Shoes and Pie

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hair flommers

(Flommers? Yeah. I dunno. I have some verbal affectations. That’s for another post.) (Also: It would seem that I’ve feeling very parenthetical today.) I wear hair flowers. I have, on occasion, purchased hair flowers. I have been given hair flowers in exchange for modeling them, and I have been given hair flowers as gifts. When [...]

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Mon, August 10 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, Viva Las Vegas, collections, fashion, jewelry » 1 Comment

Vintage Sewing: Part Four

I left you all on Saturday morning, when I had created my graded pattern but had yet to cut out my fabric. Things went fairly smoothly, aside from accidentally leaving the zipper opening on the right, rather than left, side of the dress, ripping out the seam on the left side, and then restitching the [...]

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Wed, June 17 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, collections, fashion, friends, nostalgia, sewing » 11 Comments

Snap-front Shirts

Two is a coincidence, three is a collection. -Me Well alrighty then, kiddies, gather ’round and let me tell you ’bout a little girl who never wanted to dress like a cowboy until some time late in high school when she HAD to have herself a pair of cowboy boots. And by “have herself,” I [...]

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Tue, March 17 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, collections, fashion, nostalgia, shoes » No Comments

In Progress

Hey, you know what I need? A new handbag. Because, um, I don’t have enough? (Note: That link is to the flickr set of my vintage and vintage-inspired bags. I have more purses, but they’re not “special” enough to warrant photographing.) (Second Note: Mandelion, I’m sorry but now that I see these all laid out [...]

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Wed, February 11 2009 » collections, family, sewing » 3 Comments

Aprons

To make up for the previous long-winded posts, here’s a very brief one. I collect a lot of things. Today’s post shows you, my sewing- and cooking-interested readers, my collection of aprons. As an added bonus to a frequently-overlapping segment of my readers, most of them are vintage. Click on the image to be magically [...]

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Wed, February 4 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, collections, kitchen, nostalgia, sewing » No Comments