tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43344381353512582232024-03-12T21:32:05.464-04:00Anna Piacentini LacherAnnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-80446810590005123382015-03-30T08:21:00.001-04:002015-03-30T08:31:57.790-04:00In pictures: The artist at sunset<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-72067206878875503842015-03-01T13:24:00.002-05:002015-03-01T13:24:40.004-05:00In pictures: Saturday morning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-35039208859036824422015-02-22T17:24:00.002-05:002015-02-22T17:25:25.838-05:00Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have wanted to love you<br />
in the way of the sun -<br />
constant. Radiant. Warm.<br />
Here whenever you turn<br />
toward me. Here when you<br />
turn away. Give you my energy.<br />
Light whichever path you choose.<br />
Now I will do what the sun<br />
can't do. Let you go.<br />
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-Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer<br />
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<i>I came across these beautiful words on a <a href="http://afirstsip.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2015-02-10T06:00:00-05:00&max-results=7" target="_blank">blog</a> I read first each morning, a place where I always find beauty. With such spare language, the author has perfectly captured what it feels like to love a child.</i><br />
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We are in the heart of a dark winter, and I am longing for spring and sun. I hope to be back with some new images in the spring.<br />
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-72906101760911147382014-12-24T05:00:00.000-05:002014-12-24T05:00:06.450-05:00Ritual 4:4 Trying for that picture in front of the tree<div>
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Every year we try for that picture in front of the tree. Sometimes we get "it," and sometimes we don't.<br />
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Since we travel this year for Christmas, we did a little stocking unwrapping at home before we hit the road for NY. The light was dim, and they weren't in their "Christmas outfits," and they were looking satisfied at least in part because of the cookies they'd just eaten, but the smiles on those faces perfectly describe how it felt. Their giddy excitement over the little stocking stuffers, and their happy anticipation of taking the trip to Grandma's to spend the holiday. My heart is full.</div>
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Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-91312643116117196522014-12-23T13:57:00.002-05:002014-12-23T21:23:44.680-05:00Ritual 4:3 Christmas baking<i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">In December, I'm exploring <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/search/label/Everyday%20Beauty%20Project%3A%20Ritual?max-results=6" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ritual</a>. You can read more about my photos for the Everyday Beauty project <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/p/about-everyday-beauty-project.html" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here.</a></i><br />
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Our family loves to work in the kitchen together prepping our holiday favorites, and I love that we make the same recipes I grew up helping with in my mother's kitchen. I am not the most patient of executive chefs when I'm working with assistants of the five-and-under variety, what with the wayward egg cracks and flour sifting that could cover a small country. I have to practice deep breathing sometimes to manage my response to the mess. But, their enthusiasm for baking tasks is indomitable. And then contagious. The smell of cocoa and sugar, butter and milk on the stove, the sound of the hand mixer as we work on cheesecake, the stained-red fingertips from the cherries on top of the no-bake cookies... it does feel like a gift to be on the mama side of this ritual with my own children.<br />
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Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-21322262368411936292014-12-13T20:00:00.000-05:002014-12-13T20:00:00.734-05:00Ritual 4:2 The tree search<i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">In December, I'm exploring <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/search/label/Everyday%20Beauty%20Project%3A%20Ritual?max-results=6" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ritual</a>. You can read more about my photos for the Everyday Beauty project <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/p/about-everyday-beauty-project.html" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here.</a></i><br />
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It's one of my favorite things we do in preparation for the Christmas season - the whole <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/search/label/Everyday%20Beauty%20Project%3A%20Ritual?max-results=6" target="_blank">ritual</a> of the drive to the tree farm, the bundled trek through the rows of Fraser firs, the quest for "the one." My kids love the adventure of it (we do our best to make our enthusiasm for it contagious in any temperature!). This year we ambled around the very picturesque <a href="http://www.evergreenfarmpa.com/" target="_blank">Evergreen Farm</a>.<br />
