Vintage kids

My "Kids are alright" post is one of my most popular . So to please my readers, let's add some vintage children pictures to that blog ^^

 

Have a lovely week, Charline.

My Pintersting moment

Like many of you, I'm a Pinterest fanatic. Have a look at my boards :

• Vintage clothing
• Ladys of WWII
• Cute Patterns
• Vintage style bloggers
• Vintage pics
• .....

Home sweet home.

I just felt like sharing some pictures of my new room. It's pretty small but yet cozy.  Hope you'll like it.

 My new pinup ^^

 Orchids and vintage postcard.

 My old chair, love it !

Have a nice day today ^^

Hi mister Postman !

As you may know, I'm a postwoman (?) myself. The one that deliver my letters is a old collegue of mine.
You can't imagine how suprised he was the first time I opened the door in my vintage style.
    - Euhhhh, Charline, is that you ? You look ... well, different !

That was too funny. Let's say that he get used to it  now. He knows how crazy I am about the 40's, so each time he is giving me a parcel, he is also asking me if it's vintage related .
Well, most of the time, it is.

Today wasn't an exeption. I got a new adition to my "Nouveauté, la mode pratique" vintage magazines collection, as well as the famous book : "The 1940s look" by Mike Brown.

If you wish, I'll do a review of the Mike Brown's book as soon as I finish reading it. For the moment I'm pretty pleased. 

I'll also do a post about my magazines collection. I do not own a scanner, so i can't scan pages, but will be probably trying to take pictures of it. 

Thousand of kisses, Charline

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Oh gosh, I'm so exited by Marilyn Monroe MAC Collection !

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And then, I'm late again ! I should probably turn that Wednesday post into an Thursday one.
Well, let's not loose more time.

• I was So thrill by Miss Amber's piano desk, I have to get one !

• The Modern Day Flapper is always so amazing, i'm a big fan.

• Harriett's pics are so cool and her hair So bright !

• Once again, The Glamorous Housewife is teaching us usefull tips.

• I'm so in love with Tutti Frutti Vintage's new rayonne dress, red with car prints. 

That's it for the moments ladies. Will post about some vintage magasines tomorow. Thousands of kisses to all !

The Vintage Tag

Hi lovelies !
Don't know if you are a huge Youtube channel fan like me, but you can't have miss the Vintage Tag.
All of our favorite Vintage ladys are doing it.
It's: The Vintage Chronicles who created sixteen questions about Vintage in people life.

The Questions
1) who's your style icon?
2)whats your favorite way to get inspired? ( i.e. mags, catalogs, photo's, YT, movies, books, the internet, etc)
3) what's your most used hair tool(s)?
4)whats your favorite hair tool/ gadget?
5) up-do, down, or half and half?
6)is vintage styling something you do daily, weekends only, or just special occasions?
7) whats your favorite blush/ lipstick?
8) lets talk fashion: dress/ skirt or pants? heels or flats?
9) homemade or off the rack?
10) do you swing dance?
11) small subtle touches incorporated into everyday wear ( flavor of vintage, if you will) or all out extreme? 
12)favorite perfume/ skincare? ( as ladies back then were very studious about their faces)
13) what does the rest of the family think of your "style"?
14) favorite accessory ( signature piece, hair accessory, bag, jewlery, gloves, stockings, shoes, pin, hat, belt, sweater, nail polish, lipstick, perfume, parisol, glasses, scarf... whew! did i forget anything)?
15)do you find the vintage community warm and inviting, or cliquish and snooty? ( include your personal home state)
16) what drew you to this style?

From that video came out other, as replies, from all around the vintage community: 

The Vintage Vanity, known for her amazing : So Sew Vintage serie

A very inspiring lady

I discovered her thanks to that tag

There is couple of other , but I haven't watch theyr video yet. I do hope that it will inspire you to do your own vintage tag. I will ty to do mine as soon as my microphone will agree to record my voice... ^^

A rat in your hair?

Lately I bought myself a "bun maker" and turn it into a hair rat. Thank to that I can make some pretty cool "faux bang", "gibson curls" and even some victory rolls.

   

I took those pix when I went back from "Le Moulin Rouge" after an apéro swing. Amazing night !

Each day is Valentine's day

Look what I've made for my co-worker on Valentine"s day ! Some cute Red Velvet Cupcakes. 

I used Joy of baking recipe, amazingly simple and well explain.

They were all so thrill ! 

It's an habit of mine to bring food to work. I like to feed people, don't know why ^^. So, each saturday I'm going to the postoffice (my saturday job) with cupcakes, pie, scones, cookies... It's alway a surprise. 

I do hope that you all had a lovely Valentine's day ^^ until next time !

Say : Cheeeese

Hi lovelies !
Haven't I told you yet ? I made a photoshoot for a friend a couple of weeks from now.
That was the perfect occasion to try on one of my new dresses; from the parcel !

After the shooting, we went to a restaurant. Imagine the faces around me as I enter in 12cm heels and false eye lashes. My friend was all like: Do people always stare at you? Answer: Yes, not because they think is cute but because it's To different for them. At least we didn't get bad comment ^^

See you soon!

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Hi lovelies.
What a week I just got! My house has been in such a mess. We had a bit a an re-organisation around here. I took mom's bebroom and she get mine.
Well to be more fair, she get a bigger room and I get her dressing ^^ I'm so sad I can't personnalise it as I want to. But well, I will do in my next flat.

So that explain why I'm doing that Wednesday post on a Thursday ^^
Let's see what that week bring us:

• Idda made a very interesting post on why does she love the 50's

• The Glamorous Housewife  makes me want to have a vintage lipstick case, SO baddly !

• Miss K shared so very positif thought about pain and bad moment in life, so inspiring.

• Finally, I can't agree more with Tuppence Ha'penny: Wear What You Love !

Hope you are all well and reday for spring. I can't wait to wear lovely dresses again ^^ See you  soon Charline

In the mail today

Look what I just got ! (Sorry for the weird face)
It's been almost a week that I bought it. Well, since I saw it on YesterdayGirl .

First look at it and already in love. Naomi Thompson did an exelent job here. Surrounded buy great names such as :

• Fleur de Guerre 
• Annie Smith
• Lisa Prest ...

In it, you will find beautiful pictures, tips on buying vintage, main shapes, looks and influences of each eras. 

I really love that they are talking about the clothes but also shoes and accessorises.

 

Winter 1940