vintage – Jennifer Michie

August 1, 2024 / 0 Comments

HELLO, August

Hello, August. We’re ready for the days to slowly stretch out in front of us, as we move more fully into our school summer break. We’re ready for days spent reading on the beach, listening to the waves roll the pebbles along the strand as it comes into shore.

We’re ready for ice cream for dinner during this mini heatwave and to eat our weight in tomato sandwiches with salty potato chips on the side. The heirloom tomatoes are really starting to come into the greengrocers and they taste divine. We’re ready to split PB&Js for lunch while watching an old re-run of “Bewitched”, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” or a great “The Brady Bunch” episode.

We’re ready to have movie dates with our projector and our vintage 1960s screen. To munch on popcorn while watching a good summertime classic and being perfectly content.

We’re ready to continue to enjoy our time together, relishing the quiet moments and the kitchen dances and the happiness that comes from sitting next to one of your favourite people.

Welcome, August. Please, bring us all good things.

{Image:1951 | Santa Barbara, California | “Lana Turner lunching by pool at the Coral Casino.” | Photo by Earl Theisen for Look magazine. | Found via Shorpy | Pinned HERE}

June 1, 2024 / 0 Comments

HELLO, June

Hello, June. We’re ready for warmer days and sunny strolls through the park. We’re ready for the adventures we have planned this month and the chance to squeeze in a few more.

We’re ready for our first BLT of the season as the heirloom tomatoes start to arrive at the greengrocers. Sandwiches piled high and a side of salty potato chips to go with it. We’re ready to blast Carly Simon while we work together in the kitchen with the windows open and the ocean breeze blowing in.

We’re ready for late weekend nights watching old movies on our vintage projection screen. We’re ready for lazy weekends that involve long walks and milkshakes. We’re ready for slices of homemade poundcake piled high with fresh picked strawberries and scoop of vanilla ice cream.

We’re ready for you to bring us into the final stretch of the school year. We’re ready for quiet nights with star filled skies, letting evening settle over the house and taking the time to drink everything in.

We’re ready for all that you bring us this month. Welcome, June!

{1960s Summer Fashion | Pinned HERE}

April 1, 2024 / 0 Comments

HELLO, April!

Hello, April. You’ve arrived in a blustery whirl, on the heel’s of the Easter Bunny and we’re excited that you’re here.

We’re ready to kick off our Easter School Break with you and the many adventures we have planned. We’re ready to stay up late, watching old movies on our vintage projection screen and munching on goodies out of our Easter basket.

We’re ready for the light that will continue to grow and fill our days since we “sprung” forward over the weekend. We’re ready for a few more blue skies overhead and crisp, clear days over this spring break. We’re ready for lazy Saturday afternoons spent reading books and working on the crossword puzzle.

We’re ready for spring to continue “springing” and the chance for breakfast on the beach, where we sit, watch the waves roll in and out in their rhythm, drink hot coffee from our thermos and look up just in time to see a seal or two slowly swim by.

We’re ready for all that you bring April, may you be a month filled with JOY.

{Paulette Goddard | Photoplay Magazine | November 1942 | Pinned HERE}

March 31, 2024 / 0 Comments

Happy Easter!

🐥 Happy Easter!! 🐥

I hope you find all the eggs that the Easter Bunny has hidden and your baskets are filled to the brim with chocolate shaped bunnies and chicks and assorted goodies.

{A young girl with an Easter basket containing coloured eggs and fluffy chicks. | 1946 | Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}

December 28, 2023 / 0 Comments

The In-Between Days

And here we tread again, on this most hallowed of ground. These last few days to soak up what has been, what could have been and what is yet to come.

After the hustle and bustle and merrymaking, these quiet days of reflecting and simply being are some of my most cherished.

We move slowly and quietly, drinking it all in. Watching movies, playing games, working on the crossword puzzle together. Christmas records spin while we sit by the glow of the Christmas tree. We go for long strolls and cobble together sandwiches from the leftover turkey.

We haven’t taken for granted that our refrigerator is full of food, that we are able to put our heating on and that we wake up safe and warm with a roof over our heads, when there are many who are not in this position.

All too soon, the days will move far too quickly for me and this treasured time of being together will vanish with a snap of fingers, like Cinderella’s coach turning back into a pumpkin. The spell will be broken and we will go back to our “normal” routines. But for now, I’m holding on tightly to the pleasure of being in the moment and I’m not wishing one second away.

These “in-between” days still hold so much and so little. There is much magic in their offering and rhythm and so we are mindful of our steps as we move toward the bridge that will take us from one year into the next.

{Christmas Tree | 1960 | Troy Bradberry’s Kodachrome & Vintage Color Collection | Pinned HERE}

November 23, 2023 / 0 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving

🦃 Gobble! Gobble! 🦃

The Happiest of Thanksgiving wishes to you!

I hope this year finds you surrounded by family and friends, love, warmth, good food and laughter. x

{Vintage Thanksgiving Post Card | Pinned HERE}

August 1, 2023 / 0 Comments

HELLO, August

Hello, August! We’re ready to keep enjoying the lazy hazy days of summer. We’re ready to keep eating our weight in fruit and vegetables from the local farmer’s market. Gobbling up blueberries still warm from being picked on the way home.

We’re ready to keep enjoying time with family and friends that we have not had the pleasure of being with in many, many moons.

We’re ready to work on puzzles on the sunporch while the breeze drifts by. We’re ready for early morning swims and evening runs to get ice cream after dinner.

We’re ready to stay up late eating popcorn while we watch old movies. We’re ready to soak up all that you have to offer and we’re grateful for this time off from school and the chance to appreciate being within the moment and making every second count. We’re going to drink up each day until the last drop.

{Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954. | Photo by Slim Aarons | Hulton Archive | Getty Images}

April 9, 2023 / 0 Comments