Stunning Casa Pacifico

The majority of our trip was in a spectacular private home we rented near the village of Tambor and right next to the resort where they filmed the reality show Temptation Island.

The 6 bedroom home was just gorgeous! Situated right on the ocean with rainforest on one side and another luxury home on the other. It was a great way to vacation and much more relaxing than staying at a hotel...highly recommended. If you are interested you can rent this home through Luxury Link.

Pura Vida in Costa Rica

Vintage clothing and general crazy mom life recently took a back seat as we trekked to Costa Rica.

What a trip!! The country was amazing full of stunning scenery and the friendliest, kindest people you could ever meet.

The first night was spent at the beautiful Marriott in the capital city of San Jose.



We enjoyed a delicious tapas dinner accompanied by Flamenco guitarists and dancers!



The next morning we met up with the rest of our friends and travelled to Tambor via Nature Air.



Jose picked us up at the tiny "airport" and drove us the bumpy road to Casa Pacifico. The house was absolutely stunning!!! Pics to come soon.

This Weeks VFF Picks!!

This week's faves for Halloween fun!


Draping, sequins, curvy!! What more could you want in a dance dress???


Reminds us of Gunne Sax!! Dreamy angel sleeves and ruched bodice!


80's Gothic Frock Coat doubles as a great Pirates of the Caribbean coat!!


Mod 60s Dress with Fringed Hem!!


80's Goes Moulin Rouge or Saloon Girl!! Hot Stuff!

So scary!

VFF - It's here!!!!!!

Off to junk hunt two provinces over!! Will report back soon with any amazing finds!!

Vintage Frightful Frocks starts soon!

The kick off for the VFF event is tomorrow, Sunday, Sept. 17th, but blog readers will get a little taste of some of the items to come from bonton*vintage. In our household Halloween is a big event and planning just the right costume takes time!! I hope you will be inspired by something to get your costume started off on the right foot!


A perennial fave is always the Hippie Costume. Just add afro, shades, granola bar sandles, some love beads and you are stylin'!!


This sugary sweet vintage 80's prom dress would make the best Pink Faerie costume!! Wings, tiara, wand, maybe some white fishnets and pink high heels finish it off!


Dressing like a Bad Girl is so much fun!! Remember Olivia Newton John in Grease...or go more 80's Madonna style. This is a great looking, (but not hot & bulky) biker jacket made from quilted satin, just perfect for a party with lots of dancing. Add a pencil skirt, tight spandex pants or skinny jeans and ultra high spikey heels of course!


We love this stunning Alfred Shaheen Asian style gown with flowing kimono sleeves! So classy and sexy with it's high leg baring slit!!

Lots more to come!!

A must read!!

If you have never visited A Dress A Day then you must go there today!! Erin presents another part of her ongoing series entitled Secret Lives of Dresses Vol. 8. A must read for any vintage clothing lover!!!!

Dashing and dotty!!

This one goes on the block on Wednesday...thought I would give you all a heads up! Love this 1940's rayon dress. It is a super dark navy blue with the perfect little touches of polkadots peeking out here and there. Nice big gal size too!!!

Vintage Frightful Frocks VFF!!!

Coming September 17th!!! The members of the Vintage Fashion Guild aka VFG have held this annual event each year for Halloween. Entitled Vintage Frightful Frocks, we offer a great variety of vintage clothing and accessories suitable for Halloween fashions!! So be sure to search VFF on ebay in the Vintage Clothing category starting this Sunday. We promise you will find some fabulous items to put you on the Ghoul's Best Dressed List!!

Watch this space for sneak previews of some of bonton*vintage's offerings!!

More Fall goodies...yummy knits & more!

Banging out some more Fall listings!! Some of my faves!


Love the simplicity of this black wool knit dress. Great with some long chains around the neck - or try with some fab high black boots! The sleeves are the special touch on this one!


No one makes a fine jersey knit quite like the Italians!! I adore the funky floral print with geometric touches. Great fit with a bit o' swing around the hips!


Great 50's flair - full skirt, cropped jacket with gorgeous neckline and a fabby geometric print in purples & pinks!

These are all on the block starting Sunday, Sept. 10th!

PS - I am starting to pull out the Halloween stuff - lots of weird, wild and wacky fashions!! I adore this time of year!!!!!!!!!!!

Drive by blogging!

Busy, busy around here!! New schools, gorgeous weather, lots of NEW FALL STOCK too!! Here is a quick peek of a few of this week's ebay offerings.


40's Black & White flecked dress with velvet and rhinestones. Great large size too!


70's Vintage ADIDAS Football Jersey - German


New Wave Belts!! Three of them!


50's Illusion Bodice Wiggle Dress...so sweet!! Even has a matching cropped jacket.


The most fabulous wide belt from Morocco - great hardware!


Nubby Textured Winter White Swing Coat in Plus Size!

Leather & Plaid & 40's Glam!

A bit of everything this week on auction at bonton*vintage on ebay!

Michael Hoban North Beach Leather - New Wave at it's best!


Vintage 80's Schoolgirl Chic - Suspender Skirt


1940's vintage sequinned taffeta dress...so sweet!

Bargain Hunter Alert!! Be sure to check out the VBO - Vintage Blow Out sale items I am offering at below $20!!

The most anticipated issue of the year...

...yup, the Vogue September issue is on-line. Woo hoo!!!! Love the ads, the trends, the styling!! So much fun! Have yet to find the hard copy in my neighborhood.

On a side note, yesterday I found the most amazing shoes in a little thrift tucked in the middle of nowheresville, Alberta! Kids and I did a day trip and I scored 2 pairs of peeptoe 1940's shoes and some sizzlin' red patent mod shoes. Pics to come soon!!

