My VALENTINE....

I think all of you know which day we are, isn't it? So let's speak about LOVE....

Those kind of colorised postcards were really popular during the first half of the XXth century in France. I love to look at them in flea markets, they are really kitch but also so cute mainly if you read the back of those cards, they replaced our Facebook or even phones... Just to give a "rendez-vous" behind the church or to ask a girl to marry you... so ROMANTIC!!!

So I choose to speak a little more about the love of my life... my husband!!! I don't know if I have ever write his name on this blog... so it's SYLVAIN!!! We met 16 years ago when we were students... Time flies...

I will share some pictures of him that I really love.

Did I really marry a Hollywood Star ?

Judging this picture probably YES...???

Unfortunatly not... but a real estate seller!

Of course he love vintage houses, mainly modern architecture...

But his greatest passion are for vintage cars for sure... perhaps sometimes more than his own wife!!! He can look at nice hot rods but...

what he prefers the most is classic cars without any customisation... his second biggest interest is vintage appliances and mainly VACCUM CLEANERS!!!! He own more than 150 vintage ones from the 20's to the 50's..........!!!!! I must make a post about that one day....

What I love the most about him is his funny side, always like a clown making some really fun stories!!!

Always optimistic even in the worst situation!!!

 My complete oposite....

He love animals and kept a really childish side... probably like every men, isn't it?

As a lot of you have already noticed he love vintage clothes as much as I am and wear them in his everyday life !

  

 On summer he love to wear vintage hawaiian shirts the most.

But in Winter, he enjoy his impressive 40's-50's ties collection !!!

We also really love to travel together....

and it's much easier when you like the same things : food, clothes, museum, music...

I will not tell you that my husband is the perfect man... it will not be the truth. His biggest flaw is his lack of romance... but I think he's good enough to keep him :-)

JOYEUSE SAINT VALENTIN mon Sylvain !!!!

Do you share your love for vintage with your man ?

Do you have a romantic man ?

A nice and freezing FLEA MARKET....

Really cold weather is still there but it didn't stop us to go out yesterday for a flea market with friends!!! Fortunatly it was an inside one... but even inside it was cold so I choose a russian style with a lot of furs!!!

I finally choose to bring home those full lenght mannequin on the left side.. so realistic!!!

I try to threaten some of brokers to have a lower price...

So much nice things to see...

I found those really nice 50's vase from Italy.

Ah girls! Always crazy about puppets.. The cute donkey and rabbit find a new home!

And it was time to search a little bit more heat... why not in a mexican restaurant?

You probably noticed my vintage purse, it's a cute straw and lucite purse cover with beads just received in my mail box a few days ago... Love it!!! It's more a summer purse but I could not resist to wear it right now!!!

I was amazed by these Tapas Towers...

What a colorfull meal for a cold winter !

And it was time to come home with some thrift stores in our route of course...

This is the '48 Chevy pick-up of our friends, they are making a nice retoration on it.

Tea time...

Sorry but I forgot to take some nice pictures of the dress I was wearing... just a few "stolen pictures" to let you guess the beauty of this amazing early 50's dress. It's made of black wool with a full skirt and there is an incredible silver beading work on cuffs and colar. I found this dress in a parisian vintage store about 10 years ago probably the most beautiful winter dress I have ever own!

And you must want to know what did we buy ???

Some nice 40's overalls for the guys from a militaria NOS, a 40's metalic suitcase from the NAVY and a toolbox for the pick-up!

My husband found this NOS late 40's shoes in perfect size !!!

I found those nice bakelite earings and this brooch.

Barkclothes from the 50's... what a lovely color !

And the biggest purchase of the day was this 50's dressing table, I fell in love with the chair... This set will need a good cleaning and I will have to find a good place for it, but where ????

Don't forget to check if you are the winner of my giveaway here.

Do you wear fur in winter ?

Have you been lucky lately in flea markets ?

And the WINNER is...

So it's now time to announce the winner of my first giveaway...

But I would like first to thank all people who entered the contest, leave me a nice message and a special thanks to all nice gals who share my giveaway post!

I also want to welcome all my new readers, more than 25 in one week, waow!!! I'm so exited...

I was happy to read that almost all themes I use for my blog interest you: my outfits posts, speaking about my finds in flea markets, our fancy parties with friends, vintage cars, vintage magazines...

I will try to work hard to give you more beautiful stories and pictures... my next goal will be to buy a new camera, I must save some money for that...

So the winner is :

The 4th comment which is from Swell Dame so please contact me via e-mail at brucker_laur{at}yahoo{dot}fr to give me you full adress and I will prepare a nice parcel for you!!! I'm pleased to see that this lucky lady win at her third chance!

A lot of you loved this cute little cat and I was lucky to find another one yesterday in a fleamarket in aqua color... perhaps for another giveaway!!!

Do you love to be part of a giveaway?

What will be your dream giveway (realistic of course)?

