Happy Halloween!

Halloween may very well be my favorite holiday of the year. This season I decided to go as one of Disney's most famous villians, Cruella Deville. I had a blast this year playing Ms. Deville and had even more fun collecting all the items to put together the costume weeks before.

I found a wonderfully quaint antique shop in downtown St. Augustine that sells and rents lady's vintage clothing from the 1920s through the 1960s. A very friendly older woman named Barabara owns the shop (and has for years) helped hunt that that perfect coat for my costume. I spent the afternoon playing dress up in her shop - just browsing the aisles of unique hats from the 1920s, trying on adorable heels from the 1940s and even flaunting a cute flapper dress. But the vintage clothing wasn't the best part - it was the stories Barbara had for each item she owned: either how she came across that particular hat in her lifetime, or how she wore that particular necklace on a date with a handsome salesman when she was "just about my age."

I hope that one day I find a time period or certain element of life that I'm so passionate about that it inspires me to start my own collection. The thin hallways of Barbara's shop are filled with more than just dusty old dresses from a lifetime ago, but the stories, moments and feelings from the past and their history that still lives on within them, in Barbara and in that store.