AGELESS STYLE is a JOINT EFFORT DONE BY Cindy Hattersley and myself once a month.We both find women who have a style all their own and have to be over 50 years of age.We create questions for them to answer and change those questions up monthly.It would be so kind of you to pop over to CINDY’s BLOG to view her gal.

AS WELL AS READING ABOUT MY PICK FOR THE MONTH!

I will give the link at the bottom of the post to CINDY’s BLOG!

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QUESTIONS:

ASKED TO ME YOUR CONTESSA

BY SANDRA SALLIN

My Southern California Girlfriend!

 

1.WERE YOU CREATIVE AS A CHILD?

I guess you could say that……………I was always building BARNS and wanting MORE animals.I wrote a MAGAZINE called PET MAGAZINE drew all the pictures and captioned them and I believe it SOLD for 25 cents then went up to 50 cents! I WAS VERY PROUD OF MY PRICE INCREASE DUE TO MORE SUBSCRIBERS! My audience increased as issues were printed..My Father would mail from his office.This was around age 10.I was also digging a tunnel to CHINA with my neighbor with those small shovels called SPADES!We would spend hours doing that.We also liked to go HIKING to a water tower down a dirt road with our lunch in a bandana tied to a stick! Just like Tom Sawyer  and HUCKLEBERRY FINN. Have a picnic and head home.

I would put on plays in our BASEMENT with the NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS!

I LOVED DOING THAT!

I THINK I WAS ALWAYS THE STAR AND THE DIRECTOR!

NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!!

 AS MY FAMILY SAYS “MOM IT’S ALWAYS ABOUT YOU!”

 I OF COURSE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT FOR A SECOND!

 

2. WERE YOUR PARENTS CREATIVE?

NOPE not at all……….

 3.WHERE DID YOUR CREATIVITY COME FROM?

MAYBE television as I liked GREEN ACRES with ZSA ZSA GABOR.

The dilapidated farmhouse spoke to me on that show, plus the jewels and hats.

I Could NOT watch LASSIE as it was too sad for me. Loved the puppet show with SHERRI LEWIS and her LAMBCHOP………..and of course

I ADORED I LOVE LUCY and THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW for the HUMOR.

Toss in GUNSMOKE and BONANZA TOO!

 (FOR THE ANIMALS!)

OH that MICHAEL LANDON on BONANZA!

WE SHARED THE SAME BIRTHDAY!

 MY PASSION back then was ANIMALS not so much CREATIVITY!

 I WANTED TO BE A VET!

4.HAVE YOU ALWAYS HAD STYLE?

I loved going back to school as I would get NEW CLOTHES!

That was SO EXCITING FOR ME……..so you could say I was in the IN CROWD as far as that years FASHION trends.

5.WERE YOU THE MOST STYLISH 10 YEAR OLD AT SCHOOL?

I would say NO!

As I was very TALL for MY AGE and VERY VERY SHY so more gangly than fashionable.

6.WHEN DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH STYLISH CLOTHES?

 I ALWAYS read the fashion magazines even as a young girl.WE would go to the DRUGSTORE and sit on the floor and take it all in.I would say I liked the creativity of the photograph more than the fashion.As I became a teenager I LOVED the bit in the back of the women’s magazines with people from EUROPE and their HOMES!MY AUNT received COUNTRY LIFE and I would devour the homes FOR SALE in the last pages!I would always ask myself if I could have just ONE home which would it be!It was always a TOSS UP between an OLD COTTAGE or a beautiful GRAND VILLA.

IT WAS HARD FOR ME TO CHOOSE!

7.DID WORKING FOR GUCCI AFFECT YOUR STYLE?

NO and actually I worked for the DISTRIBUTOR of the GUCCI ACCESSORY COLLECTION in the USA and CANADA not THE FAMILY.

Then they added FENDI and MARK CROSS to the DISTRIBUTION.

What that meant was we sold to all the speciality stores and UPSCALE Department stores across the country.

OUR BOSS WAS ITALIAN AND STARTED OUT AT JOSEPH MAGNIN’S.

YOU COULD SAY SHE WAS THE Anna Wintour OF THE 1980’S!

HOWEVER

 The GUCCI’s were friends of THE ITALIAN’s FAMILY!

He rode dirt bikes with one and we had dinners with others

and of course they were at THE WEDDING at San Miniato al MONTE.

8. WHAT WAS IT LIKE GROWING UP AS A 6 FOOT WOMAN?

AWFUL I was 5’11” about 118 pounds in HIGH SCHOOL.I can remember eating cottage cheese with pineapples for lunch in High School as I was a ballet dancer and we had to be thin.I think I was 110 pounds most of the time.IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL I was teased a lot for being the tallest.They called me RANKINENSTEIN a take on FRANKENSTEIN and would always pair me with JEFF Radovitch a BOY who was taller than me.(How I can recall his LAST name is beyond me!!!)

9. WHEN DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH ANTIQUES?

From a VERY YOUNG AGE.

I would shop with my Mother as she loved to go……..HUNTING!

But looking back I think I bought more stuff then she did!

MY first COLLECTIONS were OLD KEYS AND OLD BOTTLES.

 Which I still have a few!

You see I hardly ever TOSS anything or give anything away!

Once its MINE IT STAYS MINE!

 I HAVE ONLY BOUGHT ITEMS AND CLOTHING THAT “SPEAK TO ME”.

Maybe thats part of being an EMPATH?!!

QUESTIONS:

FROM MY Northern Californian FRIEND PAT!

 

1.WE KNOW YOU LOVE ITALY.

IF YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO LIVE THERE AGAIN,WHERE WOULD YOUR FARMHOUSE BE?

MOST LIKELY IN TUSCANY.

