Rochelle's Vintage and Frugal Recipes

Rochelle's Vintage and Frugal Recipes is a fun blog where you can find a variety of recipes from old cookbooks and paper clippings.

Rochelle has a degree in Home Economics and admits that "Collecting cookbooks and recipes has been my hobby for over 35 years. I especially like vintage and advertising cookbooks and have over 1,000."

Confessions of an Apron Queen

Confessions of an Apron Queen: Not Your Ordinary Mom Blog is a fun vintage-themed blog. The Apron Queen is a talented writer and photographer and she shares lots of fun stories and photos as well as delicious recipes.

The T-Cozy blog

If you love looking at (or indeed collecting) vintage things, or you just feel like you want to wallow in a nostalgic mood, you will enjoy the beautiful blog, The T-Cozy.

The blog features photos of items from a business called T-Party Antiques & Tea Room (Connecticut, USA.) which means you can have a virtual tour of their charming shop and drool over the tea time treats without gaining weight!

Two Pink Possums - a crafty blog

Two Pink Possums is the cute name for a lovely blog written by Linda, a talented lady in Tasmania, Australia. Her tagline on her blog explains what she writes about: "creating handmade things,trying to knit,vintage treasures,op shops,books,fabric,baking and everyday mayhem" and it's all that and more. If you like sewing, knitting, baking, and doing other crafts, you will love her inspiring blog.

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

Vintage Purls - FREE vintage knitting patterns, resources & discussion

If you enjoy knitting, you will really like the blog, Vintage Purls, from New Zealand "about all things associated with knitting from vintage knitting patterns."

The site offers free vintage knitting patterns and handy conversion tools.

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.

Free vintage radio shows

This is cool:
Radiolovers.com "offer hundreds of vintage radio shows for you to listen to online in mp3 format, all for free."

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."