collecting Archive

3November 12, 2009
Cheap Thrills Thursday: Discarded Stockings Go To War & End Up At The Hingham Shipyard

Awhile ago, folks working on The Launch at the historic Hingham Shipyard, contacted me about one of my pieces of ephemera, a page from Modern Woman Magazine (Volume 12, Number…
0October 30, 2009
History Is Ephemeral, Issue #7

Welcome to edition number seven of the History Is Ephemeral Carnival, where ephemera lovers share the history behind their obsessions. If you’ve got posts about old paper and other ephemera,…
2October 26, 2009
Sign Of The Times: A Fishy Ephemera Hunt

I confess, I kill a lot of time just looking at the old snapshots and vintage photos at eBay. Sometimes I buy them, sometimes they inspire odd comments and random…
0October 20, 2009
Weekly Geeks: Organization & Inspiration

This week’s Weekly Geek is “Tools Of The Trade”: Book blogging, as a concept, is essentially pretty simple: If you have Internet access and an opinion about a book, you…
9October 15, 2009
History Is Ephemeral Carnival, 6th Edition (A Thursday Thirteen Edition)

Welcome to edition number six of the History Is Ephemeral Carnival, where ephemera lovers share the history behind their obsessions. (If you’ve got posts about old paper and other ephemera,…
1October 15, 2009
Grandma Was A Swinger: Estate Sales & The Ephemera Of Women’s Lives

I have a habit of making stories from nearly anything. I see a person on the street, I give him or her a name, an occupation, a mood, a spouse…
4October 13, 2009
Brown-Baggin’ It With An Anthology Based On Found Ephemera

Requiem for a Paper Bag: Celebrities and Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Found Items from Around the World is a Found Anthology put together by Davy…
0October 12, 2009
Romancing The Van: Ephemera Proves There’s Someone For Everyone

Two years ago, hubby and went to the junk yard to get replacement doors for our van, Ookla. I was utterly fascinated with the junk yard itself and was almost…
3October 5, 2009
She-Ra: Princess of Power, Feminist Icon

I’m old. I have no knowledge of 80′s toys which has not occurred as an adult — He-Man included. But I’m fascinated that younger kids – girls — had some…
1October 1, 2009
Cheap Thrills Thursday: Of Storks In My Collection & Contraception

A few months ago, a gentleman contacted me about one of the items in my “vintage stork” collection. The antique postcard, postmarked 1908, depicts a couple shoo-ing away a baby-delivering…
0September 10, 2009
Cheap Thrills Thursday: Shabby Gnome Chic

OK, so we didn’t make a lot of money at our rummage sale this year — but we did empty our house of a lot of clutter. However, I did…
0September 9, 2009
Odd Curator’s Notes & Whatjamacallit Wednesday

Consider it stuff I could have tweeted if I weren’t so long-winded & too lazy to work within the 140 character limit; yes, you can take the title to mean…
2September 8, 2009
The Serendipity Of Teaser Tuesday

I just discovered Teaser Tuesday via Tina, the Creative Nerd and I decided to “play along” because the serendipity gods were with me this week — look at the lovely…
5September 3, 2009
Weekly Geeks: One Title, Multiple Copies

This week’s Weekly Geek is about a collection of books of one particular title: [T]ell us, do you have a collection, (or are you starting a collection,) of one particular…
1September 3, 2009
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…
2August 28, 2009
Weekly Geek: Why Haven’t I Read This Yet?

I’m leaving early tomorrow morning for the weekend, and even though I had Friday’s post scheduled, when I spotted this week’s Weekly Geek question, “Why Haven’t I Read This Yet?”,…
2August 21, 2009
Just Who Destroys Books & Libraries?

After reading So Many Books: Reading & Publishing in an Age of Abundance, I was delighted to serendipitously discover a copy of A Universal History of the Destruction of Books:…
2August 19, 2009
So Many Books, So Little Time

“So many books, so little time,” is the common lament of book readers and compulsive book buyers like myself who snap up paperbacks like this discarded library copy for 50…
0August 12, 2009
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…
2August 10, 2009
Have You Been… To The Smithsonian?

The Smithsonian Institution was founded on this date (August 10th) in 1846. Named for British scientist James Smithson, who willed his fortune to the U.S. to establish the institution, today…
8August 4, 2009
Remembering Retro Risque T-Shirt Iron-Ons

Back in the day, you couldn’t go to a mall and avoid a visit to (or the smell of) the t-shirt shop. There you could select your t-shirt style (ringers…