The Lost Art of Candy Cane Making at Logan’s Candies

November 27, 2018, 2 Comments

In a world of mass produced everything, hand-made goods are becoming unicorns, but in the little town of Ontario, where they still put up various scenes of the life of Jesus in the heart of their downtown during Christmas, Logan’s Candies is like a beacon of glistening sugar. Since 1933 Logan’s Candies has become borderline…

Cowboy Christmas Playlist

November 23, 2018, 4 Comments

With Thanksgiving come and gone, it’s officially the Christmas season, and last year I decided to start a tradition here on the blog of sharing Christmas music from my vast collection, and started with California Christmas numbers. This year I decided to pull some of the western tunes to share with you today! “Santa Got…

Myself, sitting in front of a planter of orange and yellow flowers, and pumpkins, wearing a lime green peasant top, black pencil skirt, and purple scarf, and a purple bag with a skull wearing a cap.

Witchy Woman

November 1, 2018, Leave a Comment on Witchy Woman

For the last three years now, Patrick and I have attended Knott’s Scary Farm each Halloween night, enjoying the variety of thrills and chills. It also gets us out of having to pass out candy! You might have noticed a sincere lack of Halloween festivities written about on the blog this year, but an abundance…

Myself standing in front of a quartette of black cats of wood, wearing a patchwork print dress of orange, yellow, black and white, as a large straw hat

95th Annual Anaheim Halloween Parade

October 30, 2018, 1 Comment

Last weekend Patrick and I finally made it to one of Anaheim’s oldest traditions, the Anaheim Fall Festival and Halloween Parade, which turned 95 this year! Starting in 1924, the parade was started the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce as a way to bring the community together and create a more family oriented Halloween event, and…

Safe Ways to Display Vintage Halloween Decorations

October 16, 2018, 6 Comments

If you frequent antique malls or flea markets this fall then you’ve probably noticed some vintage Halloween decorations for sale, most of which are made up of paper, or rather card stock or thin cardboard. This rather delicate and disposable nature of decorating for Halloween meant a lot of decorations were easily damaged and often tossed…

Below a painting of a desert scene hang two skeletons and a black cat above an orange and black couch. On the couch spirit board pillows sit.

Hooray for Halloween

October 12, 2018, 14 Comments

While this October makes the second Halloween we have celebrated in our first house, it is the first year I have been able to decorate! It’s hard to believe we have been in our home a year now, and due to the chaos of moving last year the Halloween decoration boxes remained in the garage. So…

Text reads "Atomic Redhead Presents...Groovin' Ghosts Spooky Songs for Halloween" to the left illustrated skeletons, a woman with an updo, and a man with a beard, rock out to an old fashioned record player.

10 Offbeat Halloween Songs

October 5, 2018, 5 Comments

Last Christmas I shared a selection of songs from my massive Christmas music collection, but with a focus on warm weather songs, which I called my California Christmas Playlist. Sharing music from my collection is a tradition I plan on doing each Christmas, but this year I decided to add another holiday to the tradition;…

Standing inside Independence Hall, white walls, with mint green trim and warm hardwood floors, wearing a dress made of red and white stripe fabric and blue with white star fabric, done in the 18th century style.

Star-Spangled Gal

July 5, 2018, 9 Comments

I have created a bit of Independence Day tradition for myself, which is coming up with an American Bicentennial inspired outfit and wearing it to Knott’s Berry Farm’s recreation of Independence Hall. I originally had planned a different outfit for the day, a dress I bought from Tiki Kiki Vintage, but when Junk 4 Joy…

Sparkle

January 1, 2018, 7 Comments

Happy New Year! Over the years I have celebrated New Year’s in a variety of ways, but this year, for the first time ever, we hosted a New Year’s party. We decided to combine our housewarming party with New Year’s Eve, and it ended up being utterly amazing. With good food, good company, and Disneyland…

Christmas in Frontierland

December 29, 2017, 1 Comment

Like spending Christmas Eve at Knott’s Berry Farm as become a tradition, spending Christmas Day at Disneyland is also one for us. It’s one of the few places open on Christmas, and while it’s usually very busy, we always enjoy ourselves. I thought it was also a perfect opportunity to wear my vintage Guatemalan Weavers…