By RetroRuth I can’t believe that I haven’t posted these pictures yet. I am sort of ashamed because these pictures are actually from 2011. I was transferring some folders of pictures over to our external hard drive when I stumbled on these pictures in a folder named “Painting The Trim…
By RetroRuth We have a new addition in our house. A piano! We recently received this piano from some friends who upgraded their music situation to a baby grand. I had really never considered having a piano in the house, mostly because I have no musical talent beyond my ability…
By RetroRuth Time to show you some of the decorations around our house! First off, some gratuitous tree shots. This is my absolute favorite Christmas ornament, the glass sputnik. Love it! Our tree in all its glory. These are all vintage ornaments except for the green one in the center…
By RetroRuth We have pretty much been hitting the mid-century jackpot around here lately, which is great after about six solid months of not finding anything we were really interested in buying! For a while, Tom and I were squabbling over everything out there. If he liked something, I…
By RetroRuth Whoa. Put your hand up if you gardened this weekend! Tom and I were busy in our enormous, enormous yard. Seriously, it’s huge. This is only a small part of it. Thankfully, the bed in the far, far back on the left belongs to our neighbors. Otherwise, I…
By RetroRuth So, I’ve been trying to take it easy on the thrifting lately because I really, really don’t want Tom to leave me. But I kind of failed a little these last two weeks. And by failed, I mean I got some really fun stuff. But not too much…
By RetroRuth I hope everyone had a nice, productive weekend. I know we did. Besides being elbow-deep in spring cleaning, we managed to find a few minutes to put up some new retro bullet lights over the planters in our fireplace. This is part of our almost continuous rehab of…
By RetroRuth I just realized that I really haven’t posted a lot of pictures of my house on here lately! I am always trying to give you guys vintage inspiration from other sources, but I think I’ve been neglecting showing you my own space. So, here we go! Recently I…
By RetroRuth Quiet down, please. Quiet. I have an announcement to make. Ahem. My long quest for a vintage Starlight Replogle Globe is now OVER! I happened upon this pretty baby in the Salvation Army Thrift Store in Mount Pleasant. It was just sitting in the front cabinet, being lonely,…
By RetroRuth Okay, it’s not technically spring yet, but I am happy to report that it is 66 degrees here today, and that we have flowers!! And some very happy honeybees! Oh, and here is just a sneak peek photo from our recent trip to Vegas: Tom and a vintage…
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