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It's never the perfection the photos might suggest, because real life is certainly messier. There was nap skipping and car catnapping; a lollipop to keep big brother quiet and busy while his sister snoozed a few more minutes in the parked car, engine running. The toddler who looks so pleased to be perched on her father's shoulders was displeased in equal measure when she was forced to dismount so he could saw down our prize. <br />
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But in all that, so much <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/p/about-everyday-beauty-project.html" target="_blank">beauty</a>. Cold December sunshine, a rambling old farmhouse, rustic barn, all those firs, being together.<br />
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-37375750150305021912014-12-12T20:28:00.000-05:002014-12-12T20:41:16.655-05:00Ritual 4:1 Give thanks<i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">In December, I'm exploring <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/search/label/Everyday%20Beauty%20Project%3A%20Ritual?max-results=6" target="_blank">ritual</a>. You can read more about my photos for the Everyday Beauty project <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/p/about-everyday-beauty-project.html" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here.</a></i><br />
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We alternate Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations in PA and NY. This year, we celebrated Thanksgiving at my husband's family's home, right nearby. As always, it was a beautiful day with great food and a house full of laughing and energetic kids (eight kids ranging in age from 2 1/2 to 10). I was inconsistent in my role as the unofficial photographer of the day, and neglected to get any images of all the grandchildren together or any of my kids with their grandparents (oops). Sometimes, setting down the camera does mean getting to experience the day in a different way, and that I don't regret.<br />
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I have been working to practice attentiveness to the everyday blessings in my life, being grateful for the many small joys and easily missed beauties in an "ordinary" day. I love that we ritualize this noticing along with a harvest feast, at a time when we are <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2008/10/hibernation-instinct.html" target="_blank">slowing down</a> to a more contemplative winter rhythm.<br />
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My spotty camera use on Thanksgiving still tells the story of my biggest loves - my family, both the little one and the bigger one.<br />
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-20327375434282648962014-11-27T15:09:00.000-05:002014-11-27T15:25:49.824-05:00Warmth 3:5, Snow and hot chocolate<i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">In November, I'm exploring <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/search/label/Everyday%20Beauty%20Project%3A%20Warmth?max-results=6" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">warmth</a>. You can read more about my photos for the Everyday Beauty project <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/p/about-everyday-beauty-project.html" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here.</a></i><br />
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The first snow of the season is always magical, and <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-here-year-home.html" target="_blank">magic</a> is one of the things I like to focus on during this mothering-small-children phase of my life. When I keep my heart open to what is magical about this season, there is no shortage of beauty in even the most everyday of things.<br />
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This year, our first snow was just before the welcome break from work and school routines that Thanksgiving weekend brings. As a child growing up in snowy central New York, my mom would warm us up after a frigid morning playing outdoors with hot chocolate, of course. Suiting up with these two and de-layering afterward (wet clothes spread everywhere to dry) is kind of a production, but we all enjoy the hot chocolate part!<br />
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Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-25427577097833461932014-11-21T14:29:00.004-05:002014-12-23T14:05:41.237-05:00Warmth 3:4, The big girl bed<i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">In November, I'm exploring <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/search/label/Everyday%20Beauty%20Project%3A%20Warmth?max-results=6" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">warmth</a>. You can read more about my photos for the Everyday Beauty project <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/p/about-everyday-beauty-project.html" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here.</a></i><br />
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I have a hard time believing it is so, but my littlest is in a big girl bed. I loved the creative <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/alpl/big-girl-room/" target="_blank">process</a> of putting together a new version of her room - finding a steal of a brass headboard at the thrift store and refinishing it, painting walls and rearranging furniture, acquiring pillows and sheets and finding a sweet white quilt.<br />
