Freebie Fridays: Best Friends Photo

Vintage 1940s photograph of a two pretty women. Please click on the image and save it on your own computer. Perfect for your retro crafts. Enjoy!

Vintage Thingie Thursday: On My Desk

This is my photograph for Vintage Thingie Thursday hosted by Coloradolady. I thought I would share a few antique items that are on my vintage oak desk. The pocket watch is broken but I still love it. I also love old cameras. I use the Brownie camera to take TTVF (through the viewfinder) photos with my digital camera. The set of leatherbound books are signed 1815 by an ancestor and were passed down through the family. The little envelope is filled with miniture photographs from "Cave of the Winds". Hope everyone has a wonderful Thursday!

Freebie Fridays: Vintage Photograph

Vintage 1940s photograph of a pretty woman. Please click on the image and save it on your own computer. Perfect for your retro crafts. Enjoy!

Serenity Sundays: South Platte River

This is a photograph I took of the South Platte River that flows through Denver, Colorado. Hope you find some serenity this Sunday!

Happy Labor Day!

Today was my daughter's 24th birthday. My daughter is pretty special young woman, if I do say so myself. She grew up with 4 brothers. Need I say more? She is a girly girl but she can definately keep up with the boys. We met her and her boyfriend down by the beach for brunch. We sat out on the balcony enjoying the sunshine, great food and lots of laughs.

Photograph © 2010 by Reprise Vintage

I took this photograph when we stopped to enjoy the afternoon on Mission Bay.

I hope all of you have a holiday filled with lots of family, friends, food, fun and love!

Reprise Loves: Sepia

As a lover of both history and vintage items I love to go out and find special items to photograph. I think that some vintage items look really great if they are converted to a sepia color...it seems to age them even more. Here are a few of my favorite sepia colored photographs.

Photographs © 2010 by Reprise Vintage

Serenity Sundays: Water Lily

Photograph © 2010 by Reprise Vintage

Save the Date Water Lily by grnidlady

Vintage Thingy Thursday: Vintage Montage

Photograph © 2010 by Reprise Vintage

For Vintage Thingy Thursday I thought I would have a little fun using some of my favorite vintage items. I created this montage highlighting a photograph of my Grandfather and his siblings. My grandfather is the youngest one in the chair sitting next to his sister. I love this photograph! My grandfather was a 'toe head' when he was young. In latter life his hair turned almost black. The antique book belonged to my sweetie's Great-Grandmother. The little angel is part of an antique postcard. The old pocketwatch I bought on Etsy. I love old coins! I've included some Indian Head pennies and two Walking Liberty quarters. These old keys came from a friend whose Grandfather owned a key machine. Hope you enjoy this vintage montage of some of my favorite things.

Rednesday: Bel Air

Photograph © 2010 by Reprise Vintage

Thought I would get in on Sue Loves Cherries Rednesday fun by sharing one of my true loves...classic cars!

I am so lucky that in my town during the summer months we have a weekly hot rod show. While many women go crazy over diamonds or chocolate, hot cars make me drool!

Wordless Wednesdays: Golden Hug

Photograph © 2010 by Reprise Vintage

Golden Hug by grnidlady

Serenity Sundays: Sunset Pier

Photograph © 2010 by Reprise Vintage


Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.
-Gladys Taber

Sunset Pier Bookplate by grnidlady

Wordless Wednesdays

I took this photograph of one of my vintage Raggedy Ann dolls by pointing my 35mm camera through the view finder of an old brownie camera. That is what gives it a rustic vintage look.

Color Your World

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
~Charles R. Brown

Just as a prism of glass miters light and casts a colored braid, a garden sings sweet incantations the human heart strains to hear. Hiding in every flower, in every leaf, in every twig and bough, are reflections of the God who once walked with us in Eden.
~Tonia Triebwasser, The Color of Grace

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
~Daniel Boorstin

I hope today's post brings a little spring to your winter. I really enjoy photographing nature and especially beautiful flowers. Here is a design from my Reprise Vintage shop.

What is your favorite flower?

Calla Lily Love by grnidlady
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Say Cheese

I treasure the family photos that my grandmother and great-grandmother passed down to me. They also left me some wonderful family history and it stirred up my passion for genealogy. While out looking for vintage treasures I sometimes come across old family photos. I can't help but wonder about the people in the photos.

I have no way of knowing who they are but they have been given a new home with me. I also know that they are sometimes given new lives as parts of homemade projects like journals, cards and scrapbooks. I will be offering some of my vintage photo finds at my reprise etsy store. If you are a crafter that loves to include vintage photos in your projects please give these photos a new home.