1966 Bangs and Dazzle Do's

We ended up watching a rerun of what was a network adaption of The Temptation's Motown career on VH1 Classic last night, so while I have my The Supremes, The Comodores and The Temptations LP's lined up on my record player, I thought I'd share with you a really cool hair styling magazine I picked up at the weekend from the same era.

I may I love 1960's music especially Motown, but the fashion and style is a couple of years after my favorite decades, so i'm hoping it finds a lovely new home via etsy. All the images come from the Fall 1966 edition of Hair Trends, a magazine which featured styles by Revlon to Vidal Sassoon which you can see in the final image. All the images are filled with such immense glamour, not only through the hair styles but additionally the make up.

While the styles certainly aren't as "big" as the 70's, they are certainly statement making aren't they?!

Blossom and BBQ's

Michigan springs are pretty much the temperature of English summers, but after the cold winter I forgot just how warm it gets here. The bright sun and the warmth really sets off the blossoms which cover street upon street around these parts which is welcome after how bare the trees were just a couple of weeks ago. So yesterday with another day with temperatures in the mid 80's, we packed up our BBQ and took off to one of the state recreation parks not too far away and ate hot dogs with a lake view. Perfect Sunday indeed.

Date Nights

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Once a week, every week me and Joe have our date night. Going from being in an international long distance relationship for two plus years, to getting married and living together and getting into that routine like married couples do, it's important to keep the dating and the fun, and the together time happening. Date nights are our time, we take leave of our phones (for the most part) turn the computers off and rarely watch the TV (unless we're watching a film). It's us time. It's the time we never had together when we were in an long distance relationship.

Date nights don't have to be expensive, we don't need to impress each other we even break the rules and use vouchers and coupons for meals out. Typically we either go for a meal, try a new place to eat out or go to our old favorite sea food restaurant. Or just order pizza and pig out. We might go see a movie, curl up together on those dreamy new huge AMC reclining seats our local cinema has (seriously it's hard to get out of them they are so darn comfy) or we'll laze on the floor playing records with tea lights everywhere. Even our trips to the zoo our are date days - hence buying membership so we can go often. 

Last week was Iron Man and our favorite seafood restaurant eating out on the patio watching the people go past, tomorrow it's a visit to BD's and then watching The Great Gatsby, and then next week Star Trek (you can see a theme with blockbusters atm right?!). But the fun part, soppy as it sounds is spending time with Joe and remembering how darn lucky I am to have found him. 

We're always on the look out for interesting ideas for date nights so I'd love to hear what you all get up to!