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Today, her first morning since we put away her<a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-here-year-home-13.html" target="_blank"> crib</a>, we had a busy morning of errands after we brought her big brother to school. Awhile after we returned, I could hear her softly talking down the hall... and there she was, all cozy on her new bed with her bright throw blanket, reading. It made me smile.<br />
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-35687053221513493312014-11-12T09:39:00.004-05:002014-11-27T15:11:55.891-05:00Warmth 3:3, Bath time<i>In November, I'm exploring <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/search/label/Everyday%20Beauty%20Project%3A%20Warmth?max-results=6" target="_blank">warmth</a>. You can read more about my photos for the Everyday Beauty project <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/p/about-everyday-beauty-project.html" target="_blank">here.</a></i><br />
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Our kids used to use "their" tub in the hallway bathroom, but more often than not these days they like to have their shared bath in our big soaking tub. It's true that there is more space in it for their rapidly elongating bodies. But I'd envisioned it surrounded by bath salts and candles for a serene end-of-day solo ritual - I was certain I wouldn't need to share that space since there was another perfectly serviceable tub down the hall! Now, after I drain my kids' bubbles, their cars, cups and boats remain until the next scrubbing. <br />
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They are still delighted with shared bath time, and I know that won't last forever. In the meantime, I tuck away the sound of their bubbling belly laughs, the look of their clothes discarded haphazardly across the tile floor, the lean limbs of my skinny 5-year-old, my daughter's rounded toddler belly, the way they <i>attempt </i>peaceable solutions to disagreements over toy swiping and splashing, the scent of Burt's Bees on them when I lift them out and wrap them up to dry. So often, I wish I could <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/p/about-everyday-beauty-project.html" target="_blank">freeze time</a>. There is just so much beauty.</div>
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-28254120536552309602014-11-05T15:49:00.003-05:002014-11-27T15:26:29.808-05:00Warmth 3:2, The cabin<i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">In November, I'm exploring <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/search/label/Everyday%20Beauty%20Project%3A%20Warmth?max-results=6" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">warmth</a>. You can read more about my photos for the Everyday Beauty project <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/p/about-everyday-beauty-project.html" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here.</a></i><br />
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We spent a recent weekend at our family's cabin in the Poconos, a favorite place. It was crisp and chilly, perfect for lounging around by the wood stove.<br />
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-9902229049030780552014-11-01T06:38:00.000-04:002014-11-27T15:26:52.423-05:00Warmth 3:1, Sunshine and the leaf pile<i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">In November, I'm exploring <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/search/label/Everyday%20Beauty%20Project%3A%20Warmth?max-results=6" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">warmth</a>. You can read more about my photos for the Everyday Beauty project <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/p/about-everyday-beauty-project.html" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here.</a></i><br />
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What a gorgeous autumn it has been. So much warmth and sunshine. Each year when we rake up he season's castoff leaves, it's like revisiting my own childhood. I can see my dad combining piles from all over the front yard beneath the enormous maple, now long gone after a gradual decline. The maple where the swing hung. My sister and I would spend an afternoon tunneling through them, tossing handfuls, burying each other.<br />
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There is something about it that just says "childhood."<br />
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-45388683716164775152014-10-24T14:47:00.002-04:002014-11-27T15:21:08.165-05:00Color 2:5, Pink fairyCaroline's favorite color(s) change daily, and she has declared her love for red, green, orange, blue, purple and pink. It's true to her nature to love many things in her orbit, each in their turn as they circle around her.<br />
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When she tried on her fairy outfit, a sort of dress rehearsal for Halloween next week, she was certain pink was her favorite. For the day, anyway.<br />
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-26635107836152194492014-10-18T14:31:00.002-04:002014-11-27T15:30:10.095-05:00Color 2:4, Golden SaturdayThis month, I am photographing with<b> color</b> in mind. (To hear about my <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-here-year-home.html" target="_blank">Everyday Beauty Project</a>, and the themes I am exploring each month, you can read more <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-here-year-home.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br />
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Our little foursome had one of those golden October mornings of warm sunshine and cascading leaves. We spent it on the beautiful <a href="http://www.montcopa.org/perkiomentrail" target="_blank">Perkiomen Trail</a>. Runners and bikers zoomed past us, but we went at more of a "amble."<br />
