Cocktail Party

The other night I attended a blogger cocktail party, and it was so super lovely. I adore any excuse to get really dressed up. I met some lovely new blogging ladies and I can't wait for us all to get together again.

 I bought this dress over a year ago and had never taken it out for a spin, so I was so excited to be able to wear it. Even though it was made in the 70's I think it has a lovely look of the 40's about it.

  

70's dress flash backs

50's fur coat my grandmothers

shoes not sure

pearl necklace gift from my father

30's bracelet flea market

Please excuse the odd look of these pictures they were taken inside at night so I worked with what I had.

I hope you all have been having a fabulous week!

xo,

Em

Out and About

This was an outfit I wore out and about this weekend going to antique malls and such. I found several lovely things I'll have to show you all later and finally got some frames for some beautiful prints I've been wanting to hang. If you follow me on instagram (emmyrenee) you'll have seen some of them.

 I also went to a lovely cocktail party last night, and can't wait to show you the dress I wore! It was a really lovely time and I got to meet some more wonderful bloggers from Nashville. Tyler and I also went and saw a midnight showing of The Room (which he loves and I had never seen). Crazy for sure. Have any of you ever seen it?

vintage 50's dress pre to post modern
vintage 40's jacket hip zipper
shoes modcloth

Ever since graduating college I'm not much of a night owl, so the midnight movie really did me in. I've been lolling about the house in my pjs most of the day and am trying to get up the gumption to do some laundry. Ok, I can do it! Here I come laundry!

How was your weekend? Any good lolling about?

xo,

 Em

Gal of the Month

I was super excited when Adored Vintage contacted me about doing an interview, but little did I know I was gonna be Gal of the Month for their site! It's something they have just started doing, so I'm really honored to be the first gal chosen. You should check out their site, which is not only super lovely, but is also filled with lots of vintage goodies. I've added a button to the side bar where you can look at my interview on their site or go here!

I hope you all have had a happy Monday!

xo,

 Em

P.S I have some tutorials coming your way my hubby just has to edit them :)

Recent Finds and Photos

I've been doing more antique shopping of late, which is so wonderful, it's been a while since I had been going regularly. Here are some of my finds and whatnot.

 These are some of my fabulous finds from the Nashville flea market. I got some amazing deals. One of the venders gave me about six vintage hats for $10 and I got all these lipsticks for just a $1 each. Yeaaaah.

I also went to a local antique mall with my lovely sister Sarah. I wish we could have bought this beautiful 40's mink! But alas, it was too expensive.

But by far this was my greatest purchase of the last week:

 Tyler and I have been on the hunt for a lovely art deco armoire. We were looking at several but this was an amazing deal. And here's a bit of the top in our room:

I hope you all have had a wonderful week!

xo,

 Em

Thanksgiving Overalls

Happy after Thanksgiving to everyone! I had a wonderful time spent with family eating loads of food, couch napping, and spending quality time together. It was really lovely. Tyler and I are wrapping up Christmas shopping, we're just about done! I've had so much fun planning gifts and wrapping them to stick under our lovely tree. Here's what I wore on turkey day:

These overalls are seriously my favorite. They are so comfy and were perfect for a large Thanksgiving feast. 
I colored my hair again for the first time in a while. Just the regular demi hair color that the guy at the salon had been using. It's so funny to see my natural hair color come through at my part and roots so quickly. It's soo much lighter, and I'm really excited for all the bleached blonde to eventually grow out and my natural color to see the light of day again.

overalls kim of nudeedudee
blouse thrifted
shoes jessica simpson
40's jacket borrowed from my sister

I'm planning more tutorials this weekend! I'm hoping to get two filmed, so we'll see how that goes.
How were your Thanksgivings (if you live in the states)?

xo,
 Em

Work Times

This week has been filled with a lot of holiday excitement for me. I realized Thanksgiving is this week...wow! Yesterday Ty and I went to my parents house and my mom and I started planning Thanksgiving dinner and bought presents for the kids. Ty and I also finished decorating our tree (yes, go ahead and judge me for putting the tree up before Thanksgiving). We already have some gifts under it, so it looks quite festive.

This is an outfit I wore to work this past week. I'm really happy to say that all the kids have gotten used to the way I look/dress that they don't even comment any more when I do something weird or different with my hair. I always used to get giggles from the 4 year old girls who would whisper "Miss Emma, your hair looks so silly". I would always respond "I know, Miss Emma looks silly a lot, doesn't she?" haha. Now they just want to touch my hair and wonder how it looks how it does.

jeans vivien of holloway

blouse thrifted

sweater vintage

shoes clarks

scarf vintgae

The other day I was out on the playground with my class and one of the little girls ran up to me and said "I'm a bad guy! I'm gonna take all our lipstick and uuuuseee it!" *mimes rubbing her lips with lots of lipstick* not only did it make me laugh a lot, but I thought it was super funny that this little girl knew just what kind of bad guy would really get to me...take all my lipstick? Oh no.

xo,

 Em

Music Notes

Ok, so, some of you may know I graduated with a degree in Music Education. I love music, adore it, and hope one day to teach it. So...when I saw this dress, as cheesy as it may sound, I knew I had to have it. Presenting the best music teacher dress ever.

I wore it last night to a Nashville blogger get together. Which was wonderful, I met lots of amazing gals and I can't wait to get together with them again soon.

dress trashy diva

belt hip zipper

sweater vintage

girdle what katie did

stockings doll house bettie 

shoes anthropologie (old)

I know I have become addicted to Trashy Diva, this is my third dress of theirs, and I have two more on my Christmas wish list. I've always wanted a dress cut like this, a wonderful 40's shape, and had never found a great repro one until I stumbled upon theirs. 

Any way, not only am I excited about this dress, but Thanksgiving and Christmas are so close! Eee, I love the holidays. I'm having the most fun planning gifts and whatnot. What are your favorite things about the holidays?

xo,

 Em

P.S. thank you for all the lovely comments on my hair tutorial! I have some more in the works involving wet sets.