Baaaaaaaaaaaccckkk!

Dusting the cobwebs off the old blog here. With Fall just around the corner, I am gearing up for back to school kidlets and more time to do other stuff that I enjoy!

A little peak of some of this Wednesday's ebay auctions for your perusal.


Love the autumn colors here - just like an oil painting. It's sort of a wiggle - bubble dress!! So sweet!


A fab 70's vintage Lanvin shirt dress in great print!! Love the op art feel of this black and white material. Easy to wear. Great size 14 too!


Another Lanvin. This one is silk and has a lovely birds and flowers print on pale gray. Great hip detailing with teeny tiny pleats. Size 8 - but generous!


I heart these boots!! Vintage 80's at it's best. Lipstick red suede, metal toe kicks, belts & buckles and slouchy and pirate-y!! Size 5


Ultra hot!! Tan suede and leather. Ankle pixie boots with straps - size 7.5!!

Reality Tube

Wow...spring is a whirlwind of activity around here with soccer almost every week night, volunteering at school, garage sales every weekend (yay!) and the other miscellaneous goings of of what we call life.

Big season finales are upon us...my faves are the reality ones. Terribly disappointed that Terry didn't win Survivor last night. Looking forward to watching Amazing Race later in the week.

My kids and I only have one thing to say....GO HIPPIES!!!!!!!!!! LOVE those guys. I hope they end up with some kind of travel show of their own. My boys have noticed how they really enjoy life and are so kind to everyone they meet in their travels. Real life role models...I think they totally ROCK! And they wear vintage, so I like them even more for that!

GO HIPPIES!!

Purse Mania!!

So many purses, that I must part with some! Check out my ebay listings.

Signs of Spring...

...have been rampant in our yard!!

Sighting #1 - The 3 white tailed deer in our backyard. I might mention that I live in a city of almost 1 million people, so this is a very nice thing to see around here. The deer scared the crap out of the poor kids!! All they saw were these huge bodies jumping over the retaining wall coming at them!! They stayed, they pooped, they went (the deer, not the boys)!

Sighting #2 - The cutest chubby little mouse! Funny thing is the young cat next door had no idea what to do with it! Poor mouse was freaking out and the cat just played with it...well at one point she was carrying it around in her mouth, but no harm was done. The mousey must have 9 lives!!

Sighting #3 is actually something that we can only hear. We suspect we have a robin's nest in one of our chimneys. Luckily, it is not a fireplace we use! We have had robins in our yard for about 6 years in a row now...I see that they are getting creative!

April Fools Finds!!

My very favorite finds yesterday were this group of absolutely wonderful purses, each so different from the other!!! Love them! Don't know if I can keep though...space dictates that they will most likely be sold. Maybe it will get me motivated to clean out my purse closet to make room!!

Spring Rituals!

I can feel it in the air! The birds have been positively cheery, the gophers are running around in delight and the newspapers are full of church sales!! Every junk hunter eagerly awaits Spring when all the sales begin again...well for those of us who don't live in balmy year round sale conditions anyhow!

My "spidey senses" are tingling and I just can't wait to stand in line on those slightly chilly Spring mornings outside my favorite church sales, big cup of Timmy's in hand!

What will I find?????? You can rest assured I never come home empty handed! Stay tuned!!

I love new technology!

Love this slideshow feature...so much fun!!

Perfectly Pink in Jackie O Style!!

If I was the kind of girl that wore suits, this would be my absolute favorite for Spring!! The color is just the most perfect kind of pink. Such cute styling with a double breasted front and slightly oversized buttons. Just so darn sassy!! It can be found on ebay for a song!!

Am hoping our snow keeps on melting, cause I am just so over winter right now!!

Inspired

Life has been a whirlwind of researching schools and trying to figure out what is best for my 9 (almost 10) year old son. The wonderful world of vintage clothing has taken a backseat as my brain tries to process way too much information on schools and learning styles!!

Last night we went to an information meeting for a Fine Arts school. As I sat there and listened to the presentations given by the principal, students, teachers and parents, my eyes welled up...I knew that this was the place for my son!! It is heaven...a place where uniqueness is applauded, a place where the kids feel like they fit in, a place where you are encouraged to explore the arts and incorporate them into the core subjects, a place where everyone knows your name (or is that Cheers!!)

I wish we would have known about this wonderful school a year ago. It would be easier to get in at the Grade 4 level when the school begins. I will be calling for the application interview as soon as I finish typing this.

Of course, all the wonderful vintage stuff that I could never find a home for would now have one!!!!!

From Film to Fashion

I am sure that many of you fashion lovers are like me, and love to watch certain movies just to see the clothing!!

One of our VFG members Hollis of Past Perfect Vintage has written a fabulous article entitled From Film to Fashionon how costume designers in film have influenced our fashions of the times.

I promise you will just love some of the vintage clothing featured in her article. Simply delicious!!

One of my personal faves is Givenchy for Audrey Hepburn! I would love to hear some of yours!!

Va Va Voom!!

The color combination of pink and black is just so perfect!! One of my very faves, so I am having a hard time letting this fabulous 1950's halter dress go. But as I need shopping money for my upcoming Seattle trip with the girls, on the auction block it goes. I really hope it ends up making a trip to VLV or a swanky gala somewhere in this world cause it's a dress that has to be seen!

So I bring you my Top Five Reasons I love this dress!

1. Pink and black, duh!
2. Halter - my favorite style!
3. Shelf bust - can you say sexy!!!!!!
4. Beading - I have a thing for embellishment of any sort!
5. Full skirt - any chance to wear a huge crinoline and be ultra girly is a good thing!