a stunner

don’t you just love this beautiful black frock?
fancy fabric of black satin and velvet

Size: Bust-36, Waist-30, Hips-38
$84
for sale at vintage martini

travelin’

i think i’ve spent equal time away from home traveling as i did at home this month. wow, am i feeling both wiped and rejuventated. i just got home from my third trip and i don’t forsee another trip planned anytime soon.  a delightful prospect considering how turbulent holiday travel can be. once i get a chance to kick my feet up and relax, i have a huge vintage clothing update to make.  in the meantime, i have been slowly making reductions to everything on my site.

future blogging plans:
:: blog more
:: post images of new stuff before i post it, like this simply amazing marabou and ostrich feather antique opera cape coming soon

a museum quality antique :: $295

pucci poor

it wouldn’t be such a bad thing to be pucci poor. i mean, how tragic could it possibly be to have a closet full of pucci pieces? vintage silk jersey dresses, rich velvets for winter, bras and panties, night gowns, bathing suits, groovy girdles. colors everywhere. i would have to upgrade my closet, my house, my hangouts, if i had all of that pucci. a girl can dream. you can, too. ebay has a ton of good vintage pucci right now. here are some of my december pucci faves:

it’s true that a bathing suit seems like the silliest thing to buy in the winter season but it’s never silly to buy a bathing suit postcard to admire year round.  sensible and decadent!

ps this seller has a great collection of surf epherma to parouse:
http://stores.ebay.com/The-Back-Room-Vintage-Clothing

ok, back to more tantalizing pucci.  here’s a silk pucci purse that has some potential. after a proper cleaning, i see this purse bead appliqued over the worn spots and a beaded strap for the handle. maybe a fringe? make it totally pucci hobo coutured. it deserves a fabulous new life.

click on the pic to be directed to ebay post

and lastly, i bring you another inexpensive vintage pucci item. imagine wearing these lovely unmentionables. i don’t care what men think, these are some sexy undies.

 

click on the image to be directed to the cat’s pajamas ebay store. always luxirious offerings

miriam haskell jewelry

leave it to antiques roadshow to make me ohh and ahh while exposing me to top shelf vintage jewelry and other objects de art. up until tonight, i had no idea the extent of jewel genius possessed by miriam haskell. her jewelry was for the most part designed by frank hess, but she was the queen of the business side, using her great business sense and artistic personal taste. miriam began her business journey in the 1920’s and the company still thrives today. here are a couple of my currently available vintage favorites:

just look at that fabulous bangle!!! check out more amazing Miriam Haskell pieces for sale here:
http://www.morninggloryjewelry.com/miriam-haskell-jewelry-m-6.html

miriam haskell jewelry is still handmade in their New York City studio, since the 1920’s. Check out the current collection here:
http://www.miriamhaskell.com

road trip?

having a travel trailer to take around this glorious country of ours, collecting vintage, creating accessories and interesting clothing, seeing the sights, selling to boutiques along the way and on-line, all the while being mobile, would be FUNtastic! who’s in? how about next Spring / Summer ?

i’m treasured

etsy has this feature where users can create treasuries of their favorite items, based on a theme or concept. today, my vintage hawaiian shirt was included in a treasury called island stylin’. check it:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=57170

aloha!

where have you been all my life?

while drinking my morning tea, i stumbled upon a fantastic website. if you love fashion and like to collage, http://www.polyvore.com is the place for you. this site allows you to snag images from anywhere on the web and paste them together to create a layered image. it’s super easy to move around the images to your liking and no messy glue to deal with OR naming layers in photoshop. i can see this being a great way to market my wares. here’s an example of the fun you can create:

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awesome etsy find!

I just spotted the most amazing enid collins purse on esty. she made nifty beadazzled handbags in !959 to !970 in Texas. I covet this bag but can’t really afford something for myself right now . It looks like it’s in primo condition, too. However scores this gem will have sunshine smiling at them forever. It would be a great addition to anyone’s collection. This bag is also super cool because Enid made this for a festival in her home state of Texas. There are two signiatures : hers and the handbags them name on it. Fiesta del Sol – Celebration of the Sun.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=12486494

I don’t yet own an Enid Collins Handbag but I really think I should start collecting them. The ebay pricing seems reasonable still and the bags are whimsical and bright.

This pristine beauty is on ebay now with just two days and 18 hours left. No bids, yet – at $24.99.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Gorgeous-Enid-Collins-Jewel-Garden-Purse_W0QQitemZ180253244254QQihZ008QQcategoryZ63852QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Daily Horoscope for Libra

Daily Horoscope for Libra 
Today’s Date: June 12, 2008

You’re all about fair practices and artful solutions. Blend old ingredients into something new. Make it so that everybody wins this time…                       Very timely!

Rating: 3 of 5 stars
Intensity: 85%
Keywords: deferential, good breeding
Mood: blissful

Tonight, I’m lovin’ the zombies best of album, time of the zombies
the whole side 2 is stellar but the song “i’ll call you mine” has a fantastically upbeat tempo

buy the record on ebay:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?satitle=time+of+the+zombies+lp&dfsp=32&catref=C3&from=R2

save the waves?

I just found out that my friends, The Mother Hips http://www.motherhips.com, are playing at a benefit this Thursday night in San Francisco for the Save the Waves Coalition.
http://www.savethewaves.org/08_life_is_a_wave_event.asp

The coalition focuses on saving water and wave conditions in the oceans and rivers from the hands of developers and polluters all over the world. A worthwhile fight, indeed. Look at this beautiful break in Ireland: http://www.savethewaves.org/bundoran.asp

I grew up in Dana Point spending most of my free time at this amazingly pristine beach called Strands Point. It was a ten-minute walk down this dirt path that wound around the bluff, leading you down to a quiet oasis with an amazing surf break. In the late summer, the water was a clear green blue and my girlfriends and I would snorkel along the point where we spotted fish, bat rays and of course, hot surfers.

Strands Point is the “Point” in Dana Point and was the last undeveloped ocean front property of its kind in Southern California.  Ten or so years ago, a developer bought the bluff to build a hotel on it. An endangered field mouse saved the land and the sea below for a few years but eventually a new project began. The projects sounds huge. A hotel with spa, over 100 custom home sites, and a commercial center! It makes me sad and think that I didn’t know how lucky I had it and I should have taken more pictures but I also know that it was inevitable. It’s such a beautiful piece of shoreline. http://www.strandoc.com/history.html

Dana point was home to killer Dana, a beach with the biggest, bestest wave around before they built the Dana point harbor. Now, it is called doheny beach and it is polluted and killer Dana has long been dead. An organization like the Save The Wave Coalition could have made a difference back in 1966, when the harbor was built. I am grateful that there are people out in the world protecting such a priceless resource. http://www.savethewaves.org/killerdana.asp