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  1. Vanessa

    Show us what you've made!

    Scattered here and there across time periods, but here's what I've been up to since March: 1902 Edwardian Corset: Back: Gingham & rickrack apron: Back: 1908 Maid of Honor Gown: Hoping to get some pictures in the near future of all the petticoats and slips made to...
  2. Vanessa

    Motifs

    I don't know if it's pigeon holing exactly. I happen to have a lot of pink in my wardrobe, but it's not all that I wear. I also have a particular fondness for fresh plumeria in my hair - but I've been known to wear any picked flower I can get my fence-jumping, are-the-neighbors-looking? hands...
  3. Vanessa

    LA Quake - 7/29 11:42 5.8 magnitude

    My first earthquake - exactly one year to the day that I moved here - and we spent it shaking and a-shimmying on the 17th floor in downtown San Diego as the building swayed. :eek: Wildfires and quakes - am I officially a SoCal resident now? I'd like to put a request in for no further...
  4. Vanessa

    Cold Cream- Brands and advice!

    Bigelow Website Bath & Body Website I picked up most of the collection at a Bath & Body sale about a year ago, and filled in the gaps at the Bigelow store in Chicago's Water Tower. The moisterizer I'm particularly fond of since it is not oil-based, but a light-as-air gel.
  5. Vanessa

    Ladies' Vintage Bathing Suits for Sale!

    ;) ;) ;)
  7. Vanessa

    Cellulite - the dreaded.

    Scientists find something good about a big bottom
  8. Vanessa

    Dyeing Clothes

    It's going to be near impossible to try & correct the fade damage. Fading & underarm stains - ask not for whom that bell tolls, it tolls for vintage clothing. If you're set on wearing it, I'd take the sleeves off & pattern them in a complementary fabric - maybe make a matching skirt to tie it...
  9. Vanessa

    Vintage Closet Cleanout (via Ebay)

    They want nice homes (your home - not mine). ;) More to be posted within the week. Ebay Link Thanks!
  10. Vanessa

    MissUSA's conduct & rehab

    It's a news topic and therefore appropriate in this forum.
  11. Vanessa

    The life cycle of an internet forum.

    Ahh, Prodigy. . .*memories*
  13. Vanessa

    WWI museum opens

    Lauren and I are going to Missouri the beginning of July - we'll let you know how the museum is. (Oh - Lauren, by the way - can we go? Pleeeeeease?)
  14. Vanessa

    Boots in the 1940s

    I have a pair just like those. . .but I hesitate to wear them here in the city with the snow & salt & muck. . .so I guess they're going to remain on my shoe shelf. But they're pretty. :D
  15. Vanessa

    Bullet bras and 50's dresses?

    Those are scary.
  16. Vanessa

    Thanks for sending us weather from the Northwest!

    I vote for sledding.
  17. Vanessa

    Long Beach finds..

    I popped around to an estate sale earlier Friday (before arriving at the QM) and significantly added to the weight of my luggage on the way home: -several Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters records -various & sundry sewing things -original sheet music to "Aloha 'Oe" -several hankies (Lauren can...
  19. Vanessa

    Swedish Town Seeks Bergman Look-Alike

    So, who's applying?
  20. Vanessa

    Handsome Fellas!

    The first Fedora divorce proceedings. . . "Judge, I'd like to petition for joint custody of the Borsalinos. . ."
  21. Vanessa

    QM Make-up & Hair Class

    Barring any unfortunate dancing accidents the night before, I will be attending.
  22. Vanessa

    What ladies are coming to the Queen Mary?

    I will be there as well.
  23. Vanessa

    To Have and Have Not

    It's been on TCM two or three times in the last month. . .the most recent the other night (where I watched it again and marvelled at how amazingly hot Lauren Bacall was in it).

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