My Old Fashioned Bathing Suit

Vintage Vursday is here. :P  Playing around with photoshop. And curls. And Coca Cola. :D Pictures were taken in Myrtle Beach, by Caroline and edited by me. Painting a photo takes a while believe it or not!

I'm very happy with how this one turned out :D

Bathing suit: VV, blogged here

Tuesday's Musings

So last week I was tagged by Kaitlyn Metzger of A Gentle and Quiet Spirit to do a random tags kind of post. I'm not sure if it has a name, she called it "Nominations" so I'll do something along those lines :) 
1) What is your dream job and why? My dream job would probably be doing African Hair Braiding. I enjoy doing it because it's creative and calming. And I think if I had the opportunity to spend 2 or 3 hours with someone, once or on a regular basis it would be an awesome time to share the gospel and give the love and hope of Jesus Christ into people I did hair for.  2) What are your 3 favorite hobbies?  Singing and music related activities, photography and swing dancing. 3) If you could go anywhere, where would it be?  I actually don't have any big dreams or aspirations for travel. I would love to see more of everything obviously, as I do have a little bit of an exploring/adventurous side to me, but there isn't a particular place I can pin-point.  4) What book has most impacted your life?  The Bible :D 5) Who are your favorite bloggers or blogs?
This is SO hard!!! I follow 100 blogs exactly on bloglovin-and quite frankly there is something about each blog that I like enough to follow it. Most of all the blogs I follow are historical costuming. Then there are some vintage bloggers, and then a few randoms (such as art, or life, or "faith" blogs)  Here are a few of my most inspirational, or my first loves :P Not in any particular order. 
Lily, from "Mode de Lis" WOW WOW WOW. 
My dear young lady who I'm still not sure if she wants her name on the Internet. She goes by the pen name Frieda, but I tend to just call her "Miss F". She blogs Ruffles not Rifles and I've been following her since the very beginning of my costuming journey :D
Sarah, from Talk Time is so fabulous- I enjoy every minute spent on her blog :D She's got a writing style that I absolutely love, and her posts are always a joy to read. 
Butterfly Loves Snapdragons is probably my most inspiration blog fashion wise. She wears a lot of vintage pieces, and has some pretty incredible hairstyles, but she still seems so down to earth and normal. Which can be hard to say for all fashion bloggers. That coat with the fur trim and those hair rolls she's sporting in her last post are pretty fantabulous!! 
And last but not least (because I will say Merja is my favorite) is Before the Automobile. She is my favorite costumer like EVER, and my biggest inspiration. (well Bascha would be my inspiration, but apart from Bascha :P) Words cannot describe how well she sews. *I can't even*.  (Due to the costumes, and period undergarments, there are corsets and things that may be deemed inappropriate for some of my readers. You know who you are :))
6) What is your current favorite song? 
Too hard. I skip this question :P I actually don't have a "current" favorite, I have some "old favorites" that I've loved for many years, but as of new songs I just like the songs I sing when I'm worshipping with JP.
7) Do you have a favorite quote? If so, what? 
“If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.”  ― Charles H. Spurgeon
8) If you could only have one social media site, what would you pick and why?
I would actually probably say Pinterest. Which is funny because I don't even have a Pinterest anymore. I'd pick Pinterest because it is so nice to be able to keep photos and links all in the same place, but in there own separate folders. And you can search for specific pins of your own in your own folders. Plus, there are so many good ideas and recipes on there that I think are very helpful. 
9) What book of the Bible are you reading? 
James, Psalms, and Proverbs.
10) What is your favorite Bible verse? 
I don't have a favorite :P

A Better Brush Out + Outfit

#VintageVunday oh dude that is so weird looking :P

This is my outfit from Friday when we went to Myrtle Beach. I had curled my hair totally with foam rollers and was very pleased with the results :) Mum helped me brush the back since I'm not very good at reaching. Plus she's just really sweet like that :) 

The weather was a little frigid if ya'll remember, and so this outfit was nice because it had some layers. Originally I was just going to wear the cardigan sweater, but the vintage blouse added so much subtle flair I just had to throw it on too :) 

This pin is special to me because my it belonged to my Mimi's Mama :)

I love this picture :) The beach in one photo :) 

This skirt is like one of my most favorite things EVER. It fits so well, but it's like wearing a painting. I kind of like to think my clothing as art, and this really makes me feel like I'm wearing art :P

I wore a red shirt with this skirt on my birthday

Callan is so artsy :P

Blouse: thrifted Cardigan: J Crew Skirt: Chicwish here Pin: Great grandmother Belt: Target Photo creds go to Ann Marie and Callan :) 

2015 || Blog Post Plans

Thank yous to everybody who commented and emailed about the 2015 Tmarie blog post plans :) I've made a little schedule and we are going to try it out and see how well it works. It's using basically all the same things I've been posting on since the beginning of the blog but it a more balanced and dependable manner. :)  I'm going to do "Vintage Vursday" and "Vintage Vunday" (Thursday and Sunday) which will be outfit posts, hair stuff, anything vintage that I've found or that I've made etc. Hopefully I'll come up with a better name though since Vursday and Vunday is kind of weird.  On Fridays I'm going to try and do photography. Like things from everyday life, still life, pictures from the abortion mill etc. And I'm planning on starting to Instagram little random things and then doing "Instagram lately" posts or something on Friday's maybe too. We'll see.  On Tuesdays will be "random". Which will be like my Thoughts posts, but with not so personal of thoughts. More like thoughts on faith, thoughts on issues and thoughts on topics. Like writing kind of posts with little or no pictures :P And this will also be music posts, whether singing videos, or studio pictures, or song updates and the like. And then random life catch-up, cakes from work (if not in the photography post) and sewing.  And then sprinkled here and there will be like photography stories-like our trip to Blowing Rock, and Atlanta, and the upcoming Myrtle Beach.  I'm looking forward to blogging with ya'll this year!! 

Cakes Lately

These are a few of my favorites out of the cakes I made yesterday. You can order online at Baskin Robbin's.  

THIS CAKE was literally so easy it's not even funny. But it's so gorgeous!!! I remember pinning cakes like this a lot back in the day and now I'm making them lol too fun :) Shouts out to ombre rosettes :)

 An 80th birthday cake :) I wrote on the little banner in blue after I took the picture.

2015 || Questions for YOU

So to start off the new year I thought it would be good to give the little blog here a refresh if needed. Which means asking ya'll some questions. Such as what do you want me to post more about.  I currently have a few categories, fashion, photography, cakes, music, random, and sewing. But if there is another category you'd like me to post in, I want to know! Do you want me to continue posting a sprinkling of each, how I'm kinda doing currently, or is there a certain category you'd like to see more of? Or a new category all-together? How often would you like me to post? Two times a week? Three times a week? Once a week? More, less? Same? What can I improve about Tmarie?  Please give me feeback! :D Looking forward to 2015!  xoxo

Sunsets

The other night Joshua came running in "Theresa, Theresa, get your camera!!" And the sky was absolutley amazing!!! There was like a perfect line between The red and the blue-I've never even seen a sky like that before! Sunsets are one of my favorite things. :)