On our Sacramento shopping extravaganza last weekend I found this Gunne Sax high waisted skirt. It features a delicate floral print in soft pink and lavender and lace and a corset tie front. A total dream. I’m keeping it. I’ve already worn it twice.

Oh and I found this perfect grey top for wearing under high waisted skirts that day too!

I actually prefer imperfections on Gunnes and other vintage prairie dresses (especially tattered lace, there is something so appealing about tattered lace on an old dress).

But what is this!? A skirt that doubles as a dress!? Indeed it is my friends. The previous owner simply hand sewed (in bright red thread, no less) two strips of (tattered) lace into the top of the skirt to serve as straps. So simple. I wore it as a dress to the BriarPatch Co-op yesterday (where Mycie got her face painted by the famous Penney the Clown). Then brought it back down for book club look in the evening.

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This morning, as I lay in bed struggling to shake the dreams from my hair, Mycelia emerged from her bedroom all dressed, hair brushed, holding a special bouquet she picked and bound herself, ready for the new spring day.

What’d you do?

Well I tied a rope on to them, so that it could be a bouquet.

A bouquet of dandelions. And what’s this dress you’re wearing?

It is… I don’t know what flowers they are. Do you?

No. Is it too big for you?

Well it’s still too big for me but I don’t care.

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Yesterday Suuzi and I drove down the hill to Sacramento to do some vintage shopping. It was definitely the most lucrative day trip I’ve made for re-stocking the shop. If I do say so myself, I am a master at turning very little money into giant piles of gorgeous vintage

We hit up the new Goodwill by-the-pound outlet off the 80. An hour of digging through bins later, we had a shopping cart overflowing with goodies and had made a handful of new friends. It seems that scoring new old items on a Sunday afternoon for dirt cheap really brings out the happy friendliness in people. (Two people even told us we could go through their carts and take anything we wanted!)

Suuzi dug up this beautiful Russian dead stock scarf.

We were both quite excited about the containers we found, which just happened to be the perfect size for toting all our stuff outta there! I love this Norway coloring book that I got for Mycelia, it has lots of neat info as well as lovely drawings of Norwegian peasant garb.

I found this corset front, smocked back, vintage floral dress in the first bin. Think I might be keeping it, along with the sweet little white sweater.

This winter Suuzi cultivated a newfound love for silk (while I was going crazy over cashmere), so she was thrilled to find this huge piece in a forest green hue.

For the 27th time in the last few years I present to you… my new favorite dress! I peeped it on Etsy last week and simply had to break my self-imposed No Buying Till Preschool Is Out And We Have Extra Spending Money ban. And it was well worth it.

We were supposed to check out Mycelia’s next year kindergarten this morning, but it was snowing too hard. She made it through the lottery and is headed for a childhood of FREE Waldorf education!!! But these photos weren’t taken today, they were actually taken two days ago, just hours after taking the rainy photos in my last post (with an all-important post office delivery in the interim!).

I got the dress from RogueRetro on Etsy. The shop owner Amanda and I got to talking and through a random sequence of subjects she ended up sending me this link to footage of when she was on the Glenn Beck show. You see, she thrifted a Revolutionary War outfit that his mom had sewn for his dad back in the day (she lives in Seattle and he grew up nearby), and sent it to him without asking for anything in return. So he flew her and her darling daughter Ella out to New York and had her on his show. I’m not the dude’s biggest fan (nor is she) but I really enjoyed watching this. As will you. (And I just dare you not to be inspired by Amanda, who is kind-hearted, hard working, and very successful. My purchase was her 3,000th sale! And she has made 39 more sales in the 5 days since!).  Continue Reading... (474 words + 3 images, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)