Tag: collectibles

Link Round-Up, Quiz Style

Do you know how to handle the problem of wrinkly meat?

Ready to take a gamble?

Dear Diary, today I…?

What did you keep in your shoeboxes?

Ready to bat your lashes — or grow a faux mustache?

Remember Rabbit & Skunk & the Scary Rock?

Hey, those last three links are to posts of mine at my other sites; just sayin’.

I Miss Vinyl

You might not be old enough to remember this, but back in the day, even before the Golden Age Of Album Art,  this was one of the ways you showed off your record collection and musical taste. Do that with your MP3s, yo.

Debbie Harry and Chris Stein photo via 80’s Record Party.

Ring-Ring, Bling-Bling, Ring-A-Ding-Ding!

Jayne Mansfield with a rotary dial telephone full of bling on the January 1958 cover of Modern Man mag. It’s enough to make your teenage daughter go blind with jealousy. And we don’t just mean for the phone bling either.  (You’d better keep this away from your sons too; they could make themselves go blind too.)

The Three-Foot Tall Masked Doll

I wanted to get this huge vintage masked doll to scare my sister with. (She has a fear of dolls and I wanted to sneak it into her bed, pull the comforter up over it and let her find it long after I left the house — don’t worry, I’d be sure to hear her reaction lol)

But sadly, it was not meant to be…

The doll was placed up for auction along with the old metal riding toy tractor, and in Fargo-Moorhead, those old farm toys and pedal cars sell for waayyyy too much for me to even raise my bidding paddle. Maybe next time, the 3-foot old cloth doll will be mine — err, my sisters. *sigh*

Craft Scan Friday: “Your Home Will Bloom With Color”

This bit of ephemera, Artex Hobby Products, Inc. Pattern Booklet No. 731, copyright 1973, illustrates a bit of the history of women working from home.

Artex Hobby Products, Inc., of Lima Ohio, is no longer in business; but it was a member of the Direct Selling Association. The following scans are of the pages outlining the benefits of becoming an Artex Instructor, i.e. selling the Artex product line via party plans, and the pages for the Artex Painting Class hostesses, who receive Artex merchandise as their Hostess Awards.

You can, quite easily, earn $10 to $100 per week in your spare time, without neglecting your family…by joinng the Artex Family today.

A trip to Paris, a color TV, even a new car could be yours as these are just a few of the many wonderful extras that are awarded to Artex Instructors throughout the year.