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Vintage hair style how-to from Super Kawaii Mama

pam kueber — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:00:25 +0000

Super Kawaii Mama — aka Candice Deville — is a maven of mid-mod fashion in Australia, and she recently prepared this video showing us how to create a simple vintage style hair roll up do. The video is mesmerizing. Not only is Candice’s skin perfect and her Australian accent so alluring, but the video step-by-step actually makes creating this vintage hair style look pretty easy. My hair is long enough. And I think that Missouri Michael’s will be soon, too. You can keep your finger on the pulse of mid-mod Australian fashion at Super Kawaii Mama’s blog here.

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Vintage Swoboda pins

pam kueber — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:59:35 +0000

The minute I start feeling like house projects are done, I start to ogle vintage costume jewelry. I just discovered Swoboda pins… they are so joyful and each piece is more precious than the next. This Swoboda bird nest pin is $95 from etsy seller sundayandsunday. Click through for five more beautiful pieces.

$74 from AgedandOpulentJewelry.

$160, from AgedandOpulentJewelry.

$50, from AgedandOpulentJewelry.

$115, from sundayandsunday.

Ginormous sash pin, $395 from sundayandsunday.

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California Kathy’s vintage shelf edging

pam kueber — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:00:41 +0000

After the post on where to find shelf edging, California Kathy wrote to show some in action. This is wonderful stuff for open shelves, glass cupboards, and as Kathy shows — for showing off collections of vintage bowls and dinnerware:

Hi Pam, California Kathy here. Just wanted to show you the upper portion of my kitchen china hutch with its shelf edging. I scored it on eBay a while ago and couldn’t be happier with how it looks! We’ve been doing a few things to our 1949 Calinfornia ranch kitchen and I’ll send you some pics as soon as we finish up a couple more easy things. Course the “easy” things are the ones that take the longest sometimes! Thanks for all you do! – Kathy

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