Category: Nostalgia
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“Let it be Lace!”
I’ve been blessed with a strong memory and for whatever reason, synesthesia. That is the phenomenon of seeing numbers, letters, and for some people keys of music, as inherently colored. Sometimes, in the middle of the night I think of things I wish to write about. Ray Bradbury advises in his book “Zen in the…
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Nostalgic Christmas Memories: Family Traditions to Cherish
I get sentimental when it comes to Christmas. Normally, the decorating begins the day after Thanksgiving. I put on the holiday music and bring out all of the forgotten ornaments, pulling together a “look” or theme. Nature themed has been my go to style lately. Some other themes have been “The Nutcracker,” “Victorian” and “storybook…
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Tiny Beautiful Things…
Once a friend came into the bedroom of my first apartment, picked up a tiny sample size bottle of Jean Desprez Bal à Versailles, from my dresser and said matter-of-factly, “Laura, you’re the Queen of tiny beautiful things.” Whatever became of the tiny bottle, I can’t even remember. It was probably lost somewhere in the…
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A Bit of Family Heritage
Originally Published October 3, 2022 at Natural Posh Vintage (my fashion blog (under the topic: Nostalgia) My grandmother, Mimi was a bibliophile, a writer, a teacher and linguist. She was also a writer, an artist (somewhat of a prodigy). When I think of Mimi, I think of her beautiful Irish, Scottish red hair, and her…
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Reworked, Reloved, Redeemed
February 3, 2023|Sewing and Whatnot! Originally published at Naturalposhvintage.com My grandma was masterful at remaking, reworking and cleverly redeeming clothes. Even in the Great Depression she had the knowledge to reuse, fabrics to make beautiful coats that looked like new for her daughters, Louvelle and Gay Lynn. Louvelle had red-auburn hair and deep green eyes.…
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The Clothes that Grandma Made
(A subject near and dear to my heart!) Originally Published June 18, 2024 for Natural Posh Vintage. The month of June always finds me reminiscing about my Grandma. If she were here with us, this June would mark one hundred twelve years. For some time, I have been wanting to do another feature on some…
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Y2K…Almost!
It was about summer of 2000 when I realized I was expecting my first child. Oh, the excitement! I tried to picture if it was a boy or girl, and imagine the color of hair and eyes.
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Things remembered…
The thing about nostalgia is that sometimes years after we have let go of an item that we truly enjoyed, a strange thing happens. Kind of like an itch you can’t seem to scratch, you may start thinking about the item again, and remember it with rosy retrospection, to the point that in your mind, you…
Copse and Spinney 