A Sparkling Vintage Life

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

There are many beautiful version of All Things Bright and Beautiful, my favorite Thanksgiving hymn. This is the version I remember best from my childhood: All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made...

Remember When: 7 Things People Used to Dress Up For

The recent dust-up over my post regarding dressing up for church generated more comments than anything else I’ve ever written on this site. Here’s an interesting article from the Huffington Post, along with some great photos, describing seven other things...

The Paradise: Shopgirl Makes Good

I’ve just finished watching The Paradise, a PBS miniseries set in a late-Victorian-era British department store. I wanted to watch the whole series before writing about it, in case it disappointed me like the earlier Mr. Selfridge, a different PBS series set in...