A Trip thru the Trees to buy stuff and do the Winnie thing

a Winnie trip to the salty waters edge....a drive thru "Ron Paul" country....if you've been one place in Western Washington, you've seen it all because it all looks exactly alike. Only the mountains get farther away...or closer. It's either raining or it's raining real hard. Ron Paul people are scary because if I were to break down, or slip and fall in the Safeway, they would just step over me to get their cheap Medicare drugs....

 Hey! I did a couple of things to the Winnie ...aka,Winnebago, aka, my only home I'll ever own. We hooked up the water since the freezing weather is over now....Oh That was 30 wet and terrifying minutes of my life...but Mark figured out the problem...and we had water, hot water, a flushing toilet ....cold martinis and life was Beauty!!


Most people paint their faux bois 70s interiors white....I think that looks really cool and oh, so pretty, but for me....the faux bois is so very comforting. When decorating, I'm trying to make Ralph Lauren cry.....
 and referencing a California cabin in the woods on the Marin coast, and a bit of classic 70s stuff....the kind of things I had when my kids were little....

I forgot to pack the extra lighting...so the pics are too dark. ..there will be more pics, oh yes!

I adore the spare simple modern fabrics from the 60s and 70s...All things Vera Neuman...ferns and green plants, and baskets.

I added big fat zig zag trim to the edges of the shades, but I do confess, I'm having big trouble choosing the fabric for the curtains in the kitchen/dinette.
Mark suggested covering the ugly dinette seats with vintage camp blankets, and he is a genius.
I'll probably default to mattress ticking stripes to cover the front seats. (gahd, are they ugly!)

 I hung up the barkcloth curtains along the back window, and green mattress stripe cotton on the back side windows. I have very wooly and warm vintage blankets, (the top one with stripes is a 30s Orr wool blanket, thick and warm)....... and some thrifted Ralph Lauren floral pillow cases....I'm gonna make some striped ones too, and make about 4 or 5 smaller throw pillows in different barkcloth fabrics, in the same brown and green tones. I really adore the barkcloth on the back window.....it feels very Arizona desert.

 a super-favorite Vera Baked Fish (!) tea towel, a dried fern....old rusty thermometer...vintage Yosemite pennant

There are several hipster cliches I'm avoiding like...the plague. No chevron prints, and no letterpress anything, no fucking banners, and chalkboard paint. I will have an antler or 2, birch bark and big letters (but I was doing the cabin in the junk yard thing long before those kids were even born!)

So it's happening...

waterfront view for 22 hours....

 Vegetarian Corn Dogs baking in the oven!! yes it works like a dream, and the frig works perfect....

I tell you....living in the Winnie....makes me so happy.
I have a semi-long list of things to get it all set up like a ready-to-go home. I'm trying really hard to spend nothing or close to nothing on the things I need, since, good grief, I have a 45 year collection of homemaking stuff....

Here's a little shade with big zig zag trim....

I am fascinated with oversize replicas of things that are usually very small, and I am fascinated with tiny replicas of things that are usually very large....

Garnet, Amethyst and tea for you...

not only do I score some sweet vintage stuff...I also buy retro styled new...fabulous quality wonderful things, or something from quirky label....and I love linen, soft leather, and classics.
 I  sell vintage on etsy, I'm gonna load up my own website (coming real soooon)
....so you can buy funkoma goodness without ever leaving your home, or office or car......or planet!


Margaret O'Leary boutiques offer the most adorable sweaters in luxurious yarns...Here's a mohair blend garnet turtleneck pullover from M. O'Leary in a size s/m.....



next to it is a sweet pair of amethyst velvet pants from J Jill... size 12....
and on the other side is a halter-tie black cotton knit jumpsuit, s/m......really!

Here's a pale amethyst mohair jacket, about a modern 10 -12 size....with a never-been-worn ivory leather studded cut-out belt from the 70s....
next to that is a pair of ivory leather boots in a 6 - 6.5 size.
The 70s geo print lavender silk dress is a s/m...


Vintage china tea set for the little girls and little boys....
serve your crumpets on a Washington state tourist tray!




The middle of winter is the time to get cozy, posey!
Here's a soft wool blanket with chunky stripes of red and black on cream. It has a cotton flannel sheet sewn to the bottom hem to keep it tucked in......I love Grandma and Grandpa practical homemade solutions...

The red telephone, the red and camel stripe thermos with a metal box...
and an old milk can with real bullet holes!



A corner of wardrobe goodness....
60s leopard coat...faux fur....
Red plaid 60s wool jacket shown with a red and black leather skirt
...a 70s red print silk dress from Nordy's...and that granny chic ensemble from my last post....
a linen jumper, a red check jumper and some silver tossed in for winter sparkle to chase the Dullsvilles away....a black 50s silk faille dress too with some Miss Brooks secretary prim and proper-thing going on with that.......

and a pair of vintage roller skates and vintage bicycles ......to remind you to Keep On Rollin'...

His Cabin in Transylvania

just a few sneak peaks at......Drac's cabin where he vacations when the Holidays are over.......even shiny plastic vampires need a rest from time to time......