AS I ALWAYS WANTED AN OLD BARN OR FARMHOUSE CALLED A CASA COLONICA TO LIVE IN.
SICILY ALSO CALLS TO ME AS I ADORE THE WATER………

2.YOU MUST HAVE HAD A MAGICAL CHILDHOOD.WHAT IS ONE OF YOUR FONDEST MEMORIES?

MAGICAL NO!

I GREW UP WITH AN IMAGINATION AS I WAS AN ONLY CHILD WITH OLDER PARENTS.

I WAS OLDER THAN MY YEARS AS I WAS HOME A LOT AND DID THINGS WITH MY MOTHER.

3.YOU’VE WELCOMED SO MANY FURRY AND FEATHERED FRIENDS INTO YOUR HOME,CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT WHAT THEY ADD TO YOUR LIFE?

DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE CRITTER?(WE WILL NOT TELL THE OTHERS!)

WITHOUT THE FURRY AND FEATHERED CREATURES;

I THINK I WOULD BE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT PERSON.

ANIMALS BRING SO MUCH JOY!

AS far as a FAVORITE I have ALWAYS been a CAT person.

THE LOVE THEY GIVE IS INCOMPARABLE.

 

4.WHAT ABOUT THE ITALIAN,DOES HE LOVE THE CRITTERS AS MUCH AS YOU DO,

OR IS HE JUST ALONG FOR THE RIDE?

YES, THE ANIMALS HAVE GROWN ON HIM, BUT HE WAS ALWAYS A DOG LOVER ESPECIALLY OF BOXERS.

ONLY because HE GREW UP WITH THEM.

THE LEAST FAVORITE for him are CATS.

  POOR THEODORE!

WHAT IS IT ABOUT MEN AND NOT BONDING WITH CATS?

HAVE YOU ALL SEEN THAT REACTION also?

(Dinner time so let’s BE IN THE WAY!CLOSE TO MOM!)

Note Banksy likes to pull The Dish towel down to rest his HEAD!

5.YOU’RE KNOWN FOR THROWING BEAUTIFUL DINNER PARTIES THAT SEEM EFFORTLESS

…….what’s your secret to gracious living?

THE ITALIAN!

HE COOKS AND SERVES BEAUTIFULLY!

I THINK A LOT OF HIS TRAINING WAS FROM THE NAVAL ACADEMY HE WENT TO IN ITALY DURING HIS COLLEGE YEARS………DEPORTMENT was taught and MANNERS, otherwise is was a gazillion pushups!

6.WHAT ADVISE WOULD YOU GIVE TO SOMEONE LOOKING TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN SENSE OF STYLE?

DONOT WORRY ABOUT WHAT OTHERS THINK ABOUT YOU.

AGE 40 is the BEST DECADE.

I think you are old enough to Understand  THE WORLD and how it OPERATES.

You aren’t afraid of others or feel you have to keep up with the JONES!

MAYBE ON VACATIONS OR VISITING MY Relatives and living with my COUSIN;

 I AM DRAWN TO THE WAY THEY DID THINGS.

I HAVE READ A LOT AND SEEN THE EUROPEAN WAY OF LIFE AND THAT HAS LEFT A BIG IMPRESSION ON ME.

7.WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR JOIE DE VIVIRE?

THAT IS A DAM GOOD QUESTION!

I WRITE THE WAY I SPEAK SO THE CAPS ARENOT ME YELLING ONLY MY ENTHUSIASM OR EXCITEMENT FOR WHAT I AM SPEAKING ABOUT.

BOTTOM LINE I WRITE THE WAY I TALK AND I HAVE A VERY HIGH PITCHED VOICE; I HAVE NEVER LIKED.

I ALSO AM VERY SHY.

 YES!

BELIEVE IT!

IT’S TRUE!

SO how did I end up with all this JOY……. ?

That JOIE DE VIVIRE

 must come from MY PASSIONS.

 Writing this BLOG is one of them!

8.IF YOU COULD TIME TRAVEL WOULD YOU GO BACK TO THE PAST

OR

OUT TO FUTURE?

WHERE WOULD YOU GO?

PAST!!!

I HATE WHERE WE ARE HEADED.I DISLIKE WHAT I SEE………NOW.

Why are we spending tons of dollars on space when people are starving and have poor health and drinking water?

HELP THOSE AROUND YOU!

DO NOT go off on another EXPLORATION!

LEWIS AND CLARK already did THAT amoungest many others!

For example:Christopher COLUMBUS!

9.OKAY SAYS PAT QUICK QUESTIONS:

Recent books that you have enjoyed

ANNA

 BY Amy Odell

and

EMPRESS of FASHION

 By AMANDA STUART

FAVORITE MOVIE?

OH THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION; AS I HAVE NOT BEEN OUT TO THE MOVIES IN YEARS.

Can I say BRIDGERTON and THE CROWN?

FAVORITE GUILTY PLEASURE?

MC DONALD’s

Quarter pounder with CHEESE and a large FRY!

 DO THEY STILL MAKE NESTLE CRUNCH CHOCOLATE BARS?

 

FAVORITE LOCAL SHOP!

ORINDA BOOKS.

Because my buddy PAT OWNS and WORKS  there and I can stop in to BUG HER!

FAVORITE Flower?

Hard ONE………..PEONY OR TULIP I would say.

FAVORITE DECADE?

1980’s

FAVORITE SONG OR MUSICIAN?

Any ITALIAN OPERA singer…

IL DIVO

or

PAVAROTTI and ANDREA BOTTICELLI.

 

PLEASE WATCH THIS SHORT VIDEO ON WOMEN!

I GUARANTEE YOU WILL LEARN SOMETHING!