I am saying good bye. No more blogging for Laura, but I’ll leave this up for a bit while I go through my archives and bookmark my most favourites. It will be down soon… but I’m working on making the WordPress theme more versatile and it will be available for download soon on my company site, porterandstout.com.
Thanks, it’s been lovely.
This list describes my ideal house in the woods, my ultimate goal. ‘Cabin’ doesn’t seem an appropriate name for it, since it needs to be big enough to house and entertain all my visitors.
There is this weird thing on YouTube where girls post their hauls from different places. It kind of sickens me.
Just how big do you need your wardrobe to be? Almost all of my clothes, apart from a few coats, dresses and shoes, fits into a single, three drawer dresser.
How many bottles of nail polish do you need? I have six colours and it is definitely enough. When I am out shopping, of course I look at the Essie nail polish bottles and love all of the different colours, but I just can’t justify buying any more. I am certainly not perfect and still buy new things but I am working on knowing the difference between need and want.
Do you think this addiction to stuff stays with most people their entire lives?
I grew up on a diary farm. It was the best, my own small universe was huge and sparsely populated—just they way I like it. The lawn was large and had giant peony plants at one end. Two red maples were in front of the house that had been planted when my dad was little. Summers where humid, green and introspective. (Yes, even when I was six I was looking into myself and asking big questions.)
In the winter all the snow from the laneway would be dumped into a giant pile and my dad would carve out the best forts ever.
We only had five channels, no internet and my mom made us go outside all the time. I credit this for my imagination, my independence and my love of outdoors.
