New in the Shop

1940s pique Pussywillow Print Pinafore 

1960s Little Black Knit Dress

1940s Seersucker Sundress with Bow Print 

 grey cable knit vest     and     1950s pinstripe grey oxford

1950s raspberry print button up 

Anne Fogarty Wool Dress 

1970s black and white polka dot dress 

cream 1980s woven oxfords 

1970s Modern Art Silk Dress 

Memorial Weekend Sale

today through monday, i am encouraging you to name your price. just message me with what you would like to pay and i will probably say "yes!" or i will haggle. either way, you'll get a deal.

cheers!

maria

Sister Dresses

the Dress on the left, is from the beautiful shop, Adored Vintage, whose proprietress is named Rodellee. The one on the right will be listed in my shop later this week.

when I saw the picture of the Rodellee's Dress on facebook, I squealed and immediately commented, "I have the sister dress! "

I don't know what thrills me so about finding a match like this. In some strange way, it feels to me as if Rodellee and I are like archeologists working in different places but colleagues. And we have brushed the dust off of two old bones, part of the same body, but somehow separated. Now they are reunited; if only in the sense that they will both find happy homes, instead of being hidden in a musty closet or dilapidating in a warehouse.


thanks for reading,
m

Adelaide's Bridal Collection

When I got to dress my friend Amy, for her wedding , i realized what a special thing that is; providing the wedding dress for a bride. So I've been curating a small collection of dresses for the shop. I hope you enjoy

find the collection here

The one where we visited illinois

   

A few weeks ago we traveled to illinois to visit our families. The flooding river pushed us onto roads that we  hadn't traveled before and we found ourselves in a a small town called Plymouth, which just happened to have the most delightful antique store.

Illinois pastures make me peaceful in a way that some people become calm when staring at the ocean, or standing beneath redwoods, or gazing at mountains. I love all those places too, but they do not conjure a feeling of "home."

Asher nearly got swallowed up whole in all the love from his grandparents, and aunts and uncles and cousins. He reveled in having people cheer for him as he learned to walk. He got to feed a cow, and pet a goat and hold a tiny frog by a pond.

and also...this happened :) 

thanks for reading,
m

Shop Additions

Cornflower Blue Seersucker 1940s Dress 

Cream Knit 1960s Mod Shift Dress

Blue Linen 1940s dress (larger size) with Arrow Motif

Ossie Clark Brown Velvet Coat 

1940s silk floral dress

Adrienne Vittadini Cream Pom Pom Sweater

1960s caramel wool sailor dress

Blue Plaid Camp Shirt (1970s) 

1970s sheer plum floral Dress 

1960s black wool Dress

1950s Ecru Lace Wedding Dress

1970s Blossom Branch Dress

These items are new in the shop the last couple weeks. and it is up to 150 items for the first time in....oh, maybe a year? yay! i feel like its a good mix of decades and price points, and seasons, too! 

i would also like to commend the new dress form for doing such a beautiful job! what should her name be? rosamond? 

have fun shopping :) 

m

the big 2 9 .

My 29th birthday was on the 5th. Steve took the whole afternoon off and gave me the gift of alone time. He took care of asher told me to go do whatever i wanted all by myself...and it was lovely.
I went to an antique market, a secondhand clothing store, a coffee shop, and a flower shop where i bought myself some lovely flowers.

that evening was a bit unorthodox. While we had a fancy dinner planned, the more i thought about it, i realized that what i really wanted was help cleaning our room. i am VERY domestically challenged and i just work better with a friend. so we grabbed a quick dinner and then steve rolled up his sleeves and dug into the pile of clothes that is our bedroom floor. He cheerfully helped me hang my vintage dresses, match socks, put away laundry, take moldy forgotten coffees to the kitchen...etc, etc. It was really fun actually.

aren't those buttons lovely?

on sunday i took a long bath, painted my toenails and put on this wonderful dress from Wildfell Hall for church. This dress was my birthday treat from myself. i fall for a lace print, every. time.

a few things i learned this year:

-"its better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all" -Tennyson.
i lost emerson, but i'm so glad that i loved him with all my might while i had him. i want to keep an open heart and not have a hardened one.

- i learned how to make really good french bread. ok, maybe i only did it once, but it was wonderful and hopefully not a fluke.

-- "when parents let their ambitions, housework, or hobbies become a higher priority than parenting, and they begin to view their children as annoying interruptions. This attitude guarantees failure, frustration, and anger. only by reordering priorities and recongizing that parenting is a highly demanding job will there be any hope for decent results and the absence of frustration." --raising Godly tomatoes. .....Asher is not an annoyance...He is a little life, a little person who needs molding and shaping. and i only get one chance with him. loving him and spending time with him (where i am really present) is more important than a perfect home, or a great vintage shop.

--being an introvert mom can be really scary. I tried to do life all by myself for the first 6 months of asher's life. then my face hit concrete. turns out we can't do life alone. i need friends, i need other moms, i need help. i learned (and am still learning) to reach out. and to tell people my struggles.

--i don't want to care what people think, or be a people pleaser anymore. its dumb. i want to please God.

--i can basically do everything one handed. with a little boy on one hip.

--i really really like my job.

--Brussels sprouts can taste like candy.

thanks for reading, seriously.

m