I totally meant to blog about this right after Christmas and just never got around to it, so better late than never right! :) I am always seeing wonderful thrift finds on everyone else’s lovely blogs, and sometimes get a bit jealous (or at least wish we had good thrift shopping where I live). Well I finally have something vintage-ish to share (although not thrifted)…

This book was actually originally owned by my great-grandmother (Nana) and when she gave her sewing machine to my grandma who later gave it to my mom, she meant to include this book. (Mom, correct me if I get any of this wrong :) Anyways when Nana passed away, my grandma found this book & gave it to my mom a month or two ago, who then gave it to me this Christmas because she knew I would like it. (Did you follow all of that? :)

I have not had much time yet to look through it, other than flipping through it a little bit to take these photos. It is mostly text & illustrations, but has some wonderful inspiration inserted in with these color photos & designs. I love how even though this book is from 1969 (okay I know that isn’t super old, but it is still before I was born:), so much of the inspiration is totally in style right now just slightly modernized. Style really does repeat doesn’t it! :)

My favorite illustration in the book has to be this dress/tunic drawing…

I would love to make a similar dress to that, although I still have several other clothing sewing projects to finish up before I start another one. (Including the skirt that I was going to make for the holidays and ran out of time because of pattern issues & having to leave to visit family. I am still planning on finishing it though, maybe I can wear it for next year’s holidays:)

So that was a slightly unintended blogging break… I totally meant to blog, but just didn’t get around to it. Which I think I sort of needed, because I have actually missed my blog a bit & reading everyone else’s blogs (and I was starting to feel a bit like blogging was just too much like a chore, but don’t feel like that after this nice little unintended break). Anyways I think I am back for real and I have bunches to blog about:) I thought I would start with our weekend, since my sister came to visit us. We didn’t get to see her over Christmas, so it was good to have some time with her.

Breakfast on Sunday morning…

A sweet dog that was sitting outside the cafe waiting for his owner to finish breakfast. (I love this shot…) 

I got to practice a bit of portrait photography. My sister was sweet enough to let me take her photo a bunch :)

Me wearing the new coat I bought this weekend, which I absolutely love!

Sisters…

(Do you think we look alike? I am totally curious…)

Attending the grand opening of our new public library… (so glad we finally have a library again!)

I guess you could say that was a short summary of our weekend. :)