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-47802778592780047322014-10-18T13:15:00.003-04:002014-11-27T15:29:29.645-05:00Color 2:3 Crimson everywhereThis month, I am photographing with<b> color</b> in mind. (To hear about my <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-here-year-home.html" target="_blank">Everyday Beauty Project</a>, and the themes I am exploring each month, you can read more <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-here-year-home.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-62011587404269147252014-10-11T16:35:00.002-04:002014-11-27T15:28:57.977-05:00Color 2:2 PuddlesThis month, I am photographing with<b> color</b> in mind. (To hear about my <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-here-year-home.html" target="_blank">Everyday Beauty Project</a>, and the themes I am exploring each month, you can read more <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-here-year-home.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br />
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A rainy Saturday on a weekend when Daddy was away. After blanket forts and art projects, we trolled for worms and played in the rain. <br />
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Almost from the time he could speak, Eli has declared his love for the color yellow. He has had yellow rain boots in at least three sizes, and his little sister loves to have his hand-me-downs for the match.<br />
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-17091118415963713082014-10-07T19:35:00.002-04:002014-11-27T15:28:15.354-05:00Everyday Beauty Project, Color 2:1 Artist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This month, I am photographing with<b> color</b> in mind. (To hear about my <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-here-year-home.html" target="_blank">Everyday Beauty Project</a>, and the themes I am exploring each month, you can read more <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-here-year-home.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)</div>
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My daughter loves art projects and crafts; the messier the better. The artist in me wants to embrace her pursuits, but the pragmatic housekeeper in me sometimes panics about our project materials landing on the floor beneath our dining table (which is unfortunately carpeted). When weather allows, we like to take our projects out to the fresh air of our backyard.</div>
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I love the way she creates with abandon. She is uninhibited. Her vibrant spirit and colorful personality can hardly be contained in her two-year-old's body.</div>
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We are in the last months of having this little lady in a crib (and having a pacifier for sleeping...). And there is not much sweeter than seeing my baby asleep in the spot she considers the coziest in the world.<br />
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Except maybe when this big brother goes in to snuggle when she wakes up from a nap.</div>
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Read <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-here-year-home.html" target="_blank">this</a> to find out more about my personal photo project for this year, the <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-here-year-home.html" target="_blank">Everyday Beauty Project</a>. View the other images for September's theme of home<a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/search/label/Everyday%20Beauty%3A%20Home" target="_blank"> here</a>.</div>
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Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334438135351258223.post-53638540191851330852014-09-21T14:42:00.001-04:002014-10-09T20:05:57.193-04:00The Everyday Beauty ProjectI love photography. I've been inspired by both <a href="http://jessicasvobodaphotography.com/" target="_blank">friends</a> and <a href="http://www.pinksugarland.com/" target="_blank">strangers</a>, and I have a Nikon slung around my neck at some point nearly every day. I also enjoy reading a lot of different kinds of writing, and I've especially loved following Lindsey Mead's blog, <a href="http://adesignsovast.com/" target="_blank">A Design So Vast</a>, and her writing as it is featured on other sites. She spends a lot of time reflecting on some of my favorite subjects: time, parenthood, mystery, friendship, presence, and practicing attentiveness to her life. She writes often about the fleeting nature of time, and she feels its passage as<a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-year.html" target="_blank"> acutely</a> as I do.<br />
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I have found that one of the ways I practice presence in my own life is by capturing what I find beautiful with a camera. It is a different way of seeing. It helps guide my eyes - and my consciousness - to the beauty found in my everyday life. My life may be small in the scale of the universe, but it is full of ephemeral light, interesting faces, intriguing textures and beautiful messes. Taking pictures is also a kind of magic, I tell my children - it is a way that I can freeze time.</div>
