A family rides a red streetcar with a deer at the helm, across the top it reads "Merry Christmas" and across the middle of the car it reads "From the FIVE of Us!"

Vintage Christmas Cards Vol. 5

December 11, 2025, 2 Comments

In my Christmas decor post from this year, I noted that I had added more to my vintage Christmas cards collection. And as has been tradition (with a few exceptions) I’m bringing you another installment in sharing a sampling from my vintage Christmas card collection, including newly added ones! A special shout out to NeatoKeen…

View of a shelf in our dining room, filled with blow mold Jack o'lanterns.

Pumpkins, Ghosts, Witches and More! Our Home at Halloween Time

October 2, 2025, 5 Comments

With October’s arrival, it’s a perfect time to showcase how we’ve decorated for Halloween this year. Back in the spring, we visited Tennessee, where we bought a lot of prints from Hatch Show Print, and realized we needed to make way for more art. Previously, a wall in our hallway was home to three photos…

Myself, in a short black velvet dress, red belt, standing in front of a large "ELVIS" sign lit up with red lightbulbs.

Travel Back in Time to Elvis’ 1969 Las Vegas Show

August 13, 2025, Leave a Comment on Travel Back in Time to Elvis’ 1969 Las Vegas Show

Patrick and I recently returned from a week long road trip where we drove to Idaho to visit my mom for a few days. Our first stop was in Las Vegas, which coincided with a recreation of Elvis Presley’s first Las Vegas show at what was then known as The International Hotel, which is the…

TWA Hotel: A Time Capsule of Air Travel on the Eve of the Jet Age

July 8, 2025, Leave a Comment on TWA Hotel: A Time Capsule of Air Travel on the Eve of the Jet Age

John F. Kennedy International Airport bustles with millions of travelers coming and going, but amid the chaos is the opportunity to travel back in time, back to the swinging 1960s; the TWA Hotel, the last stop on our New York trip. In the middle of the 1950s JFK, then known as Idlewild, sought to become…

Myself standing outside the small white cottage that once belonged to Edgar Allan Poe.

From Thomas Paine to Grand Central: Out and About in NYC

July 3, 2025, Leave a Comment on From Thomas Paine to Grand Central: Out and About in NYC

During our visit to New York City we spent a lot of time walking. We also made several short stops to places that just didn’t make the cut as full blog posts. So here is a round-up of some of the places we stopped at during our visit. Grand Central Terminal. 89 E. 42nd St.…

Exterior of a blue, white, and orange subway car from the 1960s.

New York’s Transit History Unfolds in a Literal Underground Museum

July 1, 2025, 2 Comments

New York City is known as a place that loves its public transportation, especially its subway system, the history of which is on display at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. Located in a decommissioned subway station from 1936, the museum showcases the creation of the subway tunnels, features numerous vintage subway cars that…

Abstract posters from the pro-atomic General Dynamics campaign by Erik Nitsche.

The Bold and Graphic Poster House

June 18, 2025, 1 Comment

New York City is home to many, many museums, and Patrick and I visited a handful, including Poster House. Founded in 2015, Poster House didn’t open its doors until 2019, and today is home to an incredible collection of printed posters both large and small. During our visit they had three really unique exhibits, along…

A massive broken neon sign features a roller skate with wings and large red letters reading "SKATELAND"

Gems of Tennessee

May 29, 2025, 1 Comment

From Pigeon Forge to Memphis to Nashville, I fell in love with Tennessee and all it had to offer. Like with many road trips, we made several stops that just didn’t make the cut as a blog post on their own, but they were just too good not to share, so please enjoy this post…

Exploring the Country Music Hall of Fame

May 27, 2025, Leave a Comment on Exploring the Country Music Hall of Fame

There would be no better place than Nashville for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Originally opening April 1, 1967 along Music Row, it moved to downtown Nashville in 2001, and has only expanded from there. Today the history of country music unfolds across 350,000 square feet and three floors. The museum showcases…

Exterior view of the Ryman, a multi story brick building with white details and a peaked roof.

Behind the Curtain of the Ryman, the Mother Church of Country Music

May 19, 2025, 3 Comments

Running through Nashville is the Cumberland River, and in the 1880s it meant Nashville was a rough and tumble river town with saloons, gambling, and of course riverboats. Thomas Ryman was a man of the river, owning a successful riverboat company, and not exactly a man of God, but all that changed on May 10,…