Monday, March 28, 2011

My Vintage Creative Weekend

My weekend has been very vintage. 

Friday - I started sewing a 1950s sundress. I used one of the patterns I won in Atlanta's giveaway. Thank you, Atlanta for hosting the wonderful giveaway!!! I dearly love the patterns!! :D


This is the pattern I used. Isn't it simply darling?!?! While sewing the dress I watched episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show on hulu.com. What fun! 

The dress is very summery, floral print, and bright! Did I mention the colors on the fabric are the same as my favorite baseball team? The Detroit Tigers. Oh! I even have a 1950s petticoat that I made, several years ago, to wear underneath the dress. What bliss. I can't wait to do a photo-shoot! 


That evening Gabrielle, Hanne-col, our brother, and I watched episodes of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet. You can download and watch episodes that are in the public domain on Internet Archive


Saturday - I finished sewing my sundress while watching The Donna Reed Show, once again on hulu.com. Donna Reed has some adorable clothes in this show. I've found many a dress that I want to copy on this show. 

After I finished my dress I made earrings for my Etsy shop. {I don't have them up yet.} They are simply darling and unique. I can't wait to share them with y'all! :D

Sunday - Instead of watching old TV shows from the 50s or 60s I decided to listen to old Radio shows. In the morning {we didn't have church yesterday as some of us came down sick this last week} I browsed around Internet Archive for some good things to listen too while I worked on projects all day. I found sooo many good things to listen too. Here are some things I found to listen too: Dragnet, The Six Shooter, Lux Radio Theater, Screen Director's Playhouse, Tales of the Texas Rangers, Cavalcade of America, Sherlock Holmes, and the Academy Award Ceremony of 1943.

Afterwards, I made a darling necklace that matches one of the earrings I made on Saturday. I also made a pair of earrings for my mom. 


After crafting, I found some vintage patterns in my pattern collection I don't want anymore to sell. The reason being, they are several sizes too large and I will never take the time to shrink them to my size. Meaning they are up for sale in my Etsy shop, right now. 

What did you do this weekend? 

3 comments:

  1. What a delightful weekend! I've enjoyed several of the TV and Radio shows you mentioned, such as The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet and the Lux Radio Theater, but several of these are new to me - I'll have to go check them out some time;)

    Can't wait to see your completed 1950s dress! It sounds adorable!

    ~Kellie~
    amaidensmusings.plexpedia.com

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  2. WOW Sounds like you had a busy weekend!! I can't WAIT to see the photoshoot pics of the dress. I love dresses from that era. SO darling..

    Let's just say that our weekend was PACKED with stuff to do.. .if I listed it all, I would make a record of the longest comment ever!! lol!

    In Christ's Service,
    Sarah
    PS I will be shipping your stuff to you soon, promise! We just got busy and I haven't had time to get it all done...

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  3. That sounds busy! and I thought I did a lot this weekend...haha. I love those shows, though! They're some of my favorites, and I love watching them while I work.(:

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