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Some Girls Wander
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Fashion as seen through the bottom of Alice's "Drink Me" bottle. Really, it's one girl's personal obsession with clothing. Her sock fetish. And good sources for quirky, beautiful pieces. Etc.
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Sailor Dresses

Via Etsy Just something too nice not to share, here among the tumbleweeds!

19 aug 11

Mechanical Gentleman Bird

I want this dapper little wind-up bird 75% for his excellent box.The other 25% can probably be accounted for by the tiny top hat. Found here.

18 jun 11

Perfect Little Grouch

Favorite old photo of late: (source)

16 maj 11 3 people like this

Spooning in a Spoon

Humpty Dumpty 1935 /An Ub Iwerks Comicolor cartoon This is one of my favorites of the Comicolor animations...the colors are so beautiful, and there are lots of details and visual jokes that I think a...

28 apr 11 1 person likes this

Henry Dargers Room

These photos are of a now-lost place - a realm of a dreams. All photos copyright Keizo KitajimaThese beautiful photos of the apartment at 851 Webster were taken 25 years after Mr. Darger's deat...

20 apr 11 1 person likes this

Lured in By Another Fancy Collar

Dress - late 30's?Cardigan & tights - JCrewShoes - BivielBirdie barrette & Mr.fox tote- gifts from Francesca I know I've said it before, but finding a long-sleeved dress from the 30...

18 apr 11 1 person likes this

Beach Dream Girl

(photo source via VintageGal) Ms. Lila Lee, a 20's actress cutie, in one of the best bathing beauty photos I've seen. I also searched around the internets and found this excellent paper dol...

13 apr 11 5 people like this

Serpent & Butterfly

I was watching a little of the TCM Unseen Cinema avant garde cinema broadcast at our friends' cozy house whilst on our Georgia trip, and I went crazy for these beautiful dance films from the lat...

11 apr 11 2 people like this

Green Apple & Mr. Fox

I've been on the lookout for more green dresses lately, and I recently nabbed this comfy, rayon, prettiest-green 40's number for a song. The only problem was that the neckline was a bit of ...

16 mar 11 1 person likes this

Now you can buy hats for all your outfits

Extremely fancy and marvelous hats - and the prettiest pink-cheeked ladies! My complexion idols. I can't decide between the blue wing-motif one on the top left, and the simple(ish) green cloche ...

16 mar 11

A Little House on Wheels

I keep thinking about these fairytale fancy wagons from Demure Folk's beautiful post a few weeks back. I have a project in the works that I would like to feel very much like a pretty, cluttered ...

11 mar 11 1 person likes this

Paintbox

My eye keeps getting caught by nice old children's paint-boxes lately.The graphics and colors are always so good! They seem to always go for a pretty penny, so I've tried to be choosy and w...

07 mar 11

The Inside Garden

I was out at the antique stores with my pal the other day, and she remarked (sweetly, of course):"You always go for the florals!" And the lady's right. I do love flowered prints of all...

17 feb 11 1 person likes this

A Book By Its...

I recently had occassion to scan and send a designer a bunch o' covers from my library of dusty books, as a way of just giving reference to...well...some of the dusty book covers I like (nerd-to...

11 feb 11

Gingham Sailor Dress

Oh, goodness gracious - somebody please snap up this beautiful sailor dress from this really nice Etsy shop !!! It is a total heartbreaker, and just the thing to wear on sea monster expeditions.

09 feb 11

Monsters of the Sea!

Josiah is a champion at indulging my nerdiness, and these old Sea Monster magazines from Christmas are the proof. Can a more perfect periodical exist? I think not. Just look at those headlines! The...

04 feb 11 1 person likes this

Wind-up Elephant

This little circus elephant pal (or The "Elephant", as the box says) was another (mostly) surprise present from my mom. I spied him when we were out shopping together, and I suppose I ooh&#...

26 jan 11

Tin Treasure Box

I tried to photograph some of the wonderful old things I recieved as Christmas gifts, so that I could archive them here. Probably the most special one is this little metal hinged box: It might not ...

15 jan 11

Lace-collared Love

Whilst doing a little new year's cleaning in my computer's nooks and crannies, I found some photos Josiah snapped of that pretty-pretty brown 30's dress I posted here a while back. Dre...

10 jan 11

New Old Stuffs

Ahoy there! It's been a while, but I've been having such nice old-stuff-luck lately that I felt like it was time for a post in these parts. Last week was the big thrice-annually antique Exp...

05 nov 10

Humpty Dumpty Knits

I shall file this vintage Humpty Dumpty sweater pattern away in my brain under the "Completely Silly, Random, and Wonderful" category.The back part of the knitted narrative is the real kill...

16 sep 10

Libris Lunaria

(I just posted this on the big blog, but I wanted to include it here for the folks who only frequent this blog) Upon finding her on the ol' internets, one of the first things I noticed about Fra...

09 sep 10

Candystripes

30's/40's striped day dress - vintageTights - JCrewSuede pumps - Kathryn Kerrrigan When I was in college, my Faulkner professor was a Southern gentleman who used to wear seersucker suits an...

07 sep 10 1 person likes this

Gentleman Goose

I recently found myself in posession of this quite dapper and fantastic (if a bit shabby) goose fellow. I am just helpless in the presence of the tiny top-hat and red felt vest. I think he is current...

03 sep 10

Animal Children, Updated

I felt so awful about having crummy photographed images from the lovely Animal Children, who just deserve better than that. I've completely updated the original post with scans (courtesy of a ne...

01 sep 10

Quilty

So, this pup is the lucky treasure I was yammering on about in my last post. It's a really, really good 30's-40's quilt with beautiful fabric choices and a very sweet level of shabbine...

31 aug 10

Good Luck Day

I had really good old-things luck last week at a place I never have any luck. I suspect that maybe I had the good luck specifically because I was talking such smack about the place on the way there....

26 aug 10 1 person likes this

Yellow Hearted Peonies

Linen dress - vintageTote - my own (Black Apple!)Shoes - Jose SeanzCardigan - JCrew I recently found this sweet, simple Summer dress in this little shop, and I wanted to be sure to wear it a few ti...

23 aug 10 1 person likes this

Animal Children

Animal Children: The Friends of the Forest and the PlainBy Edith Brown KirkwoodIllustrated by M.T. Ross1913I found this copy of Animal Children at Powell's last week, and very nearly jumped for ...

19 aug 10 1 person likes this

Alameda Treasures

Here are some of the little things I took home from a really fun, really good treasure-hunting morning with Ms. F. We kept doing the frenzied running up to each other: "Oh my god! ...

15 aug 10 1 person likes this

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