Road Trip Souviners!

You know me, I love a souviner! Once the trip is over it is fun to pull everything out and reminisce. This time I kept everything together in a box in the trunk of our rental car, which worked out great! Thought it added up to more than I expected! We brought home EIGHT mugs! Ah!

Eight mugs, and two cups. Geeze! I got an ornament at the Christmas Story house, a new collar for Phyllis, and that bucket of pez of course.

We have been collecting magnets from places we have been since we were dating. Our fridge is pretty full now!

And you know I collect smashed pennies. Looking back at these photos I'm not sure where that Star Trek pin came from...I lost the skeleton pin from the Muter museum almost immediately after we got home. Dang! The vintage paper bat was a gift, and check out that book! Have you see the Pulp the Classics series of books? I LOVE them! I couldn't resist this one of one of my favorite books. Oh Darcy!

Here is all the glassware we came home with. Haha! We bought a bunch of the Starbucks location mugs for Travis' parents, who collect them, and the Niagara Falls one was so cool I had to get one! The Poe is from Baltimore of course, and by the time we got to Cleveland we didn't need anymore mugs but I could not resist that Cleveland Steamer one.

I brought home a nice selection of vintage photos.

These are from that shop in Salem. They are pretty big and beautiful shots. I love the ones of guys with cameras. Someday I have plans for a display of Travis' vintage cameras with these photos.

This pair might be my favorite from the trip! Look at that puppy pocket!

I got a bunch for my vintage dog collection, and look at that little boy holding the toy poodle! There is a toy poodle under the Christmas tree.

Look at the Niagara Falls photos! It's so fun to find vintage photos of places you have been, especially while you are on the trip! And that goat cart!

I had to bring home this one of the little girl and the muff with the dolls face! And look at that cutie with her birthday cake!

And last but not least, a poodle cozy! Yay!

Vintage Photo Friday: Painted Backdrops

Here is another little subset of my vintage photo collection! These are all photos taken in front of painted backdrops. I plan on putting these all into a small vintage photo album. I think they look cool all together.

A mama and her little baby. Look at her beautiful hair and flawless makeup? And that little hooded sweater is darling. I love her expression too, a little hint of a smile. Precious.

 Look at that snazzy butterfly pocket! 

My only tinted one like this. I want to know that the deal is with her outfit, why is she dressed so masculinely and look at the waist on those pants!

Aren't these two sweet? That palm tree in back makes me think that maybe they are on vacation. ANd look at that part! I wonder if it is shaved in. Travis has been getting that done lately and I LOVE it!

This one isn't the same, but it is similar. So many patterns! And I'm into her flowered hat. I wonder if I could pull one like it off?

 I know I've shared this photo before, it is one of my absolute favorites! Those uniforms! The mustaches! That guy in the middle's expression!

Last but not least, the vendor I bought this from had a few of these and I wish I had gotten them all. I love the "Always Thinking of You" sign. I guess you could get a photo like this and give it to your sweetheart. Isn't he cute? I really like his striped shirt. 

Vintage Photo Friday: Birthday Parties!

This Friday I thought I would show you my vintage photos from birthday parties. I don't come across them very often for some reason, so I only have three. I'm on the lookout for more! I like seeing the decorations and old party graphics!

I like this little guy blowing up a ballon in what seems to be the aftermath of a birthday party. See his parents (I'm assuming) in the reflection? I love the party stuff strewn about the table, and I wish I could make out the detail on those napkins!

Do you see the little paper basket party favor in the bottom left? And what is that on his hat, a pilot maybe? This one seems really sweet to me, it looks like she is going to let him cut the cake after he blew out the candles.

And last but not least, this gem! I'm now sure my favorite part! That amazing cake, the little hats, the strange focal point of the photo, those little boys' faces... I can just hear the mother wanting them all to look perfect with their little hats before they take a good group photo. 

So there is my tiny collection of vintage party photos. I hope I can find some more this year!

April Flea Finds!

Last month I hardly found anything I wanted at the flea market, but this month there was cool stuff everywhere! I think Kimmie might have been my good luck charm!

