Smart Ass Has A New Home In Australia

This totally cute vintage graphic cartoon panel is from the Wesco-Reltex Company. Vibrant color! From the 60's era. Look below at the before and after photos. What a super Retro pillow cushion this turned out to be. Thanks to a customer in Australia little smart ass found a new home. She used vintage retro barkcloth as trim on the front with wide black ric rac braid. Then black and white striped linen on the back. Thank you Susan for sharing. It's so vintage sweet.

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Mod and Retro Color Makes Me Feel So Happy

     

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Still Working On My Office & Studio

Wow! I have been so crazy busy out of my mine! When will I catch-up? So far I love this Retro settee in this room. It sits close to a fireplace in the studio. Real cozy. Soon I'll paint the walls. Love the plumberry color above. I have one wall picked out for that color. The organic green I love too. It's slowly getting there. An eclectic mix of vintage. I'll post more photos soon.

Tea break in the office

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I Can't Believe....

.....It's a Girdle! The Playtex Corporation introduced this now famous variety of girdles in the 1960's. This new era girdle was made of Tweave fabric, a lightweight fabric made with Lycra. This 'I Can't Believe It's a Girdle' collection was super popular in the United States and Australia. I heard the Australians love them more. They did have quite a pretty design, comfortable and quite durable.

Actually, Playtex has been around since 1932. Founded by an inventor and industrialist. The original factory in New York produced ladies' swim caps and latex gloves. These days their operations are in Dover, Delaware.



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The Cutest Little Vintage Basket

This is the cutest vintage 1950's little basket or basket purse. I wonder what the original little person who owned this basket might of kept inside of it. Maybe, her favorite doll. Maybe, candy and a hankie. Eggs? Or, lunch? I think it would be adorable to store a small tea set and tea.

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What I'm Loving Today

I'm totally loving these 60's pair of  Ketch sunglasses. Makes me want to drive a convertible with the top down while, singing to some groovy tunes and the wind blowing through my hair. Maybe, I can get some doggles for Chaco so we can both have fun in the sun. Ahhhh! Wow! I better wake-up to reality and stop day dreaming. Got to get my taxes done. Yes, procrastinator is my middle name.

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Monkey Business and Tea?

Pictured above is sheet music from the song When I take my sugar to tea. One of my favorites from my huge collection of tea sheet music. This song originally was performed by the Marx brother Chico in the 1931 comedy movie Monkey Business. Other great performers through the years sang the sweet lyrics to this song.

Organizing My Tea and Things

If you're like me you never have enough room for all your things. This time of year is the best to get organized for your life this new year. Finding vintage and antique items are always a fun way to get started organizing. Being the tea lady that I am, it's hard to store all my varieties in one place but, recently I came up with a solution. I took my chippy antique Chinese chest from my other room and put it in the kitchen. It's now filled with all kinds of tea. The scene on the chest is from an old Chinese opera. Love this chest. Copper teapots make for a great hideaway storage or bank.

Here's another antique Chinese chest with two doors again, with opera scenes. We store extra magazines and whatnot's. Many years ago this chest stored the most beautiful silk opera costume. The beautiful Chinese wedding basket above the chest is made of elmwood. This too is a very old piece, the custom at a Shan Xi wedding was to have this basket to serve sweets to the wedding guests then later it would turn into a lunch bucket for the couple. Now a great conversation piece, antique and storage.

Vintage Indian Basket

Vintage Giant Green Chili Chalkware Bank

Vintage Receipt Hook

Vintage Wooden Bowls

Of course baskets of all shapes and sizes make for great storage. The quirky are always fun. I just picked up a super large green chili pepper made of chalkware. It's 15 inches long and around 5 inches wide. It has a hook to hang from the ceiling. Just need to touch-up the paint. Guess what? It's a bank. Maybe, I can save my pennies for more vintage sprees. The green vintage receipt hook I just purchased on Etsy is for my shipping receipts. Wooden bowls are my weakness. So inexpensive. Not just for fruit but, practically any storage.

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Taos

Oh, what treasures to be found at Jackies Trading Post! Bill has the best of Navajo, Zuni, Hopi and Pueblo made art, crafts, pottery, weaving, and a huge collection of antique and vintage Southwestern jewelry. When in beautiful Taos, NM you must visit my friend Bill. He's located in the Historic Taos Plaza. Here's the official website  Jackies Trading Post



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Taos, NM

Harry and Bill

Harry and Bill

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Eddie Ross

Wow! What a super vintage hunting Friday I had. We took a trek up to Laughlintown. On the way up we took Chaco swimming in the river. Needless to say, one happy pup! One happy gal, too! We found some more flea markets to hunt along the way. Finally, we got to our destination, the Laughlintown Antique Mall. The mom and daughter owners there, are the most sweetest people. I love that mall. After looking at the second vendor's booth, I look over at the other gentlemen that walked in. Boy, did he look familiar. I keep on looking over at him. I know, isn't that so rude. Well, anyway, I walked right up to him and said "Don't I know you from somewhere?" Can you believe I said something stupid like that? Like, I was hitting on someone at the club:) My husband was right there, looking at me, like what is wrong with you woman! I really didn't mean for it to come out that way. But, I never forget a face, even if I forget my name, what day it is, what I ate a moment ago and so on, I still remember a face. Anyway, he kindly answered " Yes, you know me probably from Bravo's Top Design Show". It was the well known Eddie Ross, top interior designer and editor. He was one of the super contestants on season two of Bravo's Top Design. At one time he was the senior style editor of Martha Stewart Living. Now, Eddie along with his partner Jaithan Kochar offer their interior design and styling services and event production. They have this wonderful blog and boutique online. I love, Eddie's style. Eddie and Jaithan were quite gracious and kind. They even agreed to take a photo with Harry and I (the crazy lady from PA) with my mobile phone. Thank you Eddie and Jaithan! We're wishing you two the best on your design adventures! http://www.eddieross.com/

Disco is Back!

70's Oromesh Whiting Davis Gold Mesh Bib Scarf Necklace

Don't you just want to dance all night long to disco music? Love this! Not to often you find the 'Oromesh' mark. This was made for Whiting and Davis. If you want more detail just go to our
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