We recently bought an amazing pattern book which was produced by Vogue. You do see vintage patterns for sale quite a lot…..but this one is from October-November 1937. The magazine is full of beautiful pictures of stylish ladies to inspire you to…
Here at Your Vintage Life we do love a cake! Not just eating them off beautiful cake stands…we also like to bake them in our vintage kitchen! Today we made berry muffins with our little boy, Herbie. They were a…
Here at Your Vintage Life we love fashion…..and we love it more when we find vintage versions of what is currently on trend. The Nordic look makes us yearn for winter! What with all that warm snuggly sheepskin mixed with…
The soup tureen isnt seen much anymore! We rarely sit at a table to eat, let alone serve dinner up in the best china. In years gone by, families would come together every Sunday, Easter and Christmas Day and enjoy…
Yesterday I received a present after a day at Peterborough Antiques Fair. I closed my eyes and was told the gift was very delicate…slowly and carefully, I opened a Babycham bambi deer. She is lovely and in perfect condition. This is rare…
This season’s biggest trend is the cape. Alluding back to the 1960s mod look, the cape is this winters coat. Whether it is a short faux fur cape, a tweed hip length cape or an elegant maxi cape this is…
Homes and Antiques magazine has mentioned Your Vintage Life on the news pages in the October issue! We are so grateful for the endorsement and are really pleased to see our beautiful stock shown.
We were given a great pair of vintage champagne glasses recently to celebrate the birth of our second child. Kitty Jen was born in July and the champagne definately flowed. They are really unusual and I havent seen any glasses like…
It was my birthday last week and I received the loveliest handbag! It is a wicker box bag by a company called Midas of Miami. They made fabulous bags which epitomise the 1950s style with gorgeous adornments. This one has…
We have a great selection of retro glass medicine bottles for sale. They look great in a cluster of different colours, in front of a window with the light shining through making their colours vibrant and bright. The first one…
I love my vintage telephones so much, I thought I would share some with you. My number one love is for the Ericofon or the Cobra phone. This was designed in the late 1940s in Sweden by Gosta Thames, Ralph Lysell…
Today in the post i received a lovely original Caro Nan handbag and thought i would share it with you. These handpainted wooden bags were made in the South of America in the 1960s and were a must have bag at the time.…
