210 vintage-inspired posts, 5000 wonderful comments, and two years later, Poetic Home celebrates its second birthday today!

I wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU for making the last two years inspirational — and for sharing your days with me on Poetic Home.  To have an opportunity to share with you ideas and treasures that inspire me, as well as experience what inspires you, has been very wonderful.  I truly enjoy your company, as well as all of the friendships that have blossomed from our shared appreciation of vintage treasures.  Cheers to another two years of inspiration!

(Photo: Taken in 1926 of Ruth the elephant and her 150-pound birthday cake by Bettmann/CORBIS)

18 hours of labor and one natural childbirth delivery later arrived Baby Poetic in all of his eight pounds and nine ounces glory!   May I introduce you to my beautiful son, Jet Mercury?

While the start of his life involved a full week in the ICU due to respiratory problems, Jet was able to come home with us last week, and my husband and I feel so blessed to have this angel in our life.   The fragility of life, especially in such a tiny body, truly puts the priorities about health and love in perspective.

Thank you so much for all of your encouragement and supportive comments!  It may take me a week or two to return to a regular publication schedule (from lack of sleep, I’m not even sure what day this is…), and I apologize for my delay in responding to comments, questions, and emails — but I do hope you may understand the little bundle of joyous distraction in my arms!

What do you get when you combine one part 1950s TV with two parts of a vintage typewriter?  A fantastically retro Philco PC, but of course!

Designed by SchultzeWORKS, a design studio in Pasadena who has created electronics for the major names like Microsoft and LG, this Philco PC placed in the top three contestants for a challenge that called for a “radical reinvention of the personal computer.”  Isn’t it interesting that a “radical” reinvention would mean traveling back 50 and 100 years to be inspired by antique typewriters and vintage TVs?

The best part is that this design might actually become reality.  I will be the first in line to trade in my uninspiring keyboard and plastic framed monitors for this vintage-inspired technology!

Not that we needed another reason to covet vintage Airstreams, but today I would like to introduce you to the Projet Mobilivre, also known as the Bookmobile Project.  A vintage 1959 Airstream was converted into a traveling bookstore gallery no less, complete with exhibits of independent magazines, artist publications, and more literary goodness.

Fabricated by Freecell, shelves were created flush against the curved shape of the Airstream, and bungee cords hold the literary goods in place.

I love all the natural reading light that streams through the interior, complete with a sweet flower windowsill on the other end of the Airstream.

The vintage Airstream beckons you in to enjoy “a traveling exhibit of artist books, zines, and independent publications,” as seen during a visit to the University of Wisconsin.

Alas, it appears that the main Bookmobile Project website is not currently functional, but I do hope that this gem is still traveling the country, sharing with all independent literary food for thought.