Moonstruck Vintage

11/19/2021

It’s Bristol Baby! All set up and ready for Vintage Market Days of the Tri Cities ! It’s been a long time, but it feels great to be doing a show again!

04/12/2020

Blessed Easter friends!

04/05/2020

03/29/2020

What to do when isolating...

What to do during the quarantine? Reenact famous paintings! ⁠ It's an Instagram challenge using the hashtag — which means 'between art and quarantine'!

03/28/2020

Thank you to all of the amazing nurses out there who are putting their own health at risk to help our communities through this crisis! We salute you!

08/27/2019

Channeling my inner in this amazing antique piano shawl. Available now in my Etsy shop! update: SOLD!

08/10/2019

It’s back to school for millions of college students around the country and we have the perfect 1950s era Mini Pennants for your favorite Universities! These fun collectible pennants were originally a promotional item from Hormel chili. On sale 20% off right now in the Moonstruck Etsy shop! Link in profile

04/03/2019

These lovely miniature shoes with silk embroidered flowers are beautiful to look at, but are the legacy of painful Chinese practice of foot binding.

Although I first heard of footbinding more than 20 years ago in the excellent book Wild Swans, and I had seen photos of the tiny shoes, I was unprepared for the reality of how small these shoes were. Especially when putting them next to my own foot. It was truly shocking....

For nearly 1000 years tiny feet were a cultural beauty ideal of the Chinese. To achieve feet that ideally measured no more than 4" long girls were subjected to a brutal and painful process that mutilated and deformed the foot to stop it from growing and attain the coveted "lotus foot".

Generations of Chinese women were essentially hobbled as the foot binding process began as young as age 4 with the process of breaking the bones and arch of the foot and wrapping tightly with bindings. When the girl's foot would begin to grow the process would be repeated.

Bound feet became a mark of wealth and status. Some felt that a girl must have bound feet in order to be considered eligible for a good marriage.

After several failed attempts, in 1912 the practice was officially outlawed by the Chinese government, but persisted in rural areas for several decades.

Researching these shoes was very thought provoking and disturbing, particularly because this practice was performed on young children who had no choice in the matter. I couldn’t help but think of how future generations will view today’s cosmetic procedures as strange and barbaric forms of body modification.

03/30/2019

I was the 4th person in line at the estate sale, but my intended target purchase was sadly scooped up by the first person through the doors. On the bright side, my consolation prize was this lovely portrait.

03/17/2019

Slainte!