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  1. Viola

    Autumnal Thoughts........

    It's spring. I'm not ready for spring. It's already kinda hot. :(
  2. Viola

    Old fashioned names new again....

    Heh I can't do the wait and see the baby thing. I need that stuff worked out ahead (worrier, me?) and my husband is the same way. He actually has had Liam as his all-time favourite boy name since well before we even got together as boyfriend and girlfriend. He'll only debate the middle name or...
  3. Viola

    1940's housing, where do I start

    If it were me, (and it's not, *sob*, because I have a '70s apartment... cue wailing and gnashing of teeth) what I would do is move slowly but have an overall game plan and colour scheme in mind. I mean, any older home is going to need repairs and maintenance so I would go softly with sweeping...
  4. Viola

    A breakdown of Fedora Loungers by sex, location, age and marital status

    So I found a post of myself in this thread from 2006, mourning a broken heart. Searched, but can't seem to find if I've updated since. Circa 2011: Female, married, 27, just outside Sydney Australia.
  5. Viola

    Old fashioned names new again....

    Haha I dug up this ancient thread. It looks like I've even posted in it before... three or so years ago. We hope to be parents within a year or so, and we're trying to work out the name thing. We come from very different cultural backgrounds, and middle names are still being thrown around but...
  7. Viola

    How Much Jewelry Do You Wear?

    So I was just on www.antiquejewelrymall.com and pondering possibilities. I do fear that, in general, most rings (and I love rings) from the '30s and '40s were not designed for women with short, square hands? Big rings, it seems like. This and this seem like they would not be all of my finger...
  8. Viola

    Dita Von Teese

    My mom tells me putting on your lipstick anywhere other than in the bathroom with the door shut is obscene or, at best, tacky. That is what powder rooms are FOR, apparently. It is not as high a sin as leaving your hairbrush out in the living areas, but you just don't do it. You...
  9. Viola

    How Much Jewelry Do You Wear?

    I THINK I prefer that to assuming I CAN'T afford something, but I'm not sure. lol All the jewelers I've dealt with have gone out about how you can do it with no deposit and no money down and blah blah blah but as much as I like jewelry it's not something I would rack up debt for! At all...
  10. Viola

    Show us your vintage home!

    Bugguy, my parents have a Tudor built just a few years before yours. Yours looks lovely, but it made me homesick! :p They don't actually love Tudor anywhere near as much as I do. I love how versatile it is. In their neighborhood you see a lot of beautiful Tudors from the teens and twenties -...
  11. Viola

    Adjusting to small town life.

    I've moved to what is a small town to me. And the big city to my husband. We're both pretty weirded out by the adjustment. I don't think the locals are any more polite than they were in the big city. Actually, mostly less so as far as things like holding doors open for people coming behind...
  13. Viola

    What do you like the most about The Golden Era?

    I like the way sweatsuits were not seen in the grocery store. That even casual occasions neccessitated getting at the very dang least OUT of your pajamas, into some underwear, and then the underwear would be entirely covered with your clothes, which don't have writing on them. That "I need...
  14. Viola

    Motherhood & the Vintage Lifestyle

    Oh, thanks. Yeah, and "retro" can be anything from the '80s back, in some minds. I am going to be following this thread for tips and wisdom. At the moment I'm just preparing. About to switch multi-vitamins to the ones they recommend before conception/during pregnancy. Oddly momentous. I...
  15. Viola

    Dita Von Teese

    Aw, I think I love you. Many more style-y pics will be posted I just wanted one day of getting used to it with the hairdresser's styling of the bangs since they're such a novelty for me. And I need a new curling iron. But I am torn on the colour, though I know red has worked well for me in...
  16. Viola

    Dita Von Teese

    Yay! I think they sell that here in Australia. I'm still going back and forth between black and red but I wondered. Hers always looks so lustrous and not matte at all.
  17. Viola

    Childhood, Today's Kids...and The Goonies

    I was a kid in the '90s. In the city, not the suburbs. I still had more fun than a lot of kids seem allowed to have now. I was allowed to play outside by myself before dark if my mom knew where I was or if I was on the block and she could scream out my name. I babysat my siblings from when I...
  19. Viola

    Dita Von Teese

    I'm sorry, I didn't even think of that. You know, they do need extra cleaning but they're really, really common in house of a certain age at least in my hometown. To the point where flat faced cabinets look slightly odd and unfinished to me unless its a modern style kitchen. I never thought...
  20. Viola

    Dita Von Teese

    Why would it be harder to keep clean than white cabinets? It looks pretty glossy and washable to me. China head vases would be asking to meet foul, violent ends though. I don't really do extraneous porcelain tchotchkes in my kitchen. But then again, maybe I would, if my kitchen was as big as...
  21. Viola

    Dita Von Teese

    We have a blanket chest instead of a coffee table. In a little apartment there's no such thing as too much storage.
  22. Viola

    How Much Jewelry Do You Wear?

    It's not that platinum can't be lovely - I've seen some platinum-and-sapphire pieces that were heartbreaking - but "yellow gold is out for wedding bands" just seems weird. I like eternity bands with stones that go all the way around, but I'm pretty sure a trendy setting like that is going to...
  23. Viola

    Dita Von Teese

    Retro Renovation had a green-themed kitchen not long ago (I am a fiend for green) and I really want the baby of Dita's kitchen and this one. I do love Dita's checkerboard floors and the arched-door cabinets. My husband would absolutely have me committed if I did a kitchen as jade as Dita's is...

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