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  1. Viola

    How Much Jewelry Do You Wear?

    Always my wedding ring (plain gold, I wanted to be traditional) and my engagement ring (vintage, his grandmothers). Both in the yellow gold the jeweler tried to steer me away from as "very out." Gold goes out? Really? Anyway, I have skin allergies and react horribly to silver and I had no...
  2. Viola

    Dita Von Teese

    Do you mean you don't?! *faints* It's funny, I really really love that pic with the curtains and the chair... but I don't love the other shot of the bedroom. That one's a little too much for me. I think its the bed. I love the wallpaper and the chandelier, though. I also really am...
  3. Viola

    Motherhood & the Vintage Lifestyle

    We're hoping to have a baby in the next year-ish. I'm thinking of fairly low maintenance vintage-y things. Cardigans, cotton dresses/skirts. White Keds. I don't think sundresses ACTUALLY take any more care or special needs than velour sweatsuits do. :) I just changed my avatar today -...
  4. Viola

    Dita Von Teese

    I like classic libraries but that one hasn't got the leather chesterfield sofa of my dreams. So I deign to let Dita keep it. ;) The silver bedroom is amazing but I can hear my black kitten salivating over the chance of getting into that much shimmery, delicate, metallic fabric. I do love that...
  5. Viola

    Dita Von Teese

    The kitchen is absolutely inspiring but I am tempted to do a jadite version. A collage of her rooms I found someplace The silver is nice too, especially that cute little chair (does it have a built in champagne bucket?!) and tufted pouffe, but the kitchen seems oddly attainable in a lot of...
  7. Viola

    Night Owls only

    It's very nearly 1:00 am here but here I am.
  8. Viola

    Show us your vintage home!

    I've been told there's no asbestos in the popcorn but I dunno how valid that is. We've been quoted estimates but they're in the thousands of dollars. I'd like it redone eventually - even popcorn, if the ceiling were 3-4 inches taller, and white, would look better than lower and grayer and in...
  9. Viola

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    Campbelltown, south-west of Sydney. Ooh, hydrangeas are LOVELY. I was able to have them back home, they just had to be kept moist... hmmm. Thanks for reminding me of them!
  10. Viola

    Show us your vintage home!

    Yeah, apartmenttherapy.com and retrorenovation.com have been my go-to sources for ideas. I gotta say I'm not as much about Eames chairs as apartment therapy seems to be, but it has been a real education in Mid-C design icons, as well as neat ideas for small layouts. Hilariously, we are worse...
  11. Viola

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    What is unkillable in pots in a hot environment? So far my best success since moving to such a warm climate has been the very vintage but humble geranium (pelagonium). You know, the classic red-flowering one that doesn't ask for anything. I have murdered a tree fern and my gardenia is quite sad...
  13. Viola

    Show us your vintage home!

    No, actually, we bought it. It was cheaper than some rents for apartments, and it was near my husband's work, so we figured it would be an investment. So we've embraced painting, and stuff like that. We haven't done anything very expensive because, well, starter home came with starter budget...
  14. Viola

    Show us your vintage home!

    I've been up to Katoomba but not in aaages, my husband is putting off taking me back... but he will have to sooner or later. :D We have vermiculite but they've put in those weird drop ceiling and acoustic tiles like making the ceiling four inches lower is somehow a huge improvement. It's...
  15. Viola

    Show us your vintage home!

    Oh, let the house dictate the style. It all comes clear now. *weep* Youse guys are killing me. '70s/'80s apartment (blond brick building, naturally...) with acoustic ceiling and brownish-gray carpet and MDF cabinets? Embrace? I'm not sure I'd give it an air-kiss. :p The kitchen just...
  16. Viola

    Show us your vintage home!

    I didn't want to start a new thread but this is a li'l different from what we've been talking about, maybe I should...? Anyway, how do y'all settle on colour schemes and design plans for your vintage homes? Is there much advance planning of the look you're trying to achieve, or strict themes...
  17. Viola

    What does a Vintage Baby Girl & Nursery need?

    Congrats! There's twenty thousand or so examples of vintage and vintage-inspired knitting/crochet patterns. Cheap and vintage if you know how. (I still have to learn) and some also look cute framed on the wall of the nursery. And she needs a Raggedy Anne, and a vintage-style teddy bear...
  19. Viola

    What are your favorite T.V. theme songs?

    Here's an, ahem, rather highbrow instrumental piece... From when I was five and six, and they were being rerun at four in the afternoon... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIfuaUTH9Y4 I was in love with Face. I remember my flawless logic quite well - he was nearly as pretty as MacGuyver...
  20. Viola

    Minnesota ripe for the picking?

    I grew up my whole life in Philadelphia and I have a pretty good version of Stallone's accent, though I do in fact breathe through my nose. :o
  21. Viola

    Minnesota ripe for the picking?

    Hahaha, then I guess you have an immunity against Minnesota's number one defense system against invasion! :p My husband laughs at my own regional-American accent all the time but I don't hear a thing. ;)
  22. Viola

    Minnesota ripe for the picking?

    Soory, yoose, I w'ld c'm witcha but I betcha I cin't take the accint, dontchaknow. I had a friend from Minnesota once who made fun of the way I talk. It's been years and I still find that hilarious. :D
  23. Viola

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    Faygeleh, my elderly relatives would say. Not very harshly, though. Just as a descriptor. Or sometimes just "he's very pretty." They definitely knew.

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