Jessica over at kusine.com is hosting a pattern giveaway, and all you have to do to enter is comment on this post and tell everyone what your first machined sewing project was. I’m posting my “reply” here, however, because the sundress pattern is quite fetching but I already have too many unsewn patterns in my [...]
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Sat, May 1 2010 » nostalgia, sewing » No Comments
It’s Friday, and I had cash in my pocket, so I decided to go to an estate sale that I’d read about. The organizer’s website was chock full of photos that scrolled way too quickly, but I did spot a Formica dinette set flash by, and I figured it was a good indicator of what [...]
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Fri, April 30 2010 » Vintage & Retro Style, kitchen, nostalgia » 4 Comments
NOTICE: March 20-28 is VMTEAM sale time! Search for vacation-themed items with the ‘vmteamgetaway’ tag by clicking here. Each participating VMTEAM store has their own special offer for this sale. Please be sure to visit a shop’s main page for that store’s specific details. Here at Tiddleywink, any item tagged ‘vmteamgetaway’ is 20% off the [...]
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Sat, March 20 2010 » Vintage & Retro Style, fashion, nostalgia, shopping, vacation » No Comments
AAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA! 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Mon, November 30 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, family, holidays, nostalgia » 2 Comments