For the last weeks or so I have been writing the 1920s/30s chapter of my upcoming book: Style your Modern Vintage Home. I have been writing about bedrooms of the time and the rise of photography. Thinking about putting genuine photos…
We have had a great 2012 but due to us honeymooning over Christmas, we are a little late with our blog round up of the year. Thanks for everyone’s support last year, to our customers who have made it our best year yet…
Time for another Customer Corner: wonderful customers wearing our vintage clothes which they have bought from us here at Your Vintage Life. Last weekend was the Clothes Show Live at Birmingham’s NEC. It was packed full of shopping hungry ladies…
I have never been so excited to share one of my childrens Christmas presents on the blog. Today a handmade doll arrived through the post for Kitty and my oh my, it’s beautiful! It is made by a local company…
They say that home is where the heart is, so why not fill it with the items that reflect yours? Doing things up in the style of a certain decade can bring such a lot of joy to the process…
Todays guest blog comes from Tilly from Lavender Hill Antiques. She shares with us her love for vintage compacts and shows us some of her favourites. But beware the collectors out there….if you havent fallen in love with these little…
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…
