Airliner

So I look a bit like a stewardess from an airliner!

I had a hard time passing up this dress at a thrift store though!

Something about those shiny gold buttons- haha!

Happy Tuesday!!!

xx

1970 Revisited

If you didn't see my previous post about this dress,

my lovely Mama made this dress around 1970!

I LOVE IT!!!

So... ironing isn't a hard task but...

I was just trying on my "vintage" clothes

for bloggy shots

on a day when I was home alone

 (those are slim pickins these days).

This dress really does look a little better ironed! :)

AHHHHHh

the color is driving me nuts!

The web compresses my files when I put em in here

and the result, you ask?

BAD color! Boooo

This dress is really more of an orangey color- not as red!

Done ranting! :)

Happy Saturday to you!!!!

Hope you've got something fun lined up :)

xo

Beauty Sleep

Here's a pillow case I made for my little one a little while back! 

Again, the color is not so great...

but I'm working on that!

Whatchya doing this weekend? 

Think we're heading out to the desert right now-

The sky is gonna be amazing...

I'll share some shots soon :)

xx

Wrapped

Sharing another piece made by my Lovely Mama!

She made this wrap skirt eons ago :)

Check out the clogs that I kept from early high school too-

Think I'm about ready to start wearing them all over again!

They were my Favorite and I couldn't make myself part

with them, even though they'd

gone outta style! Just gotta wait

long enough and POW! Back in!!!

Le Fabric

Happy Monday-

Off to gym, 

then to study about heart failure!

How depressing :(

xx

Sunday Song- "Lonely Nights"

LOVE! This song and couldn't quit listening to it

 for quite some time.... took a little break and here we go again! So good...

Vic Ruggiero 

featuring Lisa Muller

Happy Sunday Peeps!!!

WINNER!!!!!

Just wanted to start with a big THANK YOU

for entering my give away and for keeping

up with The Stitchy Life! Blogging has been a great way

to meet a bunch of nice folks! I love reading your comments and 

browsing your blogs!!!

Here are the names for the drawing:

Into a bowl for a good old fashioned draw...

(the bowl)

Olivia's little hand in the horsey nightgown (love it)

And the winner is:

Rachel from Rachel Red Lips

Congrats!!!!

Rachel, you can email me

 your address and your package will be on it's way

shortly. I wanted to add a little something to it after I found out who the

winner was so I could personalize it a bit more! :)

Happy Sunday Happy Bloggers :)

xx

Nicky

1970's

My Mama made this dress right around 1970.

I LOVE it!!!

Here I am in Hawaii last summer enjoying every bit of it :)

And here I am today...

dreaming about Hawaii

Love Plumeria's

Sailing goodness

Italian dinner date with my hubby

Check it out, I have a shoe company in Hawaii?!?!?!! hahaha

Back at home

My hubby's surprise bday party last year! That was fun!!!

And he was really surprised!

One of my antique favorites- this Jadite cake stand :)

I tried a recipe for a lemon cake with candied lemons and lemon glaze.

It was quite scrumptious- I'd make it again!

I've got so many vintage dresses/pieces that I haven't shared!

 I'll get to it in the next couple of posts!!!

Happy Tuesday!

Don't forget to...

Enter my 100th Post Giveaway!!!

Anthropologie/Vintage goodies!!!

You've got til the 20th! 

Good luck!

xx

Sunday Song- and Wishing

I'm going to change it up a little and give you a song

 that reminds me of having brunch with my Dad and Stepmom

on Sunday mornings growing up.

 We always played the Oscar Peterson CD "Tristeza,"

sat out in the sun by the pool, BBQ'd sausages

 and had eggs and fruit salad! 

The best!!! 

(this song reminds me a little of Vince Guaraldi- from Charlie Brown)

Don't know if you are jazz fans out there

 but this guy freakin smokes on piano!

 There are you tube videos of him playing :)

Wishlist from Anthropologie!!!

Beda Dress

Bee's Favorite Blouse

Sea Stripes Bikini

Midnight in the Garden Coverup

Walking on Sunshine

Enter my 100th Post Giveaway!!!

Anthropologie/Vintage goodies!!!

You've got til the 20th! 

Good luck!

xx

Happy Sunday!!!

Come into my Garden

Van Morrison

Stepping out of Queen, Part ll

"Come in my garden and look at the flowers

That's what you were saying, right?

Come in my garden and look at the flowers

We can just sit and talk for hours and hours

Come in my garden, come in my garden

Come in my garden

Come in my, come in my, come in my garden

Come in my, come in my, come in my garden

Come in my garden, come in my garden

Look at the flowers, we can just sit and talk and feel

As the sun come over the valley

As the sun come over the valley

I believe, I like the way

I like your face from the left side

As you go, as you go

Stepping out queen, stepping out queen..."

Welcome to my garden,
Scrumptious Lavander

I wandered around my sad garden the other day

and realized that even when I am

neglecting my sweet plants

they are still blooming beautifully and waiting patiently for some TLC.

We're going for it today... time for some yard work :)

These are succulents from my Mama's house.

She broke me off a few to start my own... the 

blooms are AMAZING!

Under the plant is one of my favorite scores from an estate sale...

this cross stitched table cloth. Perfect in our breakfast nook!

Did I mention

my Mama's on her way over here to hit up an estate sale before I start gardening?

PRIORITIES people!!! hahaha

Some new basil that I harvested from my last season basil blooms!

Can't wait to have some in my kitchen :)

Transplanted lavender from another spot in the yard

Trailing ground cover down the steps and a spa with fresh chlorine!

YAYYYY! We've been out for a while- can't wait to jump in!

First signs that our birch tree is still hanging in there! :)

Chives from last year! 

They are delicious... I'm trying to get motivated to rip out and replant

this little garden box in our backyard!

Cilantro- Mmmmm

Dill gone WiLd!!!!! Don't EVER let your dill

bloom! The seeds will plant themselves around your entire yard!!!!!!!

This is about 30 feet away from the planter box!

Sweet Camilla! 

This plant seems to fit our old 1928 Bungalow style house...

They used to plant these often, back then!

New Zealand Tea tree

A fern coil

A little mossy world from an ants point of view :) I want to rest here

Mexican sage- a beautiful- low maintenance shrub!

Don't know the name of this, but he's quite happy by our front door!

At school

My outfit for a day of lecture at school

Inside story: I wore this outfit last Wednesday and was made to blush

when I came across a big group of guys standing at the top of the stairs I was

climbing. When I got to the top and had to break through

their crowd, one of them spoke up and said

"DAMN GIRL!!!! You workin' da hell outta 'em boots!!!"

I turned a bright shade of red, said "thanks" fairly casually

and hoped not to trip while walking away.

I was quite flattered!

Ever notice how guys only say things like that while in a group??? haha :)

My other super thrift find,

a belt with the letter "N"

How appropriate :)

Fits snug around my hips

Hope you have a lovely weekend! 

I'll let you know if I find anything that I didn't know I needed

 but that I had to have at the estate sale :)

Enter my 100th Post Giveaway!!!

You've got til the 20th! 

Good luck!

xx