New Years

Hi, everyone this is my last post for 2010!! I wanted to thank all of you for following and for all of your lovely comments. I hope you all have a great new year.Today I'm going to be with my family and tomorrow as well.So I hope to make a new post on Sunday! But today I decided to post some random pictures I took outside with my little cousin....

lalala

my poor pup wolfie got left alone with my little cousins he wasn't happy..

a brownie camera I bought recently

my cousin took this he was so excited to see it on the blog.

Merry x-mas!!

                                     Merry Christmas everyone and I hope you all have a vary wonderful day!!

The Magic of Ordinary Days

Hi everyone, I'm sorry for not posting but I got really sick on Sunday....I feel some what better now and I decided to post a movie I watched yesterday....Its called The Magic of Ordinary Days. Its a story about a young women whose father sends her off to get married. She doesn't know the guy but slowly falls in love with him.She also makes friends with two asian girls from a refuge camp. I really like the costumes of the movie also. I hope you enjoy the pictures. Im also going to post my new finds tomorrow and I'm really sorry for not posting lately.

I love her overalls.

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The good old days.......

Hello everyone!! Well in my last post I promise to right about the history on the hats I found. Last Thursday I went to an estate sale with my mom. There I meet an elderly women named Joan she was born in 1935. The location wasn't exactly at a house it was at a shop she had bought in the 1980s were she stored her moms old stuff.She thought it was interesting that for my age I liked old things. Her mother had worked as a clown and worked on t.v.( there were a lot of clown stuff) she also would go to children hospitals. I also meet her best friend who use to choreography for movies. Joan had a lot of interesting stories and things I had a blast she let me look around at everything and I found some great things. Stay tune for the next post Im working on a velvet skirt out of an old sleep gown =)

This is my favorite find!!

Great Finds!!

Sorry everyone that this cant be a long post I am on my way to my aunts house (family emergency). I just came back from a marvelous estate sale and I wanted to show everyone some hats I found(but I think my mom is posting them in her store because I have enough according to her boo!! ). The women that was selling was vary kind her mother was from a tv show in the 50s  I don't remember the name but she had all her mothers things and hers (she was born in 1935). I will talk about the sell in my next post promise!!

Opps I forgot to fix the date and time SORRY!!

This hat is the one you see on top it reminded me of one in vogue

30s hat 

30s hat <3

30s hat

Winter is Here

Winter time is one of my favorites other than my skin gets dry so i have to pack on that lotion and cold cream and carry chapstick. It doesn't snow where I live  the snow is about 40 mins. away in the mountains. But I love drinking hot cocoa and get in a blanket and watching old movies with the family. Anyway on Monday I went antique and thrift store shopping it was a blast. I made a wish list when I got home, I wanted to share it. I already have a beret but that one is adorable and I really like the sweaters. The overalls are so cute now its just the matter of finding some similar. I hope you liked the list!!

My first award

The lovely Ginger from Sailing over a Cardboard Sea surprised me with the One Lovely Blog Award!!This is my first blog award and I was so surprised.
 

The conditions that go with this award are:

1- Accept the award. Post it on your blog with the name of the person who awarded it along with a link to their blog.

2- Pay it forward to 15 other bloggers that you have recently discovered.

3- Contact those bloggers and let them know they've been chosen.

 

so im passing it to:

1.Annie Pancake and the Time Machine

2.Dial V for Vintage

3.Casey's Elegant Musings 

4.Andi B. Goode

5.Rubys Attic

6.Tea with the Vintage Baroness

7.The Mysterious Life of the Metropolitan Housewife

8.The World of Miss L Fire

9.Va-Voom Vintage

10.The Pink Retro Powder Room

11.Vivian Von Dimples 

12.Beauty is a thing of the past

13.The Cassandra Voom Show

14.Its All Make Believe Isn't It?

 15.Laughing With Broken Eyes

Thanks again to Ginger and congratulations on everyone that won!! 

One mans Junk

 I like cooking and last night my aunt was cleaning her apartment a winter cleaning hehehehe. Before she moved to were she is now she had rented another apartment. Which was home to two elderly sisters they had traveled around the world and as they grew older they decided to leave to Europe. They knew my aunt so they decided to leave her everything they couldn't carry. so last night I was looking through my aunts book case and saw an old culinary textbook from the 50s I picked it up and saw all the recipes. I asked he about it she said I could take it because she doesn't like to cook. I was so excited she also gave me some more cooking tools which I will show you pictures of.

This is the first recipe im going to try

Here's the book

I liked the name on it.

it has a section on canning I liked the picture.

