Myself, wearing a long sleeve, mini skirt length dress with a purple, yellow, and blue psychedelic pattern on it. A white brooch shaped like the moon sits on my left shoulder, a white brooch shaped like the sun on the other shoulder, white ankle high boots, and a purple scarf in my hair, standing in front of a cream and blue checkered wall.

“There is Just One Moon and One Golden Sun”

April 29, 2022, 1 Comment

Like so many years before, spring Dapper Day fell on my birthday weekend, but it meant I got to see a lot of my friends, some of whom even through me surprise party in their hotel room! If you’ve been reading the blog for awhile, then you’re familiar with Dapper Day, but if you’re new,…

Myself, wearing a purple psychedelic print long sleeve dress with a gold scarf at the neck, and a purple scarf in my hair, standing in front of the lake that sits in the middle of Hollywood Forever.

Touring the Hauntingly Beautiful Hollywood Forever Cemetery

April 18, 2022, 5 Comments

Hollywood. The home to the stars – both living and dead. While Hollywood and the surrounding areas have multiple cemeteries where Hollywood’s elite have been laid to rest, none is perhaps more notable than Hollywood Forever. Smack in the middle of Tinsel Town, and butting right up against Paramount Studios, this is the final resting…

Myself standing in front of an adobe colored building and mosaic tile bench, wearing a green peasant top, with a D shaped brooch, and a poppy flower brooch, and a skirt featuring images of the Golden Gate Bridge, Catalina, and Mission Santa Barbara, a blue scarf is tied in my hair, and yellow shoes.

California Birthday Girl

April 25, 2019, 4 Comments

Overall April has been quite hectic and extremely busy, and to add to it, my birthday fell on Easter this year. So there wasn’t really the opportunity to celebrate proper, however, a few of my fellow heathens and orphans and I decided to get gussied up and head to Disneyland. I call us “heathens and…

Myself standing on the porch of a small western style home, wearing a short, long sleeved purple dress with a large boysenberry embroidered on the front, a boysenberry pie hat, and a boysenberry pie purse.

Boysenberry Babe

April 23, 2019, 4 Comments

As Knott’s Berry Farm’s Boysenberry Festival ran a whole extra week this year, and offered way more unique food offerings, it should come as no surprise we made another visit to Knott’s! It was surprisingly cool this last weekend, which was perfect for a dress I had been hoarding specifically for Boysenberry Festival, as well…

Kiley and I standing in front of Old Betsy, a borax train that now carries beautiful flowers, each of us wearing the same thing, a purple sweater over a white dress with painted boysenberries.

Celebrating National Boysenberry Day

April 9, 2019, 8 Comments

Okay, I know I literally just wrote about Knott’s Berry Farm’s amazing Boysenberry Festival, but you’ll have to endure another post about it! Because first, it’s hard to eat all of the unique food offerings and enjoy all of the fun live entertainment all in one day! Plus, last Wednesday was National Boysenberry Day! Shortly…

Myself, standing next to a floral arrangement in Ghost Town, wearing a large straw hat and white dress with a yellow and purple floral and straw hat print.

Boysenberry Festival Returns!

April 4, 2019, 2 Comments

Last week kicked off Knott’s Berry Farm‘s Boysenberry Festival! And Sunday Patrick and I were there to enjoy the sights, sounds, and tastes! This year, the festival lasts four weeks, up from three last year, giving locals and tourists alike more time to visit and eat to their heart’s content! In case you didn’t know,…

Me, standing in front of Pasadena City Hall, a tall, domed, Mediterranean style building, wearing a long pale green dress with small white flowers.

Stumbling Upon Pasadena’s Beautiful City Hall

March 26, 2019, 2 Comments

Last Sunday, Patrick and myself met up with some friends for tea at a tea room in Pasadena. Wanting to get out and wear my vintage Gunne Sax dresses more, I opted for one, and in walking from the parking structure to the tea room we stumbled upon the gorgeousness that is Pasadena’s City Hall,…

Mission San Gabriel

April 30, 2018, 2 Comments

UPDATE: It is important to remember that while California Missions have been hailed as places of peace, they also have deep and complicated histories, including slavery, violence, and forced religious conversion. I recommend reading this article that further describes the problematic history of Mission San Gabriel. I love me a twofer – and that is…

Spring Dapper Day

April 25, 2018, 4 Comments

Last Spring Dapper Day I wore a floral square dancing dress, which I absolutely adored. I had planned to do the same this year, but then I got to thinking about my many neglected Gunne Sax dresses, which I made a New Year’s resolution to wear more of this year. For some reason this dress…

Standing in a gazebo with white roses around.

Birthday in Pink

April 24, 2018, 3 Comments

I’m still trying to decompress from the weekend. It was pretty crazy. Not only was it my birthday, but it was also Dapper Day weekend! Yes, what started as a single day event has evolved into two day event, because of the unique shopping opportunity that is the Dapper Day Expo. This means people often…

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spring fashion

“There is Just One Moon and One Golden Sun”

Touring the Hauntingly Beautiful Hollywood Forever Cemetery

California Birthday Girl

Boysenberry Babe

Celebrating National Boysenberry Day

Boysenberry Festival Returns!

Stumbling Upon Pasadena’s Beautiful City Hall

Mission San Gabriel

Spring Dapper Day

Birthday in Pink