Magical Vintage Memorial Day Weekend

It's the most magical weekend of the year.... opening weekend of Randolph Street Market! Well and also Memorial Day we will get to that on Monday however.  If you are in Chi town during this magnificent three day weekend please stop in at Randolph Street.  T and I will be there selling the junk outta da trunk.  We've been working hard curating a wonderful selection for all of you in Trunk Nation. 

However, if this weekend is taking you away from the Chi to the beautiful shores of Door County you can find Junk in da Trunk Girls there as well!  Our booth at the Old Orchard Antique Mall in Fish Creek is ready for your vintage loving hearts to peruse.

Whatever or wherever you are adventuring this weekend please be safe and may the junk be with you!

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32 before 33

 In 90 some days I will be changing from 32 to 33.  I know I know I don't look a day over 26, I'm told that a lot, and I'm going to have to thank my mom and dad for the good skin gene.  Anyway, I started this crazy list stuff the year I was turning 30 and the tradition continues.  I think my favorite part of the list all is the people that step forward to help me accomplish some of my tasks, because that makes the experience mean so much more to me.  So without further ado here are the 32.

1. Big Sur & stay one or two nights at This Place

2. Eataly

3. Rooftop Bar

4. Jazz Concert

5. Give up sugar for 30 days

6. Complete Chicago Restaurant List (Halfway through)

7. Submit to a magazine

8. Purge/Organize

9. Stay at Iron Horse or ACE hotel

10. Girls Weekend

11. Private

12. Photography boat tour

13. Neighborhood List

14. Run my own vintage show

15. Overnight downtown

16. Sox Game

17. Blackhawk Game with my IL Mom (2 Actually!)

18. Abandoned Church photo shoot

19. Learn to French Braid

20. Go to Energy healer

21. Put myself out there

22. Weekly yoga class

23. Tattoo

24. Swim in Gulf of Mexico

25. Do Whole 30/ Eat 80% Paleo

26. Send out 3 random packages

27. Write a children's books for nephew's bday gift

28. Meditate daily

29. Watch sunrise at a beach

30. Read 2 American Classics that I haven't read yet

31. Journal on a consistent basis

32. Go to a new state

Anyone that wants to cross anything off with me let me know!

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Timing Is A Bitch

Yesterday was one of those days, you know the ones where life just overwhelms you? A day when your to-do list is so long but that you decide to just say F- it, grab a huge coffee and head to the dog run for the magic hour.  For those of you non-photogs, the magic hour is the hour right before sunset when everything the light touches looks magical.


Life is overwhelming here lately, I have returned to the full-time work world which was not my intention but  doing this entrepreneur stuff  all alone was getting financially rough and an opportunity arose at a time I needed it most.  I am back to the constant struggle within myself of following and making time for my dreams/passion after punching the clock for the "man".  I'm finally giving you an explanation as to why there hasn't been new inventory added lately to da ol' Etsy shop, why my blog & facebook posts have been so sporadic and why I have been so distant and flakey to those that are close to me. Because there just are not enough hours in the day. 


One of the best decisions I have made thus far in my life was the one I made 18 months ago to leave the full-time world and do my own thing. Unfortunately it gave me a taste of what I really really really want and when I felt the most me. But this crazy world of ours will not let me have that just yet, because timing is a bitch. The most rational  answer was that I  clearly just needed to find myself a sugar daddy. But since I believe in working hard to get what you want and don't believe in sugar daddies, the ol' fulltime work world was the lingering legitimate answer.


 I apologize to you Trunk Nation that you will not find me popping up so much this summer season, I will not be able to meet for coffee on a Tuesday at 2pm, and that the shop updates will not be as consistent as they were before. But please don't give up on me,  I'm still chasing my crazy entrepreneur  dream, formulating new ideas and in true Jadarie fashion trying to do a million things at once, because that's just how this girl  rolls.


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Super T

Hey Friends!  I know a lot of you drop by this space every once and awhile just because of a special bulldog named T.  Well last week was pretty stressful as our little buddy was in the hospital with ivs and the whole she-bang. 


Poor T spent four hours in the very early morning throwing up back to back to back. My poor little guy was just laying there between convulsions and looking at me to fix him and I had no idea how.  I waited until his vet opened and the tech told me to get him in the car and get him there asap.  Poor T wouldn't even walk I carried him outside, he stood up to go to the bathroom and laid back down, picked him up and set him in the car and off to the vest we went.


Lots of tests were run, ivs were run and a night in the hospital was had.  Turns out all of his organs are functioning properly and he didn't eat a foreign object.  The vet concluded that he ate something on our walk that night that was not good for him and it was just his system trying to get rid of it.


Just wanted to update those of you that have checked in on him via facebook, instagram and email.  T is offering a special coupon code until May 1st.  Use Coupon Code SUPERT at check out to get 20% off of your purchase. T and I would both appreciate any vintage purchase you make before May 1st.


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Lately

Photography is one of my passions, I minored in it in college and upon moving to Chicago took a bunch more classes at Northwestern.  I have so much more to learn and so much practice to do but lately I've been having fun taking my camera out and shooting a few bands, a good friends new baby and playing with light.  Here's a few of the photos I've been working on and digging. 

 

 

 

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Craziness

Let's take a minute here to reflect on how crazy the internet is.  I mean how crazy awesome the internet is.  Ya ya it can be scary too but whatevs we are talking about it's radness right now.

This girl here, I met her on the internet and then I flew 2,000 miles to meet in person and now she is one of my best friends.

 If you were to ask me exactly how I found her blog hundreds of moons ago I couldn't even begin to tell you.  If you asked me what made me type the worlds longest email to her and divulge a ton of personal information because of a post she had written, I would have to say destiny whispered for me to do it.  We met virtually at rock bottom in our personal lives, both of us living a parallel life 2,000 miles apart when we were feeling like we were the only ones going through what we were going through. That was four years ago.  Since then we meet up every year and talk at least once a week if not daily. The moral of the story is destiny is a real thing, the internet is pretty rad and I can't imagine my life without this girl in it.

Any of you have any good internet stories?

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Silhouette

This body of mine is less like a temple and more like a biography written by life. It carries lessons learned, experiences, dreams, a broken and re-mended heart, false hopes and cobwebs in it's chapters. All neatly mapped out and bound in between the veins and tendons. A whole evolving history tucked in the spaces between the ribs and collarbone.

 

 

 Photo of me by the awesome Ashley Forrette