Some of my most viewed posts on this blog are my roundups of the vintage Halloween pictures I’ve been able to find on the Internet that year. I love them, other people seem to love them so here are some spooky pictures that I’ve managed to find this year on the t’internet. Which one is…
Bring back the 1980s…
Has anyone else noticed that the 1980s is everywhere at the moment? Perhaps I’m biased because I was born in 1984, but this is the year I truly to believe to be the zenith of the decade. Just take a look at the some of the top films released in that year or the top…
Happy New Year!
It’s been a whirlwind of Christmas holidays and New Year. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m not feeling particularly verbose this evening, thanks to having very little sleep last night, so without much delay I shall bring on the pictures of vintage and retro Christmas goodies. In the words of Rihanna: Baby, this is what you came…
Vintage Christmas Fun
Angels, Santa Claus, baubles, glass, plates, brass bells… You name it. If it’s Christmassy, a bit retro or vintage then I am all over it. I’ve been scouring the local charity shops to find anything that fits those criteria for the trees this year. There’s something about Christmas and vintage that goes together so well……
Don’t Count Your Vintage Slides…
I bought some vintage slides and projectors yesterday and it reminded me of a funny story from a few weeks ago. I’d found a box full of old slide boxes in a charity shop, labelled with things like ‘Miami 1977’ ‘Botswana, 1978’ ‘Chicago, 1974’. There were loads of them – for 50p each. I was…
Charity Shop Finds in September
So far… I’ve decided to step up my game on the retro and vintage front. Before the kids were born, I spent a lot of finding vintage items, researching and writing about them. I could spend hours looking at pictures of old signatures, photographing glass, scanning in old magazine illustrations… Then baby number one came…
Green Man Festival 2017
Last weekend, we packed up the Roomster and headed off for the Brecon Beacons and the Green Man Festival. Having won our tickets thanks to a random draw and this picture of Dexter as a baby: We’d packed all of the essentials: tent, sleeping bags, food, glow sticks, bubbles and Dexter’s ginormous soft elephant… The…
Margaret Tarrant Illustrations
Today’s very quick pit stop at a charity shop yielded a few interesting vintage children’s books: We’d been to the Reddish Vale farm with my friend Emma and her girls; I spotted the Salvation Army shop on our way back so quickly found somewhere to park and persuaded the kids to come for a look….
To Frame or not to Frame?
A retro Dominos game…. Nowt to do with the (frankly overrated) pizza takeaway but the good old-fashioned game of Dominoes. Except this one is spelt Dominos so I want to say it like, “Vaminos!” Cute, aren’t they? It’s like everything i look for in one go: retro toy, cool illustrations and a game I can…
Kids and the Car Boot Sale
The weather forecast for Sunday actually looked alright for once; so on Saturday evening, Aidan packed up the car (still doesn’t have a name; Fluffy Dog is just not working for us) of the last of our boot sale boxes. Sunday morning was actually a textbook getaway for us… Apart from having to bring Dexter…
Missing in Action for A Month
Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet again recently. Holiday, busy weekends and now I’m marking exams for a month. I’ve got a write up of our holiday to Fowey to post up, a ton of vintage boots that I’ve found and sold to picture and so I promise that when my only working month of…
Auction Buys
Not last week, but the week before (49 robbers came knocking at my door… Or however many it was…) we went to the auction at New Mill, near to Holmfirth. We’ve not been attending as frequently as in previous years, but as always, there was plenty to see. We go to the auction viewing, then…
Little Owl Ski 