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Pop Tart was raised in a family of antique collectors and dealers. Her childhood was filled with the obligation to wake early on weekends and dig through the tossed-away bits of other peoples' lives. As you could imagine, this wasn't always fun for a child, but it taught her many important skills for her own future as a conniseur of old things. Happily, she was able to use these skills in the service of her other interests: vintage clothing, pin-up art, nudie magazines, pulp novels, and anything else that made the women of yesterday look sexy. It has also given her an unnatural appreciation for the ugliest of 1970s furniture, a way to justify her obsessions in the guise of being an antique dealer, and the biggest unintentional collection of stuffed Smurfs in North America. The creation of this site warms the hearts of many at Backwash.com, where as GlamKitty, she writes a column, all too often dedicated to her collecting passions. (Now she will be able to return column content to the more practical matters of pop culture & girlie things.) Any rumors that she found her husband at a thrift shoppe are unfounded. More content By This Author: The Irony of Nazi Collectibles - 9/27/2004 Sheepish Bidding - 10/1/2004 Dangerous with a Paddle - 10/6/2004 Collectors Are Nuts - 10/11/2004 Vintage Fashions, Part One - 10/12/2004 Auction Story - 10/13/2004 Vintage Fashions, Part Two - 10/19/2004 Politicians Make Strange Bedfellows, And Even Stranger Collectibles - 10/21/2004 Vintage Fashions, Part Three - 10/26/2004 Suffragettes, Hatchets & Rhinestones - 10/28/2004 I have seen the light, and it comes from an Easy Bake Oven. - 11/1/2004 Eat Your Saturday Morning TV - 11/4/2004 More Fiction Than Science, Please - 11/19/2004 Top 10 Reasons to Pick Up a Man at an Auction - 11/22/2004 Collecting: It’s Not Just For The Materialistic Among Us - 11/24/2004 The 9 Inch Plastic Icon - 12/15/2004 Home is Where the Humor Is - 12/17/2004 Whose Holiday Memory Is This? (Part One) - 12/20/2004 Whose Holiday Memory Is This? (Part Two) - 12/23/2004 Whose Holiday Memory Is This? (Part Three) - 12/24/2004 Collecting Vintage Lingerie - 1/4/2005 Pop Culture Defined - 1/5/2005 Collecting Vintage Lingerie, Part 2 - 1/6/2005 Bits From Publications Past, For Her - 1/10/2005 It's In The Bag -- No *On* The Bag! - 1/12/2005 "Are Wrestlers People?" - 1/19/2005 Holy Crap - 1/20/2005 Beauty Is In The Eyes Of The Collector - 1/21/2005 The Cast of WKRP - 1/27/2005 The Buzz in The 70s - 1/28/2005 That Gladiator Guy - 1/31/2005 Politics & Kitsch - 2/3/2005 Bill Wadhams Interview, Part Two - 2/7/2005 Retro Music Fads - 2/17/2005 Uncle Hugo's - 2/18/2005 Classics? - 2/22/2005 Francis E. Dec, Esquire: Rant No. 1 - 2/25/2005 Gillo vs Pop Tart in Battle of the Kitsch, Part 1 - 3/8/2005 Gillo vs Pop Tart in Battle of the Kitsch, Part 2 - 3/9/2005 An Interview with Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber - 3/22/2005 Estate, Rummage, Garage, or Junk Sales - 5/11/2005 Interview with the Photocartoonist - 5/13/2005 Flaws in Price Guides: A Letter To Publishers - 5/17/2005 The Journey Begins With $3 - 5/18/2005 Anti-trust, Monopolies, & Gargoyles? - 5/20/2005 Science is everywhere. - 5/24/2005 Home is where your junk is. - 5/27/2005 Creativity & DIY Artworks - 6/2/2005 Book Collecting - 6/8/2005 The Legacy of Collecting - 6/15/2005 I'm No Educator - 6/29/2005 Family Vacation Memories - 6/30/2005 Play Along! - 7/11/2005 Gillo vs Pop Tart in Battle of the Kitsch, Part 3 - 8/2/2005 Can You Dig It? - 8/3/2005 There's Great Serendipity in Collecting. - 12/12/2005 | |
