Elizabeth's Flickr Finds: St. Patrick's Day

Erin go bragh! Today's Flickr Finds are Ireland themed in honor of St. Patrick's Day!


1. Vintage St. Patrick's Day Postcard--Little Irish Gang Member, 2. Vintage St. Patrick's Day Postcard--Baby Irish, 3. Vintage St. Patrick's Day Postcard--Irish Dancers, 4. Vintage Advertisement - "Irish Eyes Are Smiling", 5. Chauncey Olcott, Tis An Irish Girl I Love And She's Just Like You, 1920, 6. 1950's DENNISON Irish Lass Die-Cut Seal, 7. Vintage St.Patrick's Day Card, 8. Vintage St. Patrick's Day Postcard--Open The Window, 9. Vintage St Patrick's Day Art - 6

Trixie

I want this dress so much, it's painful, but it is out of my price range. :( It's absolutely resplendent in its 1920s-1930s charms though! Can't you just picture it with a matching cloche and a big, funky brooch?

Trixie by reVamp Vintage ~ $175.00

Elizabeth's Flickr Finds: Winter Sports

In honor of the Winter Olympics, today's Flickr Finds are winter sport themed! (Aren't the Victorian skaters adorable?)


1. 191x - Lausanne - Rue du Débarcadère - Enea Bossi Sr, 2. 1939 January - Harry A. Crovo Jr. (second from the left), and his hockey buddies at Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine, 3. Curling is a serious sport, 4. 1926 01 xx - xxxxx - Enea Jr, Enea, Charles, 5. 1914c - Central Park; Children on sleds (Library of Congress), 6. Skiing - late 1930s, 7. Ladies' toboggan race, 8. Grandpa, 9. woman on skis

Elizabeth's Flickr Finds: Snowmaggedon!

It seems the entire country is covered in snow! I myself just moved from a state that only got about half an inch all winter, and into a state with about a foot of snow on the ground, so I'm suffering too. People are even starting to nickname these nonstop blizzards "snowmaggedon" or the "snowpocalypse." So it only seems appropriate that today's Flickr Finds are winter themed!


1. 1920's, Veere, Dijkhuis, snowy fun, 2. Girl with Bunny Rabbit, 3. Kids with snow, ? 1920s, 4. 192x xx xx - xxxxx - Enea Jr, Charles, 5. 1925 (approx) - Poland - Sara Ginsburg - Snow in Byalistok, 6. Untitled, 7. Paul and Betty Carr, 1925, 8. Camp Seeley - Sledding, 9. Untitled

Elizabeth's Flickr Finds: St. Andrew's Day

Today's Flickr Finds are Scottish themed! This is because today is St. Andrew's Day - the patron saint of Scotland. I have quite a lot of Scottish ancestry myself, so it seems doubly proper! :) Of all the clans we belong, I generally think of myself as a Ruthven, because my ancestors were the clan leaders. I even have some Ruthven tartan hanging in my bedroom!



1. UNKNOWN PHOTO FROM AN AUCTION IN PERTH SCOTLAND 1910-1920s?, 2. Boy in a kilt with pointer and setter, 3. A Smoke in the Grass, 4. Chicago Stockyard Kilty Band scrapbook 3, 5. Hérouard - LVP - 1917 May - Le Culte Du Kilt, 6. Old photos, from the 1920s or early 1930s?, 7. Scottish_Family_Photo, 8. Canadian WWI Soldiers Portrait at Camp, 9. jim as a child

Elizabeth's Flickr Finds: Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, it's not Thanksgiving yet, but it will be on Thursday, so this week's Flickr Finds theme is Thanksgiving!

