A lovely Blog Award

I was given this lovely award by Kate at Vintage in a Modern World. I feel honored and thrilled to receive this lovely award by a fellow blogger and vintage lover as myself. Thanks so much Kate!
Now, the conditions of this award are:
1)Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this award.
2)Share 7 things about yourself
3)Award 10 recently discovered great bloggers
4)Contact these bloggers and tell them about the award


Here are the 7 things about myself:
1)As a teen I discovered Jerry Lewis movies through my father who was a huge fan. I developed a crush on him when I saw "The Nutty Professor"!



2)I love the ocean! Give me the beach any day and you will see me smile. I wish I could live in a tropical place (see the title of my blog? LOL!) and be near the ocean. There is just something about it that gives me peace and tranquility. And what about the sunsets? *SIGH*



3)I'm not a photographer or model but I love taking pictures and editing them for fun!
I get kind of shy though of posting my pics on my blog! (go figure!)



4)I've always been interested in aliens and the world of the paranormal.
Currently I love to watch "Ancient Aliens" on the History Channel, "The Haunted" on the Animal Planet, and "I Survived, Beyond and Back" on the Biography Channel.
I'm also fascinated with the shows on Investigation Discovery!



5)My first vintage inspiration was Marilyn Monroe when I was a teen. She's the reason I still wear red lipstick til this day!



6)I'm still practicing knitting. One day I'll knit a sweater from a 1940's pattern.
7)I love to collect vintage purses and have a few. I would love to get more (much to DH's horror) but right now I have no more room. I still have yet to get a lucite purse!

Well, that's enough about me! Here are the 10 recently discovered great bloggers that I chose (in no particular order):

Vintage Passions Just like mine
The Adventures of Lucy-Mae
Piroska and the Wolf
!Viva Victoria Vintage!
Poppy Lane
Vintage Rose
Miss Rosina Lee
Penny Lane
Jemma Rose
Through the looking glass


All lovely & stylish bloggers and I hope they accept the award and pass it on.

Happy Birthday Elvis!!!!

Elvis Presley would've 76 years old today. Today some people celebrated his birthday at Graceland in Memphis. Even Chilean miner, Edison Pena, sang "The Wonder of You" to the assembled crowd. Pena is a big fan of Elvis and he sang to his friends while trapped in an underground mine. Elvis lives on!!!!

Vintage Photobooth

I love vintage photobooth pics. You can look at one and just imagine what kind of story that person has. Here are some from flickr:

Happy New Year!!!

Dita Thursdays!

Stay warm yet fashionable like Dita does, in these fabulous winter coats.

Singer Teena Marie dies at 54

I cannot believe Teena Marie passed away on Sunday, December 26th. I just found out about it today. She was one of my favorite singers in the 80's. Her voice was so unique and unmistakable. She sang with soul and funk, and her love songs with a passion. Some of my favorites from Teena include, "Square Biz", "Lover Girl", "Work it", and "Naked to the World". She will be missed.

Dita Thursdays!

Wishing everyone everyone Happy Holidays!

Movie I just watched: Duel in the sun

I watch alot of classic movies on TCM. Every time there's a western on, I quickly change the channel. I just don't like westerns, they're boring to me with all the shooting going on. Well today was no different. I just finished watching Ingrid Bergman in Intermezzo: A love story (have to save that one for another post) and I wasn't going to watch another movie. So this movie comes on that looks like a western (Oh NO!) but I didn't get to change the channel because I had to answer the phone. Anyway, when I finished my phone conversation I see this beautiful lady in the movie and I started watching it. The lady turned out to be Jennifer Jones. Can't say I've seen her movies before, but I have heard of her. Well, I watched the whole thing and I liked it! It did take place in a western setting and there was some shooting, but mostly it was a crazy love story! I must say it was rather surprisingly sexy for 1946.



Pearl Chavez, a half breed girl, is sent to live with distant relatives following the hanging of her father, who shot and killed Pearl's adulterous mother. Upon her arrival at the huge McCanless ranch, two brothers, Lewt and Jesse, are immediately smitten with Pearl. Lewt (Gregory Peck), the bad boy of the two, seduces Pearl but has no intentions of marrying her. The good brother, Jesse (Joseph Cotten), marries someone else but is still protective of Pearl and asks her to come and live with him and his wife. Tensions rise as the love triangle culminates in a violent end.

