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In love with a vintage gal? Looking for a stocking stuffer? I suggest more stockings. And none of that Leg Avenue garbage, either. I’m talking about the real deal here. Full fashioned, keyhole-welted, seamed, reinforced.*
These specialty items are difficult, although not impossible, to find at brick-and-mortar stores, but are readily available online. This close to [...]
Fri, December 11 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, fashion, holidays, romance, relationships » No Comments
My last post was written specifically for a contest, and was considerably shorter than my usual stuff. In fact, I’d actually written a much longer post and wound up condensing it to fit within the parameters. But it bothers me. Not that it’s short, but that it’s so severely edited. Christmas is one of my [...]
Mon, November 30 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, family, holidays, nostalgia » 2 Comments
Freelance hasn’t kept me as busy as I would have hoped this year. I don’t have the extra money to buy whatever ornaments and decorations strike my fancy, let alone extravagant gifts. Instead, this is an opportunity to rewind to the Christmases of my youth. To use the ornaments I’ve collected from past years of [...]
Fri, November 27 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, blogging, family, gardening, holidays, nostalgia » 4 Comments
People are asking me what I want for Christmas. How very kind and generous! For anyone who isn’t aware, I keep an ongoing list at kaboodle.com and I have finally (to Mandy’s delight, I hope) moved the sold-out or discontinued items under a separate heading.
But there are things that don’t fit neatly into an online [...]
Wed, November 25 2009 » holidays » 4 Comments
One of the things that I do well is shop. I have a bit of free time these days, which I can spend searching online for pretty, useful, and/or elusive things (like a faux-jaguar hat to match my ’60s-vintage coat). As a public service, and to further make it more difficult for me to find [...]
Wed, November 18 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, blogging, holidays, nostalgia, shopping » 3 Comments
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