Archive | April 2012
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Beauty confessions
A few quick confessions here. 1. I stink at styling hair. While I love vintage hair styles, I don’t actually wear them as my hair resists all my attempts to coax it into anything other than its naturally pin-straight state. 2. I think professional manicures are a waste. Why would I spend all that money […]
Packing and preparation
I have been horribly lax about posting new compacts to my website lately, largely because my day job has been ridiculously busy for the last few weeks. My whole department has been working their tails off preparing for our annual user group next week. We’re hosting 1,000 people for four days, and as part of the […]
Choosing a travelling companion
This may seem like anathema to some collectors, but I actually use most of my compacts. By “use,” I mean carry them in a purse and check the mirror when I need to touch up my lipstick. Since I rotate so often, it would be a huge pain in the neck to keep powder in them, […]
Helene, my new girl crush.
Next weekend, I have to travel for work. I’m going to be at a conference from Sunday through Thursday, running around like a madwoman. I rarely wear flats. Rarely wear anything less than a 3 inch heel to work, really. Sadly, running around a hotel for four days doesn’t go so well in heels, and my black almost-flats […]
J.D. McPherson was…
not happening last night. I know: I told you how excited we were for the show. Then Tim went to work and I worked from home, waiting for the grill repair guy. Gave myself a mani-pedi so I’d look nice for the show…ironed a dress, picked out shoes, etc. The grill repair guy, who was […]
Following up on retro remedies
Dedicated readers may remember that as soon as the trees started waking up, I became an itchy, hive-riddled mess. To control my raging skin allergies, I started drinking a cider vinegar cocktail every morning. It seemed to work. Then I went to the doctor, who gave me several prescriptions. My husband put the cider vinegar […]
Mint condition
We’ve had a spell of warm weather the last few days – finally. Tim and I got out in the yard over the weekend and did some much-needed raking. I also did some serious maintenance in one of my flower beds. One of the things I love most about my flower beds: the majority of […]
Astonished.
I was absolutely astonished when I read Ms. Adventure’s comment letting me know she recognized my blog with a Liebster Award. I’m touched. Ms. Adventure started her blog, Some Kind of Wonderful, around the same time the blog you’re reading now came into being, and I’ve enjoyed reading about her vintage finds. (The Sputnik lamp? The barkcloth […]
What I’ve been doing this week that has kept me from blogging
..and photographing compacts and coding web pages and basically doing anything other than going home and drooling on myself. I have been proofreading an 80+ page program guide that had to go to print today. People don’t know how to correctly use grammar, punctuation, capitalization, or any of that other good stuff any more. Proofreading–nay, […]
Collectors Club guest post
Shameless plug: Rachael over at LOTS has a cool series of guest blog posts going from people who collect things. Yesterday she shared my post on collecting vintage cookbooks. Other posts have highlighted tins, vintage postcards, and brooches – I’m eager to see who and what collection she features next! I’m also partial to her blog […]