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Inspired by <a href="http://www.adesignsovast.com/2014/05/the-here-year/" target="_blank">Lindsey Mead</a> and <a href="http://ivyleagueinsecurities.com/2014/04/the-here-year/" target="_blank">Aiden Donnelly Rowley</a>'s "The Here Year," a writing project that examines presence by focusing on a new topic monthly, and with a creative shove courtesy of reading <a href="http://thecreativemama.com/filling-your-creative-bucket/" target="_blank">The Creative Mama</a> and following Ginger Unzueta's <a href="http://www.gingerunzueta.com/category/the-joy-project/" target="_blank">Joy Project</a>, I am working this year on a personal photography project. Although I take hundreds of images each month, photographing with a purpose as part of a personal discipline is new to me,.<br />
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Our summer of many back-to-back road trips, family visits, house guests, and beach days is over. That is always bittersweet. But as I watch my son and daughter relax into the comfort of a more predictable rhythm and the cozy security they feel at <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2014/09/place.html" target="_blank">home</a>, I feel the <i>sweet</i>.</div>
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May 2013, our first home</div>
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There is something about September that makes me wistful and nostalgic. Maybe it is because summer's long, lazy days are behind me, and the season's brilliant light has softened to golden fall sunshine. Every autumn reminds me of the back-to-school days of my childhood, and it's the time of year I most miss Central New York. Autumn is a much shorter season there than where we now live, and I think that is in part why its beauty was so striking there - a few brief weeks of dazzling color, cool days, brisk wind, and the hard cold of a starry October sky before wintry weather commences in November. This time of year especially, I miss my old neighborhood haunts, the many walks to playgrounds and coffee shops, the nearby lake and it's beautiful trails, our great friends, and most of all the short fifteen minute drive to see my parents. </div>
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We moved away from our first house, that little 1950's cape, over a year ago - has it really been sixteen months since we resettled in southeastern Pennsylvania? It happened quickly - news of a job opening, an interview, and within weeks our house was on the market and we were on the hunt for a new home over 200 miles away. It was hard to say goodbye to that little place to which we brought our babies home from the hospital, and where so many memories were made, the setting where we'd envisioned the next phases of our lives. Here, we have a beautiful home, my husband's family nearby, cousin-playmates for our kids, and some of my closest lifelong friends within an hour's drive. I love being closer to a big city, and I am enjoying the milder climate (last winter's weather notwithstanding). I am finally starting to feel settled. But there is still so much I miss.</div>
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One of the many, many things I learned about myself through this transition was that I am far less adept at change than I had previously thought myself. I am not the flexible, adaptable creature I had imagined myself to be. Last winter, when the adjustment to our move felt particularly challenging, I happened upon a beautiful <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Gift-Ordinary-Day-Mothers/dp/0446409499" target="_blank">book</a> whose wisdom has stayed with me. <a href="http://www.katrinakenison.com/" target="_blank">Katrina Kenison</a>'s <i>The Gift of an Ordinary Day</i> had so much to teach me about change, a sense of place, re-imagining one's life, and cultivating a consciousness of the beauty that is the present. Faced with her own move away from the familiar to the unknown, she writes:</div>
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It was a difficult realization to come to, that our new house could never be what the old house was to us. It wasn't just the house itself, but a time in our lives that it represented, that was so difficult to release to the past. It was easy to romanticize even the most annoying quirks of that 1950's cape - the doors that never quite closed completely, the crooked cupboards, the drafty walls - because of the stage it symbolized, and it kept me from doing the hard work of grieving, and letting go to pave a path toward moving on. Not just to a new house, but to a re-imagined life full of relationships whose dynamics had changed.</div>
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<i>"One thing we've learned ... is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than 'home' is just one geographic location where things feel safe and familiar. Home can be anyplace in which we create our own sense of rest and peace as we tend to the spaces in which we eat and sleep and play. It is a place that we create and re-create in every moment, at every stage of our lives, a place where the plain and common becomes cherished and the ordinary becomes sacred."</i></div>
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Our new home, only five years old, is a light-filled and open space. It is beautiful in its way. But upon arrival, it felt stark and sterile with its all-white walls and shiny brass doornobs. It felt a little lacking in the heft of history an older home possesses. There was not a shrub or flower anywhere in the yard. Some of the toilets still had their fresh-from-the-store stickers.</div>