1. AAKS001094, 2. Thanksgiving-Vintage, 3. Best Wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving, 4. Vintage Thanksgiving Die-Cut Card, 5. Good Wishes, 6. Wishing You A Happy Thanksgiving, 7. May Your Thanksgiving Pies Always Turn Out Well, 8. Happy Thanksgiving, 9. Vintage Thanksgiving postcard, 1910

So Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers! Hopefully you will all be able to spend the day with friends and family and a great big pumpkin pie! ;)

Elizabeth's Flickr Finds: It's Only A Paper Moon

"It's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me" --- from "It's Only A Paper Moon", one of my most favorite songs (as for the singer - Cliff Edwards or bust. Follow the link to hear his version!)

Today's Flickr Finds are themed to celebrate the first day of the moon's new cycle! In keeping with the theme, I've picked some some of those infamous photos of tourists sitting in the paper moons. Aren't they adorable?



1. Sitting on the moon, 2. Paper Moon...Invaded by Germans!, 3. Moonray, 4. papermoon 124, 5. Studio Photo, Hand-Tinted Young Girl With Paper Moon Backdrop, 6. papermoon 117, 7. Paper Moon #4, 8. Oh What a Lonely Boy, 9. paper moon

(This is really weird, but the woman in the bottom right photo looks EXACTLY like my mother. It's actually quite terrifying.)

Elizabeth's Flickr Finds: Soldiers and Their Sweethearts

When she invited me to be a part of Spiffy, Kate asked me if I would kindly do a weekly feature of vintage photos I've found on Flickr, because any and all vintage Flickr photos are not safe from me. I will hunt them down like a lion on a baby gazelle - I leap, I click "Add As Favorite" and then brag about my fabulous find to whoever will listen. I've chosen to make my Flickr Find day Monday, because I do my best hunting on the weekend.

This first Flickr Find is themed "Soldiers and Their Sweethearts", because the 11th is Veterans Day, and I thought it would be nice to honor with with some antique photos I've found!

1. Chéri Hérouard - La Vie Parisienne - Le Tour Du Heros, 2. Two Ladies Visit The Cavalry [1], 3. No. 10 - home leave?, 4. Two Ladies Visit The Cavalry [2], 5. No. 4 - The lovers, 6. Sailor of HMAS "Australia" fondles woman's string of pearls, c. 1929 / by Sam Hood, 7. WWI U.S. Sailor and Wife during 1918 Flu Pandemic, 8. Spring 1917, 9. McCalls, December 1917

My Spiffy Premiere

Hello all! My name is Elizabeth, and I'm one of the new co-editors of this corking blog! It's quite an honor for Kate and Casey to invite me to be a part of this, so hopefully my posts will be just as entertaining and stylish as theirs!

A few things you should know about me:

1. I love silent films. Anything by or with Cliff Edwards, Charley Chase, King Vidor, Harry Langdon, Karl Dane, Roscoe Arbuckle, Erich Von Stroheim, Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton suits me right down to the ground. As far as I'm concerned the talkie ruined the movie.

2. I'm a knitter. A knitter of the most rabid sort. I crochet, embroider, and sew too, but I don't get so raucous about them. I'm probably going to post links to lots of knitting patterns, so if any of you happen to be knitters - hurrah for you!

3. I love music from 1925-1935. Particularly Cliff Edwards, Al Bowlly, Django Reinhardt, Annette Hanshaw, and Gene Austin.

4. I dress in a rather boring manner. I hate to admit it, but I do. For me Keds, feedsack dresses from 1920s patterns, and berets are the height of style. Cardigans are the greatest thing ever in my book.

5. I drink tons of tea. My goal is to put Samuel Johnson to shame.

6. I wish I was a character in a P. G. Wodehouse book so I could have a bizarre name and use the bully slang.

7. I collect vintage books and 1920s sheet music. Especially sheet music with ukulele accompaniments and wildly cheerful covers.

Well, I think that's all you need to know about me! If this little autobiography has interested you any, you can visit my main blog, "Oh By Jingo! Oh By Gee!" or my secondary blog "The Flapper's Personal Kinetoscope Parlor". And I thus end my post with some fun sheet music from my collection!