etsy shop

My Etsy Shop, myeverydayvintage, is being built and will offer vintage pretty and practical vintage items for your home, your trailer and for you! Check it out.

finally ...

Well, it's finally cooled down enough to spend the better part of the morning working in the trailer. Here are some before pics of the interior. The curtains hanging were actually made by the gentleman who sold me the trailer. They are retro style and do indeed look like they belong in this Shasta, but they're not my style. I can, however, appreciate the work that went into making them so I couldn't just toss them. They are listed on ebay if you're interested in purchasing them - starting bid is $8.00. 

Take a look ... 

 The curtains go nicely with the blue rug he installed, but eventually we will take that out, too ... cherry red is more to my liking ... 

 ... and while the style is right for the trailer, they don't let in enough light for me either ... 

 ... if I knew how to sew, I'd try to make my own out of a vintage floral fabric - and my older daughter does know how to sew ...

 but we just washed and ironed some old kitchen curtains for now.

 It's hard to get a good look on a grey day, but they're white Battenburg lace curtains and they add a little charm this old girl was lacking. 

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just a few more exterior pics

So here are just a few more pictures of the exterior of Miss Maggie Mae ... It's finally cooled down enough around here to get some work done on this lovely creature. We'll move her into the backyard to paint the exterior. It's shady back there and probably better for the paint - and us! Waiting for my photographers to come in to take pictures of the interior. I'm using a camera on a phone and the pictures seem to come out just a little too small for posting. More to come very soon ... :)

We plan to paint the exterior a cherry red on the bottom and white on the top. We'll polish the aluminum stripe ... clean up the hitch and I might even paint my propane tank red, too. I've seen that on a few other vintage trailers and it's pretty cool ...

Did some shopping today and picked up drawer liners, a few cooking utensils ... and some pillows. I'll wash the shams I picked up, put them on the pillows then toss them in as soon as we get the place vacuumed and dusted a bit more.I ironed the some pretty white curtains that used to hang in my kitchen windows you see there in the background. I think they'll brighten up the interior nicely. We thought briefly about painting the cabinets, but they're in such good shape we thought we'd leave them as they are - at least for now. We will paint the oven and the icebox with appliance paint and, eventually pull up the carpet thought it's relatively new and in very good shape. I just don't like the blue. I'm hoping to be able to put in a red and white floor myself. I'm sure I can find that on youtube, too! 

read read read

It's been so hot in NY! I'm not complaining - I can't complain ... While I don't usually work in summer, I did take a part time position teaching and I work in an air conditioned classroom. This doesn't happen during the regular school year, by the way. I only work a half day and when I get home I have a pretty pool to jump in to each afternoon ....
But I want to work in my trailer! When I bought it at the very end of June I thought I'd be out there every day because I don't really work in summer and I'd have so much time! I have the time, it's just too hot! ... maybe I am complaining.
I have, however, been reading a lot. There are so many wonderful blogs with not only pretty pictures of fabulous campers, but some really good information and some very practical advice. Check out the Links I Love. Because I've never owned a trailer, everything I read is new to me and I'm grateful they're out there.

getting ready

Well, I haven't spent too much time working on my new project ... it's been so incredibly hot here where I live that it's really hard to be outside if you're not in the pool. Between having a couple of house guests and working summer school and the weather, not much has gotten done regarding the physical labor. I have, however, spent way too much time perusing websites and my favorite magazines for ideas on how to transform my beautiful little trailer. She's ready to roll right now, but I do have some ideas I'd like to put into play.
First, I'd like to paint the trailer. My first choice is pale pink below the silver streak and white above it. My kids are thinking yellow or red ... we settled on a cherry red, but I really love that pink.
One of our local body shop guys came over with his family to take a look and gave me a fair idea of what it would cost to have it professionally painted, but we're probably going to attempt it ourselves. The paint job would have cost more than I paid for the trailer ... just can't do that right now.
Any suggestions regarding painting a trailer would be very much appreciated. We plan on heading to a paint store instead of a big box shop and getting some advice there. We'll buy a sprayer, some blue tape for prep work and aluminum polish as well. It may take a while, but I have some willing volunteers who work for food and I don't mind cooking!
More to come ...

here she is

So here she is ... Maggie Mae ... I was going to name her Pearl ... I had even thought that I'd have my daughter make a fancy "P" with a mermaid tail ... but I kept thinking ...
I had a lot of time to think ... we traveled 4 hours to pick her up and my older daughter slept for half the trip!
Then it came to me ... Maggie Mae ... that'd be perfect ... after all, she's an old girl.  A few miles flew by and I turned on the radio mostly to stay awake as I seldom listen to the radio in the car - I like the quiet ... I'm sure you can guess the name of the song that was playing ... it was settled.

Three weeks prior I had seen a few ladies selling their wares at the Country Living Fair in rhinebeck, NY. They had such pretty little travel trailers all cottaged up and I thought ... I want to do that! Of course, I have a real job and doing things like that is very realistic, but I started looking anyway ... reality in the past year hasn't been very pleasant and because life is short, I thought if you want one, get it now ... you can always sell it if you change your mind. Besides that, my sister, who's the wise one of the two of us told me to go for it!
I searched craigslist locally then moved up to Albany, down to Northern Jersey, over to Western Mass ... before i knew it, i was in Binghamton then even further west in New York ... yikes!
But it was love at first sight ... towed her home and I plan to make her even prettier ...
stay tuned for more pics and the makeover :)