Posts By: finnfemme

Spring Drying In My Backyard

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While I was making sun tea in the front yard yesterday, I was drying in the back yard.  Drying my laundry, that is.  The days without rain are so hit and miss around here.  So when it looks like it’s going to be dry for awhile I wash up a load and get ‘er drying! … Read more »

Making Sun Tea

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I am taking advantage of this relatively sunny Seattle day by not only drying my laundry in the backyard, but making sun tea in the front yard.  I have never made it before, but it is out there merrily brewing away in the sun.  I’ve had the gallon glass container for years, but I’ve always… Read more »

Those Cute Fluffy Angora 60s Mini Dresses!

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There was a period in the late 60s/early 70s when fluffy angora mini dresses were all the rage.  Pretty in pastel colors, they are just so adorable with their soft fuzziness and mod mini styling.  Pearls, long necklaces and earrings were the perfect accessories.  This trio of pink and blue angora dresses is from the… Read more »

Pretty in Pink Angora Cover Girl – Seventeen 1968

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I love angora sweaters!  Fluffy angora sweater popularity in fashion seems to come and go (Ed Wood-types nonwithstanding).  But there are certain eras where it seems like everyone is wearing it.  The ’80s were really into angora, with those bold, bright outrageously furry 80% angora sweaters from Korea.  The ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s were also… Read more »

Twiggy Eyes 1968

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Yardley of London had most of us American girls in thrall in the late ’60s.  Of course we all wanted to look like Twiggy or Jean Shrimpton, you know, mod British models who just happened to be impossibly gorgeous.  Not the reality of pimples and gawkiness that most of us faced (OK, maybe it was… Read more »