Sunny side up

It's such a beautiful and sunny day today! After such a long period of grey and cloudy days it's a nice change for once.

On monday I found out that a lady, who lives very near, sells some old clothes from a house clearance so I gave her a call and yesterday I drove to her place to look at them.  So much vintage goodies! I came home with 7 pieces which I'm going to show you soon.

Today i was wearing one of my latest vintage additions. It's a red/brown/beige dress with a zip in the front.

My fringe behaves really well for once:)


Have a nice day!

Going out

Yesterday my boyfriend and I went out to have dinner in a fancy restaurant. A few weeks ago we had our 7th anniversary. Time does fly! It was a very lovely evening and the food was very good. I was wearing a purple vintage minidress from the 60s, but I had to wear a skirt under it because it's too short for me. When you're 5,8 feet tall dressing in vintage isn't easy sometimes, but I used to had the same problems in high street stores.

I also have a new sewing project. A lovely dress in brown knit fabric. Here's a picture:

The scarf and the belt are matching perfectly with the dress, don't you think?

New Sewing Magazines

I love sewing magazines from the 60s and 70s! I probably get a couple of magazines every couple of months. Last week I got three new ones, a swiss magazine from 1970 and two german magazines from 1971.

This is the swiss magazine which is called "Meyers Modeblatt" and it has some gorgeous dresses in it.

This magazine is called "Neue Mode". The pale blue suit looks lovely for the spring.

I hope you like the pictures!

Purple Paisley

It's been a little while since the last post, but i just had so much work in november and december. Every year I'm really glad when the christmas holidays are over because for me they only mean work. Don't get me wrong, I really like my work but I don't like stressful times very much.

I had a little time to sew and finished the purple paisley dress I mentioned in my last post. Purple always makes me think of the late 60ies. Hopefully I can sew the matching pinafore from purple velvet next.

Finally I've got a record player! I was looking quite some time for one and just two weeks ago I told my dad and he got me the old record player from my grandfather. Sometimes you're just lucky :)

You can't always get what you want

Three weeks ago I went to the hairdresser to finally get the fringe I've wanted for so long. I took some photos with me and told her exactly what i wanted, a long Jane Birkin-like fringe. Long story short I ended with something like that (The picture is from a german Burda Magazine):

I was devastated because it looked so ugly. Finally my hair has grown a little and it looks quite good now and I can show you some photos of the outfit I wore today for a family party.

The dress is a 60ies vintage dress i bought in graz while we were on holiday and the jacket isn't vintage but rather secondhand.

I'm currently sewing a dress from a 1969 Burda pattern in a purple paisly fabric.

That's the dress in the Burda Magazine:

It looks very cute and I plan to make a velvet pinafore to match. Aren't pinafores just great? I think the give you an instant 60ies/70ies vibe!

Did you ever had a bad hairdresser experience ?

Velvet pinafore and some sweet treats

It's almost a month since my last post, but I had soo much work and I often worked overtime. I work as a confectioner in a small business. Here a some photos of things I've made over the years.

But i've also made a pinafore from brown velvet from a Burda pattern from 1971. Originally the pattern was for a vest, but i've made a dress (or pinafore) from it.

This is the original pattern.

Sorry for the quality of the photos, but i thing my digital camera is dying! I hope you enjoy the photos anyway.

Some Vintage Treasures

It's been a while since the last post, but me and my boyfriend were on holiday. We also went to a few charityshops and I found two vintage dresses and some records.

This 60ies dress was one of the dresses I bought and i just love it! After the photos i realized i was standing in an ants nest...

I also finally got the opportunity of wearing one of my loveliest dresses. It's a long 70ies maxidress with very wide sleeves and i find it very suprising that it's long enough for me since i'm very tall.

I hope you had a great time while i was on holiday.