Mendocino as seen from a distance…. In less than an hour I will be driving to San Francisco in order to get up early for the outdoor market in Alameda tomorrow. I will be home late afternoon the same day. I have read your comments on my last post, and I have to say they [...]
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Alameda Antiques Show
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Inspiration, Places, Vintage Clothing on May 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Returning
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Fabric, Vintage Clothing on February 23, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Sometimes I wonder where my energy went. Am I just getting old and thinking I have the energy of a twenty year old? Possibly. After my sale on Saturday, we went snow shoeing with our neighbors the next day. Yesterday, I simply collapsed in a heap of exhaustion. After New York, then staying up late [...]
Sorting and Integrating
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Clothing, Inspiration, Memories, Places, Ruminating, Vintage Clothing, Vintage Hats on February 2, 2010 | 21 Comments »
On my early morning walks, I have become accustom to listening to audio books. I was finding that I was not working through and reading the list of books I perpetually use as a guide, so I decided to borrow some audio books from the library. This morning, I finished listening to Azar Nafisi’s book [...]
Tea and Textiles
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Memories, Seasons, Vintage Clothing on January 31, 2010 | 23 Comments »
The last week I have spent refining my space, myself, and my goals. In the process, I decided I wanted to keep only the most cherished textiles, trims, buttons, books and magazines in my workspace. It fits with my new model, a transformation that is slowly growing within and without and is promising to be [...]
Integrity and Focus
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Clothing, Memories, Places, Ruminating, Seasons, Vintage Clothing on January 28, 2010 | 26 Comments »
Symphony in White No. 2: The Little White Girl 1864 Whistler It has been nearly a year ago that I began this blog under this name. Jude at Spiritcloth noted me in a post, and then it seemed to be a process of growth, the blog and my own. Previously I had a blog for [...]
Old to new or up-cycling
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Clothing, Vintage Clothing on January 27, 2010 | 12 Comments »
I must credit Sue from England for the term “up-cycling”. I like it because it is updated from recycling that covers so many different items in our culture. I want this term to be exclusive to clothing in this blog. This is a used sweater that I want to update. I like the fit and [...]
Musing about clothes
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Clothing, Indomitable Women, Inspiration, Memories, Places, Ruminating, Vintage Clothing on January 24, 2010 | 28 Comments »
Having spent more time than usual in shops looking for something to wear to my daughter’s wedding, I had a chance to do some serious thinking about the way I dress, what is important to me, and how much that is being marketed and sold is uninspiring and uniform and dreadfully constructed. I guess what [...]
A room with a past
Posted in Inspiration, Memories, Places, Ruminating, Vintage Clothing on January 22, 2010 | 14 Comments »
At least twenty years ago I decorated this room in an old 1910 house in downtown San Diego. It seems miles away from my life as it is now in Portland, but it was a memory, a room that I still think about as magical in many ways. The house was directly under the flight [...]
Manon Gignoux
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Art, Clothing, Indomitable Women, Inspiration, Places, Vintage Clothing on January 7, 2010 | 24 Comments »
I must admit, I have two magazine indulgences that provide me with ongoing inspiration and worthy daydreams, Selvedge and The World of Interiors, both published in England. If I had to give up one or the other, it would be with deep regret. Nearly two years ago, a fact the astonishes me, I came across [...]
Theatre de la Mode
Posted in Inspiration, Places, Vintage Clothing on November 12, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Sometimes in life we are presented with gifts that we simply do not recognize as gems until we are ready to receive them. In September, we had a visitor from Mendocino for a few days. He left us saying he was going to travel up the Columbia Gorge to Biggs and then cross the bridge [...]
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