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We unpacked our belongings, we painted and arranged furniture with the help of our family. Three days after moving in last May, we hosted my daughter's first birthday party. In the subsequent months, we've each had more birthdays, we hosted Thanksgiving with my sister and her family, we gathered around the Christmas tree, and we have been christening this house month after month with meals, gardening, baths and bedtimes, dancing and stomping feet, tears and giggles. It is the <i>living </i>with all its noisy, beautiful chaos that creates a home out of four walls and a roof. Home is being present, practicing attentiveness to now, being here, seeing <i>here</i>. And so, here we are, still settling in to both a home and a life<i>. </i> And when I am gracious and patient enough with myself, I understand that this process will take time, and that that is okay.</div>
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I have been inspired by <a href="http://www.adesignsovast.com/category/the-here-year/" target="_blank">"The Here Year"</a> project I follow on Lindsey Mead's <a href="http://www.adesignsovast.com/" target="_blank">blog</a>. She focuses her thinking and writing on being present, and this year each month she reflects on being "here" in a different way. Lindsey's theme for September is time; mine is "home."</div>
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If only I'd taken some "before" photos. This room, formerly the home office/guest room, was a masculine mossy green. Aside from a light and crisp guest bed, it was otherwise filled with man-ish black office furniture including a big L-shaped desk, file cabinets (which now live <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2012/05/renovations.html" target="_blank">here</a>), and a big hand-me-down bookcase from my husband's childhood room. There were lots of fun family photos in black frames, and some random decorative odds and ends that hadn't found a home in any of our main rooms.</div>
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I loved putting together my first <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-year.html" target="_blank">baby</a>'s gender-neutral <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2009/09/anatomy-of-nursery_04.html" target="_blank">nursery</a>, with it's pretty green and muted turquoise hues, and have since loved gradually turning it into a big-boy room with crisp striped sheeting and toddler-made canvas paintings on the walls. But the creative process of piecing together a baby girl nursery has been a completely different kind of fun since we know the baby's gender this time around. This time, I knew I wanted something with a neutral backdrop (since the room has to occasionally double as a guest room) and pops of bright color, and I wanted an unexpected color combination. After lots of <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/29062360065097450/" target="_blank">inspiration</a>-gathering on design <a href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/marens-wee-and-winsome-nursery-156510" target="_blank">blogs</a> and here on <a href="http://pinterest.com/alpl/baby-girl-nursery/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, I settled on a gray and white <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/29062360065396493/" target="_blank">palette</a> (walls: Benjamin Moore's <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/29062360065646328/" target="_blank">Wickham Gray</a>) with <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/29062360065120977/" target="_blank">accents</a> of warm coral-y pink, yellow, and <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/29062360065143697/" target="_blank">orange</a>. </div>
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With some budget-saving strategies like reusing our beautiful espresso, modern-lined <a href="http://www.walmart.com/ip/Baby-Mod-ParkLane-3-in-1-Convertible-Crib-Espresso/8592555" target="_blank">crib</a> from the first time around (lovingly repainted a crisp white by my husband who insisted I not be exposed to the aerosol fumes while pregnant!), not buying a girlie bedding "set" when I don't typically use the bumper pad or quilt (and instead buying only crib sheets and using color and pattern elsewhere in the room), re-using existing guest bed linens (proof that you can never go wrong investing in versatile white or ivory sheets and quilts!), buying budget-friendly furniture from <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00067830/" target="_blank">Ikea</a> and <a href="http://www.target.com/p/Carson-2-Shelf-Bookcase-White/-/A-11111068" target="_blank">Target</a>, getting decorative items like lamps and picture frames on clearance, DIY art projects for the walls (inspired by <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/29062360065189316/" target="_blank">this</a>), one-of-kind but affordable art from Etsy (<a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/29062360065121312/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/29062360065161573/" target="_blank">here</a>) and maximizing space in the small closet with do-it-yourself shelving, we filled an empty room and efficiently organized a small space.</div>
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All that remains are some new photos to hang on the walls after the little one arrives, and at some point an area rug and some small toy storage at the foot of the crib. With everything washed, hung, and organized, now we wait! Two weeks to go.</div>
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Dresser: Hemnes 8-drawer, Ikea.</div>
