Polling Chronically Vintage’s readers, what would you like Friday’s posts to cover?

Joyful Friday greetings, everyone! How are you each as we head into this second to last weekend of February? My pesky sinus cold is hanging on (oh noz!), but otherwise all is well – we were even treated to the most delightful burst of daffodil hued sunshine this afternoon (a welcome sight after a week of immensely grey skies and many a snowfall).

While on my recent blogcation, and over the past couple of days, too, I’ve been giving a fair bit of thought to revamping a couple of the reoccurring posts that currently appear on Chronically Vintage. Though I don't presently plan to alter certain ongoing posts (such as Wednesday’s Recipes and Saturday Snapshots), I’ve started to feel that others might benefit from a change of pace.

Chief among these is my usual "Five for Friday" post, in which I share five items/links/images/etc that have interested and inspired me during the last week or so. I certainly enjoy putting together this post, but (and maybe I’m just itching to start spring cleaning here ;-D) was thinking that perhaps it was time to shake things up regarding what I post about on Fridays.

I’ve created a little poll below in which I list four options that I’ve thought of, as well as a blank line where you’re welcome to share your own ideas (I’d love to hear them!) for a possible theme for Friday’s posts.

This is Chronically Vintage’s first ever poll and I’m buzzing with excitement to read your responses. There’s a high likelihood that I will go with whatever option gets that most votes. The other ideas may very well weave their way into other posts, too (for examples, I’ve been itching to put together a frequent post featuring recent Flickr finds – in addition to the vintage photos that comprise "Saturday Snapshots" each week – for ages).

Thank you so much to everyone who casts their vote! I sincerely appreciate your impute and will report the outcome of what (future editions of) Friday's posts will be about next week.


Wishing you all a bright, beautiful, and immensely fun weekend!

Giving away Chronically Vintage’s very own blog award! (And a bounty of thanks for others that I’ve received lately!)

Since beginning Chronically Vintage last spring I’ve been honoured with a score of blog awards. The kindness and generous spirit that has filled the pages of this site never ceases to bring joy to my heart, and I appreciate each and every one of the awards that I receive.

Several times I’ve posted about the accolades Chronically Vintage has gotten, but others have yet to be publicly acknowledged. Before the absolute rush of the winter holiday season besieges us, I want to take a few moments and extend my utmost of deepest thanks to handful of incredibly lovely people who have passed along blogging awards to this site. I cherish each and every one of these awards, the fact that you thought of me when pondering whom to extend them to, and also to those bloggers who have passed along other awards to me before in the past.

Sometimes I’m extended the same award by two (or three, etc) different bloggers, after I’ve already posted about receiving it (the first time). When this is the case, please know that I do not appreciate your own gift of an award any less. Whether I receive an award once or a million times, I enjoy and treasure it exactly the same. This post however is going to focus on blog awards that I’ve not yet written about receiving. To everyone who has ever bestowed an accolade my way, and equally to everybody who visits the humble pages of this blog, thank you from the bottom of my heart!

I truly hope that those who presented me with awards won’t mind if I veer away from their “rules” of acceptance a tad. Having thought it over, what I’m going to do is share the awards I’ve gotten below, and then pass along a brand new award that I’ve just designed myself to each of those who have so generously tagged me with an award in the first places, as well as to a handful of my readers whose blogs never fail to fill me with an abundance of inspiration.



{From the sublimely pretty (and always massively informative) pages of Kori's beautiful blog, Blonde Episodes, come her handmade award featuring none other than Marilyn Monroe herself.}



{The Bella Sinclair Award came via the immensely creative Stephanie of Dream Kingdom.}



{Adorned with a very pretty mermaid, the Splash Award from a gift from Kathie and her wonderful blog, My Net Finds.}


{From the elegant, cheerful pages of Simply Colette came the (very chic looking) I Think You’re An Awesome Girl award.}



{A talented fellow photographer and blogger, Yelena (from June Daisies), honoured me with the Very Inspiring Blogger Award.}



{A second gift from the wonderful Kathie of My Net Finds came in the form of the Dragon Loyalty Award.}



{From one the hepest cats in the retro blogging sphere, Keith of the Dino Lounge, comes the Your Blog is Better Than Ice Cream award.}



{Two very lovely ladies, Emma of Emma’s Music and Kori of Blonde Episodes, both presented Chronically Vintage with the Beautiful Blogger Award.}



{And last, but certainly not least, a different duet of fantastic gals (Personalized Sketches and Sentiments, and My Net Finds) brought a dose of happiness my way with the You’re the Sweetest award.}



If your name, or that of your blog, is listed above (as someone who gave me an award) or below, please accept Chronically Vintage’s first ever homemade award. It’s brimming with love and appreciation straight from my heart, for your kindness, friendship, and devoted readership of this site.




A Chockfull of Rants and Raves from
a Thirty-Something Mama

Andi B. Goode

A Red Lipstick

A Vintage Chic

A Vintage Spirit

BonBon Rose

Casey's Elegant Musings

Charming Vintage Recipes

Dad's Dish Retro Blog

Dustjacket Attic

*French Charming*

GirlWhimsy


Golden Girl of the West

Greetz from Tiz

~*Just Add Glitter and Stir*~

Kaleidoscopic Refrains

Kitchen Retro

Le Blog de Stéphanie

Lemondrop Vintage

Leproust Vintage

Madeleine's Wunderkammer

Millie Deel

Miss Matilda

Retro Ways

Some Like it Vintage

Strawberry Koi

The Adventures of GingeyGinge

The Bargain Hunter Extraordinaire

The Call of the Jitterbug Doll

The Frivolous Flapper

This Homemade Life

The life of a twenty-something

Time Machine to the Twenties

Vintage Me

Vixen Vintage

The rules of this award are wonderfully simple. All you have to do, if you so chose, is to accept the award, stick its graphic someplace on your or site (sidebars are great for this) or post about it on your blog, linking the award graphic back to Chronically Vintage. From there on out you’re welcome to pass this award on to as many other blogs that you deem to be Chronically Fantastic!


{Please feel free to use either the larger version of the Chronically Fantastic award graphic, or this handy smaller size, to place on your own blog or website – whichever version you prefer.}


It is never easy to select people to pass along any award to, especially when there are so many top-notch blogs out there, so if you don't see your name in the list above, please don't feel left out. If you've ever visited this site, you are instantly worthy of this award and are welcome to pass it along to yourself!

Scores of thanks again to those who have presented me with awards, as well as to every one of my readers, you all mean the absolute world to me, and truly are, Chronically Fantastic!

The Daily Vintage Deals post idea gets the green light!

Hello everyone, just a quick little post to thank you all dearly for the plethora of responses that poured in on my post on Monday regarding whether you liked (or disliked) the idea of featuring a daily post about a cool online vintage bargain. It appears that there is a ton of support for this idea, and have mulled it over more myself, I decided that it will definitely be a go!

My sincere thanks to each of you for weighing in with your helpful replies, it means a lot to me to know that I can turn to you, my wonderful readers, for your thoughts on a given topic or question. I truly appreciate your feedback and also the immensely kind things many of you said about my writing and posts in general.


{3,2,1...we have lift-off! On the Daily Deals post idea that is! :D Image source.}

In the very near future I will be launching the this brand new post series. I think it's going to be a total blast and hope that you all really enjoy it!