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  • V91: Edwardian Showgirls

    March 31, 2012

    It’s another busy day for me – I’m off to the Auto Museum again to play a ditzy maid in my 1920s bathingsuit.  I’ll give you a number of cool pictures today,…

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  • V88: A Massive Merry Widow Hat

    March 28, 2012

    I have to run, but I have much to tell you in regards to hats, tomorrow. 🙂  For now, enjoy this image from Bartoscollection.com, and the many more very cool photographs of…

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  • V69: Vintage 1920s/30s Hair Clip Results and Photos

    March 9, 2012

    Yesterday I played around with some vintage hair waving clips I picked up at Sacramento Antiques last month.  Remember these?… 1930s aluminum hair waving clips, and dog hair. I used them on…

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  • V64: My Grandmother’s Birthday

    March 4, 2012

    Happy Sunday! Today my Grandmama is 88 years old.  I’m off to go and have a visit with her, before resuming my regularly scheduled petticoat sew-a-thon.

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  • V37: Steampunk School Picture Day

    February 6, 2012

    Last Saturday Chris and I spent the afternoon snapping photos of the local Steampunk club, “High Desert Steam.”  We had access to the Victorian train cars stationed at Victorian Square, in Sparks,…

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  • New Vintage Toy – Brownie Camera, 1946

    November 1, 2011

    This past weekend in Alameda, I couldn’t resist visiting one of my favorite antiques shops, where I found this Kodak Brownie camera for $25. It’s a Brownie Target Six-20, made in 1946.…

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  • A Day in the 1930s

    September 26, 2011

    This past Saturday, Oscar and Debbie Sessions, plus myself, volunteered to appear in a couple historic Reno homes, included in the Reno Historic Preservation Society’s second annual “Harvest of Homes” tour. Oscar…

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  • Pretty Victorian Creatures – New Photographs, and New Old Photographs

    September 16, 2011

    Holy Fritatas, I’ve been been busy.  The Victorian Steampunk Ball is this Saturday and I kinda went off the deep end and decided to make new costume pieces for it…with two days…

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  • What If I Were…my Grandmother in 1945?

    September 12, 2011

    Lots of photography, but not much costuming lately.  I’m going through a sewing funk, but still need an outlet for history-related geekery, so photography is it. So far in the “What If…

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  • What If I Were, 1930s

    September 8, 2011

    “What If I Were…sitting with Hurrell in 1930?” Yesterday I received Vintage Hairstyling: Retro Styles with Step-by-Step Techniques in the mail, and read it cover-to-cover last night.  That meant hair adventures today, so I…

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  • A Dog-uerreotype, and the Purity of Plates and Film

    September 6, 2011

    Lol. Of course, a Daguerreotype of a dog is completely impractical.  Avi here couldn’t sit still for 10 seconds, let alone 10 minutes or 20 minutes. I’m having so much fun with…

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  • What If I Were, 1850

    September 5, 2011

    “What If I Were in California in 1850?” I’ve been wanting to try  a digital recreation of a Daguerreotype for awhile now.  They’ve always fascinated and creeped me out, and as I…

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  • What If I Were…1950s

    August 26, 2011

    Continuing on with the historical photo project I talked about last time, I’ve played around with some 1950s style photos. The 1950s are an interesting time, because *everything* is stylized: models, makeup,…

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  • The “What If I Were…” Historical Photo Project

    August 19, 2011

    As most of you know, I love photography.  It’s not only a very important aspect of presenting our work on our blogs, but it’s also something we can have a lot of…

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  • How to Take and Make 1920s-style Costume Photos

    June 29, 2011

    Last time, I posted a number of lovely 1920s portraits and asked you to take a look and be inspired, so that in this post I can show you how you can…

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