tuesday treasures.

my polaroid 600 camera!

I know it may sound cheesy that I treasure my polaroid camera, but I seriously love that thing. The pictures it takes are my favorite, the way the colors are faded and they have little imperfections. Plus they're instant, can't get much better than that. It's the neatest! I'm so sad that they don't really make film anymore, or at least I can't find any that it remotely affordable. I know have a fujifilm instax, that I've named "the tugboat" for it's giant size, but it's just not the same.

(this might be my favorite picture of the 5 of us. me, jamie, tobin, allie, erin.

the first rewombion, summer "08)

At the Womb there were polaroids everywhere. It was one of our fave things, to get all 5 of us together in an awesome polaroid picture.

(polaroid wall in the womb)

1) no more melancholy 2) Hogwarts! 3) womb nation 4) dancing in a ceiling-less room 5) shawn & james jam sesh 6) we think we're cool because we're holding polaroids of ourselves 7) shawn/bob dylan 8) mustache party 9) baby noah peace sign 10) bestiefest '07 11) the lost weekend 12) my favorite ukrainian boys 13) shawn checkin out allie's booty 14) i am the walrus 15) what's under there? it's a secret... 16) mermaid beach 17) downtown danville breakfast 18) touch my body & donut man 19) tobin's dream come true 20) ain't no party like a womb party 21) family portrait 22) womb night out 23) pretty nails 24) don't mind the crown 25) on the drive

xoxo

nostalgia.

Lately I've been feeling a wave of nostalgia flowing through me. I'm not really sure what the cause is, but nonetheless the feeling is there.

Maybe it's because I miss the days when I lived within walking distance of most (but not all) of my closest friends. My last year of college I lived with 4 other girls, Jessi, Jamie, Allie, and Erin. We lovingly called our apartment "The Womb." I'm not quite sure how that all came about, but we embraced it and made it something great. We started calling ourselves "wombmates" or "wombies," after one of our dear friends pointed out the correlation with the word roommates.

This is a little video that Jamie made (or view it here):

A little short post from Tobin's blog.

The best part of living there, well other than the wonderful relationships that were created, was that it seemed like we never had to go anywhere. There was always someone home, always friends coming over, we were always having such a good time. Even though our apartment was super eclectic and looked like it was probably decorated with trash on the walls (because it partly was) it felt like home.

Wombies Night Out.

Mustache Party!

The beloved porch.

The treasured Womb table (which is now the desk in my room).

Our last pancake breakfast.

Womb ambiance.

Our very first rewombion, breakfast at Flappy Jacks.

A reflection of Tobin: sparkles.

A reflection of Erin: gnomes.

A reflection of Allie: yellow.

A little reflection of me: arts and crafts.

polaroids everywhere.

New Years, New York trip.

The Family.

Graduation Day.

Thanksgiving injuns.

I want this again this year. Hopefully we'll all be together again some time in the future for Thanksgiving.

I'm looking forward to our next rewombion, whenever that may be. And yes, I do realize that this post might've seemed a little obsessive.

xoxo

there's no love like womb love.

I want to go back. I want this again.

Good thing we'll all be together for four days this week/end.

Erin, Tobin, Jamie, & Allie

"As soon as I walk in, the discomfort, the unsettled feeling I've been carrying with me, disappears, because there, in the corner, are the usual gang, and the scene is so familiar it is as comforting as traveling back to the womb."

-Bookends, Jane Green

This was in my book. I came across it the other day. And it was just perfect.