Photo A Day May # 3…Something You Wore Today
May 3, 2012 By
I truly love vintage clothing. There is a little shop in Vermont that I just love to shop at. They have clothes from all different era’s. My true passion is the Victorian era fashions. Petticoats, bustles, and lots of lace. Give me that, and I am happy.
In this picture, is the wedding dress my mother wore back in June of 1955. It is in need of some repair, and I tried it on to see how I could fix it. The photo on the 1930′s radio is of a 1920′s wedding that took place in my family.
#PhotoADayMay # 3
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Back to the Past
August 2, 2009 By
Every year, the first weekend in August, Scribners Mill holds their Back to the Past events. Our friend had told us about it before, but this was our first year that we attended. Although we wear our Victorian clothes around the house and Effinhgam, give us and opportunity to wear them out somewhere, and we are usually there.
For just $6 each, we got to roam around what use to be an active mill up until 1962. From 1851 through 1962, three generations of Scribners owned and operated the mill and two additional generations worked in the mill. You can read more of history of the mill be visiting http://www.scribnersmill.org/history.shtm.
Scribner’s Mill’s vision is “to be an accurately reconstructed saw mill, powered by water using early technology to produce wood products.” We feel that this is an important part of mill history, and we wanted to support them any way we could.
They had saw mill demonstrations, exhibitors from all over, blacksmith demos, tours, craftsmen at work, antique fire truck from 1927 , candle dipping, all sorts of childrens’ events, a pig roast on Saturday and baked bean ‘suppah’ (darn we missed this) and much more.
Back to the past we went, and had a great time.
If You Go Down to the Library Today…
July 29, 2009 By
Today, was the Teddy Bear’s Picnic at the Effingham Public Library. I made matching outfits for Freddie Teddie and Sadie. Their duds matched our 1890′s Victorian outfits I made for Christmas. Marilyn and John read some stories to the kids, and we then enjoyed a snack of grapes, cheese and some juice. The bears weren’t to sure about the cheese, but they were good little bears, and tried it. They were glad they did, because they like it. Freddie and Sadie won Best Matching Child Outfits. We all had a great time.