 I definitely don't need any more planters, but this sweet lamb was just a buck so she couldn't stay behind. When I saw the kangaroo I liked it, but when I turned it over to look for the tag I saw it was Walt Disney! It is the Kanga (and Roo) from the old Winnie the Pooh set! I got Pooh, Rabbit, Eeyore, and Piglet at the world's longest yard sale, so I was happy to find one more! And then of course I couldn't leave any dream pet type reindeer behind! Even missing noses!

 A Junior Deluxe Edition I didn't have, and a wonderful dog paint by number! It is on canvas. Travis found this one, I can't wait to find a frame for it!

 The ice capades!

Some cute cracker jack toys, a little Rat Fink, and some boy scout emblems I want to use as cupcake toppers!

 This cuckoo clock is in rough shape but it was CHEAP and easy to fix. I didn't have one with a dog on it in my collection either! This guy has already been glued back together!

 I've been on the lookout for vintage Star Trek stuff since last summer (My "summer of Spock") but never found anything! Then I found these two gems in one go! Even without his outfit I couldn't resist this Spock action figure! He looks pretty snazzy in the speedo/knee high boot combo! I'll see if I can snag his suit cheap on ebay! And that cup! I saw it out of the corner of my eye when walking past a booth that was pretty mediocre and ran back! Of course I'll show you both sides...

Isn't it cute! I wish it was glass, but I still love it! I don't think I'll use it, I don't want those lovely graphics to wear off!

 I had to get this game because my friend Crystal has it and it is so much fun! You lay those cards out and hit the button on top of the yellow thing. It spins and makes a monster, then you slap the card that matches with the little suction cup hand! It can get out of hand really fast! So much slapping!

 I got some photos of course. A highlight is the kid in the bottom left, you can tell from here, but he has his hand on a DEAD RACCOON! Good pose!

 And last but not least I got this great scrapbook! I'll have to do a whole post on it because it has some amazing photos! I was attracted at once to the florida cut out on the front, then flipping through it I saw dogs, kids in costumes, soldiers, parties, the beach, awkward bathing suits...all the things I like!

 It turns out it is a record of the Demas family and their time in Florida! The father was in the Navy and they had twin boys named Ronald and Donald! Just wait until I scan some of it!  The best part, I didn't notice until I got it home and was looking in more detail, but they lived in Sanford! That is where my Grandparent's live now and where my dad spent most of his childhood! How cool!

The pages are in kind of rough shape and I'm thinking about getting some new, acid free paper  that matches the current pages and attaching all the of photos and clippings, etc in there to preserve it. I would put it between the existing covers of course. What do you guys think?

Vintage Photo Friday: Displaying My Collection

I've been making it a point to get all the photos I've collected over the past few years together in one place. I keep finding little stashes of them around the house but I THINK I've found them all. Recently I've been working on getting them all into the blank scrapbooks I've been collecting just for that purpose. Here are most of them, unsorted.

I started by sorting them into loose categories. It gave me such a dorky thrill to lay them all out! This isn't even half of them. It is my favorite collection by far.

My collection started with just dog photos, but it has expanded to include many other things.

After a few hours I had them like this. The cetegories are dogs, cats/other animals, vacation/awkward swimsuits, weird, favorites, and "other."

Yesterday I finally got around to putting some of them in this book. The cats were VERY into "helping" me with this task.

II bought this scrapbook at an estate sales a few years ago. It is the biggest, unused one I have found. 

It just had the dedication in the front, and "Christmas 1945" written on one page. I wonder why "Mother" never used it. I'm using it for my vintage dog photos, since it is pretty big. Hopefully I'll be able to get all my photos in there.
At first I planned on using only vintage photo corners to get the photos in, but I almost never come across them so I decided to just get modern ones. They are acid free and will help keep the photos in good shape anyway.

Thanks for holding those photos down Scampi.

And yes Murray, I did need some help flattening the pages out! So sweet.

I worked on this for about two hours while watching the last two episodes of series two of Call the Midwife. Have you seen it yet? It is SO GOOD! The 1950's styling is incredible and the storytelling is excellent! I cry during pretty much every episode. I can't wait for series three to come out on Netflix!

I finally got the cats OFF my work space by putting this manilla envelope out on the table. Cats are so weird. But it worked! They took turns sitting on it.

I ran out of photo corners (I had one box of 250 and somehow thought that would be enough) so I'll have to get more and finish another day.

So that is how I display my photo collection! It makes them so much easier to look through and enjoy.