Silvana Pampanini was so beautiful, not even a kitschy duck could muck a photo up.
January 4th, 2012
Quack For The Camera
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October 14th, 2011
Craft Scan Friday, Walrus Edition, Goo Goo G’joob
A child’s cardigan and matching socks set to knit as shown in this fab photo from Coat’s & Clark’s Favorite Designs to Knit & Crochet, book number 198, copyright 1970.
Instructions / patterns below.
September 12th, 2011
Hello There, Bear
I’m usually a sucker for these vintage stuffed toys with rubber heads, but this time I made eye contact, cooed, but only succumbed to taking a photo. Goodbye, bear.
August 8th, 2011
Ronald McDonald Doll
Spotted at a thrift store today; I didn’t handle him, but I’m pretty sure he’s this one by Hasbro. Price on his shoe is $9.99.
July 21st, 2011
Dames & (Stuffed) Dogs #37
Annette Funicello loved her stuffed dogs. And Kennedy.
Hey, it was the 60s and she was a Good American Girl.
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July 14th, 2011
Tweet Nothings For Insomniacs
If you’re so obsessed with Twitter that you can’t fall asleep, worrying about the tweets your missing, why not get yourself this Blue Bird Mobile? (Via.)
July 11th, 2011
Dames & Dogs #36
Vintage photo of reidbrand’s mom in the Women’s Land Army (WLA) in 1943. I love how she’s holding a stuffed toy dog — with only one eye.
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July 9th, 2011
Trans-FOUR-mers When You Turn Four
The spread at Camden’s Trans4mers birthday party, which includes the incredible cake and inspired paper Transformer cards etc. from Paper Robots 1999. (Photos by Rebecca Watkins.)
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April 19th, 2011
Dames & Dogs #29
The poodle is there to balance out her hair. (Photo of Diane Arbus via La Contessa.)
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December 28th, 2010
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*
