Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Placement Of Butts

Once upon a time, it was common place to park your butts on a pinup’s bottom — as in the case of this vintage ashtray.

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 they were made. But how do you manage to keep all these collections without running out of room for yourself?”
Well, Laura, here’s the painful truth: [...]

Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Soap Opera Challenge, Y&R Edition

Hubby grabbed this 1987 Soap Opera Challenge game for me at a rummage sale this summer for a buck or two and I’ve just now gotten around to attempting to play it.
This particular game in the series by The United States Playing Card Company is based on television’s The Young and the Restless daytime soap. [...]

Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Happy Sacks

If you literally have money you’d like to throw away…
How about some Happy Sacks for your garbage? Celebrate your need for excess with Christmas Pudding and Goldfish trash bags.

Remember, nothing says, “I’m wealthy, break into my house!” like interesting trash.
Found via Fubiz.net.

Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Sewing Hat For A Rainy Day

I’m a dork. I know it, and now you’ll know it too.
When I spotted the cover of this 1975 Simplicity sewing book — “updated!” — I had to have it.

I had to have it because I actually thought that they’d have instructions for how to make the hat. Yes, I thought that 1) the kitschy [...]

Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Lessons From Thrift Store Bookshelves

I know it’s a crappy photo (it’s beginning to be a habit), but at least you’ll believe me when I say that Dr. Phil’s Ultimate Weight Solution and Richard Elliott Friedman Disappearance of God were shelved as “Romance” in the thrift store. Sure, customers could have done it; but that’s no less amusing to [...]

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 silly rhymes sung to melodies from television themes songs — like Hunter’s Boo-Bear, Meet The Boo-Bear based on The Flinstones.The kids used to love it, [...]

Whatjamacallit Wednesday For Bibliophiles

Every book holds a Valentine for book lovers. Every day.

Photo credits: baby, just say yes. by ~iPaintedtheskies.

Whatjamacallit Wednesday, For Fans Of Blowdryers

A vintage (circa 1920’s-1930’s) photo of a model “using a then state of the art modernist hair dryer”; photo taken by illustrator Charles Gates Sheldon.

Somehow, it sort of makes Madonna’s armpit drying scene in Desperately Seeking Susan (even) more poetic, doesn’t it?
(If you’re into that scene, or Madonna in general, Madonna Celebration: The Video Collection [...]

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 the following are odd notes by the curator, or notes from the odd curator.
Upon donning my new bra, making adjustments & checking self out in [...]

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