A mixer she gave me also

Vintage finds

Hello everyone ....well I go to estate sale with my mom almost every weekend there are actually quite a bit of them here. I always find something new and I wanted to post some accessories I found. Also a book I apologize for not posting any clothing finds lately but I have so many I don't know where to start.  I will get to it though =)

left avon earrings right earrings from an estate sale

found at the street fair really cool (too bad I don't have a scanner)

1950s glasses for men but I'll still wear them

The back of them

Thrift store shopping twist

Most of the time when I go thrift store shopping it is to go looking for clothes. On Monday I went to Redlands  with my sister to see her friend. On are way back I kept bugging  her and her boyfriend to stop at the thrift store. So they decided to go, in redlands there are a lot of farms and old houses it has a nice country feel hehehe. So in the thrift shop they still have a lot of old things. They even had little booths inside that have antiques and vintage clothing sold by other people. I even saw a  Howdy Doody doll so we looked around and bought somethings but we came across a early 1960s Console radio and turntable. We usually don't buy furniture but we thought it was pretty cool so we took it with us. It was a hassle getting it into the car though I think the owners of the shop thought we were nuts hahaha but we got it in. When we got home I cleaned it up and now we have to get a few things to fix it but the record player works well so now I can listen to all my records =).

Movie Insparations

Have you ever caught yourself watching a nifty movie but your trade of thought is kind of going towards the love stars hair or the really pretty dress shes wearing? Me and me best friend had a movie night yesterday and were watching old movies but we couldn't stop looking at Ester Williams hair in Bathing Beauty. I really like her movies and this one of my favorites she did so I thought I would write a post on it
it starred: Ester Williams (of course) Red Skelton,Basil Rathbone, and Bill Goodwin
Its about a song writer that is planning on marrying a college swimming instructor but a man that already hired him one let home get married because it will ruin his plans for a show he is planning. So he get in between them and they go separate ways. But the writer notice he cant live without her so he enrolls in an all girls college to get here back. The rest I'll let you find out once you see the film =)

Back to School

Ive been in school now for a couple of weeks ugg...school but i didnt really have a chance to write about what i did on my summer vacations my other computer got a virus so i didn't get a chance to but now i can.I went many times to different vintage shops and me and my sister found a lot of great things.Which I will be posting a lot of new outfits i found but for now im going to post a couple of previews of the items.

I got this hat it reminded me of the hat angelina jolie wore in the changeling

This top I liked it because it had a nice sailboat pattern.

Teenagers are weird and your the weirdest.....

in the afternoon i got see the movie peggy sue got married its a movie i hve seen so many times already but one more time wouldn't hurt right. its about a woman that is at her high school reunion and faints. when she faints she goes back in time but she has the chance to change her future but ends up making the same choices as before. My favorite part of this movie is when she sees her little sister again though she telling her how they shouldn't stop talking ever again and she tells her teenagers are weird and your the weirdest haha.

Friday Actor of the day

This is a new segment im adding to the blog the actor of the day there were so many great actors back then there are also good actors today but none can compare to the ones back then.Today's actor of the day is Carole Lombard...Carole was an actor isn't she lucky she was married William Powell and then later got married with Clark Gable. My favorite movie she was in was my man godfrey. When I watch this movie I only could think of was how pretty she was. it also reminded me of my great anut she used to have a lot and I mean a lot of magazines from the 1930s-1970s she had them all in her room in the closet and I remember looking through all her things and she had a poster of Carole it was really pretty and in great condition but now that she passed away her daughter took all her belongings.

Spring Time

Spring yes!! now I could wear my skirts and dresses......I took a couple of pictures of the outdoors now there not photography well no even close but I wanted to show everyone the flowers that are blooming to turn into fruit and the ones that are to show there beauty and great fragrances. Oh and a funny picture of my dog Phantom. Im excited tomorrow I get to cut my hair finally now I'll be able to do more hairstyle right now I do victory rolls and pin curl my hair but because of the length it does not come out like I would want it to. Ill take pictures of it after I cut it. Have a great day everyone!!!
Orange tree flower


My lovely mutt phantom under the Peach tree peach tree blossoms

Cat eye Glasses

I apologize for not writing in so long but the other day in the mail I finally got some glasses Ive been waiting for 4 cat eye glasses I bought on shopgoodwill.com. I was so excited I knew I had to post them up I didnt get to take a picture of the other three because I took them so I could get them in the lenses I need. Right now Im also working on a 1950s shirt its from a modern pattern and its going to be zebra and black Im almost done I cant wait to see the result!!

Outfit Of The Day

Hello everyone today im posting the outfit of the day sorry over the poor picture quality...
the top I bought from the bernie dexter store and the pants from a store on ebay there vintage though. The other day I learned something new you all probably already know this but that the only had metal zippers back then and not plastic I learned it in one of my classes.


Top: Bernie Dexter
Pants:online
I took the pics on my bed lol!

Best Find of the Week!

Every sunday I'm going to post the best find of the week first its the online find for this week it was http://www.vintagesewing.info/
now I have known about this place for a while but I was looking through there books and I love there Circular Pleated Shorts

I found a 1950s hair net in brown so matches my hair, hood winks hair hood great for driving in a nice 1954 cadillac deville and my last find was these clip on earrings they cost me $3.00.