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Butterfly Prints: Etsy artist <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ChildrenInspire" target="_blank">Children Inspire Design</a></div>
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Curtains: <a href="http://www.target.com/p/Target-Home-Henna-Single-Window-Panel/-/A-13647188" target="_blank">Henna panel</a>, Target.</div>
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Alphabet art: Etsy artist <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/77539519/letterpress-alphabet-print-in-yellow?ref=sr_gallery_12&sref=&ga_search_submit=&ga_search_query=orange+pink+yellow+print&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_ship_to=US&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_page=4&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade%2Fart" target="_blank">Paper Mill Designs</a> </div>
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Bookcase: <a href="http://www.target.com/p/Carson-2-Shelf-Bookcase-White/-/A-11111068" target="_blank">Carson 2-shelf</a>, Target</div>
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And of course, one handsome big brother who couldn't resist one last romp in his old crib.<br />
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We love our little house. We've been in this place for 5 1/2 years already, our first house purchase after a few years of renting as newlyweds in another state. At just over 1400 square feet, it does have a small footprint, but it is perfectly doable for a family of four on a one-income budget. The tricky part is that one of our 3 bedrooms is used as a full-time home office for my husband, whose company is based out of state and whose employees all work virtually from home offices. He really needs a dedicated space to do his work that allows for privacy, concentration, and quiet conference calls. Our plan had originally been to bunk a second baby with Eli when he or she (it's a she!) was a reliable nighttime sleeper - this would preserve the 3rd bedroom as Todd's home office. </div>
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However, with the arrival of this baby approaching in late May, a few things got us reconsidering. First, the amount of noisy disruption Eli and I already add to Todd's work environment (and that's without the addition of a vocal newborn!). Second, Eli's room that he'd start sharing with his baby sister is small, with limited storage from a tiny closet and a very small dresser. The addition of a crib would make further clothing and toy storage for two virtually impossible. Third, the worry that they'd wake each other up during naps and nighttime sleep remained. </div>
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A full renovation to our unfinished basement was not a financial investment we were prepared to make in our "starter house," but we started to think that a partial finish might be the perfect compromise. Todd's new small office is housed in a newly finished part of the otherwise unfinished basement space, freeing up the 1st floor bedroom for use as a nursery (and, since in a small house rooms must always do double-duty, the nursery will retain the guest bed for our frequent out-of-town family visitors). So many positives, not the least of which is that I get to decorate a baby girl nursery! (The first time around, we didn't find out the baby's gender, and so created this <a href="http://annapiacentinilacher.blogspot.com/2009/09/anatomy-of-nursery_04.html" target="_blank">gender neutral nursery</a> which has changed quite a bit now that it's Eli's "big boy room.")</div>
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With just a few weeks of construction and a TON of dust, the new office is complete. With the help of a reasonably priced contractor, and cost savings in the form of doing our own waterproofing (Dry-Locking and extending the height/enclosing the water channel around the perimeter of the basement), purchasing ceramic tile flooring from a building supply outlet, and using existing paint and furnishings, we were able to stay within a few hundred dollars of our original (and very modest) budget. </div>
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It's amazing what a new egress window, drywall, recessed lighting, new floors, and a closet can do for what was previously a dungeon-y, spider-filled space (forgive the photo quality - it is difficult to capture a small space configured like this one!). The new room still needs some wall decor and some seating. We also have a way to go in terms of sprucing up the rest of the basement and laundry area without finishing it (I was inspired by seeing <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/29062360065179221/" target="_blank">this</a>), but that's a project for another time.</div>
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In the meantime, we await the baby. Nursery photos to come next week!</div>
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Framing and insulation in process</div>
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Drywall</div>
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Finished exterior wall of office</div>
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After: New egress window fills the room with light</div>
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New home for the guitars! (to be hung on the wall soon)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We still need a chair and some wall decor, but we're on our way.</span></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895904950685819036noreply@blogger.com0