My road to the vintage life

The road to my vintage life began a little over a year ago, when my sister Patti Sinclair got us a guest spot on a local news television show called Connecticut Style. Our plan was to highlight recipes from deceased loved ones which were still family favorites in the generations that followed. It was my idea that we dress and use cookware and equipment from the past. Thus started my looking on e-bay for the first time for vintage aprons which I highlighted on this post. I have over 25-30 of them now and need to dust a few off and get cooking.

This was producer Kate Sparrows addition from her "Granny Reba".


I soon caught the craze of searching out vintage clothes from the 1940's and 1950's not only for this venture with my sister, but for my 50th birthday party last summer as well.

On Memorial Day weekend which is famous for its Tag Sales I took a ride around our part of the planet in search of appropriate Tag Sales. I don't know how I found it or what angel was watching over me but I hit the mother load of 1950's stuff straight from a glamorous women who lived the life in New York City.

I will spend this coming week showing off some of my finds for you, so stay tuned.

Well that was fun!!

Patti and I had a wonderful time doing another segment for Connecticut Style yesterday morning. I arrived at her house to pick her up at 7:15 and we managed to get on the road by 7:30 with food in tow and ready to go. Oh dear, now I am a poet!

When you arrive at the station you need to call them so they can let you into the locked doors, however Patti forgot Connie's phone number so we just hoped an angel would help us out and we were not disappointed. Within less than a minute there was someone to help us into the station, coolers, plates, cookbooks and aprons in hand.

We were then able to set up completely for the shoot in a very quite studio. Quiet except for Big Daddy, Moody and a few camera robots lurking around. We love all of them!

With everything set and ready to go we went to the "ladies room" to polish our unkempt hair and put on a "dab" Huh! more makeup! As we opened the door out of the studio who was standing there ready to walk into the studio but none other than the star of the show, Miss Sonia. Lots of hugs and kisses.

Hair and makeup fixed we went back to the studio to get ready to shoot.
I wore the apron I highlighted in the previous blog post and Miss Patricia wore a VERY SPECIAL apron signed by the grand dame of cooking herself, Julia Child.

5..4..3..2 "we're ready to shoot?", I exclaim.

Yup..1...and off we went. No time to fret or prepare thoughts, just off and taping...and then it was over.

Patti and I are preparing our next segment so stay tuned.