Goodwill is so good to me!

Today was an excellent Goodwill day. I found lots of pretties for my Ebay store and a few keepers for my home too!

Best part, I got all of this for less than $25!

Some of my haul included:

-Lefton bisque Kewpie

-vintage basket

-bisque 'piano' baby

-porcelain Cinderella coach with horses

-6 blue delft style saucers made by Myott

-2 blue delft Myott cups

-1 blue delf Myott sugar bowl

-vintage red white & blue tablecloth

-vintage Christmas tin

-vintage wooden tray that I cannot wait to repaint a gorgeous shade of Robins egg blue!

Serious Sugar Pick Me up

Have you ever heard of Amy Atlas?

Well in my opinion, she is the newest Martha via candy land.

Seriously, check her site & blog out.

Serious Eye Candy awaits. Prepare for inspirations abound!

Perfect

My latest Ebay find for under $3.00.

It's a vintage enamel flower pin. They were popular in the 60's and 70's.

I thought the red, white & blue would be perfect for the 4th of July.

I love vintage deals!

Vintage Barbies. The only way to play!

After giving birth to 3 consecutive boys, I was more than ready to have my one and only little girl, Ashton Kaylee.

She is my Christmas present to myself I tell others. Her birthday is on Christmas Eve.

As a little girl, I imagined having a daughter one day so that I could continue playing with my Barbie dolls....forever! This evil plot was formed after receiving the BEST Christmas present EVER....my 1980 Barbie Dream House.

After two years of crappy fake Barbie houses, and one very cool Barbie Townhouse (the Dream House predecessor) , I hit the jackpot........I will never forget that Christmas morning of 1980 when I walked into the living room and was met by this monster of a home! I played with it until I was too cool and then my mom sold it at a yard sale. It wasn't until Ashton was born that I set off on a mission to reclaim my treasure!

Now that Ashton is old enough to 'play' with me, it was only right that she play with the best Barbie Doll House EVERRRRR. The 1979-1982 Barbie Dream House.

I had to buy it off of Ebay. And it was not cheap. It was missing a few doors but hey, the bones were good so I bought it for me her!



You are looking at three large plastic pieces of orange & yellow HEAVEN (unless you were lucky enough to get yours in late 1981-1982 in which your house would have been PINK!)

Today's Barbie houses SUCK. They are flat and fold away neatly. Well sorry-- that is no fun IMO.



The 1978 Barbie Dream House does not fold away. Cannot fit into your closet and will only go neatly under your bed if you take it apart. ALL of it apart.

It has windows, lots and lots of windows. A flower bed. It has a closet which can also be a pretend Barbie elevator. I We like to divide the three units up so that I we can play with them easier. FUN!
It has 6 rooms. It is magnificent. It is why I love to play Barbies. And sometimes I let Ashton play with me.

All that's missing is the Barbie Dream House Cottage. Love Ebay.

I Heart My Vintage Mantel

My mantel in my living room is the place to be for my vintage holiday items.

I love decorating it for the different holidays.

I purchased some vintage Enesco Salt & Pepper shakers with a colonial theme a few months ago on Ebay. They are PERFECT for vintage July 4th decor.


Toby jugs make GREAT decor for a vintage 4th look. The best thing about the Toby's is you can find them relatively cheap on Ebay!




My vintage white creamers are actually measuring cups from the 1940's. They have an eagle and stars on them. Not sure who made them but they are quite old. I heart them.


A great Goodwill find from a few years ago is this vintage 1970's Candy jar from the George Washington Mount Vernon souvenir gift shop! Complete with the box I think I paid $2 bucks for it! I filled it with red, white and blue soap stars from Kohl's.


Another vintage item I am trying to win on Ebay is Dennison Patriotic Crepe Paper. SO awesome. This months issue of Better Homes & Gardens had a very neat idea to turn crepe paper into little bunting style banners and this Dennison vintage paper would do the trick!


What's on your mantle?

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Cute Sites

While perusing the internet looking for some good deals on some retro/vintage style birthday supplies, I happened to find a couple of neat sites.

Here they are!

Enjoy!



Retro Birthday Gifts has a unique selection of affordable, vintage styled party supplies!

I love this set of Pink Elephants! Perfect for a Bachelorette Party! Priced at $7.99




Tin Parade has the most unique and extraordinary party kits I have ever seen!
Their party kits come in beautiful vintage styled tins and you can buy a la carte items as well.
If you are looking for vintage styled party favors or cake kits, check out Hey Yo Yo on Etsy.


And last but certainly not least, you MUST check out The Baby Gardner!

AWESOME vintage baby birthday goodies and more!

Vintage Children's Books

One of the things I loved most as a child about summer was it meant lots of library trips would be in store.

As a child, I loved reading! I grew up in the 80's, before cable tv. Back then, 3-2-1 Contact, Sesame Street and the Electric Company were all that a kid had to look forward to on a day to day basis.

Cartoons wouldn't happen until Saturdays so for me that meant lots of reading Mon-Friday's.

I still love to read. And I am proud to say that my kids like going to the library almost as much as I did when I was their age.

Vintage books have been a long love of mine. My favorite ones are the older Richard Scarry books. The illustrations back then were phenomenal. Hand drawn, painted, like little pieces of art on every page.

While I was cleaning and preparing for my yard hell sale I came across a few oldies that I had stashed away.



Enjoy!

PS, if you love vintage children's books, you MUST check out this blog http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/

Goodwill Finds

The kids are in Vacation Bible School all this week from 6:30pm-9:00pm which leaves me with tremendous amounts of time to spend at my local Goodwill!

Today I found a lot. I had to restrain myself.

A DUKE fan must have kicked the bucket because I found a vintage DUKE foot stool, vintage DUKE beer glasses and a cool set of DUKE curtains that match the valances and bed skirt I found at the same Goodwill a year ago! Neat how that works out.

Some other neat finds, Bailey's winking cup, vintage Ben Seibel coffee cup, and a vintage American Greetings figurine.

All in all, a fun day!

Vintage Finds!!

The ONE good things about preparing for my yard sale this weekend was the discovery of an old tattered box in my foyer closet.

I had retrieved it last year from my grandmother's attic. Along with some other items, I never got to go thru this box...until today.

What a wonderful surprise for me! I found wrapping paper scraps my mom had saved from her baby shower with me, vintage cards, wedding shower cards, and more!

It's going to take me a while to go thru all this treasure but here are a few of my rediscovered gems: