PORTLAND: vintage paradise?

So here are the first pictures of our US trip!

We arrived in Seattle but decided to go straight to Portland.

We stopped a few times to visit some Antiques Malls...

but our first goal was to go to a small town lost in Oregon forests and montains... Vernonia!

That was to visit a shop called MUFFY'S... 

the saddle shoes' kingdom!!! We bought 4 pairs....

After that vintage shopping could start in Portland!

I must tell you that we chose to go to North West of the USA because of that.

Have you ever noticed that so many bloggers, Etsy shoppes or Ebay dealers come from Portland area?

Moreover that was my first time in this area so that was a good excuse!

On our second day in Portland, I arranged a meeting with the darling Janey for a shopping day.

You must recognized her, she writes the blog Atomic Readhead.

That's always so nice to visit a city with someone who lives there.

That was like a vintage shoppes marathon...

we had a really fun day, that's so great to be able to meet people that you follow online in real life.

We stopped at Simply Vintage

where we had the pleasure to meet again Sara (the owner) and Julie from Fabgabs that we have already met in Viva.

I told you so many vintage people in Portland!

A lot of stores with nice items at affordable prices!

Moreover did you know that there is no tax in Oregon???

One more reason to visit this state!

We loved this city...

Really clean and green, everything is close (it's not a huge city), easy to park, no traffic jam...

But I must tell you that it's not easy to travel in early spring...

Weather can be really nice one day almost like summer and the next one cold, wind and rain!

Really hard to pack a suitcase in such situation...

We stayed 4-5 days in Portland area...

and went back to Seattle.

With more Antiques Malls to visit...

There are a lot of small historic towns that have an Antiques District.

You can enjoy these forgotten towns...

while hunting for vintage treasures!!!!

Look at this crazy 50's beach hat with a fishing rod on the top... unfortunatly it was not in good condition... but what a bargain!

You can always find so many incredible things in Antiques Malls...

Here is one of my craziest purchase of the trip... 

A 50's LAS VEGAS purse!!!

In mint condition, I could not have missed it... perfect for VIVA!

Have you ever been in Portland ?

Have you ever meet bloggers in real life ?

NEW colorful OUTFITS!!!!

So a lot of you wanted to see new outfits with our recent finds...

So here are our first inspirations...

a tribute to our first stop in the USA... Portland!

With a Pendleton jacket for Sylvain and a Pendleton skirt for me.

My husband found it in a vintage shop in Oregon where the brand comes from.

My skirt was found in an antiques mall in Las Vegas far away from where it was produced!

Except my purse, shoes and sun glasses, 

everything is new in my outfit!

I love trying to match new (to me) clothes and accessories!!!!

My 50's orlon sweater comes from Meow in Long Beach.

This vintage mexican jacket was my last purchase...

but not the least!!!!

I could have it for a good price because there are huge SALES at Viva sunday evening!

I like these kind of jackets a lot , but they are hard to find in good condition and in a larger size...

I have only 2 of them: one in red (here) and this green.

I bought this 40's silk scarf in Seattle, in a vintage shop where I had the pleasure to meet Sara from Lillies and Remains.

This hat is a present from Julie, 

the lovely lady who runs Fab Gabs Vintage.

We had the pleasure to attend to one of her famous cocktails parties in Portland!

After the crazy sun of Vegas we are back to wool...

New jacket for Sylvain but also new tie!

That 40's tie comes from Viva.

A lucky horse shoe tie bar....

My husband loves tie bars, he's always looking for unsual ones.

New saddle shoes also from Oregon.

I will tell you more about them in a next post.

Did you notice the brooch on my purse?

I bought it at VLV car show...

from "Miss L Fire" herself!!!

That was a great pleasure to meet one of my favorite shoes designer in person.

She's now making some really nice vintage inspired plastic jewels.

We will need some time to post about our US trip...

a lot of pictures to sort... even if we didn't take as much pictures that we would want....

for example I don't have pictures of all my VLV outfits...

too busy partying with friends ;-)

Do you like colorful clothes?

What do you think about our Portlander outfits?

Back from US vacation....

We didn't post anything last few weeks because we were on vacation for 3 weeks in the USA...

But we are finally back!!!

A first post to show you some pictures of what we brought back to France.

We came back with a few new pairs of shoes...

Sylvain found a lot of 40's ties to add to his collection but he also bought some amazing tie bars!

I also fell in love with some vintage jewelleries: earrings, brooches, necklaces, bracelets... rhinestones, plastic, lucite, bakelite!

My vintage purses collection had grown a bit...

Our juke-box will be happy with all these new records!

And here are all vintage clothes we brought back...

We have visited so much vintage shops and antique malls!

We also met so much nice people...

We are really pleased with our new vintage treasures!!!

We will need many posts to show you all.

Did you miss our posts?

What do you think about our finds? Crazy, aren't they?