Mid-Century Holiday decorating ideas (and a few more blogs to visit)!

Retro Roadtrip: The Sunset Motel

We love personal recommendations for motels – one of the great reasons to stay a place is that you’ve heard positive feedback. This past week, we put a request out on the Route 66 Yahoo group and got some amazing feedback about The Sunset Motel in Moriarty, New Mexico. We “have gotten to know Mike and Debbie Pogue. The Sunset is one of those best kept secrets on Route 66. The Pogues are great people

Futuro Houses

After having this picture (below) go viral on our Facebook page, we decided to conduct further investigation into their history. There are several sites dedicated to tracking the whereabouts of current houses as well as the history of them. Here’s what we found in brief: The Futuro, or Futuro House, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen made in the late 60’s and 70’s. Completely furnished and could accommodate 8 people, it was originally

Mid-Century Photo Friday: It’s Cocktail time!

Happy Friday! We ran across this fabulous ad on our Pinterest page! It inspired us to post a Whiskey Sour Recipe for our Friday afternoon libations! There’s even a video over on About.com on how to make one! Whiskey Sour: Prep Time: 2 minutes Total Time: 2 minutes Yield: 1 Cocktail Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz whiskey 1 1/2 oz lemon juice 3/4 oz sugar syrup Maraschino cherry for garnish Preparation: Pour the whiskey, lemon juice,

Mid Century Modern Quilts

Due to my new fancy new-fangled scheduling system, this post went out a tad (ok, without me writing it) early! Oooops! For those of you who don’t know, I love needlework, quilting and mid-century, so of course, this fabulous project/blog caught my eye: The Mid-Mod Quilt Bee! The description on the site is “Quilters using mid-century modernism as a touchstone as they create quilts together.” Blocks are assigned monthly and I have to say they’re