new website

hi friends!  i have a new website which i'll be using from now on!  check it out at www.kittysvintagehome.com.  the blog will be continued there under the title Ginger Cats and Gypsy Dreams, as well as a new weekly blog from my friend Susan, The Girl on the Couch.


For all your vintage clothing needs, so my other new website: www.montgomeryjune.com!

Thank you for reading my blog here, and i hope to see you on the new page! 

2012s triumphs and heartbreaks

2012 was a year of ups and downs for us. 

highlights include:

• starting my full time job
• participating in the anti-fashion show
• joining tara in her studio
• the birth of my friend's daughter, brenna
• an expected trip to STL (circumstances were crappy though)
• spending my mom's birthday at home with my whole family
• setting up my very own website (more on that to come)
• scott joining me for christmas in missouri
• adopting luna

hiccups include:

• unsuccessful sales all around
• tara leaving the studio
• car trouble, again
• feelings of inadequacy and unimportance
• the heartbreak of unexpectedly losing a pet

the most recent thing to happen on either lists is the one i'm having the hardest time dealing with.  my new baby luna, which you met just a few weeks ago, joined scott, the dog and i in missouri for christmas.  we decided to bring her because she was so tiny and fragile and skinny.  we were feeding her tuna and chicken every few hours to try to help her gain weight to cover the bones that painfully stuck out everywhere.  the day after christmas we returned home from running errands to find her lying funny on the ground.  we later discovered after taking her to the vet, that her neck had been broken and she was paralyzed and couldn't be fixed.  wow this is hard to type!  the hardest part to deal with isn't really her death, as we knew she was fragile and likely sick.  it's the fact that our dog is responsible. 

i'm having a particularly hard time being around him.  i know it was an accident and he would never mean to hurt a kitty, but he did.  he didn't just hurt her, he killed her.  i find myself getting very angry over things that would normally just be an annoyance.  i freak out when he goes near the other cats and if he does something wrong i find myself losing my temper to a much higher degree than normal.  i know this will pass with time, it's only been 6 days, but it sure was one hell of shitty way to end the year.  i hope to go into this year with less hatred toward my dog, and high hopes for many more highlights and much fewer hiccups.

sorry for the debby downer post, but as i just introduced you to my darling luna, i wanted you to know the full story.

SALE!!

i have temporarily closed my kitty's vintage home etsy store until i get my new studio up and running and can redo all the photographs and add many  new products.

in the mean time, i'm having a 20% off sale at montgomery june!  it's a short 2-day sale just in time for christmas.  just enter the code: hollyjolly at checkout and receive 20% off your order.  the post office guarantees delivery by christmas if sent by 20 december, so that is why the sale is short and sweet, so you can receive it before christmas.  if you'd like the package sent to another address or a card added, just let me know!

Luna

if you've known me for even a few minutes, you'd know that i'm a cat lover.  i have been since childhood when a black and white stray showed up on our doorstep one cold, rainy, October day.  i convinced my mom to keep her, she was my first cat, kelly. 

when i graduated college and was on my own, one of the first things i did was get a cat.  and i've had them around ever since.  i just adore their sweet little faces.

a few weeks ago, scott's niece and nephew found a kitten, took it to their grandma and begged her to keep it.  his parents already have several animals and are nearing 75.  they couldn't keep her, so his mom took her to the humane society.  they were so over crowded that he said they'd keep her for 3 days, then she'd be sent to a shelter where she would be put down.  i know this happens in every city, every day.  it's tragic and i hate it.  if i don't know about it, or about a specific cat, i can push it out of my mind and not think about it.

but...scott told me about the kitten.  then she was all i could think about.  this poor little kitten who wouldn't get a chance to know a loving home.  scott told me that i couldn't go get it, that we had too many.  then his dad came over and was asking if we'd take it, that he'd go get her from the humane society.  i told him that i couldn't go get her, but if she showed up here, she'd have a home.

well, 2 weeks ago yesterday, his dad showed up with this skinny, scared little kitten!  i was so thankful, i'd been feverishly asking for someone to save her, to give her a chance, and i guess that person is me.  i honestly was going to find her a home, but i came home from work wednesday and scott was sitting on the couch, snuggling with her and asked me what we should name her.  i knew then that she was going to stay. 

i'm very thankful to have her, she is a sweet little baby, loves to snuggle, give nose kisses (!!!), and has a rediculously loud purr-box!  i'm glad to say that everyone is finally getting along, the other kitties were pretty unhappy for several days, but now they play with her and groom her and snuggle with her.

so, without further babble, i'd like you to meet luna!

2013 Fashion Show!

Hello vintage lovers!  Last year's Anti-Fashion Show was such a blast to be a part of, if you weren't able to make it, here are some of the outfits that were featured:

And who could forget the darling little Meadow, showing off her shoes:



I'm proud to announce that the 2013 Anti-Fashion Show featuring vintage fashions and local handmade beauties will be March 9, 2013!

I've already started planning and putting special vintage pieces aside.  I have 3 models lined up, Natasha and Nicole from last year, and the beautiful Sage has agreed to strut her stuff this year!  Soon I'll be adding sneak peeks of this year's runway worthy looks: clothing, shoes and accessories.  I'll keep you updated on adding a 4th model and if I can snag Meadow again, she was the audience favorite! 

splurge or save: jewlery

every girl needs a little sparkle!  these jewelry picks let your save or splurge on that special item!

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studio changes

i appologize for my absense, but it is with good reason!

recently tara informed me that she will be leaving our studio, which makes me sad, but also gives my little business room to grow.  i've been brainstorming new products to offer, gathering supplies, making the first-round versions to see if it could be put into production and enjoying the time i have left with tara and little meadow in the studio. 

i will have a meeting tomorrow with the trio-in-charge to present my new ideas and convince them that i'll be able to maintain the studio on my own, especially since we just expanded! 

i also, finally, found a clothing rack with a small enough footprint to fit on the floor of karma rags, the vintage clothing store at the flying monkey.  this means, starting tomorrow, i'll have a rack of clothes for you to check out and try on here locally! 

and remember, at the end of this month, all the book currently for sale at kitty's vintage books will expire and will not be relisted.  if you are in the market for vintage books, please shop now, as i will be closing the store!