On "Summer at Tiffany": A Book Review

Title: Summer at Tiffany
Author: Marjorie Hart
Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir

About the book...
During the summer of 1945 Marjorie Jacobson and her friend Marty Garrett head to New York City to find work as shop girls and live there for a few months before returning to the University of Iowa in the fall. Recounting her experiences, readers get a taste of what it was like to be young and in New York for the first time. 

What I think...
Reading this was like taking a mini vacation to 1945 New York.  The way this book was written, you can tell this time in Hart's life was one that she truly treasures and results in a very sweet autobiography.

I found it fascinating to learn more about Tiffany and how the store functioned at the time. Marjorie and Marty were the first women on the floor as pages putting them in uncharted territory and resulting in some rather amusing mishaps. Hart shares several fun stories about things that happened to her and some of the famous people she encountered, my favorite (and according to the book, a favorite of her family) being about opening a box she was taking to a different department in the elevator, loose pearls going everywhere, and an up and down mad scramble to collect them before they fell through the gap between the door and the floor.

While the book doesn't focus on it being war time, there is a thread running through it with recollections and memories of VJ day being included along with adventures they had going out with the midshipmen, which were interesting and fun to read. 

As a lovely accompaniment to the text, there are glossy page inserts of photos and store sketches!

To sum it all up...
A short biography, that's perfect for history lovers and a nice read for a summer's day!♥

On A Few Wonderland Ornaments: A Photo Post

I bought these about a month ago and decided rather than save them to share in December along with the rest of my Alice ornament collection, today I would go with a Christmas in July themed Photo Post.

I managed to find these three in one bunch. There are a few larger sized (as in about 4 inches versus the little 1 inch wooden ones) wooden Wonderland sets that you see around regularly, but I had never seen these ones before and am actually quite curious to know if there might be more that go with them.

 

I'm very taken with this particular King of Hearts, his mustache, and bright yellow outfit!  

 

 

Then there's this four Christmas Hatter with his teapot, which I thought was awfully cute!   

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