vintage and hand crafted items to wear, look at, and serve on, at your fabulous memorial day bbq. hoorah 1. timebombvintage 2. citrustree 3. merritthyde 4. acero studio 5. twoguitars 6. kitschenqueen and what will you serve at this fabulously stylish bbq, you wonder? this grilled tuna is really really delicious and super easy (make [...]
Posts Tagged ‘vintage’
happy memorial day weekend
Posted in food, shopping, things to do, tagged bbq, beer, cooking, Etsy, farmers markets, memorial day, recipes, summer, summer 2010, sunscreen, vintage on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
their wedding is better than your wedding
Posted in creativity, fashion, no but seriously, photography, tagged black & white photography, photography, vintage, wedding on May 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dumdeedum, lazy Saturday spent watering plants, cleaning, doing other tasks I’ve otherwise put off… including watching some Say Yes to the Dress, the TLC show that follows brides as they shop for their wedding gear at Kleinfeld in Manhattan. As reality TV goes, it’s not a particularly brilliant show (The Real Housewives of NY has [...]
Lolita, outfitted
Posted in fashion, tagged black & white photography, fashion, spring 2010, trends, urban outfitters, vintage on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What’s up with Urban Outfitters spring ’10 look book being all Lolita? From fetish-ized shots of awkwardly bent little girl legs & their shoes (mimicking the iconic cover of the novel) to the photos of a very lithe young thing, dressed in culottes and frilly 1950s bikini tops, the inspiration is hit-you-over-the-head obvious. In theory [...]
photobooth intimidates me
Posted in fashion, shopping, tagged accessories, fabulous fanny's, glasses, new york, vintage on January 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
yesterday i found the glasses i have been searching for ever since i gave up the dream of huge, nerdy, 70s-inspired old lady glasses last year. the new dream: clear plastic cat-eye frames. (stop laughing. i had a vision.) they are from fabulous fanny’s, 335 e 9th street in manhattan (but you can also order frames [...]
my dreams do not usually revolve around shoes, but
Posted in art, fashion, photography, shopping, tagged antiquing, black & white photography, boots, diane arbus, ebay, facehunter, moderna museet, piet mondrian, shoes, stockholm, sweden, urban outfitters, vintage on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i had a dream once in which i was wearing the dreamiest pair of flat black lace-up boots. incidentally i went antiquing a few months later and stumbled across the dreamiest pair of (inexpensive!) flat black lace-up boots, and they have been a staple of my day-to-day life ever since. we find shoes like this [...]
shmampire shmeekend
Posted in music, tagged afrofunk, benin, ghana, guinea, new york, santos party house, sierra leone, vintage, vinyl on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
a friend sent me a link to this blog the other day. it is called voodoo funk, and it’s full of super fun african pop music from the 1970s, that a man named frank found while collecting vintage records in guinea, sierra leone, ghana, and benin. if you live in new york, frank throws voodoo [...]
