Happy Christmas Season!

by JoAnn

Here at the vintage home calm and peace reign. Had a great, fun Thanksgiving with both kids and their families plus lots of xtra friends and relatives. To give you an idea of how much food I had to make- I whipped 10 lbs. of potatoes and 5 lbs. of sweet potatoes! It was so [...]

Renovations are completed!!

by JoAnn

For those of you who have been following our painful process of turning the old shop into living space in our old victorian house- Here are some pictures. I already posted some of them on Facebook last week. The vintage spouse accomplished miracles and so did I with my huge assortment of vintage treasures and [...]

Victorian Photos

by JoAnn

I have always been facinated with Victorian photography ever since I played in a grandmothers attic and looked at all those unsmiling portraits as a child.  To me, it is almost like a window into the past.  I love to look at all the clothing detail through the decades.  I find the history and human element [...]

My Dressing Room Closet

by JoAnn

Now that the nest is empty, I am a very lucky woman in that I have a whole room for my closet.  I adore my dressing room. There are 2 actual closets in the room which I have stuffed, although I just switched to all wood hangers. When we bought the house, the ceiling in this [...]

Vintage Autumn

by JoAnn

Went to Roots market today. It was cold and damp but that was a great excuse to wear my black and white rain boots, yellow sweater coat and a huge zebra scarf. Sort of like a chubby demented bumblebee, but a cute one!  Got two compliments on my hair and outfit from strangers. I was [...]

Mobtown Greaseball 2010

by JoAnn

Rick and I left the plaster dust and mess behind on Sat. and took a rare day off. Actually I managed to not be home most of weekend.  The Mobtown Greaseball car show was awesome!!!  It was worth dying in the heat- we’ll be back next year for sure!! I don’t know a lot about [...]

Stop the Car! It’s a Yard SALE!

by JoAnn

Friends Julie and Diane picked me up this morning at 8 and we headed out.  I was SO happy to be out with the girlfriends doing our favorite thing. Julie is recovering from knee surgery, Diane is severly vision imparied and I had taken tramadol and skelaxin for my back.  Between the 3 of us—nothing [...]

Overwhelmed and Underpaid but still Lovin’ Vintage

by JoAnn

Just to keep you updated- YES it is still a gigantic work in process here!!!!!  The new Dining room (part of old shop) is done as far as walls and floor go and now it is piled with furniture and stuff as we work on the parlors(also part of previous shop)  All the old paneling [...]

VJ Garden Pictures

by JoAnn

The work continues.  Now that the new dining room floor is done we have been piling all the din. and living room stuff in there so to work on floor and walls in new liv. room.  Meanwhile I am still schlepping stuff out of old dining room so I can finish new office.   I told [...]

Around House and Garden

by JoAnn

While Vintage JoAnn’s shop inventory is being cleaned out and organized to be listed on the internet store, my new office is being set up and other overwhelming projects are under way-  I thought I’d post a few pictures of my kitchen and sunroom. Our kitchen was pretty worn out and remuddled quite a bit [...]