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Whew. Okay. As many of you know, my Biggest Event of the Year is the annual Viva Las Vegas rockabilly weekender. I first attended VLV10 in 2007 at the urging of (and spending all of my time with) my friends at Peek Photo and a mutual friend of ours. They were absolutely sure that VLV [...]
Mon, February 1 2010 » Vintage & Retro Style, Viva Las Vegas, fashion, food, friends, nostalgia, shopping, vacation » 5 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
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
The above is a photo, hastily taken in my father’s kitchen, of my grandmother’s sugar dispenser. With full permission, my dad got it when my grandmother moved to her condo, and was no longer in the mental or physical condition required for entertaining. My grandmother had it for about as long as anyone can remember, [...]
Sun, November 15 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, citizens, family, nostalgia » No Comments
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