Blame Cyndi Lauper

I'm going to be listing some pretty rad 80's pieces soon, ladies! If you've followed my blog for a while, you know how much I adore this time period. It's the time when I was a little girl and envied my aunts for being grown ups and spending their Friday & Saturday evenings getting all dressed up to go out. Ahh, their outfits! Puff sleeves, pastel knits, acid washed jeans, bright "pumps" and all! ;) But I can't say they were the only influence on me! I can't even look at a bright strapless mini dress without thinking of my favorite multi-color haired 1980s singer. Honest to Betsey, I remember watching this woman on TV back then and wanting nothing more than to BE HER when I grew up. Was inspired to share this with all of you when I was looking at outfits I'm planning for my next 80's night out!

It's true, this flash of brilliant color, this adorable skirt-spinning pixie embodied SPUNK to my young little girl mind. With her free-spirited attitude and fearless fashion sense, she seemed like *the* definition of FUN in my book. Here she is, my #1 girlhood idol! Oh, and if you were wondering, YES, the title of my tumblr blog is surely inspired by her. ;) Seriously, how can you not just love a woman who sings a song called, "Girls just wanna have fun"?
XO 

I love you, Cyndi Lauper!!

Found some old favorites on Youtube if you wanna rehash your girlhoods too! Girls just wanna have fun, Time after Time, True Colors, She Bop , What's going on, All through the Night, He's so unusual Yeah, Yeah,, Change of heart , I'll kiss you, Maybe He'll Know.

PC: images via google and GJWHF video stills.

More Color Please

In an effort to brighten up the shop a bit for spring and summer, I've decided to have a 25% off sale on all black items! I was just rearranging my shop today by color, and couldn't believe how many black items I have. Nothing wrong with that, lord knows I cannot pass by a cute little black dress without picking it up! But I have got to put some more COLOR in the shop for this season especially, that's obvious to me now!

Please use coupon code: "MoreColorPlease" to shop the all black sale {HERE}. 

Green and Blue Hues

It's occurred to me I haven't done a shop update in a little while! So sorry about that, shop watchers. Feel like I'm always trying to make my blog more personal, since I tend to look for that in other blogs as well. In the process, I tend to forget what I'm on the internets for in the first place, oops! ;)

I love how many hearts those pickle green shorts are getting. The color, as well as the high waist, really sealed the deal for me when I found them, AND they're deadstock 1960's. SCORE!

{Shop Lola Vintage}

Right in my own backyard!

Today was glorious! The weather was - dare I say it before it suddenly starts hailing or something of the sort here in the unpredictable mitten? PERFECT. I feel lucky to live in a big house with a backyard and some woods surrounding one side. I actually live in an apartment inside of the house, but there is only one other apartment besides mine, and the tenants there are awesome people and thankfully, we get along superbly! (more about that later). ;)

We have 2 garden spaces out back, one for vegetables and herbs, and one for flowers. Aren't the bleeding hearts so lovely?  I also tried to take a pic of the robin's nest I spoke of earlier on twitter.You can't see the mama robin inside, but she's there! I'd need a latter in order to get her close up.

My favorite pics of all are the ones of Lukas (my son) making, as he phrased it, "The Toad Hotel" for the toad he found earlier in the day. I cannot believe how long he spent on this little project. Made me so happy to see :)

Haven't done an outfit post in a while, so I also threw in a picture of what I was wearing for the day. (I will admit that when I got home from running errands, my slippers took the place of those gorgeous summer floral sandals).

Olive green shorts outfit - vintage 80's Forenza - comfiest light rayon!
Brown leather belt - thrifted
Floral & red wedge sandals - purchased from the mall years ago


Love being outside in the spring! The air smells WONDERFUL right now.


Freshly planted basil




The TOAD HOTEL. :)

See him?

Home Is Where the Mom Is

Happy Mother's Day to my beautiful Mama!
No one in my life is or has been ever been as supportive to me as my mom, Amalia. I am grateful for the person she is and how she helps me see things in a more positive light when I so often need to. I couldn't ask for a better role model, and just wanted to dedicate this post and song to her. So happy to be spending today with her! Through the years I've realized how everyone in my family gravitates toward her, and when she's not around, it's never the same. Home is where the Mom is. :) What a special woman!


Love you, Mom!

♫ And I NEVER could have come this far without you
For everything you've done, you know I'm bound, I'm bound to
thank you for it....♫



Happy Mother's day to all of my mommy friends online as well. <3 And I hope all of you get to spend time with your own special mamas today!

Happy Friday!

I'm working hard this weekend, and won't be back to the internets regularly probably until Monday. But here's hoping you all have a fantastic weekend! Had to post this pic of Jack. Tried to do an outfit post while holding him the other day and it was utterly impossible, the squiggly thing kept finding his way out of my arms! This face completely made me laugh though. :) I can't tell you how much I love the affections of this fuzzball, he reminds me of Hobbes (yes, as in Calvin & Hobbes) but he actually belongs to my brother. Isn't he just CUTE? We call him "Main Coon" because he's so big and furry.

T. G. I. F!

XO

The Color List . . . For Reference!

Oh my goodness, I can't count the number of times I have found myself working on a listing and thinking, "there has got to be a better color name for this than just 'red'" or some other color of my item I'm posting to Etsy. I think putting color names in tags is pretty important as a seller, because 1. the more specific you are, the more likely that a person will be able to find your item and 2. many treasury makers (including myself) often times start their treasury based on a very specific color. (i.e. garnet instead of dark red) Does that makes sense?

I wanted to post this specifically for other sellers who, like me, sometimes spend way too long thinking of the perfect color name for an item! Well, here's what I've been using to sometimes jog my memory. I can take no credit for this so don't thank me, THANK WIKIPEDIA!! hahah!

ADDITIONALLY, years ago when I used to sell on ebay, this list was SO incredibly helpful when writing descriptions and title names. Believe me, both of these reference lists beat keeping a 64 crayola crayon pack at your desk pulling out each - one by one to find the right color name,  ;)

Hope some of you can get some use out of this!


Fine art photo by ElsieAdams on Etsy.

click on the links below to see possible names for the following shades.

Shades of Red

Shades of Orange

Shades of Yellow

Shades of Chartreuse

Shades of Green

Shades of Cyan

Shades of Blue

Shades of Violet (Purple)

Shades of Pink

Shades of Brown

Shades of Gray

Shades of White