High Up a Tree

Once in a while Toma decides he wants to take some pictures, and once in a while they are something I can also use here on the blog. One of our more recent shoots involved one of my newest acquisitions; A lovely but worn out 1930s dress. I am not usually one to wear frocks that old, but I like the summery feel off this swiss dot dress. I am not sure why, but these shots remind me of a summer during the great depression. Also, I just really love climbing trees.

Traveling Travelers

Last weekend we bundled up our two week old baby, and made the highly unusual trek over the mountain, thru the canyons, and into the high desert to central Oregon. This trip is always a strange array of weather patterns as you can imagine. We left rain, encountered snow.. and ended in sunshine.
This trip however was not like others before it, this time the snow on the mountain was worse than usual and we, being the city folk that we are, thought we could make it over without the aid of traction devices. Needless to say, we had a very horrifying spin-out across traffic that ended with us hitting a pole and a snow drift. Thankfully, we were all safe and some lovely people stopped and helped us get un-stuck. Lesson learned dear friends! We put our chains on like good city folk and white-knuckled the steering wheel all the way out of the white flecks falling from the sky.



Above is my face just before the accident. It's like I knew it was coming!
Below, is something insane we actually witnessed in the high desert. Small towns... smaller brains. WOW.






The silver lining to unbearably cold weather, is the fact that I got to wear my AMAZING Christmas Coat! I really cant deny a oversized leopard print fur hood on a mustard coat. My new lovely shirtwaist dress I recently thrifted paired SO well with my special made belt from Cassie Stephens! I just need to match up my bordello's with this ensemble to complete the signature "Twila Jean" look.


I am taking a short break from the blog this week, I had a tooth extraction, that has left me quite worthless, and turned into a bigger problem, so finding time to dress nice and blog is hard. I will be back in full swing quite soon!

Olive Lucille - Baby Centaur!

There is some quiet in my house right now, so I thought I would share with you all the short story that is the birth of Olive Lucille! She was born this morning, Feb. 2nd and 2 AM after only 2 hours of labor and 2 pushes! She was born at home in a warm water tub with the help of the most amazing midwife team I could ask for, Rosehip Midwifery! It all happened so fast, I was just mystified when she was placed in my arms. The older kids were sleeping downstairs, but were wildly excited to meet their new sister once we got settled.

Toma and I, would like to proudly introduce our newest love, Olive.

alright, time for dinner and rest. See you all next week!

Taking Showers

This weekend my beloved boss threw me a quite unexpected baby shower. It was amazing fun with lots of good friends and family. I got plenty of goodies to prepare us for the (very soon) arrival of baby Olive. My boss's house is like an antique mall, which makes sense because she owns one. It was such a beautiful setting to spend a lovely evening with all of my friends! I am so thankful to be truly blessed with amazing people.

My mother even got me a vintage 1940s Pram buggy stroller, so this baby will take to the streets in severe vintage style! I can't wait to meet this baby, only 18-ish more days until my due date. I got my home birth tub all set up and ready to go.

The teal dress I am wearing is not maternity, and is actually just one of my favorite 1950s Jonathan Logan dresses... and yes I had to cram myself into it...

MAMA MIA

I figure there will be some readers out there who do not care one way or another about babies, and baby related topics. So I have decided to pre-label all of my baby related blather with the title "Mama Mia!" When you see this and you don't want to hear about cute baby shoes, or milky boobs, scroll right on by and we will see you on the next post.
See how thoughtful am I? You can thank me later.

So for my very first entry related to no-vintage, baby only type things.. I thought I would share my Cloth Diapers thus far. This will be the third child I have swaddled in the cloth, and I would never choose any other way. I am a sucker for cute diapers, though sadly I got rid of most of them after Margaux potty trained, so I am on the long road of buying enough before this baby is born. I really sometimes think I only cloth diaper because of how cute they are, but really I love the earth, my child's health, and saving money... but holy heck, look how cute they are!




Obviously I hope to have way more by the time, girl-child-minus-a-name is born, but that is a pretty cute start for her.

It's a Baby Centaur!

Sorry to everyone who reads my facebook page, but Art Deco Dame spilled the beans early and apparently I am going to be birthing a centaur.

Ok, ok, Toma and I are having a baby and not a mythical creature... Today was the find out stuff about the spawn in your belly day. We packed up the kids super early and headed to the city to get a scan done of my midsection. The place is called EPIC Imaging, so take note... it is epic.
They go ahead and squirt a bunch of goo on your belly and rub a magic wand all over you, and you see pictures of a skeletal childlike figure. Ours happens to have all of its fingers and toes, and a beating heart. I hear that is good.

WAIT! I forgot to talk about the more important item of the day, my outfit! I am wearing a fabulous 50s maternity suit Solanah kindly let me borrow. Underneath is a super cute white 50s blouse that Bombshell Bettie sent me, but it was way too cold to show off. Sorry Nicole!




I told you it was epic...




OH! I almost forgot to add, She is a 19 week old fetal-style baby girl. Can't believe I nearly left that part out *wink*