** Linking up with Apron Thrift Girl's Thrift Share Monday - if I can figure out how to do it! hehe
Monday, March 26, 2012
The thrift gods sent me a new clock radio!
And not just any clock radio - the exact General Electric "wake to music" AM alarm clock radio that I have been stalking online for several months now. I never pulled the trigger and actually bought one, because the little voice in my head kept saying, you will find one out at the sales - just be patient... It paid off, because I found one at an estate sale for the big big price of $3.00!
My parents had a very similar one next to their bed when I was a kid - I have fond memories of listening to it, especially the show Desperate and Dateless on Friday nights. Does anyone remember that show? I remember thinking it was hilarious, and that it was just a tiny bit scandalous for a little kid to be listening to it...
Anyway, my new radio works like a dream, and I couldn't be happier. The only bad thing seems to be that there are only two AM stations that come through clearly - so this morning I was jerked awake by the voice of Rush Limbaugh... If that won't get you to roll over and turn the alarm off I don't know what will! ;)
** Linking up with Apron Thrift Girl's Thrift Share Monday - if I can figure out how to do it! hehe
** Linking up with Apron Thrift Girl's Thrift Share Monday - if I can figure out how to do it! hehe
Saturday, March 17, 2012
New goodness at auction on eBay this week!
I didn't get everything that I scored at the auction last week listed, but I did make a decent dent - have a look and you will see why I called it a wonderland of kitsch and craziness! ;) I hope to get the rest of what I won listed this coming week, so stay tuned!
There's more - click on over to check out the rest! :)
Thursday, March 15, 2012
The World's Largest Vintage Table Lamp - It's Mine!
My dad's auctioneer friend had an auction last week and I went a little nuts bidding. It was a wonderland of kitsch and craziness that I just couldn't resist! I won't even bother to sing the blues to you all about the great stuff I lost, because I managed to come away with enough goodness to make me quite the happy camper... It is all getting listed for sale of course (look for a post on that stuff this weekend!) except for this:
It is the world's largest vintage table lamp. No, really - the thing is a full 60" (5 feet!) tall from the bottom to the top of the shade. The body is ceramic, and there is a glass globe that the shade sits on. (The shade itself measures a whopping 19" across and 25" tall!) I wish I could have gotten a better photo of it, but the light in my office is terrible - hence my decision to bid on the world's largest table lamp. It does help quite a bit - and it has a 3-way switch so if I don't want it full on I can tone it down a bit.
The only thing I can think is that it was designed to sit on one of those low to the ground mid-century end tables. I don't think it was meant to be a floor lamp - I mean it looks like a table lamp in every other regard, except for its ridiculous size. Whatever the deal is, it doesn't really matter - I'm in love and I declare it an $11.00 well spent! :)
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Vintage Thoth Tarot Card Deck By Aleister Crowley On eBay Now!
I was browsing the bookshelves at an estate sale a week or so ago, and noticed this little white box nestled among some paperback books. Lucky for me I decided to pull it out and see what it was - turns out it was a fairly rare vintage OTO Thoth tarot card deck designed by none other than Aleister Crowley!
Researching it proved a challenge, as there seems to be some confusion about the publication dates on these older decks... The best I could pin down is it could be from as early as 1969, or from sometime in the 70's. The cards are in excellent condition and the artwork (by artist Frieda Harris) is gorgeous. If you are into this kind of thing head on over and check it out - it's one of those things you just don't find every day! :)
Researching it proved a challenge, as there seems to be some confusion about the publication dates on these older decks... The best I could pin down is it could be from as early as 1969, or from sometime in the 70's. The cards are in excellent condition and the artwork (by artist Frieda Harris) is gorgeous. If you are into this kind of thing head on over and check it out - it's one of those things you just don't find every day! :)
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
New On Etsy - Pin-Up Girls & More!
Hey everyone, first off I have to say that I'm sorry I haven't been posting very often lately... I've been neglecting all of my blogs, not just this one, so please don't feel particularly insulted - it's not you, it's me, I swear! ;) My job schedule has changed so I am getting used to that, and also I've just not really felt like posting - does that ever to happen to anyone else? I guess when you blog for YEARS your enthusiasm for it is bound to dip at least sometimes...
But, I'm here now, and I have some really fun stuff to share with you that I've listed on Etsy recently... My favorites are the great 1960s pin-up girls I scored - I've never seen any quite like them before! All of them are covered with a plastic sheet that says Lift Here in the bottom right hand corner. The girls' clothes and other accessories are printed on the plastic. When you lift up the plastic, the girls are nude underneath - clever!
