It could be because I adored Bewitched as a child.   The impossibly glamorous Elizabeth Montgomery and her 1950’s abode.
Or maybe it’s because I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe at an early age?  Not the actress so much as the person. I was intrigued by her life and her times.

That’s possibly why I went on to develop an unashamed love for hat boxes and hair nets and old vintage fans by the time I was fifteen..
And then rode in a 1958 Karmann Ghia from our wedding wearing a powder pink frock.

Hair curlers  and kitten heels  and oh, a house on Mulholland drive..why do you make my heart a-flutter?
All I do know is that my mid-century love is only getting worse and Etsy, you own my soul.

Sheye x

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Love Sheye xx

Sherrie.  Shree.  Ree.
We met at high-school.  She was totally crazy and I was totally not.  We bonded one day because I was polite enough to listen to her boy-woes after she’d bored all her other friends to death.  (Oh wait, that pretty much sums up much of our lifetime of friendship, actually.) We left school, got jobs, lost jobs, moved to the Gold Coast, shared flats, laughs, hopes and secrets.   She was the friend you’d lose at parties, who’d say the very wrong thing to your boss and who stayed living the single girl life long after many of us were no longer single. When not traveling the World, she’d hang out at mine on weekends and as my babies arrived,  became their instant playmate while she gleefully put them up to all sorts of no good.  She’d watch in horror as I breast-fed and double over laughing at my post-baby jelly belly.  Great for a Friday wine, awful as a baby-sitter.. my much loved sister-friend, Sherrie.

In her global travels, she fell in love with South America.  A little later, she fell in love with Mario.  And on Good Friday this year, against everything I might have predicted, Sherrie birthed and fell completely head over heels in love with baby Valentina.

I may have struggled to imagine Sherrie as a mother but seeing her this week..relaxed, happy, adoring her precious girl..I now can’t imagine it being any other way.

Valentina, darling child, you chose well.  I can’t wait to know you and  I can’t wait to put you up to all sorts of no good.   (Diga Momia que ha llamado venganza!)

Love, Sheye x

Enchanted forest. Old swing.  Hazey  light.  Pretty doll.
Meet Jessi.

Eye Candy Actions Toy Camera | Hazey                Clothing & Accessories – Alannah Hill

Dear Kryspa
I really want a bubble bath, the one with the sparkles in it, you know the pink one?  In a minute, I’m going to draw you some more rainbows.  I wish you were still here.  Umm, Mummy said you will send me more princess bubbles. Did you know,  your big boy, umm Brady, is going to get me everything from the Wizard of Oz, even the real Toto and when I come to America you can give it to me.  I really miss you and I want you to come back.
Ivish

Dear Krystarella
What she said. (Sans the Toto.)
Sheye.