A little while ago we blogged about our little girl, Kitty’s bedroom. Filled with vintage toys such as her dolls and Fisher Price wind ups, we had a great response from all of you. Featuring original 1960s wallpaper that was…
I think that the vintage look can sometimes be a hard to style and get right. I hear people saying that they find it difficult and don’t want to look old fashioned or like their mum. However, once you get it…
This Saturday at Peacocks, Bedfords auction house is the bi-annual 20th century sale. Packed to the rafters with mid century treasures, this has become a real must do event on the local vintage calendar. It has now been running for…
Happy Halloween my vintage readers! My children are spending the whole day in costumes, their aim is to scare everyone from the postman to the lady in the post office when we post the parcels! I will go off spooking…
Todays guest blog comes from Abi Gray. She tells us how she fell in love with vintage and shares some of her lovely outfits with us. As a goth myself who turned her love of purple crushed velvet into a…
Yesterday I wrote about my weekend away and Mr YVL having to stay at home being daddy. Well in between being daddy he managed to buy some great mid century vintage furniture and prepare it ready to go online today. I have…
I had a great weekend, a relaxing one even though a large part of it was spent writing. I went to my mummy’s house for the whole weekend to get spoilt while Mr YVL was at home being daddy to the…
We havent had a vintage customer corner for a while so today we are having a double whammy! First up is the lovely Jane who bought this 1950s green hat from us at Cambridge Guildhall last weekend. She came to help…
We have had a busy week buying vintage treasures to sell. But, as always we have been buying for ourselves too! This week we have bought 3 exciting vintage things…. Firstly this vintage Tretchikoff print. These were produced for Boots in…
We were recently asked to create and style a 1950s kitchen for the Festival of Vintage at Epsom. We were pleased to say yes, as we LOVE a 1950s kitchen. I dream of having one myself, and any regular readers will…
Last week was a bad week for all of us in the Your Vintage Life house. So to cheer me up my beautiful friend Sarah bought me a book, from Poundland. From Poundland I hear you say! Yep…….. It was…
Last week my latest purchase arrived….another gorgeous pair of vintage inspired shoes from Miss L Fire. Since featuring them here on the blog last year in our Beat The Monday Blues series, I have been seriously hooked. I even wore them…
Recently we bought some amazing vintage clothing all from lady. The clothes range from the 1950s through to the 1980s and all have one thing in common: they are all truly beautiful. Some are vintage designer labels too. We didn’t…
So this weekend it was London Fashion Week’s Vintage show called Retrospective. Its objective was to show the fashions of the past that have influenced the key trends of the future. I will reveal more next week but for now…..the age old…
Recently the magazine, Pretty Nostalgic asked people to create a mood board. It should represent and sum up people’s love of things: collections, vintage bits and bobs or things that inspire them. We had a go….and were chosen to appear on their website.…
Our latest interview in the series called “My Favourite Era” is with Gemma, the lady behind the successful blog, Retro Chick. We have been reading this blog for what seems like forever and have long since admired her mix of…
WIN a pair of tickets to London Fashion Weeks’s vintage event!!! This is for entry into the reception including cocktails, seats for the fashion show plus the after show party!!! You must be available to get to London on Sat…
