A Little Bit Vintage And A Little Bit Retro.....

Sometimes it feels like I should have been born in a different era anywhere between the 30's to the early 60's it is just something about that time period.. I am obsessed with anything vintage/retro you should see my house my kitchen is vintage utensils and food containers with crows and sheep mixed in, even started putting somethings in my son's room on a shelf.. Before my son was born we lived in a rental home and it was a bit bigger than the house we have now (at least this house will be ours some day) but I did love that bigger house and boy did I decorate that thing (I decorate now too it is jut back then that is all I had to do besides work) the kitchen was the same as now but with less crows and sheep, I had a bathroom that was just vintage medicine bottles and health and beauty items and of course my bedroom was decorated in vintage dolls and toys which was my true passion (but my house I have now the bedroom is just too small so they are packed away for now) I loved that room, even in my living room I had a curio that had vintage items in it.. Don't get me wrong I don't wear clothes or do my makeup like they did back then (wish I could) but I love to decorate like that.. People have their things well this is mine and I like to carry it over into the holidays as well wish I could decorate for every holiday like halloween, thanksgiving, valentines day, st. patricks day, easter and 4th of July all vintage somewhere in my house but all I can do right now is Christmas so I have been looking at old ornaments and pics online to get some ideas, be on the look out I will do a blog post at the begining of December once I have finished decorating.. I am so excited!!!!

Here are a few examples of my vintage/retro finds that I have gotten over the summer at yard sales and goodwill..

The cat with the shirt on was .75 the other 3 were .10 a piece, the dollies were .25 a piece and the porcelin shoe was .75..

The bags of ornaments were .55 a piece, box of crayons was .25, dollies .25 a piece (am a sucker for dollies this is just an example I have a lot more), milk glass dish 1.00, ornaments in dish 1.00 a piece, small wooden train .50 got a few things for my christmas decor and then just some nick nacks for my bedroom...

This is a pic of the shelf in my son's room the train book ends were 2.00 at a yard sale (the books are from his grandma's they are special so I put them up) the little matchbox car I found in a bag of toys from the goodwill and found out it was from 1960 (the whole bag only cost 2.95 and it was full of stuff) and then on each side of the shelf are the items I found last weekend that are in the post yard sale and flea market finds...