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A Poignant Pause
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Thoughts On Gypsy Rose Lee
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A Different Kind Of Convertible
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Going To Hell In A Handbag?
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Winning The Book On Fashion
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A Poignant Pause
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Thoughts On Gypsy Rose Lee
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A Different Kind Of Convertible
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Going To Hell In A Handbag?
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Winning The Book On Fashion
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Saluting General Kitsch Archive
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Choke On Your Chocolate Cigars, Someone’s Having A Baby
From the days of yore, when tobacco was cool… Upgrade from candy cigarettes, or announce the birth of a new baby, with candy from this antique cigar chocolate mold.
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Hiss & Spray, From My Books, Please Stay Away
I love these vintage cast iron cat bookends — their snarling faces and their wide-to-the-side ears are a warning to those who would handle my books without purr-mission or without…
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Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Waste (Can) Not, Want (Can) Not?
In response to my Gadabout post (about a vintage composition dog), Laura (of Doodle Week) said, “I really like how you know all this stuff about old things and how…
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Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Myrtle The Turtle
My mother is the one who started it, this tradition of making up silly songs to sing to your kids. I’ve twisted it onto singing songs about my children, usually…
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Reporting On The Mayan Predicted Demise Of Our Planet
Early in 2010, Greta Sandler smelled the green, envisioning great commercial success in the “green” environmental movement. She cut and pasted digitally merged Shamanistic traditions and historical beauty tips, “recycling”…
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She Would Like To RIM You Once Or Twice Before Bed
Apparently in 1927 that involved the use of tweezers. Whaaat? It’s an old Italian bon bon ad. Sheesh you guys.
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Cheap Thrills Thursday: Throwing Out Body Issues
They say you can tell a lot about a culture by their garbage — “they” being anthropologists, social scientists, & historians (their amateur varieties too), folks who monitor consumerism, as…
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Whatjamacallit Wednesday: The Flirty Red Retro Octopus
Check out Miss Flirty the octopus, a retro sawdust-stuffed red velveteen plush toy from someone’s past: Wearing nothing but a jaunty hat, a seed bead choker necklace, pouty lips and…
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Is Fabric Swatch Friday Throwing In The Towel?
Even though I skip a week every now & then, Fabric Swatch Fridays is still alive and well — but this week, we’re looking at vintage & retro kitchen towels…
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Cheap Thrills Thursday: Lessons In Literacy With Strawberry Shortcake
Let’s see… When this Kid Stuff Records book (copyright 1980) & record (copyright 1981) set of Strawberry Shortcake’s Day in the Country came out, I would have been 16 or…
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Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Prohibition That’s Wry, Not Dry
At Encore Ephemera, a 1960′s ad for Canada Dry beverages (Ginger Ale, Club Soda & Quinine Water) which “makes pun” of prohibition even while it suggests adding vodka — I…
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Whatjamacallit Wednesday Is Nearly Cheap Thrills Thursday
Shopping in an antique mall, there are many charming things to distract one from one’s mission — if one had a mission. Which I usually don’t. I just let serendipity…
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Pepsi Logo Is Actaully A Fat Guy’s Stomach
I’m a Diet Coke girl, myself; so when I saw Lawrence Yang’s response to Pepsi’s logo, I really, really enjoyed it. *wink*
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Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Your Dreams Explained
Straight out of the 1940′s, “Your Dreams Explained.” There’s no copyright, printer, company or artist information on this small vintage booklet; but it smacks of the greeting card slash humor…
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Cheap Thrills Thursday: The Bear Facts
I got this vintage mechanical wind-up bear toy at a rummage sale at an old folks home senior living center; I paid a whopping 10 cents for it. When I…
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These Penguins Are Peachy!
OK, I know I’ve posted a couple of times already today; but while unwinding from writing a really in-depth post of the non-frivolous variety (hence the necessary unwinding frivolity), I…
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Mushroom Mondays: Orange Fungi Cookie Jar
About as classic 70′s as you can get: a cookie jar with orange mushrooms.
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Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife – Exposed!
In contrast to the many products inspired by or incorporating vintage & retro images of female domesticity that only really offer humor, Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife: All the…
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Fabric Swatch Fridays Is Becoming A Circus
I’d love me some Braemore Le Cirque Sky curtains — but an apron is more likely.
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Police Woman: The Long Octopus Arms Twarting Female Police Detectives
Most of us tend to think of Angie Dickinson when we think of police women — and it’s not just because she was Sgt. Suzanne “Pepper” Anderson on Police Woman…
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Clarity For Those Wearing Beer Goggles?
They say you can’t find the answers in the bottom of your beer bottle, but maybe you’ll find the answers you seek when you use this retro Magic 8 Ball…
