A little bit daring and cowardly

When I started this blog I knew I would want to post about the many vintage outfits I wear on a daily basis. All well and good I hear you say, but , there is one rather large problem; I really do not take a good photo. I'm not kidding on this, I tend to look rather horse faced and my teeth are quite wonky so any smiling that goes on tends to accentuate the general equine similarities. I know that I should love my flaws and present a positive body image to anyone reading my blog but there are so many lovely girls out there looking beautiful on their own blogs, that I feel my own won't really cut it against them. However I know the importance of outfit posts ( after all this is the main reason I view other blogs, to gain inspiration from their own outfits ), so I can't really keep a blog that shies away from them. 

  

It is for this reason that I have decided to do my outfit posts with a difference. I won't be showing my face. I will be covering my mush with a mask, il make it a pretty one, and sparing you all the weird expressions my face tends to fall into every time a camera is pointed at it. 

On deciding to wear a mask I actually think it could be quite fun to be an anonymous blogger, a lady of mystery maybe, at least that's what I'm aiming for. I really do hope you all don't mind my decision to not show my face, I suppose it is a bit cowardly really but I feel it's the only way I can face doing outfit pictures, ( excuse the pun there). 

Anyway I will make them as interesting as I can and hopefully give all you lovely ladies out there some inspiration they way some of you have done for me.

If you are wondering where the brave bit of the title comes in, well I'm not too proud of my body either but the clothes have to go on something in order for them to be shown off! Anyway I do hope you will be kind and enjoy my expression of vintage in my everyday clothes! 

                  Till next time dears xx

A few of my favourite things

I thought I would share with you a few of my favourite things. I have been collecting for a few years now and I am lucky enough to own some lovely pieces of vintage "tat" as I fondly refer to them. Here is a selection of my favourite things that always make me smile when I gaze upon them ( which is frequently, I'm afraid ). I do hope you enjoy seeing them too, more "favourite things" posts will follow as I have many knick knacks to show off xx

My gloriously cluttered 1930's dressing table top

Oh my fabulous flying ducks!

A tiscket a tasket I love my yellow basket

My beautiful Bakelite radio

Why I embrace vintage

I know a lot of people are into vintage at the moment, it certainly has had an upsurge in the popularity stakes, but a lot of people love vintage for all sorts of reasons. 

I personally have always thought that past decades had a certain sort of charm about them. I know there was war and upheaval and uncertainty, but I think there was a sense of family and unity that can at times be lacking today, certainly in my experience anyway. This is why I decided to try to recreate the past in my home with beautiful old furniture and knick knacks. 

I rember visiting elderly friends with my mum when I was a child and being fascinated by the ornaments and crocheted blankets and black and white photos that filled their homes and thinking how lovely it would be to be surrounded by such things that clearly meant so much to them. To me and my childlike eyes this was wonderful and I longed to have a house filled with such things of my own. 

I'm so grateful that purchasing things, be it furniture or kitchenalia or more personal items, it's so easy with ebay and vintage fairs and antique centres never far away. All of this means I have my longed for home, a bit of which I shared in the last post, and can sit happily soaking up my own little piece of the 40's and 50's. 

Why do you love vintage, please do let me know, I would love to hear. 

                                     Bye for now lovies xx

My Home

Hello my dears,
 I thought u might like to see a few of my home, I have been collecting vintage stuff for a while and the result is what I think a tranquil home from the past. I hope you like it too,

Welcome!

Hello, I'm miss pond and I will hopefully be sharing posts about how I try to live my life in a vintage way, from the clothes I wear to my home and cosmetics. I hope you enjoy it and will be kind to me as I fathom out this new way of communicating. Bye for now.