A little female history about a woman who was determined to ride a bike and to wear some fancy pants. Or, How to research a weird vintage garment. So, a few years ago I found these, which are ...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2016/06/female-history-about-riding-bike-and.html
Whether you are in the snow and cold and freezing sleet and rain or just your garden variety winter weather, we just listed a bunch of warm winter pales in light colors. Wool sweaters, mohai...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2016/01/winter-pales-snow-bean-bauer-jantzen.html
Making the list and checking it twice. Not a Xmas gift list, but a list of garden seeds and plants for the garden of 2016. The garden always starts anew every year, and the failures and the suc...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/12/garden-thoughts-from-xmas-to-nye.html
Yup that one. We've been living in it for about a year and half and we feel fine. Tiny house living isn't for everyone, but if you are ready to ditch a lot of possessions and spend a lot less t...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/11/remember-my-vintage-winnebago.html
In the winter of 2015 - 2016 the nasty boy El Nino is coming back to the planet earth for a visit. He's bringing rain and wind, and snow and ice, but where will he drop his weird weather? A...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/11/warm-coat-cold-winter.html
The beret hat is a fun circle of wool that sits so niftily on the top of your head and always looks smashing. Allow me to demonstrate... pic 3 & 4 are from Chictopia, link here ,�...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/10/beret-beret-and-slouchy.html
Boots. Tall boots, short boots, low boots. Boot weather is here in the USA and other parts that are above the middle earth. What's funkomavintage got in the boots department? Grab your lo...
Classical music, classic clothes and manners are often deemed... Boring. No they aren't! They are the old reliables in a very fast fast world. Classics are always the right choice. Everybody lik...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-classics-are-not-boring.html
We're here because we're tired of the rat race, done with the rat race, or kicked out of the rat race. We are discontented, malcontented, disabled and differently abled. We're sad, but we are hap...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/08/earthquake-in-trailer-park-tonight.html
Cordelia California is a wide spot in the road with a railroad that runs through it. And... there is a railroad theme restaurant that sadly, has closed but, happily it now houses lots of antiques...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/08/get-vintage-irl.html
Hardly nothing is more 50s fun in the sun than all things Hawaiian, all things Tiki, and that palm tree, laying on the beach, drinking a tall cool one, Polynesia style. Don the Beachcomber built...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/07/hawaii-tiki-polynesia.html
Up here in the top of the world it is summer. Hot summer. Swimming. Sunshine. Skimpy clothes and squinty eyes. So for Summer 2015, allow us to present Sundresses and Sunglasses, vintage of course...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/07/sundress-and-sunglasses.html
In a good way. The good ol' American red or blue bandana is now an icon of the working class US. Or what's left of it. When we see that familiar red or blue print with white, on a nice big co...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/06/bandana-crazy.html
When last we spoke of the container garden, we had just planted the heirloom tomatoes and other such old-fashioned things. And we discussed the #5 plastic bins that we, the royal we, will plant o...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/06/when-last-we-spoke-of-container-garden.html
..this year than last. This year, honestly, only because these 40s barkcloth drapes were the easiest to pull out of my great big box of old fabrics, did they make the cut for this year's fashio...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-patio-is-much-more-bohemian.html
I guess it's a real movement, this tiny house thing. Of course, poor people have always. lived. in. a. tiny. house. It was all the rich left us! And shall we discuss the Roma people who trav...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/04/something-about-tiny-house-and-rv-living.html
Maud Davis Baker was a pioneer in the world of photography. She was one of the rare American women who had her own photography studio in the 1890s in Helena Montana. At a time when wo...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/04/gibson-girls-and-instant-collections.html
The invention of eyeglasses occurred about 700 years ago in Italy. The medieval glass guilds produced magnifying glass and some smartypants in 1284, two monks living in a monastery, actually,...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/04/icu-vintage-glasses-and-vintage.html
What is new to funkomavintage? The 30s. Glamour, Depression, the 1930s held all the human drama and the clothes are evocative and always have the most interesting details. wow, what a beauty is ...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-30s-for-real-vintage-style.html
Last June I was out garage sailing, and I noticed that a daisy flowered plant was cascading down a hillside with pretty purple flowers and a few ripe seedpods, so.... I think.... hey, seeds!...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/03/lets-plant-some-heirloom-tomato-seeds.html
Looks like white lace, feels like white lace, it's a pattern of white, cream and ivory and soft gray on a background of charcoal, dusky black, deep coffee brown, sandy tan and patina brassy detai...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/03/white-lace-and-promises.html
Running, jogging, speedwalking...whatever you wanna call it, putting on short shorts and a sassy top, for the men and the ladies, is the thing to do to be cool in Physical Fitness. Thinking abou...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/03/run-and-jog-vintage-70s-style.html
Perhaps you are in need of a hat? A vintage Pendleton plaid fedora, a jaunty 60s bronze gold wool fedora, or maybe a studded gray beret, a choice of darling vintage 50s floral hats for the East...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/02/is-your-head-cold-or-naked.html
when they come up? Are they weeds or are they the seeds I planted? It all looks the same... lots of little green things poking up outta the dirt. Always mark your pots or rows with any kind of m...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-do-my-seedlings-look-like.html
Bell bottoms, flares, faded denim, floppy hats... all so 70s. In California, we did it a little bit different. We are in the wild West so we added moccasins, cowboy hats, and lots of leather and ...
https://funkomavintage.blogspot.com/2015/02/that-70s-california-style.html