A spot to share some quick favorite items that are vintage aka exquisite quality…
VIRGINIA BEACH – TAUTOG’S RESTAURANT
Endeavoring to find vintage charm on our first trip to Virginia Beach, we nailed it upon our discovery of Tautog’s Restaurant, a cute 1920s beach house quaintly styled as a coastal dining experience.
Keeping the historic charm of the original structure, this family run business adds a personal touch of friendly and efficient service.
While sitting on the porch on a moonlight night, we were bathed in the atmospheric lights strung about the property.
Our delicious food and amazing wine was uniquely topped by one of the wait staff who regaled us with fascinating details of the historic story of how different the view looked in the 1920s from our porch seating.
Completely intrigued by the atmosphere, we toured the inside then walked around the property to continue enjoying the ambiance after dinner.
I highly recommend this spot, pictured below…
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025
For our annual Christmas/New Years trip, we visited Yorktown to research the American Revolution at their amazing museum.
Then we spent a day in Colonial Williamsburg to see all the Christmas wreaths by day and candlelight by night.
Happily, I visited the firebrand of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry.
Also I had a lovely afternoon researching little girl gowns and pudding caps to recreate for my new granddaughters, one of whom joined us with her mommy and daddy that day!
Can’t think of a better day to end the year!
Meanwhile, I’ve caught up my blog to my daughter’s wedding in 2019.
Looking forward to catching up to the present, as I move my old blogs over here, which I think will be this month in January 2025!
We’ll call that my New Year’s resolution to conquer!
MERRY CHRISTMAS 2024
While busily decorating our house for Christmas and visiting the grandbabies, I’ve set aside moving old blog posts (currently caught up to summer of 2016) over until next month.
Honestly, the posts of yore are bringing much pain to my heart as my kids and I experienced the most tragic experience of our lives…so I’m working to find joy through the pain through those blog memories.
Meanwhile, I’ve been updating photos to my Flickr, so far up to 2019 and my daughter’s wedding…which was sadly dampened by the tragedy…but God amazingly provided during that time!
The link, above, to my Flickr, lands on the About Me page, the top of which were my best photos at the beginning of my Flickr journey, while the bottom half are my most popular photos, especially liked and faved by those who surf by.
Many thanks to those who stop by my little spot in the universe where I’m uploading photos, organizing, captioning, dating, with an ultimate goal to link my blog posts to the corresponding photos.
It’s a labor of love that I enjoy…and has been therapeutic to me after the trauma of yore.
Moving forward to happier years, I rejoice that my son and daughter each found loving spouses, and through their marriages they gifted me sweet granddaughters!
My next time travel journey ensues between Christmas and New Years, when my new hubby will take us on our annual Christmas gift trip (in lieu of presents under the tree), so stay tuned for that!
Meanwhile, I’m noting all the charming spots over the years which I will add to this page with quick links to fuller blog posts…
LAFAYETTE – 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 1824 TOUR OF AMERICA
2024 October News: I visited Lafayette’s arrival in Yorktown and Williamsburg for a weekend of amazing 200th anniversary reenactments.
2024 September News: After a visit to Virginia Beach, I visited Lafayette in Philadelphia on his Grand Tour of 1824 reenactment.
SPEED DIAL TOUR OF THE HISTORIC TRIANGLE
2024 August News: I did a speed dial tour of Jamestowne, Colonial Williamsburg, and Yorktown in three days!
FIRST TIME AT OUTERBANKS…BUT FIRST A DETOUR TO SEE MY NEW GRAND DAUGHTER
2024 May News: my son and daughter-in-love blessed us with an early arrival of their daughter on Mother’s Day! A month early!
LYNCHBURG – HISTORIC RETREAT
2024 April News: I visited Lynchberg to see Lafayette and Jefferson, then toured sites related to A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken.
MEANWHILE…
In between frequent trips to hold our sweet new preemie, I’m writing NEW content based on OLD blogs, updating links, ditching bad photos that I’m finding and organizing on my laptop…stories with more details…currently at the autumn 2011 mark!
Some days I’m helping with the baby, other days I’m home renovating the house…and in between I’m moving refreshed content to this location.
Now at 2016, I’m nearly caught up, actually, when this page will be converted to Vintage Charm Shout-outs! Stay tuned!
Short Story
All my friends told me to create a self-hosted site!
I’m slowly refreshing old blog posts with better photography, newer links, and epilogues that contain updated information.
My oft requested homeschool curriculum I wrote K-12 reveal in progress.
Long Story
My blog journey traveled far and wide on the internet:
2007-My blog debuts on Homeschool Blogger on July 9, 2007. I quickly made a lot of new friends. I learned html coding to design my blog.
2010-Homeschool Blogger suddenly moves to WordPress. Pretty stuff disappeared. Then weird coding errors appeared on the front end of all my blogposts.
2013-Homeschool Blogger moves to a private platform, so I move my blog to Blogspot.
2013-Photobucket changed the terms of service, which effectively made my photos impossible to see until I upgraded my plan. Seeing that Flickr had better options, I moved to Flickr.
2020-Blogspot suddenly removes all support and most abilities.
Self-Hosting Journey
Many of my friends recommended that I move to a self-hosted blog to end the ceaseless rug pulling out from under me.
Although doing that opened the door to opportunity, it also opened the door to a million and one questions about how exactly all this works. Starting from ground zero challenges provide a great learning experience.
Now finding long lost photos on my computer, I’m busy with the very time consuming but rewarding process of deleting the bad ones and organizing them with efficient labeling.
Then I industriously labored through doing a copy/paste of all the old blog posts at the old defunct platform to my hard drive.
Now that that is complete, I can focus entirely on this new website where I’m planning many new adventures!
Stay tuned as I refresh old blog posts to create a fresh new experience with the same theme of my love of the 18th century which inspires everything we do because of lessons learned of what to do and what not to do….with a greater emphasis on vintage and historical sewing.
I can’t wait to share with everyone all my recent sewing…and my brand new sewing room…another work in progress.
Contact Me
Meanwhile contact me at lahbluebonnet@gmail.com
