Vintage

Now that our new little girl is a month old, I’ve been spending a lot more time in the kitchen.  She is sleeping for longer periods of time, giving me enough time to make a pot of soup. We’ve been in our house for two…

Black Label Gunne Sax Gown from 1969 offered by @goldminevintage If you are at all familiar with vintage clothing, you probably recognize the nostalgic, bohemian designs of Gunne Sax, a dress company straight out of 1960s San Francisco. I grew up playing dress-up in my…

Papier-mache artist Gemma Taccogna was born in Bari, Italy in 1923. She moved to America with her parents as an infant, where she later became famous for her work in paper mache. Glamorous Hollywood personalities, including Mary Tyler Moore, commissioned work from her.  Some of…

I have a renewed love affair with vintage cabin style since we moved to the mountain.  Vintage enamelware is somewhere near the top of my list of faves.  Since tea time is my favorite time of day, I think enamelware teapots and coffeepots are extra…

UPDATE: Since posting this article, it has come to my attention that most if not all vintage patterns of Pyrex have tested positive for lead content that is double the safe limit in the glass and about upwards of 400 times the safe limit in…

We’ve spent the last month and half in the Bay Area where the cold weather consisted of a slight chill. Now that we are back on the mountain there is a chilly wind blowing so hard as to threaten our electricity.  I am frantically searching…

There are few pieces of decor that add charm and warmth to a room quite like vintage lighting.  I am a huge fan of the 1960s and 70s swag lights – the kind that hang from the ceiling by chains, with their cords woven in…

About a year ago (I can’t believe it’s been that long already!) we purchased and moved into our first house.  It was built in 1928 in the San Bernardino Mountains, but was remodeled in blue, blue, blue, and pink in 1994.  It’s the kind of…

I dig space, Star Trek, and flying saucers.  Luckily for me, and all of us really, it seems humanity is aspiring to explore the cosmos more and more these days.  Until we have a colony on Mars, we must be satisfied with exploring the space-imagination…

Perhaps it’s because I’ve spent the last few months searching for a home for my family, but lately I’ve been obsessively reading about the interesting and unconventional home choices other people are making in the Western World. During my last couple years of college, I…