Vintage Thursday- 1950s kitchen ad

Hello everyone,

Hope that you are having a great week and thanks to everyone who has been reading my blog this week, hope you have been enjoying the posts. For Vintage Thursday this week I have got a wonderful advert which is for a cooker which dates to the 1950s.

Photo credit- Lori Stalteri

The Dorothy Days Xx

Vintage style hair tutorial video

Hello everyone :),

I thought it would be fun to share with you all today this fantastic vintage style hair tutorial that I found on Youtube. It is not too complicated but is perfect for those of you who love the vintage/ retro look and want to know have to achieve it easily.




If anyone does try it out I would love to see the results so please feel free to post a photo or let me know how you got on :).

Hope you all are having a wonderful day :)

Best wishes to you all and thanks for stopping in and checking out my blog

The Dorothy Days

The Dorothy Days' Feature Friday- Tabbys Vintage Shop

Hello everyone :) ,

First of all, before I start this week's Feature Friday. I just wanted to let you all know that I am thinking of all of you who are reading this from places affected by Hurricane Sandy. I have been watching on the news from here in England and have been really shocked by some of the images I have seen. Thinking of you all.


This week for Feature Friday I am featuring Tina from ....

Tina is from Wisconsin, United States and has been running her Etsy shop for almost a year. The shop is named after Tina's cat Tabby who she said really appreciated a good vintage find!! Tina opened her shop as something to pass the time while being a stay at home mum (mom for my American followers!) She is now a single mum and hopes that her love of vintage can turn from a passion into something that will also pay the bills. Her shop specialises in vintage clothing and accessories including vintage jewellery, scarves and hats. She also stocks lots of difficult to find plus size vintage clothing.

I asked Tina to pick some of her favourite items from her shop at the moment and this is what she picked.....

This incredible 1960's danville loungewear made of quilted fabric. Tina says.... "how can you look at this and not feel happy? It screams "please wear me for a day out, I'm not just lounging" !! "
I couldn't agree more.....I think it is fabulous and I love the paisley motifs.

The second item that Tina chose was this amazing black and white dress with polka dots. Tina explained how this dress is rather special as was handmade and has a label inside the dress saying "especially for you by Mom".....how lovely is that? This little dress must have been made with so much love and thought :)

Please be sure to have a look at Tina's shop by clicking the link HERE ! Her shop is well worth a browse and is a treasure trove of beautiful items.

Hope that you enjoyed this week's Feature Friday :)

The Dorothy Days Xx

New things!!!!

Hello everyone :) !

Hope that you have been having a wonderful day and that this week is a good week for you all. Today I have to admit I have been having a rather lazy day! I spent the day sitting out in the sunshine with family and friends and drinking lots of tea and then cooked an amazing Thai curry for supper :).

My lazy day today makes up for my day on Sunday, although supposed to be a day of rest I was super busy! I woke up early and decided to have a change around of the living room. You know one of those ideas which seems like a really good idea but half way through isn't?! Well I managed to break the TV aeriel and so have been without television until this evening! It took me forever to make it work again. I wouldn't normally mind as I don't really watch that much TV anyway but at the moment the Paralympics are on so I have been so annoyed that I have been missing bits. I have been reading the news and twitter to try and keep up to date and watched some clips online on the news sites but its not quite the same!

I also photographed lots of my new vintage stock which was exciting :) and have loaded some new items to my shop :). It took me the whole day but I am really pleased with the photographs and even took new photographs for some of the stock already listed as I feel the new photos show off my items much better :). I have listed about 6 new items. I thought I would show you a small selection of my new photos and listings. What do you all think ?!

This photo I am particually proud of :) The orchid was for my birthday present :)

This is one of my favourite of the new cups I have listed. The colours just make me want to smile :) ! Listed here

This is my new pink and white rose tea cup trio.

You can view the rest of them in my shop here :)

So far all the newly listed tea cups seem to have gone down well and I have had a few likes on facebook and quite a few views and favourites on Etsy which is always lovely :). My pink and white rose teacup has also been featured in a treasury already which is so exciting :) especially as its only been listed for 24 hours!!!

A lady called Ruth has made a beautiful tea themed treasury with some stunning items in it. She certainly has an eye for treasuries and I love every item that she has featured especially the Brighton bus tea cosy!!! Makes me feel at home :) !

Here is Ruth's beautiful treasury (thank you so much for including me!!)

'Time For Tea!' by RuthClare

My hubby and I can't resist a good cuppa, and not only is it tasty and refreshing, it also has health benefits. So I thought I'd celebrate our love of having a good old cuppa with this treasury list. Put your feet up and enjoy!

vintage rose tea cup english... TheDorothyDays $23.00	Friends for Tea Buttons Set Bumpkin $7.00	Personalised Red Bus Tea Cos... samanthastas $28.00
Teapots Card winifredStudio... $3.00	Hand Bag Teapot Alice in Won... microbio $42.00	Pink Dotty Teapot Earring St... RaggedyFox $4.00
Mad Hatter Birthday Tea Part... PartyEverAfter $15.00	Fifi fine art print littlefancythi... $5.50	Retro Apron Teapots and Teac... Boojiboo $16.75
Teapot Necklace, Teapot and ... JodieAnna $15.95	September Sale French Vintag... PoitouBrocante $18.40	Fabric and Felt Tea Party Se... Creativetouche... $65.00
Time for Tea cushion pillow ... PoppyRoseVinta... $16.00	Any Retro A4 / 8 x 10 art pr... myretronest $17.00	Childrens Wall Art - Stretch... kidswallart $21.50
Vintage stacked Tea cups Tea... YourHandmadeho... $30.00

Treasury tool supported by the dog house

Please be sure to take a look at the shops featured and Ruth's shop. They are all really beautiful :)

The Dorothy Days Xx