I bought these handmade Valentines at the antique mall, thought I’d share they’re so cute!!! 
I bought these handmade Valentines at the antique mall, thought I’d share they’re so cute!!!
Thrifting- you never know what you’ll find! I found this awesome tea pot lamp, don’t you just love it? It’s so cute, it’s really old too, looks like an onion pattern. I paid $14.00 at the thrift shop I frequent, plugged it in and it works perfect!! 🙂
I found this old calendar from 1953 rolled up forgot I had it, thought I’d share!
Elvgren was a classical American illustrator. He was a master of portraying the all-American ideal feminine, but he wasn’t limited to the calendar pin-up industry. He was strongly influenced by the early “pretty girl” illustrators, such as Charles Dana Gibson, Andrew Loomis, and Howard Chandler Christy. Other influences included the Brandywine School founded by Howard Pyle.
In 1937, Gil began painting calendar pin-ups for Louis F. Dow, one of America’s leading publishing companies, during which time he created about 60 works on 28″ X 22″ canvas and distinguished them by a printed signature. Many of his pin-ups were reproduced as nose art on military aircraft during World War II. Around 1944, Gil was approached by Brown and Bigelow, a firm that still dominates the field in producing calendars and advertising specialties. He was associated with Brown & Bigelow from 1945 to 1972. At Brown & Bigelow Elvgren began working with 30″ X 24″canvases, a format that he would use for the next 30 years, and signed his work in cursive.
Elvgren was a commercial success. He lived in various locations, and was active from the 1930s to 1970s. In 1951 he began painting in a studio in his home, then inWinnetka, Illinois, using an assistant to set up lighting, build props and scenes, photograph sets, and prepare his paints. His clients ranged from Brown and Bigelow andCoca-Cola to General Electric and Sealy Mattress Company. In addition, during the 1940s and 1950s he illustrated stories for a host of magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post and Good Housekeeping.[6] Among the models Elvgren painted were Myrna Hansen, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale, Arlene Dahl, and Kim Novak.
“I’m very picky with who I give my energy to.
I prefer to reserve my time, intensity and spirit exclusively
to those who reflect sincerity.”
“There is a feeling they all say… Walking through the aisles of indulge … An inspiration of hope and a sense of encouragement… where many enter as strangers and leave as family.” Not only referred to as the secret place of Springfield… It is our happy place. 1461 Mohawk Springfield Oregon
I found this journal entry from 3 years ago, I am putting it on my blog today. BTW thanks for reading my blog!!
We just moved and it feels like acres of Rubbermaid are surrounding me. There’s a variety of colors categorized by my own quirky system of organization. I never planned on moving; I planned on my daughter getting married in the front yard and how I would live in my dream house until my dying day. I planned out so many details with my idyllic home I even matched every drawer with coordinating wallpaper. Then life happened, I didn’t plan on moving but I guess no one can truly plan out one’s life, things happen. I would have to take the bumps in the road as they come. This is the month that has been full of cleaning and packing, tears, hugs, unpacking and more cleaning. Before we left the “perfect home” to go to the “temporary home” I placed this little glass thing in the dishwasher. The item was small about two inches, made of glass, with perfectly formed ridges and a real silver band around the top. I had seen it occasionally maybe gave it seconds of thought. It reminded me of an upside down gearshift knob from the 1980’s, there was a curious fleeting thought of not knowing what it was but not excited enough about it to research. We’ve been living in the cottage with just the basic necessities all our frivolous items in storage I was reading one of my collector magazines I’d used as packing material, and there it was, one just like it. A small collectible listed with a picture, a purpose, A match striker, yes it’s a match striker! For all those years it was here and there in my house, mixed in with all those fabulous antiques just a simple little Match striker! The thought came blaring back to me, Oh, you left it in the dishwasher for the next owner. Ugh! I Google it and walla a match striker from the turn of the century, prices
Match Striker
listed from $100-$1000! I asked myself why would you put it in the dishwasher? But these are the crazy thing that happen to me…. as luck would have it the same day my husband opened his briefcase to give me some kind of paperwork and said, “Oh, I forgot to tell you, you left this in the dishwasher,” as he handed me a small little glass thing with formed ridges and real silver band around the top! A Match Striker!
*Notes one listed at 1stdibis.com for $3900!A wonderful large sized globe match-striker with English silver collar & fine ribbed glass which is in perfect condition, dated London 1916 by makers Finnigans of Old Bond Street W1 as shown.
I just want to say thank you for being a part of my life through my blog!
Happy New Year 2015!
I am so excited to see what the New Year brings!
2015 !!!!
“If you could spend the day with me what would we do?” Go thrift shopping! Now is the best time of year to go thrift shopping! After Christmas a lot of people purge items in their house and donate, to make room for the new stuff they got for Christmas. If you’re like me and like “old Gramma stuff” it’s time to make your way to the thrift! Today I bought two Shabby Chic books I’ve been looking for by Rachael Ashwell, a pair of new black flats a cashmere scarf from Scotland and the movie Under the Tuscan Sun for less than $20.00! But wait there’s more… I bought was an antique vase, cobalt blue hand painted from the turn of the century for $4.99, and I can sell it on OLA.com and make money! Okay well Thanks for reading my blog! Dig out the change and get to shopping!!
