Retro Owl String Art

There may be some kind of math lessons to be found in string art, but we don’t give a hoot about that. We’ve just listed this fabulous vintage mother and baby owl string art piece at eBay; loads more owl string art works to be found there too, should you already have this one in orange.

owl string art

To The Moon, Pflug!

Instructions for making a rocket which “works on the same principal as NASA’s” out of a paper bag and a balloon. Another scan from 1968’s Funny Bags book, this time I know why I like it.

Dime Star Toys

Artist Randy Regier has a taste for 1950s toy and packaging designs, coming up with his own surreal and bizarre products.   I can’t be the only one who totally wished that Santa had left a Tardy the Man-Pony action figure under the Christmas tree for me.   Far more exciting than the G.I. Joe action figures — and I have no doubt that the Saturday-morning cartoon for Tardy would have been an instant cult classic.  John Kricfalusi was born to make that cartoon.

Big Kitschy Bunnies

Retro handmade bunnies which we will be putting up for sale at Antiques On Broadway (likely on top of the case). The male is approximately 17 inches tall; the female roughly 13 inches. I love the pipe cleaner glasses on the knitting girl or grandma rabbit! Of course, if you want to buy them direct, you can also do that; just $5 a piece (plus shipping).

For Guys Who Spend A Lot Of Time Looking At Photos Of Catherine Bach

You can hide your obsession for the original Daisy Duke and your completely natural but perhaps embarrassing activities with said photo by scrapbooking the photos with 3-D paper embellishments. There are even Hoggco Gas Pumps for her to pose by.

 

A Family Like Servants

The seller of these vintage embroidered kitchen towels describes them thus:

Vintage servant’s doing their domestic jobs are embroidered on white cotton dish towels. Features Suzette the maid, Charlie the laundry, Brooks the butler and Matt the gardner.

Frankly, I don’t seem them as towels for the servants — but towels for the family. Each family member has their own chores and their own hand towels to remind them of them. As a mom, I say that a lack of use of one’s towel signifies either no chores were done, or no clean up afterwards. Or that Charlie’s really on top of the laundry. But not even a Chinese laundry man can wash the racism off that towel.

Doll Heads, Doll Heads, Clink-y, Clink-y, Doll Heads In Your Cocktail

How To Make Ice Cubes Shaped Like Tiny Baby Heads is really more of a how to make a mold of small toys — molds you can opt to use to make toy-shaped ice cubes. Wouldn’t take much to turn them into popsicles or other frozen treats either. Individual Jell-O moulds. Or not.