Author Archives: Sara Jensen

#365patterns

I’ve been working like crazy but in the meantime I decided to play catch up with my awesome friends Alma and Melanie from Caravan Shoppe and try and post a pattern a day and post it on instagram with the tag #365patterns. Sometimes it’s hard, especially since I am neck deep in a project that [...]

Sweet Child of Mine

photo by Sara Parsons. It’s taken me awhile to form the words, and really truly believe them. I’ve moved swiftly between shock, anger, a deep guttural cries when I find myself alone and away from my other people. Sometimes it takes everything I have (and some things that I didnt know I had) to hold [...]

Thank you

This morning as I sat on the edge of my bed, pulling on my socks, I noticed the black dress that I had packed for what I thought might be a funeral had fallen off it’s hanger and lay in a rumpled pile on the floor of the closet. I thought to myself, how grim [...]

My Sweet Kid

This is Rylie’s first time selling cookies! Also, thats her brother whispering in the background! Seriously email me! She will call you this weekend to take your order!

Lost not Found

I wrote this note to the designer Helen Ficalora last night. Hi, I have been a long time fan of your charms and felt very personally connected to my necklace. When I first met my husband, on our first Valentine’s day he gave me one of your necklaces with our initials S and T on [...]

Love 2012

Things are a little bananas around here. Ill be posting more soon. In the meantime, here are some sweet pictures I set up with my insanely talented friend Sara Parsons.

I Once Was Lost

The last time I saw my birth father I was nearly four. My dress, it was light pink and itchy, my white tights neatly tucked into some shiny black shoes I didnt remember seeing before. I walked down a long hallway, I remember the clicks of my heels as I approached a room. There in [...]

Kitty Genius

I love every single thing on Ashley Goldberg’s site.

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

I want every little piece of folded paper on Lydia Kasumi’s site.

Sunny Days

One of the things I love most about Washington is the total optimism towards any potential sunlight. When the sunny spring and summer hits its rare you will find anyone inside on purpose. We met a new friend who just moved to the island. She had us over for crab quesadillas (which her friend caught) [...]