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!

Long Distances

Last week I, Toma, and both kids loaded up the car for a vintage thrift road trip through Oregon. I absolutely love vintage road trips, small town thrifting and antique malls are so exciting. We stopped at all of my favorite places like the Deschutes river, big canyons, mountain coffee shops, and ended in the desert at Toma's parents current locale. His parents place had a fun log cabin built for children that was too adorable.




We did lots of retro style sight seeing on the trip and stopped at one of my favorites Peterson Rock Gardens in Redmond, OR. If you ever find your self in the center of Oregon, the rock garden is a serious must-see. There are peacocks and horses, lakes and kittens. Also, plenty of rocks. Monuments hand crafted out of rocks.




Of course I bought a lot of vintage. A lot. I have plenty of things that will be wandering into the store this week if I get the time to actually list. I wish I could live on the road collecting vintage, but alas I am back home and back to blogging about my travels. Until next time dear friends...