Spotlight: Scarlett Willow Shop

Recently I've been completely obsessed with Scarlett Willow Shop, a vintage clothing store I found on Etsy that specializes in clothing from the 1960's and 70's. As you may know if you've read my blog over the last few months, I've been particularly into fashions from the 1970's and have mostly been making myself clothes …

The Films That Haunt Us: The Haunting (1963)

1963's The Haunting, (based on the 1959 novel by the brilliant Shirley Jackson,) is my favourite horror movie of all time - and it actually is one I have re-watched in the last year or so (I can honestly say it left me just as terrified as it always did when I watched it as …

The Films That Haunt Us: The Innocents, (1961)

Yesterday I wrote about one of the films I saw in childhood that terrifies me to this day, to the point where I just can't bring myself to re-watch it as an adult. Today I thought I would share another with you. The 1961 film, The Innocents, starring Deborah Kerr, was based on the novella …

The Films That Haunt Us: The Woman in Black (1989)

With Halloween mere days away, I sat down this morning to make a list of some of the scariest horror movies I've ever seen. Unsurprisingly, the films that have had the most enormous effect on me are the ones watched in early childhood. These are films my sisters and I used to watch over and …

Ladies’ Home Journal, July 1948

Yay! Another issue of Ladies' Home Journal! And I promise this week's post doesn't include another rant. 😉 This week's issue talks about a a "Homemaker Service" in Hartford Connecticut, "substituting for mothers"! It also includes a "complete-in-one-issue" novel by Elizabeth Cadell called Gay Pursuit ("The time comes when the thing a girl wants most …

Coming Full Circle

The other day I was browsing through a thrift store a few blocks from my apartment, chatting on the phone with my older sister the whole time and joking that she (and my other sisters) were my "good luck charms" whenever I go thrift shopping. Sure enough I found a small hand full of books …

Ladies’ Home Journal, January 1960

I have to confess, even seeing the cover of this week's issue of Ladies' Home Journal stirs up some rotten feelings, because of two key things - the mention of Pat Boone, and just a little further down, "How to Lose 25 Pounds and Stay Thin." Why the strange feelings about the two? Well, many …

Ladies’ Home Journal, January 1949

This week's issue of Ladies' Home Journal is from January 1949! Check out that haircut! Major foreshadowing of the short haircuts and styles that would become hugely popular for women in the 1950's! This issue even has an advice column called "If You Ask Me" - by Eleanor Roosevelt! Amazing! There are some very hard-hitting …

Weirdness Break with The Beatles (and a 1970’s anti-drug PSA!)

Working on those 1970's short shorts I mentioned in my last post, while chilling out with The Beatles and listening to the Magical Mystery Tour album and just had to share this super weird video for Blue Jay Way with all of you. https://youtu.be/Coz0TmK2ZIg I love the absolute weirdness that came out of the 1960's …

The Ladies’ Home Journal, January 1965

I'm so excited about this week's issue of The Ladies' Home Journal! I'm so glad I accidentally found these on archive.org a few weeks ago! You all know I'm a huge geek when it comes to vintage magazines - I blame my local library, where I used to be able to buy vintage issues of …