I would have saved this for tomorrow, but I thought I would blog about it and then maybe buy it! How's this for a great gift idea? An apron to make you look snazzy in the kitchen! It's from my Barbara's Diner fabric collection which is just now getting out there! And the Etsy shop owner is Route66StLouis. Is that a perfect name for a shop that uses this fabic or what!?!
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- VINTAGE EYEWEARWell, you can go get glasses at the local Lenscrafters, OR you can hunt down some spectacular vintage hand cut frames at your local antique shop and have them fitted with your prescription lenses. Or maybe---do both. I have some very normal, "don'-t-cause trouble" frames, and some "in-your-face" frames I like to wear when I am feeling "con cohones" and have had a drink or two. Better to buy "new old stock", if you are going to invest much in the lenses. It is not good to throw money into old frames in bad shape that will fall off your head or lose an arm and need that proverbial piece of masking tape to keep them together. Unless that is the look you crave--the look of half the boys in my nerdy seventh grade class circa 1965. If so, I have an old briefcase and a pocket pen holder I would like to sell you. I'll throw in the slide rule.
- Lawn art and ashtraysBack when guys stayed home more, listened to the radio and do other things at the same time, they probably labored over homemade lawn art, standing ashtray holders, and door stops. Usually they were made out of plywood, then painted. Look for slightly crackled paint. Many of the best of these were old comic strip characters like Jiggs and Maggie, or the ocasional Disney character. Black cats are plentiful. Also Butlers. You do not have to smoke to appreciate them.
- old silhouettesMany of these come from the 20's and 30's. You can often guess the age of the piece by the dress of the person whose portrait it is. Hung together on a wall, they have a wonderful impact.
- Old cookbooks by local groups: i.e. Grange cookbooks, church cookbooks, college cookbooks, etc.
- Tacky Souvenirs from old site seeing locales
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December 12, 2011
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