plates" in the entire store. They happened to be a Vermont plate and a California plate...which is pretty perfect as Will is from Vermont and I'm from California. These guys will be reserved for us. 

And this has nothing to do with the wedding, but for my friends that also love to thrift I thought I'd post these. I am in love with the shoes.

mmmmmm love love love 'em.

The idea behind our wedding decor is that we we want to reuse or recycle what we get. The plates can be sorted through and kept or donated, and the linens in the last post will also be kept. Pretty much all of the decorations we're going to have will also be able to be used in our house. Not only is it a way to keep from being wasteful, but it'll be a constant reminder of that magical day. Win-win. 

Total cost today: 75 dollars.