Last Rendezvous

Last Rendezvous

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Well dear readers......I am back for another post (though slightly off schedule time). However, before I begin my post today I wanted to take a few moments to thank you all for the lovely comments on my last post :) I was not able to personally respond to all of them like I usually do since I was out of town (hence the pictures from todays post), but nonetheless I wanted to say a general "Thank You" to everyone!

 Also, on the topic of your comments I greatly appreciated all the camera advice and suggestions......I can't wait to play around more and put them into practice!!

However, lets get on with today's post shall we! :)

Blouse: Good Will (Anne Taylor); Pants: Thrifted; Belt: Minnie's Menagerie;
 Purse: Mom's old Coach; Sunglasses: Five Below

The past few days (Monday-Wednesday) I went on  a short trip with my mom and best friend as the last rendezvous before school starts. We went camping at Guadalupe River State Park (one of my favorite places to camp). However, camping was not the only thing we did.....oh no! On our way down Monday we stopped off at the charming little town of Gruene and mosyed around a bit, peaking in the shops, mulling over antiques, walking through the old dance hall, eating ice cream, and of course taking pictures!

The Antique store in Gruene was fabulous! I found an absolute treasure tucked away in a stack of old magazines and I can't wait to share it on the blog next week (I might have been freaking out just a "little" bit)! Besides antiques we thoroughly enjoyed taking a peak inside Gruene Hall (pictured above). Libby and I are big into country dancing ourselves so visiting an old dance hall was such a treat :) We finished off the the day with ice cream because....who wouldn't....then we headed to the campsite to get set up.

I don't know if any of you have ever been to the river (any river) but they are the most relaxing trips ever!!! The Guadalupe river is so clear, cool, and refreshing that you can't help but take a nap in your tube after you jumped off of the jumping root a few times :)

Matching Bathing Suits thrifted a year apart....what are the odds!!

The second day we headed into New Braunfels for a little shopping. We ended up finding the Antique store of ALL Antique stores so far and spent close to two hours perusing the books, magazines, glassware, clothes, and records. 

I was completely over the moon (to say the least) when I found a stand FULL of old LIFE magazines!!! I don't know about you but I have been antiquing since I was young and never once have I found a good collection of old magazines if any at antique stores, so this stand was a jackpot!! If you see the magazine with Princess Elizabeth on the cover (far left corner) I actually purchased that LIFE magazine. I even found a few more collections of LIFE magazines throughout the store which is a rarety for me :) 

Oh, and can we talk about the clothes!!!! To say that this was the Antique store of ALL Antique stores is no understatement for there were at least three stalls full of vintage clothes, ranging from the 1930's-1960's. I was in Heaven :) However, it never fails that when you find a treasure trove worth every penny in your wallet you don't have many penny's to spare (boo hoo). Thus, the lovely dresses, hats, and purses, would have to be left behind for now.

I absolutely fell In LOVE with the dress to the right!!

Oh boy.....and did I mention Records!!! This store had a record collection that was absolutely Tickety cBoo (in good order or find). Libby and I were enthralled! The records were very well organized by genre and letter which was very helpful. I ended up deciding on a record from a musical called Over Here staring the Andrews Sister which was a bonus!! I am actually listening to it right now:)

Blouse: Thrifted (Old Navy); Skirt: Vintage; Belt: Thrifted; Necklace: Target; Hat: Forever21

To say the least the short trip was an absolute blast!! 

Nothing can beat relaxing in the cool river in 103 degree Texas heat and shopping at fabulous Antique stores :) 

This was definitely a perfect trip before the fall semester starts back up!

Until next week with some exciting posts hitting the blog!!! 

Have you ever found a fabulous antique store?

Do you like going to the river?

Have you heard of the musical Over Here?

P.S. Head on over to STANDOUTgirl for this weeks post on your Divine Burden.

Spinnning

Spinnning

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Merry after Christmas and a Happy almost New Year in 13.5 hours!!! I hope all of you had a splendid Christmas! Well, it has definitely been a little longer than I had wanted to post these pictures, but here it is, my record player:)

By no means is it a very fancy record player, for it is the simplest you can find, but all that matters is that it plays records. I have definitely been getting in the routine of falling upon my records for music rather than the modern devices of an ipod or iTunes! The greatest party of all this, is that I haven't bought any records yet, but I have managed to excitingly inherit all of my parents old records that they thankfully kept all these years.

I was so excited when I found out that my mom had all of these Disney records because they are AMAZING!!!!!! They are totally retro because most of them are from the 60's which makes it even better, but to have Disney on records is beyond exciting.

In addition to the Disney records, my dad went rummaging in the storage sheds back in Thorndale over Christmas and found this amazing group of Classical records from all the famous composers. Once again, storage sheds are a treasure trove of great finds!! I must admit that these are the records I have been listening to most frequently, especially Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, which are my favorite classical pieces. 

Apart from these great records, since I inherited all of my parents collections you can imagine that I have some genres that are not all that popular in this day in age. Those range from old country to 80's records, and soundtracks from old movies I have never watched or intend to but honestly, some of them are not to bad:)

Now that I have a record player, I can just picture myself soon having a way to large collection of records, but who cares, they are better than a CD. Here I come Goodwill and Record stores!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy New Year!!!!!