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Ode to Vintage Victoria: May 1996

Ode to Vintage Victoria: May 1996

Let us once again revisit the pages of one of, if not my favorite magazine to ever exist, Victoria magazine. I first discovered Victoria magazine after stumbling across a Tumblr post mocking the magazine and while the satire wasn't lost...

Ode to Vintage Victoria: May 1996

Muse: Victorian Era Illustrator Kate Greenaway

Muse: Victorian Era Illustrator Kate Greenaway

Spring will soon be upon us dear friends and of course this has me thinking several times a day about flowers. Perhaps because all the seasonal blooms in Portland are sprouting out of the ground to meet the sun! I am...

Muse: Victorian Era Illustrator Kate Greenaway

Ode To Vintage Victoria: December 1988

Ode To Vintage Victoria: December 1988

Well, I've completely fallen off the bandwagon of doing my monthly ode to my favorite vintage lifestyle magazine ever... however, this is an extra special post because it features the December 1988 issue from my collection of vintage Victoria magazines...

Ode To Vintage Victoria: December 1988

Inspired By: Bell'occhio in San Francisco

Inspired By: Bell'occhio in San Francisco

My dreams, schemes, and plans for Adored Vintage's first brick and mortar has changed quite a lot due to Covid and to be quite honest I have decided to scale back on plans for the retail shop until some time...

Inspired By: Bell'occhio in San Francisco

Ode to Vintage Victoria: June 1994

Ode to Vintage Victoria: June 1994

I so look forward to perusing through a monthly issue of vintage Victoria magazine to share with you dear friends it's wonderful pages and how they inspire me so! I missed May and June is nearly over (where is the...

Ode to Vintage Victoria: June 1994

Ode to Vintage Victoria: Issue April 1994

Ode to Vintage Victoria: Issue April 1994

Another installment (albeit I'm a week late, sorry friends!) of my monthly ode to my favorite vintage magazine, Victoria! I couldn't quite decide which April issue to feature from my collection and I settled on 1994 because it contains one...

Ode to Vintage Victoria: Issue April 1994

A Peek Inside Tasha Tudor's Garden

A Peek Inside Tasha Tudor's Garden

If you have been following Adored Vintage for awhile, then it is no great secret how much Tasha Tudor has inspired and influenced me. I can't exactly recall when I first saw or heard of Tasha Tudor, though I do...

A Peek Inside Tasha Tudor's Garden

Pretty Films: A Room With A View

Pretty Films: A Room With A View

Aesthetically this film is one of my favorites, it has so many scenes I draw so much inspiration from. Based on the E.M. Forster novel of the same name, the film "A Room With A View" by James Ivory is...

Pretty Films: A Room With A View

Ode to Vintage Victoria: Issue March 1990

Ode to Vintage Victoria: Issue March 1990

It is officially Day 3 of "Safer At Home" order in Oregon though things have been a bit upside down for my lil ole shop for about 2 weeks total now. My team and I are all slowly adjusting to...

Ode to Vintage Victoria: Issue March 1990

Women In Art: The Florist

Women In Art: The Florist

It will be no surprise to you that flowers is where I draw much of the inspiration for Adored Vintage as well as art and fashion history. I love paintings that depict flowers, women, landscapes, and interiors. So when any combination of these things are in...

Women In Art: The Florist

A Poetic Summer

A Poetic Summer

Summer is here at last. A season to revel in the profound freedom of more daylight and energy from the sun whilst simultaneously basking in the slow hazy filled days. For me, this means both a season of doing, and...

A Poetic Summer

Pretty Films: Stealing Beauty

Pretty Films: Stealing Beauty

Liv Tyler is the beautiful and virginal Lucy Harmon, a young woman in search of answers about her past. Armed with a journal from her deceased mother that contains clues to the identity of who her father is, she boards...

Pretty Films: Stealing Beauty

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