But, I'm here now, and I have some really fun stuff to share with you that I've listed on Etsy recently... My favorites are the great 1960s pin-up girls I scored - I've never seen any quite like them before! All of them are covered with a plastic sheet that says Lift Here in the bottom right hand corner. The girls' clothes and other accessories are printed on the plastic. When you lift up the plastic, the girls are nude underneath - clever!
There is one of the girls that makes me kind of go Hmmmm.... It's the hair (wig?) - I can't decide what the deal is with it... What do you all think? Just a VERY poor styling choice? Maybe the new guy was in that day or something?
I did list some less risque things as well - including a lot of 1940s Flower Bouquet prints by Jean-Louis Prevost. They are SO pretty, very hard to part with!
Also new to the shop are some star constellation charts I rescued from an old astronomy textbook from 1946 - really cool and I love the blue background on them!
Stay tuned, I am really trying to tackle the backlog of paper I have waiting to be listed on Etsy - I tend to shop like there are 3 of me to list stuff! ;)
Friday, February 17, 2012
Huge LAST CHANCE Sale On eBay This Week!
Since I haven't done a clean out of old, unsold inventory in quite a while, I decided to take advantage of the 7 DAYS (!!) of free auction listings on eBay to have a LAST CHANCE sale. Can you believe I had stuff in my stores that I originally listed back in 2009? Crazy! Time flies when you're having fun and all that, apparently... ;)
These auctions are literally the last chance you online folks will have at these items - and I started them all nice and cheap, most of them at $4.95. And there is some GREAT stuff too, definitely a few things that fall into the "unsold mysteries" category!
Before I show you some of the items that are part of the sale, I did list a few new goodies that I want to make sure you see:
These auctions are literally the last chance you online folks will have at these items - and I started them all nice and cheap, most of them at $4.95. And there is some GREAT stuff too, definitely a few things that fall into the "unsold mysteries" category!
Before I show you some of the items that are part of the sale, I did list a few new goodies that I want to make sure you see:
What do you all think of my new white bead board photo background, by the way? It's not perfect - the board was salvaged from my parent's bathroom re-do, so there wasn't a piece large enough for the backdrop, hence the dark gaps... but I think I kind of like it, though I still have some lighting issues to work out...
Ok, on to the sale items... I think I pulled out about 150 things, so of course there is no way I could show them all here - if you want to see everything, just click on over to check it all out! Here are just a few of the biggest "unsold mysteries" - things that I really love, and have NO CLUE why they haven't sold. Hopefully they will this time! ::fingers crossed::
Saturday, February 11, 2012
New goodness at auction on eBay this week!
This week I tackled a long procrastinated project - sorting through the hundreds of vintage photos I've stockpiled over the last several months. I needed to go through them all and pick out which ones I wanted to list individually in my vintage photo shop on Etsy. Talk about a job... I did it though - so look for some new stuff to be added to that much neglected little shop of mine soon!
I did pull out a few photos to list at auction on eBay:
And I put all the rest that didn't make the cut for Etsy into one big lot of 400 photos... If you collect or use old pictures in your artwork or decorating, here is your chance to grab a bunch at a great price!
I did pull out a few photos to list at auction on eBay:
And I put all the rest that didn't make the cut for Etsy into one big lot of 400 photos... If you collect or use old pictures in your artwork or decorating, here is your chance to grab a bunch at a great price!
By the way, I have a board on Pinterest where I am collecting fun ways to decorate with old photos - titled, quite obviously, Vintage Photo Displays. No points for creativity there... ;) If you are on Pinterest, click over to my main page and hit the Follow button, and I'll do the same for you!
I listed a few other goodies at auction as well - my stock of auction worthy items is pretty low right now, as usual for this time of year. But, I managed to get a few up, and I hit a few sales yesterday (yay!) so I should be listing some more this week - stay tuned!
Sunday, January 29, 2012
New On eBay - 1970's Heavy Metal Magazines
Here is a find that I had to almost literally pry out of my boyfriend Will's greedy fingers - a big lot of 1970's Heavy Metal magazines. Billed as "The Adult Illustrated Fantasy Magazine" it is pretty risque - so is the movie that was made in 1981, based on the magazines. If you have ever lived with a person of the male persuasion, or if you actually are a person of the male persuasion, I would imagine you have seen it... ;)
I much prefer the South Park Heavy Metal episode:
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