all my teeth are sweet

I don't have a sweet tooth, all my teeth seem to be sweet. I like sweet things more than I should. My saving grace is that I can only eat a small amount at a time before being "over" whatever it is that I am eating. But nary a day can go by that I don't eat something sweet. I am thankful also that my sweet tooth prefers pretty "fancy" sweet things (save for donuts!), it makes me choosier about the sweet I'll eat as well as making them harder to come by (no candy bars for me). For Valentine's Day I'd love a day of fancy desserts and the power not to tire of them so I could eat up all the ones I love.

clay and rubies

 shop update!

one day in ohio

A day of antiquing in Ohio served up some super great vintage, not that I thought it wouldn't, but even when you expect that you'll find great things while antiquing you never *really* know what those things will be so the excitement over the items you find is always fresh. And so...I just thought I'd share with you the things that I scooped up for the shop late last week. Wait, I lied, the last photo, the shoes and the suitcase have an acute case of the "minezies". Sorry.

rebel, rulebreaker, charlatan

So, here's the deal. I am wearing this today. But I am not as home as I appear here. I am visiting friends in New York and going to the Manhattan Vintage Show today. But, I wore this the other day too. Broke a major personal rule that is, "don't wear the same thing twice".  But then I have recently broken other rules I have like, "don't work from home all day in your jammies". So meh. Here I am wearing this days ago and wearing it again. The thing is I bought this dress on Etsy and the seller had two of them, the other is blues and greens and well, I like this jumper so much I bought the second one up too.

get dressssssed

Though I didn't see it coming, it seems I felt like posting a lot of dresses!

Not sure what inspired it, but it's of no matter, here are the pretties!

And other non-dress pretties too!

cats in crinolines

I need to start a new photo series entitled either 'Cats on Crinolines' or 'Cats on Vintage', because everytime I shoot photos Ella has to curl up on either a crinoline or the crunchiest garment she can find, particularly party dresses. I take way too many photos of this cat, I know.

not to be done in

Warning -this post is very real life and just a little personal, but nothing major...

A little over a year ago when I started this shop/blog I was so excited by it and by getting dressed in general. I blogged more outfits and had more overall joy in regards to getting dressed. Somehow after a year of cracking the whip on myself and handling thousands of garments I seem to have somehow lost this joy. It is also a function of working alone from home everyday with no reason to get dressed. And I never thought I would be so uninspired to get dressed in the morning. But considering all the time this job I have given myself takes, I have let what I love about clothing the most slip right through my hands - getting dressed. I thought for certain I wouldn't practically live in my comfy clothes. I thought I'd get dressed just the same as when I worked in an office. Boy was I wrong. I wake later, I wear the same sweaters around the house every day and I loathe having to leave home because it means getting dressed. But today I abolish this thinking! My love for getting dressed cannot possibly be  lost forever. I think it's also a little bit lost in the doldrums of winter, once it's spring I know inspiration will rears it's head and I'll be prancing around the house once again in lovely little frocks. But for now, it's still winter and I'm deciding that I will make more of an effort to make an effort. Since I have decide this, I am excited by it, like it's a little pet project. I just need to turn the heat up more often in the house so I don't always feel like being huddled up in my yoga pants!

vintage 1960s wool check shift dress - thrifted, so many years ago

charcoal cardigan - H & M

bright salmon belt - "stolen" from a friend's closet

vintage 1960s Charles Jourdan t-straps - estate sale

gingerly

I get stuck on a color, a palette really. It's not easy to work my way out of the canvas I start to paint the shop into, so rather, I just go with it, until somehow I move through it. And so here is another very warm, ginger, caramel, vanilla shop update. Yum.

welcome february...

February...a month I would, like everyone else, dislike a whole lot were it not for it being my brithday month. Although I think I like birthdays less and less each year, but I digress. Welcome, at least, to the first shop update of February. And T.S. Eliot says April is the cruelest month...bah!

all etsy-ed

Save for the tights, all the things I am wearing are from Etsy. Not only do I sell but lordy, lordy I buy. Maybe more than I should, but it's too easy. I am also courting spring, way too early, but I have got the heat turned way up in the house so I can run around in this getup. It's really sunny outside so in this house it pretty much feels like spring! 

1960s salmon dress - from Pangs

1960s cream mary janes - from Revival Finds

ivory lace ribbon - from In with the Old Vintage

It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.

hair brained

I have a deep and abiding affinity for fur hats, the bigger the better it seems. They combine my love for two things - vintage hats and vintage fur. It's absurdly cold today and I had planned to drive about an hour to a huge antique mall, but thought better of it and instead ended up shooting all the fur hats. All these will be in the shop, except for the white one, that one will live with me...