{M - my name is meg!}

when i was a young girl, i dreamed of being an interior designer. i would rearrange the furniture in my bedroom weekly. i think i drove my mother crazy - but she always let me do whatever i wanted. my bedroom was my cool little apartment, my "twin" beds my hip couches, my white plastic parsons table cubes my very fabulous coffee tables, that i always displayed my sisters glamour magazines - hiding the forbidden cosmo)on. i had throw pillows galore, a bean bag, a little dressing table with a three-legged stool, oh my......if i close my eyes i can picture it. i even had a red, white and blue theme at one time - oh dear. i loved my room. it was my mary tyler moore apartment. remember that apartment? - sunken living room, the big M on the wall, oh it was glorious. that's how my bedroom was. today it's my father's office and soon the room will belong to someone else. sadly my father has decided to sell our family home. oh i'm devastated. my heart is broken. i haven't lived in that house since i went away to college....but still.....it's home, and i'm sad knowing it will no longer exist as home. a quiet little beacon in the distance that i can always turn to. i always wanted annie to know where her mom grew up, run around the same yard. so much of that home changed for me when my mother died. so it's probably just as well.....but still.....home.

anyway..... i was flipping through the new west elm catalog and what caught my eye was the parsons table desk. now it's all i think of. it reminds me of my beloved room. that classic design, the parsons table will never go out of style. trends come and go, but good design, really good design remains. i am obsessing over this table and fear that i just have to have it - and i love the green. it's so great. memories of home. memories of my youth.

now all i need is a big M for my wall. thank goodness my name is meg!!!!!

{annie snippets}

i know i know, how many photos could i possibly have or post of my darling annie. well not enough let me tell you! she's my fav subject, i adore her, so you just have to let me indulge myself here and post a few more annie moments. little snippets of her over the past few days. reading to her little horse, dancing on the sidewalk, she's obsessed with having a "walking" stick these days and once in awhile she'll strike a pose. just for me. oh she makes my heart sing!!

{tea slingers}

{sidewalk sign}

{back l.to r.} nico, connor, philip {middle l. to r.} amber, alex, adrienne
{front l. to r.} meg, annie and bil

{the back of our employee tea shirts "tea slingers"}

{the gang with annie}

{the gang with paul}


{the girls l.to r.} adrienne, alex, amber
missing: jill and lindsey

{alex or as annie used to call her alco}

once upon a time i owned a fabulous tea house here in newburyport. licorice & sloe company. it was a wonderful place. we served over 100 different loose leaf teas that we imported from around the world. we offered unusual tea beverages and lattes made fresh to order. it was a very unique place. and very unique people patronized our tea house. we showcased beautiful artwork from local artists and enjoyed sunday morning music "crumpets and jam" from local musicians. licorice & sloe offered a very unique respite from the world. but alas all good things must come to an end. my husband and i decided that we were never going to be able to "support" ourselves with this business. this business that we put our heart and soul into as well as our life savings....so we decided to close our doors this past september, on our own terms.
but that's not the reason for this post. the reason is the staff at licorice & sloe company. we were so lucky to have the most incredible people work for us. high school and college kids that took their jobs seriously, were pleasant and lovely to all our customers, who cared about about my husband. cared about our daughter. cared out about our business, and like us had a great love for all things tea. when we closed our doors we weren't sorry about losing all that we had worked for, we were sorry that we no longer could offer these kids a place to work and a place to hang. that is what we miss.
we had a tea slinger (a phrase coined by my husband for those that serve tea in l&s co.) reunion the other night. some are away at college and were home for spring break and others are finishing up their senior year in high school and ready to move on. how cool are these guys, they showed up in their tea house shirts!! bil made homemade pizzas, we drank out of dora and diego paper cups courtesy of annie and we just enjoyed being together again. paul joined us as well, as one of our daily customers of the tea house, he too was touched by our "kids" - nico, philip, connor, jill, lindsey, alex, adrienne and amber( tea drinker and supporter extroadinaire).
these tea slingers mean the world to my husband and myself. we miss seeing them everyday. being a part of their lives. they really are great "kids" - we call them our kids but they are adults and they are amazing and will leave their mark on this world. we hope our daughter grows up to be like them, to care about school, to want to do great things with her life just like our tea slingers. we are very lucky to know them.
it was a very special time in our lives, owning licorice & sloe company.

{fabulous giveaway} HAPPY SPRING

check out the maternal lens for a wonderful giveaway!!! all are welcome ~ don't miss out!!

And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"

welcome spring {mini sessions}

welcome spring with a 30 minute {mini} photo shoot. now booking from 21 march to 11 april - you will receive a high res cd of approximately {10-15} beautifully edited photos ready for printing. you pick the location or i will - makes a great easter present, plan ahead for mother's day or father's day, or just because! send an email to meg@bluelimephoto.com to inquire about availability, reduced rates and details. i look forward to seeing you smile!!

{3 yr old} the many faces of........

if your child is like mine, you gotta grab those moments when you can. miss annie has my number now and she doesn't like her photo taken anymore. it's always a struggle. but there are times i prevail. like yesterday for example, she was getting ready to go for a walk with her daddy and i was doing the dreaded cleaning out my closet chore - day no. 2 {yes it was that bad} - i found annie's striped hat it's been missing for awhile - so getting her bundled for her walk, the light perfectly streaming into the room i had to grab my cam - she complied. such a good girl. i do notice her ease in front of the camera but it definitely has to be on her terms. if you feel like sharing a "got it" moment with me - include a link with your comment, i would love to see them. happy monday!! remember it's the last monday of winter!!!