A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to style a 1940s vintage fashion inspired editorial with the talented Louiza Vick and the ridiculously pretty Sterling Clairmont. We shot in a lovely park in Malibu and I was ever so pleased that we got horses in the shoot! I didn't want the shoot to look overly costumed, so I tried to pick outfits that still appeared modern.

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Shop the Shoot: Vintage 1940s red polka dot dress here. Vintage 1950s white cotton ruffled blouse here. Vintage 1940s white cotton eyelet dress here. Vintage 1940s/1950s pink floral hat band here. Vintage 1950s pale peach slip dress (worn under blue and white dress) here.

Lately I've been musing around with the idea of someday having an actual vintage studio. Not just a place with plain walls and a plain door where I tinker with photographing the vintage wares in the shop... but an actual cool space that looks a bit industrial, a bit bare, but definitely pretty...


I've been Pinning ideas the past couple days, just trying to see where these ideas are going. Sometimes it just takes a little spark to ignite a fire... and baby, I want a bonfire on the beach, the whole shabang!

Do you ever feel like you're on the brink of something kind of amazing, kind of fantastic...and you're a little afraid that if you just take one more step, it could all be too much? Maybe this is just the medicine I just took talking, but I truly feel something amazing is just around the corner, I feel it with every fiber of my being...but I can't quite place a finger on what it is yet.

Once I know I'll let you gals (and guys if the gentlemen population is reading this) know.

I adore weddings, in fact sometimes I style weddings and I'm a guest contributor at The Lane, a wedding inspiration website.


I was browsing through one of my favorite wedding websites, Green Wedding Shoes and happened upon the most lovely Bohemian Black Tie wedding and knew immediately I had to share these images with all of you. The vases and flowers were actually already featured in the Vintage Inspired Interiors: My Bohemian Hovel post a few days back, so happy to see where the original source of this image is from.



I love that their favors were vintage scarves and vintage bow ties gifted in these lovely little brown boxes. So charming and the attention to detail is perfect. Be sure to check the link below for even more amazing photos from this vintage inspired bohemian wedding!

Image Credits: Green Wedding Shoes - A Bohemian Black Tie Wedding

Yesterday afternoon I decided to bake red velvet cupcakes. The stuff from the little red box mind you, but I didn't want to just make plain red velvet cupcakes... oh no siree, I am a girl who loves everything to look just so and by just so I meant cute in every way possible (without injecting Hello Kitty glitter hearts crap all over it). The icing is just cream cheese whipped frosting. So, nothing really "from scratch."

I had some raspberries and almond slivers and I had some extra craft tape and toothpicks... and well, here are the cutest cupcakes I've ever baked thus far!


Hopefully I'll have time today to bring some over to the lovely abode of Rococo Vintage. I'll save some though seeing as I have a dozen left.

Here are some adorable vintage sewing patterns from the 1940s and the 1950s for blouses! I especially love the vintage teen pattern for the 50s blouse with the peter pan collar, so sweet!



Image credits (L-R T-B): 1.] The Fancy Lamb, 2.] Coconut Pie, 3.] Glass of Fashion, 4.] + 5.] Cemetarian Hard Copy, 6.] Miss Betty's Attic, 7.] lost link, I'm sorry! 8.] Vivian Belle 1955

I simply adore these vintage photographs from the 1900s to the 1920s of lovely women in pretty floaty things with shimmery fairy wings and dresses that ripple in the soft breeze. And I most especially love the photos of the women dancing in the forests, how fun, how fun would it have been!



Image credits: All fairy images are from the ever so lovely Forest Graves blog.

The vintage inspired clothes from The Edge of Love I go all a flutter for. Keira Knightley looks absolutely stunning in every single frame, she is so gorgeous in this movie, even towards the end when she's less glamorous. I love that this movie really portrays everyday fashion in the 1940s (well for Welsh country/beach side that is). J'adore! (click on thumbnails for larger image)


















Screencap credits: Screenmusings.org (go here for HUNDREDS more screencaps from The Edge of Love)