Milk glass

A pretty vintage milk glass necklace, which I wore yesterday. Right now, I’m really into wearing very simple neutral things with pretty vintage jewelry.
Kenn snapped these while I was pulling a sheet off the pet hair roller. My hair is sort of a mess right now from chlorine.
Also, lest you worry for my health [...]

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Bathing Beauties

I’ve taken up swimming again lately, for which I wear your typical plain black sporty speedo one piece (though I do have a pink swim cap and goggles). But it’s made me think about summer swimsuits of the splish-splash-playing-in-the-pool variety (as opposed to the swimming-laps-for-exercise variety).
Nowadays, swimsuits are usually kind of flimsy and rarely [...]

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A rosey spring dress

I bought this odd 80s sun dress for a few bucks recently. I thought it was really dowdy in that sort of horrible laura ashley way, but at the same time, the bodice is really beautifully cut. It has a very fitted princess cut, elastic shirring in panels at the back, and I [...]

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More dresses

There are two shops in Rockridge that sell the most beautiful vintage dresses. Most of them are fancy occasion sorts of things, so I don’t have many excuses to buy them.

But I am in love with this little blue 60s dress. pretty pretty.
I have a great deal more to write about [...]

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Vintage wedding dress

The perfect dress, in a shop window in Oakland.

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Folkwear 1930s Day Dress

Long ago, someone sent me this pattern for Folkwear #249, 1930s Day Dress. I bought the fabric, cut the pattern, and for one reason or another, it languished in my sewing box for many months after.
Well, I finally finished it, and it’s quite nice! I used a gorgeous blue toile cotton for the [...]

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Dressing for my bike

{photo from rhiannon}
I’ve recently started working in a new location, which completely changes my commute. I’ve been using a combination of BART and my bike to get to and from work almost every day. This is fantastic because few things make feel more free than being on a bike, and it’s a great [...]

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1934 Lace Sweater with Frills

I finished this sweater fairly recently, and I’m really liking the way it turned out. It’s a British pattern from 1934, which is contained in my copy of Jane Waller’s A Stitch In Time.

I used a somewhat heavier yarn, Knitpicks’ Shine Sport in Orchid, which is bit more violet-based than it looks like here. [...]

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Handmade Weddings on The Storque!

Just a quick, belated note that I wrote a short little piece for The Storque on vintage bridal style, for their Handmade Wedding series.
The Storque is Etsy’s ezine, and right now it’s full of ideas for DIY weddings. Reading about DIY weddings makes me want to throw more parties.
{And thanks to Rhiannon [...]

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Book Review: Lanvin

I am not a follower of high fashion (or low fashion, for that matter). I look at the collections now and again and have a general idea of which designers appeal to me. Overall, I appreciate the beautiful things that come out of the fashion world, but that good is more than cancelled [...]

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