I WON AN AWARD !!!

I have just received my first blog award from Jacqui (The Musings of a Windsor Rose)  who nominated me for a Liebster Blog award!  Thanks a lot...

This award is given to bloggers with less than 200 followers, in the hopes that it will bring more lovely readers!

"Leibster blog" is german/english words and means "Favorite Blog"! So it's a great honor for me to be choosen.

I read a lot of great blogs with more than 1000 followers but I'm sometimes surprised to see amazing blogs with only a few followers!  So I will try to give you some others nice blogs which worth to be known!

 

• 365 vintage days is a must see blog!!!! You can follow Sylvie a french girl who married a finish guy and now live in Helsinki. She is a friend of mine in real life. She made the bet to be able to write a post everyday during a year with another vintage outfit everyday : A DREAM WARDROBE !

• Swell Dame  is a greek girl in love with the 40's-50's. She also have an ETSY shop with what she create: repro clothes, amazing vintage style hats, so glamourous hair clips  and much more. I love her creations!

• A knitter from the Past is Coralie's blog. A 50's R&R girl full of energy who love to knitt. She just need some nice comments to give a the strenght to keep a blog alive!

• The Gormandizers is a vintage cars club near where I live. They are also friends of mine in real life. They began a great blog this year so please visit it.

• RuebyRetro is written by a Canadian Girl in love with vintage style. A really friendly girl who is trying to create her own vintage life.

 Stop by and visit these wonderful blogs!!!

It was hard to choose only 5 of them because there are so much great people who work really hard to keep their blog alive!!! Please continue to share what you love...

Just would like to mention a really new blog and it could be interesting: an english familly will try to leave like during the WWII, it's: 1940s Familly on Rations.

Do you also know amazing blogs who have not a lot of followers but worth to be know ?

The rules of this awards are :

1. Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.

2. Reveal your five picks for the award and let them know.
3. Post the award on your blog.
4. Bask in the love from the most supportive people on the blogshare-other bloggers.
5. Finally and the best rule of all..........have fun and spread the love!

COOOOLD....!!!!!

I don't know if everybody around the world know that we have a incredible freezing weather here in Europe these last few days. -20°C (-4°F) last night here in North East of FRANCE!!!! The good thing is that our days are really sunny with just enough snow to make our landscapes white!
I have just seen on TV that Roma and Alger was surrended by snow, not a really usual situation...

But life goes on.... our vintage life of course!!! So let's go outside for some shopping...

It's really a good time to go out with fur...

Sorry I will not show you the beautiful 40's suit under my coat... too cold to remove it!!!

Husband is also wearing his heavier sweater...

I love the cut of this coat, mainly the back... I found it some years ago in a vintage shop in L.A... I don't think it was worn once in California, it's so warm!

I think I would like a little bit more snow and some more degrees...

Winter is absolutly not my favorite season... you must layer so much clothes to be warm that the result is sometimes a little bit strange and I can feel like a polar teddy bear!!!

Do you enjoy winter ?

Do you wear vintage during these so cold days ?

Don't forget my GIVEAWAY you still have one week left to have a chnace to win !!! 

My first GIVEAWAY...

And here it comes.... my first GIVEAWAY!!! I'm really proud to have reach the 100 followers this week and I know there are much more people who follow it without being a follower!

I don't have any sponsors for my blog so I had to search in my cupboards what I can offer to you and which will be easy to ship worldwide...

So here are what I found for you :

First a so cute keyschain from the 50's (perhaps early 60's)! I own exactly the same for my '54 Chevrolet but in an aqua color, just check the following picture. This cat also exist in black and red!

And I think that a lot of you love nice 50's fashion pictures and drawings, vintage magazines and sewing! So I will also offer 3 vintage sewing magazines from 1953 and 1957.

The covers of these magazines are not in perfect condition with some tears and names written on them, but there are so much nice things to see inside!!!

Summer dresses...

Playsuits...

Winter coats...

Winter dresses...

Full skirts and wiggle dresses...

Wedding dresses and nice knitts...

 

And the best thing for you who know how to sew and knitt.... you can find all the pattern of these beauties in these magazines in various sizes!!!! But be carefull these magazines are german, I don't speak really well german but these kind of magazines are my favorites european ones because they show everyday fashion and not only HAUTE COUTURE! Moreover I always dream to be able to use all those patterns... I own about 400 of these german magazines!!!

Google translate can easyly help you to understand the patterns instructions....

Look here to see scan of about all vintage Burda magazines.

So HOW TO ENTER THIS GIVEAWAY??????

First chance to win: you must be a follower of my blog of course and leave a comment which tell me which of my older post did you prefer. It will help me to know what you like to read: vintage magazines, flea markets, vintage cars, outfits posts...????

Second and third chance to win : share this giveaway on your blog or on Facebook and leave another comment with your links!

Good luck to all!!! Winner will be announced next week the 12th of february.