“If you could spend the day with me what would we do?”
xo
Vintage Flemish Art (Pyrography) Glove Box
I love to use the items I find during the year for Christmas presents. This year I found this fabulous pyrographic box to put some of my husband’s items in. I know it sounds silly as it was a woman’s glove box originally. I thought it was so unique though, and I especially like that it was marked with the person’s initials and December 25, 1910! It is a Victorian Flemish Art pyrographic box, and is stamped Flemish Art Co of New York with the two standing bears. Pyrography was the burning of designs on wood. They also produced pyrographic tools for the hobbyist. This box is more unique because it is one actually produced in the factory buy a experienced artist, look below you can see the actual factory in the photograph!
P.S when I went up to the counter to purchase this awesome box from the antique mall, they called an ” expert in antiques” over to explain to me that this box was made for a gentleman to put his fishing pole in, and that it is a process of wood burning called pryography. Omg! NOT SO! ugh! It’s a Glove Box, and for a woman’s knick knacks :0
Pyrography or pyrogravure is the art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object such as a poker. It is also known as pokerwork or wood burning.The term means “writing with fire”, from the Greek pur (fire) and graphos (writing).[1] It can be practiced using specialized modern pyrography tools, or using a metal implement heated in a fire, or even sunlight concentrated with a magnifying lens. wikipedia
Flemish Art Co. Factory, Brooklyn, New York
Photograph courtesy of John P. Lewis, © 1979
I love going to Heceta Head, and I’m wondering about the ghost stories, strange events referring to this wonderful spot that descends into the magnificent ocean. It seems some of the incidents published don’t add up. I’m curious of this 1894 Queen-Ann style house perched on this cliff. Documented encounters with this ghost that has apparently haunted this dwelling for many years. According to legend there was a light keepers wife who lost her only child on the property, a little girl. The child is rumored to be buried on the grounds in the thick vegetation, black berry bushes. Another account I read said the baby was accidentally dug up years ago. The little girl either drowned or was lost in the ocean, or had scarlet fever it’s suggested the mother then killed herself out of grief. Throwing herself onto the rocks from the path leading to the lighthouse. But then the names are mentioned Frank and Jenny DeRoy who came to the light house in the eighteen-nineties.
In another account it is listed that The only lightkeeper’s child to die at Heceta Head was a baby daughter of the first Head Keeper, Albert Peter Cornelius Hald. The Halds–were at Heceta from 1894 to 1899.
Notes * Movie filmed 1982 a CBS movie-of-the-week, The Fog, was filmed at Heceta House.
There’s a detailed account of all light keepers and their families … but nothing mentioned about the tragic story or any mention of any ghosts. It’s also rumored teenagers playing the ouijji board in the old house spelled out the name Rue and they thought it to be Jenny’s only daughter whose spirit haunts the house.
1980 when Life magazine included it in an article titled Terrifying Tales of 9 Haunted Houses
* These are my notes, need to research more….
going to stay at the night at the bed and breakfast in 2015 and take pictures, can’t wait!! thanks for reading my blog!!
I’m curious of this 1894 Queen-Ann style house perched on this cliff.
Heceta Head Lighthouse Keeper’s House
On my way to mail packages to my favorite’s! All year I collect vintage treasures I find at vintage shops and on OLA.com, I then pack them up at Christmas time to send out. They are sent with love and care! Hope they love them too!! Have a fabulous day and thanks for reading my blog!
*I saw this simple book of matches on the auction, Fide et Opera got my attention, not knowing what it meant I had to look it up! Reading ” MacArthur ran his billion dollar empire from a booth in the Colonnades Hotel’s coffee shop,” is so intriguing!!
“Fide et Opera”: the latin is also sometimes translated as simply “faith and work.”
John D. MacArthur, born in poverty as the son of a preacher, became one of the greatest financiers of his day through the building of Chicago’s Banker’s Life and Casualty Insurance Company. By purchasing over 100,000 acres in this part of Palm Beach County, MacArthur became the largest landowner in the area. In 1976 he suffered a stroke and died 14 months later in the hotel. The hotel was razed in 1990 and the Marriott Corporation began construction of its time share resort, Marriott’s Ocean Pointe Resort, on the land.
MacArthur also owned many acres on the north end of Singer Island and he donated a large section of that land for a state park. The MacArthur Beach State Park opened in 1989 and his foundation provides funds to improve the facilities.
http://www.onlineauction.com/auction/2065023/Vintage-Matchbook-Colonnades-Beach-Hotel-Singer-Island-Fl.
* note A similar crest and motto was on the cover of printed copies of Ben Hecht’s eulogy for Charles MacArthur.
http://www.singerisland.com/history.html
No power, no internet, horrible weather… What’s a girl to do? Cleaned up all day, I couldn’t help but notice the detail, and loveliness of my thrifty finds! Of course it’s the Merry Christmas season, everything red and green which I love! But I was feeling Blue today! 🙂 thanks for reading my blog and putting up with my insane post…. xo
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