Jennifer Michie

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August 1, 2025 / 0 Comments

HELLO, August

Hello, August. We’re ready to stretch out under ceiling fans while we read our books. We’re ready to watch old episodes of “Bewitched” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” while we eat PB&J sandwiches on fresh bread with salty potato chips for summertime lunches. 

We’re ready to eat our weight in popcorn watching summer classics projected onto our big screen. We’re ready to spend all day at the beach and come home to hot dogs and fresh steamed ears of corn dripping with butter. 

We’re ready for early morning walks and hot coffee on the beach. We’re ready for homemade strawberry shortcakes for lunch when the strawberries are still warm from the sun and they sit nestled on a pillow of whipped cream. 

We’re ready for the lazy, hazy, days of summer to blend into one another, where nothing and everything happens. 

Welcome, August! We’re ready for all the summer magic that you hold. 

{Toy Sailboat Collection FOUND | Pinned HERE}

July 1, 2025 / 0 Comments

HELLO, July

Hello, July! You’ve marched in hand in hand with the ongoing heat wave. Which we’re taking in our stride with lots of ice water and ice cream sandwiches on standby. We’re ready for the blessed event that you herald in near the end of the month, when you’ll utter those four magic words: SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER! 

We’re ready for banana splits for dinner on hot summer nights. We’re ready to stay up late watching old movies with our projector. We’re ready for early morning walks when the air is still and the world is still asleep. 

We’re ready for our annual Fourth of July celebrations; our table is already decked out in red, white and blue for the occasion. 

We’re ready to celebrate “Christmas in July” with a gaggle of loved ones. We’re ready to keep beach music grooving long into the night while we dance and talk. 

We’re ready for those heady days of summer that you bring where the hot air is filled with the smell of honeysuckles and we revert somehow to childhood, where the possibilities of FUN are endless and the days seamlessly blend into one another. 

Welcome, July! We’re ready for all the magic that you hold for us! 

{Audrey Hepburn at “La Paisible“ in Tolochenaz, Switzerland | Photographed by Andrew Wald | 1967 | Pinned HERE}

June 1, 2025 / 0 Comments

HELLO, June

Hello, June. We’re ready for all the adventures you shall bring us this month, especially the one where we run away to the circus for the day. 

We’re ready for the days to continue to get warmer, the nights are already deliciously longer. We’re ready for the strawberries to begin to come into their full ruby red glory and we eat our weight in shortcakes with strawberries swimming in their vermillion juices and pillows of fresh vanilla whipped cream on top. 

We’re ready for more heirloom tomato sandwiches, May gave us a few bites of that glorious taste, but there is more to come. We’re ready for long walks that end up at the ice cream parlour.

We’re ready to keep dancing in the kitchen to a favourite “yacht rock” playlist, while we make dinner. We’re ready to watch some of our favourite summer movies with a huge bowl of popcorn between, sitting in the dark with the hum of the projector behind us. 

We’re ready for all that you bring. Welcome, June, we await you with arms spread wide. 

{1950s Kodachrome Bathing Beauty | Found HERE | Pinned HERE}

May 1, 2025 / 0 Comments

HELLO, May

Hello, May! We’re excited you’re here. You’ll start and end your month for us with Bank Holidays and the realisation that that was occurring this weekend, made me do a happy dance. Three whole days together this weekend is just the cherry on top of the cake. 

We’re ready for the days to get warmer as they have slowly been doing in these last weeks of April. We’re ready for evening strolls after dinner before twilight sets in. We’re ready for more walks through the fields as we watch the baby lambs growing by leaps and bounds and the bluebells undulating in the breeze and dappled sunshine.

We’re ready for the heirloom tomatoes to start coming into the green grocers. We’ve already had a mini taste of what’s to come as one of our favourite grocers had some in and now I can’t wait for the first BLT of the season and slices of thick tomatoes on toasted bread with salt, oregano and EVOO for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 

You bring with you a month of love for us as these two honeymooners shall be celebrating their anniversary before the month comes to a close. What a gift to be able to continue our journey through this lifetime together. 

We’re ready for lazy sunshine filled Saturday mornings working on crosswords over coffee or playing another round of UNO late into the night. Hello, May! We’re ready for all that you bring. We welcome you with arms wide. 

{Natalie Wood in a publicity still for “The Great Race” | By Giovanni Coruzzi | 1965 | Directed by Blake Edwards | Costumes by Edith Head | Pinned HERE}

April 20, 2025 / 0 Comments

Happy Easter

🐥🌷🐥 HAPPY EASTER!!! 🐥🌷🐥 

I hope you find all the eggs that the Easter Bunny has hidden and your baskets are filled to the brim with chocolate shaped bunnies and marshmallow chicks, jelly beans and all kinds of assorted goodies. 

{Showgirl | Barnum & Bailey Circus | 1946 | Taken by: Sverre “Bex” Braathen on Kodachrome film using a Eastman Kodak Ektra F 1.9 camera | Taschen “The Circus: 1870s – 1950s” | Pinned HERE }

March 17, 2025 / 0 Comments

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

🍀 Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀

May your day be fair and full of green. And may all the golden luck, rainbows and good wishes be with you today! 🌈

{Promotional studio portrait of British actress Joan Collins wearing a printed scarf | 1955 | Photo by Getty Images | Pinned HERE}

February 14, 2025 / 0 Comments

Happy Valentine’s Day

💗 Happy Valentine’s Day! 💗

May your day be filled celebrating L-O-V-E in all its many shapes and forms. 

{American film actress Debra Paget wearing a green showgirl costume of ostrich feathered hat and embroidered bodice | Circa 1950’s | Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}

December 31, 2024 / 0 Comments

Happy New Year’s Eve

Here we stand on the cusp of a New Year. So much has happened in these past 365 days and also so little. But it’s bittersweet to say goodbye to one year. However, we stand ready and waiting for what this next year has in store. 

May this coming year hold beauty for us all. Wishing you love and light as we kiss this past year goodbye and open our arms in greeting to the new one about to dawn.

{Hollywood New Year’s Party | “That’s the Tarzan of that day, Lex Barker, with his wife, actress Arlene Dahl” | 1952 | Pinned HERE}

December 28, 2024 / 0 Comments

The In-Between Days

And now we walk in the hallowed ground of the ”in-between” days. The space between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The merrymaking of Christmas has gone by in a flash and now we move with a a slower pace. Visiting with family and friends, watching Christmas movies by the glow of twinkle lights, cobbling together sandwiches from leftovers, while playing board games and going on long strolls with hot chocolates in hand. 

The days are quieter, less hustle and bustle, but oh, so vital to our souls. There is a rhythm and a pace to this space that is all its own.

These days are special, they are our last days of the year as our slow meandering brings us to the bridge we will cross over into a New Year in just a few days. They are a time to be still, to reflect on what has been and to hope for what could be in the future. It is a sacred time, as we wait for what is to come and relish in what has been. 

These days hold a magic all of their own, they hold so little and yet, they hold so very much. We must endeavour to drink them in with full hearts as we mindfully move forward before the flame of this year is snuffed out.

{Retro Christmas tree decorations including popcorn strings | 1979 | “Popcorn is probably the most traditionally American decoration because it’s the only indigenous one”, says Mrs. Henry Lochte, production chairman of the annual Christmas tree exhibit at the Cheekwood Fine Arts Center in Nashville, Tennessee | Found HERE | Pinned HERE}

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