Coming Home A Winner

I am back from our anniversary vacation, and still in vacation mode. I can't muster up the energy to blog or work. I drank a pot of coffee today so I could bring you the results of weeks of top secret planning. Over the past weekend we attended Jake The Alligator Man's 4th Annual 75th Birthday (say that three times fast!)
Every year this event is held in downtown Long Beach, WA and every year there is a big car show, live music, and of course, a pin-up contest. I entered this pin-up contest, but I brought a secret weapon... another (more)Beautiful lady! Seeing as Jake is a half-man half-alligator side show freak, I figure, we too should be side-show oddities. Thus, the Siamese Twins, Olga and Elsa were born!
We made this entire costume for about $25 and it was loosely based off 666 Photography's Dia De Los Muertos Set. Very Loosely. But after a few nights of white wine, flowers, ribbons, and injuries, the costume was finished. All the pain and late nights were worth it in the end, because we walked away winners, The Bride(s) Of Jake!
We won a gift basket filled with many lovely treasures! The greatest prize at all was the 2 night stay to the Breakers Hotel in Long Beach. I see a siamese ladies night hotel party in my future!
We also go some stunning GothFox Pasties, and several piece of Lucky Cupcake clips and jewelry. There were lots of people and old friends at the event, even Team Jessup made an appearance and asked that we take a snap with their cutie-pie son.
We caused quite a stire on the Penninsula, because even the local paper wrote about Olga and Elsa! Read about it in the Chinook Observer. I know there are several more pictures that will surface in the coming days, but I thought I would give you guys the first glimpse of our winners suit.

I have more re-capping to do about our weekend at the coast, and our visits to Astoria to sip craft beers with Team Jessup.... But that will have to wait til tomorrow.

The Dots

This weekend, I will be heading out on holiday with my Husband. We are headed to the ocean to celebrate our 3rd Anniversary. Last night I had the wise idea to sew up a whole new dress to wear the first night in town, when we plan to go to "anniversary dinner." I had plans to re-make this dress again, because the fit was so wonderful, but this time I did it brighter colors. I went with red polka dots and teal bias, and have gotten the dress nearly complete.
Now today, I just need to pop a zipper in the frock, and finish off the hemline, and I will be wearing tomorrow night at dinner.

Thank you to all who voted for me in the Mad Men Casting Call, and don't forget you can vote daily. I will be gone over the weekend, and away from my computer, so if you love me, help spread the word over the weekend!
Thank you so much for all the love and support I get from you all! I feel so grateful to have e-met all of you!

Anniversary Give Away!!!

I am so excited to announce this moment has finally arrived, my 1st blogging anniversary! To celebrate this wonderful milestone I thought I would present to you all a give-away. I really feel this is a good one, I hope you too will agree.

I have teamed up with Shristi Studio, to offer my readers the chance to win this Aqua 1950s style dress, in the winners size choice.
This is a beautiful soft cotton vintage style dress. Dress has overlapping front so will slightly adjust to a fuller bust. Dress has a back tie to give a pretty shape for the waist. Puffed sleeve makes it so Vintage looking!

Shristi Studio has many fine 50s style dresses in her shop, all exceptionally reasonable in price. At $29.99 you almost cant beat it! Here are a few styles offered at Shristi Studio:

During the extent of the give-away Shristi Studio is offering a discount of 30% on dresses left on www.shrististudio.com by using check-out code "BLOG2009"
There are also a good number of dresses available for regular price at shrististudio.etsy.com

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So now that you are excited, I suppose you want to know how to enter this give-away?
You may enter by doing one or all of the tasks below, a winner will be drawn at random on Jan. 15th at 5 pm (pacific standard).

1. Go to ShristiStudio.Etsy.Com and leave a comment here with your favorite dress.

2. Join my Facebook Fanpage and Share the giveaway with your friends, comment here that you have done so.

3. Re-tweet this give-away and comment that you have done so.
"RT: 1950s style dress Give Away from @exquisitebones 's Blog http://tiny.cc/pw2zj "

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I wish you all luck, now enter and go tell your friends. The more the merrier on this wonderful anniversary. Thank you all so very much for being readers of my little slice of the interwebs.

Show and Tell: Powdering Your Nose

We have arrived at our second edition of show and tell! This time I wish to share with you a powder compact I bought while on my second anniversary with my dear sweet fella. We stayed at our family beach cabin for our anniversary, as you may remember from this post. While we were there, we did as we always do at the beach, antique shop! We popped into a little antique shop, with big antique prices and I spotted this darling compact.
Just this week, I finally got around to emptying it to fill it with my own personal facial powder. When I took the metal screen off, I notice the engraving inside. I was very pleased that this compact had a date of 1924, and was made in Canada. What a fun historical tidbit, I had all along. Notice the cute ladies wearing cloche hats on the outside.

Well, now its your turn post a link in the comments to a picture of your compact!

Love and Marriage.

This past weekend was spent at the Coast, with my darling Husband, on our 2nd wedding anniversary. It was so pleasant to get away from the kids and city life for a couple days and just be silly!

On our way out to the beach we stopped at a lovely (and spendy!) Bistro for our anniversary dinner. It had a great view of the river's mouth to the ocean! We spent more than we have ever spent on food in our lives but it was delicious!
The Bistro is called the BRIDGEwater and is in Astoria, OR. If you ever find yourself out that way, I highly recommend the locally brewed beers and the prime rib! If it happens to be a celebration, they add nice details such as hand decorated desserts.
After leaving Astoria, we headed to Long Beach, WA where our family jointly owns a small beach cabin. Seeing as it was 100 degrees in the city, we thought the beach would be a nice getaway. We were entirely shocked when we rolled into town and it was cold, gray, and sprinkling!
The awful weather did a number on my pin-curls, which fell out almost upon arrival. But we didnt let the rain stop us, I raced go-carts along side my husband in my vintage sun dress! We wandered through town and decided to head to the cabin to end the night playing scrabble.

The Next morning I put my hot-sticks to good use and pulled off this hair style:
This hair-do also went flat immediately after we ate breakfast. Thank you coastal weather!
But we rented bikes and rode them down the board walk and went shopping in all of our favorite thrift and antique shops. We walked through the dunes on the beach and had a lovely weekend alone. I can't wait til next year!