I rarely use the word "perfect".
I don't strive for perfection and in most things, I don't really believe perfection is possible, so long as members of a broken humanity are involved and heaven remains at bay. In fact, I'm drawn to imperfection and things that are on the verge of being discarded.
I'm a rescuer of things that, unless you choose to look closely, their value and beauty isn't obvious at first glance.
It's easy to like perfection...doesn't take much depth to embrace something that's perfect. Doesn't take much grace to accept something that doesn't challenge you.
I don't strive for perfection and in most things, I don't really believe perfection is possible, so long as members of a broken humanity are involved and heaven remains at bay. In fact, I'm drawn to imperfection and things that are on the verge of being discarded.
I'm a rescuer of things that, unless you choose to look closely, their value and beauty isn't obvious at first glance.
It's easy to like perfection...doesn't take much depth to embrace something that's perfect. Doesn't take much grace to accept something that doesn't challenge you.
I love pretty things but my definition of "pretty" doesn't really include perfection. In fact, my definition of pretty is anti-perfection.
Let's talk home decor, for example.
I like easy.
I don't like fussiness.
I like easy.
I don't like fussiness.
This makes my heart skip a beat.
Chippy...rusty...dented...dinged...
old...loved but discarded...crumpled...
crusty...distressed...imperfect.
These are my things.
I crave things that have had life before me and will probably go on after me.
I love antique malls and junk stores, especially those in sleepy little towns with a town square and a cafe that's not a franchise...where they serve sweet tea in Mason jars and biscuits made in cast iron skillets.
.
I enjoy the fine art of thrifting and going to estate auctions with my brother. Old stuff, out on display. Old frames, old glasses, old books, vintage cameras, Bibles that are tattered and well-read.
I love a house with years on her bones and 6 layers of paint on her walls. If she has a deck made of wood that's gray from the weather, all the better.
I love old songs, old hymns and old music.
I like the smell of old maps and faded books with deckle edge pages.
I treasure old letters and lists, notes and pictures of old people and greeting cards from decades we haven't seen in a long time.
I'm a girl with scars and I don't hide them.
Scars are proof of life.
There are scars on my body and scars on my heart.
I love a man with some gray in his beard and some years in his hands.
Yep, I don't do perfection.
I do pretty.
Keep your Pottery Barn and your Anthropologie.
Give me salt-water washed wood and faded, yellowed, authentic things.
Any day or the week.
--Sarah
old...loved but discarded...crumpled...
crusty...distressed...imperfect.
These are my things.
I crave things that have had life before me and will probably go on after me.
I love antique malls and junk stores, especially those in sleepy little towns with a town square and a cafe that's not a franchise...where they serve sweet tea in Mason jars and biscuits made in cast iron skillets.
.
I enjoy the fine art of thrifting and going to estate auctions with my brother. Old stuff, out on display. Old frames, old glasses, old books, vintage cameras, Bibles that are tattered and well-read.
I love a house with years on her bones and 6 layers of paint on her walls. If she has a deck made of wood that's gray from the weather, all the better.
I love old songs, old hymns and old music.
I like the smell of old maps and faded books with deckle edge pages.
I treasure old letters and lists, notes and pictures of old people and greeting cards from decades we haven't seen in a long time.
I'm a girl with scars and I don't hide them.
Scars are proof of life.
There are scars on my body and scars on my heart.
I love a man with some gray in his beard and some years in his hands.
Yep, I don't do perfection.
I do pretty.
Keep your Pottery Barn and your Anthropologie.
Give me salt-water washed wood and faded, yellowed, authentic things.
Any day or the week.
--Sarah
1 comment:
Have to agree whole heartedly! We are fixing up a dilapidated old farm house. The contractor was trying to sell me on the white trim and real wood laminate flooring with a "all the new houses are doing it". Yeah, don't care. I want "real wood" wood flooring and real wood trim that is stained a natural color that will show more character as it ages, not a homogenized version of the pottery barn.
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