Birgitte Price

Our next door neighbour is a man close to 70.. He was a ballroom dancer when he was younger and was often used as an extra in many Danish movies in the 50's and 60's. I love when he tells us stories from those days.. His favorite of all the lovely Danish actresses he worked with was Birgitte Price. She was very talented but most importantly a very nice person. I found very few photos of her on the web but there were a couple of videos on the tube... Enjoy!

Help wanted!

Once again I turn to you lovely ladies for a bit of help..
My husband and I have been scrimping and saving and have finally managed to save up enough money to go to The States for 3 weeks this September, tickets bought, car rented now all I need is a bit of advice regarding things to see and vintage stores...
We will be visiting my father in law in Las Vegas for a week or so but we will also drive down to Los Angeles and San Diego (-and Disneyland off course..) We've been there quite a few times but have never really seen any exhibitions or museums and that sort. I'm considering the Hollywood museum hoping that there will be some costumes but I don't really know... Also I promised a lady here who has a vintage shop that mainly sells cocktail and evening dresses from the 50's, 60's and 70's that I would be on the look-out for dresses she could sell...
So whadda you think? Vintage shops with reasonable prices, does that even exist in that area? -and where does an old Hollywood lover (not that kind!) like me go? Or surprise me! There might be things there to see that I haven't considered yet...

Introducing Ketty...

A while ago I made a promise to make a post about my beloved grandma Ketty, my muse...

I went home to visit my family for the weekend and had a chance to go through my grandmothers photo albums. My grandfather, her husband sadly passed away earlier this year and it felt really good to see their lives in pictures and hear their stories so I'll be posting much more about them later on, but for now we'll begin with Ketty....

This is the earliest picture I could find of her.. There she is in the bottom left side (with the butterfly..) with all of her friends, how cute is that! She was born in 1934 so I'm guessing this photo is from sometime in the mid to late 40's...

Here she is in the mid 50's doing a bit of modelling or as she would say mannequin work. I would totally wear that outfit today...
Sadly I look nothing like this little lady on the outside but on the inside we are quite alike.


This is my favorite! My grandfather had this pinned up when he was a soldier;)
He always said that she was the prettiest, best dressed little lady. She told me she had most of her clothes made for her, she wasn't a wealthy lady but she just couldn't find clothes in the shops that were exactly the way she wanted them -I feel the same way!


Here she is on my grandfathers Triumph Tiger 100 in the cutest bathing suit! She actually had a motorcycle licens and she and my grandfather went on roadtrips together.


Doing the dishes... She is a very proper lady she cannot leave her house before she has cleaned it all and has never gone to bed with dirty dishes waiting in the kitchen even after late night parties...


My grandfather had this in his wallet... Awww I cry....

I promise I'll be posting more.. next time it's grandpa's turn;)

The angel wore red...

She certainly did! From gingham to satin and lace, lipstick, nail polish and scarves the lovely Ava was the woman in red.

Summer Holiday

You might have guessed by now that Summer is my favorite time of year. In Denmark we are lucky to have one month a year with temperatures over 20 degress Celcius, (that's 68 Fahrenheit) so I use every opportunity I get to soak up the sun and store some heat for the long cold Fall and Winter.
Now this past weekend was perfect! My daughter and I went to the Summerhouse Friday afternoon and my husband joined us Saturday and we all went back late Sunday evening...

It had everything a Summer weekend should have... Sun!!! Heat!!! (90 fahrenheit!) Fleamarkets, icecream, fresh fruit bought on the farm, bike rides in the forest, bathing in the sea, BBQ, music, picking flowers, reading, fishing, getting tan-lines;) We did so much and yet it was so relaxing and it felt like we spend a whole week there (I wish!)
I even had time to snap a few photos...











Sweet little Summerhouse... You can see the roses and lavenders in front...



The book I read. Short stories written in the 40's by Danish authors..

Husband looking all shy and daughter stepped on a bug:)








Daughter and her beloved crocodile or is it an alligator? We couldn't quite figure that out..


My daughter took this... I'm usually the photographer so there are not many pictures of me in the family album...

Sunset fishing... Didn't catch anything this time though... but who cares when the weather is this amazing at 9.30pm!

Sunny Summer Sunday

Today the weather was so beautiful! I had the day all to myself so I took my bike, some sweet snacks, a book of Scandinavian fairytales and found myself a sanctuary by the sea....













..and when I got home I hung this little lady up on my wall...

Mexican...

The sun is out and so are my toes... It's finally warm enough for me to wear my Mexican tooled wedges!


I bought them half a year ago here (via Ebay) and they've been sitting in the closet impatienctly waiting...


They are very light and comfortable and I hope they are enduring too I'm pretty sure I'll have a hard time convincing my feet to wear anything else this summer. Only problem now is that I need a pair in every color...


I hope I'll find some next time I'm in California (hopefully this Fall), does anyone know where I can buy these "over there"?