My Friends are Gross Enablers!

Just kidding! Between my birthday, Christmas, and a couple just-because gifts, I made out like a vintage bandit! Thanks so much to my lovely friends that help me stay stylish!





Look at the details of this purse! It's the perfect combination of gaudy and adorable. I also live with 4 cats, and this matches half of them.

The Thrift Store Gods Were On My Side Today

I usually do most of my shopping at thrift stores, but finding actual vintage is pretty rare. Today I found a great pill box hat, and my favorite style of old lady earrings! There was also a great 1950s style dress that was my size! Plus it was teal, which is probably one of the best colors ever. I seem to find the best stuff when I decide to go thrifting on a whim. Isn't that how it always works though?

OMG, HATS!!!

My friend's boyfriend gave me almost a dozen vintage hats this weekend! They are glorious! He told me he had "a few" for me, so I assumed it was two, maybe three hats. Almost all of them came with their own vintage hair pins too! I lucked out! They were such a great gift!

I love this one. It has such an odd shape, but it's hard to catch it well in a picture. I'll have to try taking some pictures wearing it. That might work better.


This is one is probably my favorite. It fits perfectly, stays on without any kind of hair pin, and I can see myself actually wearing it pretty often.

This one is just plain ridiculous. I want to get some fake birds or something to add on to it. I have no idea what occasion I would/could wear this one to, but I have faith that a perfect situation will come up where that will be the perfect hat.

Here is a picture of the rest of them. I really have no idea what I'm going to do with all of these hats. I collect vintage hats here and there, but I think I'm going to have to start wearing them out.

More Grandma Pictures

These are from the mid/late 50s. I love my Grandma's hat in the first picture, and her skirt in the second picture. The kids are my mom and one of my uncles.




I'm back at school, and my classes start today. This could either mean that I'll be posting less because I'm busy, or posting more because I'm avoiding school work. We'll just have to see what happens I guess.

Lucky Thrift Finds!!!

All the vintage Christmas ornaments at the antique mall are always really expensive. I joked to my mom that I could probably find a box-full for a dollar at a thrift store sooner or later. Sure enough, there was bag of them today for about a dollar! How lucky is that? There were over a dozen, and I only need to fix the tops on a few. These are my favorites:

My other sister does a lot of craft stuff/jewelry making. She bought a huge grab bag of jewelry bits and pieces. There were several old earrings with no mates. She made them into rings for me! They are so cute! After we were done with thrifting, we stopped by Target and I bought another cloche hat.