Lulu's Vintage Blog

Anne of Portland, Oregon, owns Lulu's Vintage Blog and Store.

Anne writes about vintage fashion, collectibles, housewares, and advertisements. She also provides links to sites where you can purchase vintage items

Retro Food Recipes - vintage recipes

Retro Food Recipes offers exactly that,"a collection of authentic vintage recipes." It's a fantastic resource for all those old but classic recipes.

There is a fun blog called Retro To Go too. It's a "guide to all things hip and retro" with features about retro items available for purchase on the net, and if you feel like having a chat, check out the Retro To Go Forums where you can discuss your favourite decade or join any of the other interesting discussions in the forum.

A blog featuring retro recipes

A fun blog called Jam Handy! is the home of retro recipes.

Retro Housewife

Retro Housewife is a fun and useful site with HOUSEWIFE ADVICE & TIPS and features about Retro Furniture, Retro Fashion and The Retro Housewife Forum.

There's a retro housewife blog too, called Retro Housewife and The Ladies who Lunch - "A Blog for the ladies who are housewives by profession".

Vintage & retro clothing & accessories from the 50s-80s

I'm not a fashionista - far from it in fact since I'm a blue jeans, T-shirt and trainers (sneakers) kinda gal - but I do like vintage fashions so I was thrilled to find a site called Martha's Closet, a site that provides "reasonably priced, individual vintage clothing that's honestly described & promptly delivered."

Buy old fashioned sweets online

If you love sweets and you have a hankering for the old fashioned kind that aren't readily available in shops anymore, you will probably like to peruse and bookmark the following online businesses:

Mrs Browns Traditional Victorian Sweet shop which "has hunted down nearly 300 traditional sweets and old-fashioned forgotten sweets from days gone by."

and

Village Sweet Shop which "stocks over 600 different sweets ranging from Herbal Tablets to Flying Saucers."

and

Sweet Sentiments: "A Traditional Sweet Shop selling Old-fashioned Sweets"