Say Cheese!
A Super Supper Club event, with 40 or so neighbors, to welcome David and Cheryl to the neighborhood. Forget Welcome Wagon, we go where the margaritas are! Glenbrook Valley rocks!
Lets Go Shopping (part 3)
If you wanna be with me, baby theres a price to pay…….. Yeah, baby–that price would be half! Can I get a what what?!? Oh the joys of finding treasures on the final, discounted day of an estate sale. It has a sticker on it that says “Florentine Original Hand Made in Italy”. Im not …
Lets Go Shopping (part 2)
When we last saw our intrepid shoppers, they were stuffing a pretty (and not so lazy) susan in the trunk of their car. Moving on to the next stop they found: TID BIT! TID BIT TRAY! I didn’t mean to yell, but I find the words tid and bit quite amusing. Especially when you say …
Lets Go Shopping!
So, whats a couple of mod boys supposed to do on a 70 degree day after surviving a Houston deep freeze? Drop the top and go shopping of course! We hit some estate sales and junk shops and found a few things we couldn’t live without. Wanna see what we got? I knew you would…… …
MCM Model
She won your hearts as the model pooch for the Houston Mod home tour last fall. Nows your chance to help Gracie in her quest for world domination. Vote for her in Modernica’s “Pets on Furniture” contest by clicking here.
A Breathtaking Find
In the winter of 2007, John Maloof, a 26-year-old realtor who was co-writing a book on his Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago, stumbled upon a box of negatives at an auction house. He paid $400, hoping it might hold some vintage photos of his neighborhood. He stuffed the box in a closet. There the images sat for a couple of …
Happy Gnew Year
Disneyland Dream
In July 1956, the five-member Barstow family of Wethersfield, Connecticut, won a free trip to newly-opened Disneyland in Anaheim, California, in a nationwide contest. This snippet from the amateur documentary film tells the fabulous story of their fun-filled, dream-come-true, family travel adventure, filmed on the scene at Walt Disney’s “Magic Kingdom” by Robbins Barstow. The full, 30 …
groovy saturday
It might be a bit overcast and dreary outside, but we’re swinging with Isabel Rose on the inside. You can get her album at Amazon here.
really, it’s all about you
You have read our musings, clicked our links and tried our cocktail recipes. {sigh} It all seems so one sided. Whaddya say we take this relationship to the next level? I think it’s time we met: Mad about Mod Tour: Glenbrook Valley – Modern & Historic DoCoMoMo Don’t worry. Your mother would approve.