Dita Thursdays!

Here is Dita on Access Hollywood talking about performing Burlesque and launching her new Cointreau Coffret.

Another fantastic Giveaway!

La Dama at Vintage Passions just like mine is having a great giveaway! She has some very cute vintage items so if you haven't done so already, pay her blog a visit to enter.
And her blog is awesome. She adds a bit of dark humor, mexican flavor (as a latina myself, I love this), vintage love, and an obsession with Morrissey, mix it all up and you have a very interesting and tasty blog to read!
She has extended her giveaway until Monday, so you still have time to enter!

In remembrance of Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Day commemorates the unprovoked attack in 1941 of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii by Japanese forces. The attack marked the US entry into World War II. The attack took place on Sunday morning at 7:55 AM. It lasted just over an hour. The harbor was the homeport for the US Pacific fleet. Most of the ships in the harbor were damaged or destroyed. 2,400 Americans were killed and nearly 1,200 wounded. The greatest tragedy was the loss of the Battleship USS Arizona with its crew of nearly 1,200 men.








President Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous address to the nation in which he refers to Dec. 7, 1941, as "a date which will live in infamy" can be seen below:



Movies to watch today:

From here to eternity



So proudly we hail



Pearl Harbor

Music Saturdays!

Song is "There you'll be" by Faith Hill. It was featured in the film Pearl Harbor.
I love this movie. I'm not a big fan of Faith Hill but I'm a sucker for love songs. This is a good one. Pearl Harbor Day is this Tuesday by the way.

Dita Thursdays!

Dita Quotes:

Fitness routine: About 20 minutes jumping on the trampoline and an hour of Pilates. I often take Sundays off.

Perfect kitchen: One of my big extravagances when I moved out of my former husband’s house was a matching pink stove and refrigerator in ’50s style. Unlike real vintage items, they work. Obsolete item she can’t bear to part with: Everything I have is obsolete. That’s the point.

Fanciest corset: It’s by Mr. Pearl, without a doubt the world’s most-sought-after corset maker. He lives in Paris, and all the couturiers go to him. He has an unmatched talent for creating the perfect wasp waist. Each corset requires between 6and 20 fittings.

Collections: I collect in a crazy way. I have at least 15 collections. I collect vintage hair combs; vintage clothes; vintage lingerie; hats; jewelry; cigarette holders.

Waistline: I’m not technically a tight lacer. It’s a fetish, in which you wear extremely tight corsets all the time. I don’t sleep in my corsets, and I’m not obsessed with obtaining the world’s smallest waist. My waist is around 18 inches.

Santa Baby, I've been an awful good girl....

Here are some things on my Christmas wish list so far:


A red corset similar to this one I spotted on Ebay (this will be from hubby of course ;-):




Fancy Nights perfume by Jessica Simpson. I love the smell of this perfume, very rich and exotic yet soft and feminine!




I love wide cinch belts. They have loads of them in all colors and styles on Ebay!




You can't go wrong with a pencil skirt. So sexy yet you can wear it to work too.




88 palette of eyeshadow. You can get it cheap on Ebay!





What's on your wishlist?

Happy Thanksgiving!

May you all have a blessed Thanksgiving!

Music Saturdays!

From 1961, "At Last" by Etta James. Love her voice and this song. Almost everyone plays it at their wedding.

Dita Thursdays!

Dita fact: One of her first jobs was working in a lingerie store, where she developed her interest in corsets
and lace underwear.

Music Saturdays!

Song is "I'll be seeing you", by Bille Holiday. Video from the movie, "The Notebook". One of my favorite movies!

Halloween is over!

When you have kids they count the months, weeks, days, hours and minutes until Halloween. Well, it's over. This Halloween was FREEZING! It was windy and cold and I felt sorry for the kids whose parents didn't make them wear a coat over their costume! I couldn't believe the little teen girls in playboy bunny costumes (worn with a tiny skirt)!
My boy and hubby were zombies and I was suppose to be a vampire but my teeth didn't work out. So I just look like a goth. But it was fun. I was good and didn't eat too much candy ;-)









Michael Myers!