Save your stamps!
Posted: November 26, 2014 Filed under: Fun Finds, Memories | Tags: Plaid Stamps, the way we were Comments Off on Save your stamps!While I’m waiting for an apple-cranberry pie to finish baking, and for BluesRay to make it home through the first snowfall of the season, here’s a little bit of vintage goodness.
If you’re old enough, you remember these!
Don’t you love the Barbie doll-like Scots lassie?
Look inside for more vintage stampy goodness!
What does it say about me that the object I loved most at Sage Farm was . . . a vintage air compressor?
Posted: November 23, 2014 Filed under: Fun Finds, Sage Farm | Tags: Montgomery Ward, RED, vintage air compressor 7 Comments
Don’t even answer that, okay?
Because I already KNOW I’m weird, okay?
Seriously, how do I love this thing? Let me count the ways.
Click here to find out how I fell in love with an air compressor.
I fell for Tiki with a full metal zipper
Posted: November 14, 2014 Filed under: Fun Finds | Tags: Tiki, vintage 2 CommentsWould you take this fabulous Tiki fabric to the thrift store?
Tiki with fake batik print. It sure caught my eye!
I’m glad someone did–because now it’s MINE. (Okay, it will eventually end up at The Vintage Bazaar so YOU can adopt it.)
Would you believe I found even MORE tiny vintage table toppers?
Posted: November 12, 2014 Filed under: Fun Finds, Vintage tablecloths | Tags: patchwork, Startex, vintage tablecloth, vintage tablecloths, Wilendur 5 CommentsI never expect to find vintage tablecloths when I’m thrift shopping, but the past few months have been exceptionally surprising. Would you like to see my newest tiny table toppers?
First up, a bright sailcloth piece with Wilendur-style pattern blocks. (It doesn’t have a pink stain. I took a crummy photo. No one will pin it on Pinterest now.)
It’s 30″ long and was cut from yardage 36″ wide. Two edges are hemmed, the other two are selvages.
How far would you go to salvage vintage linoleum?
Posted: November 7, 2014 Filed under: Favorite shops, Fun Finds | Tags: art, vintage linoleum 2 CommentsWould you go five miles? Fifty? How about all of 10,000 miles?
Honestly, I wouldn’t go THAT far, so I had it sent to me instead. I bought a piece of art made from recycled linoleum and other vintage goodies from BettyJo Designs in Melbourne, Australia. Here’s a peek:
Bits of speckled and solid linoleum and stacks of vintage buttons
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