Aqua Blue Heaven Friday: The Bucket List.

What with spring in full...full...you know, full springness and all, I figure many of us are spending lots of time outdoors. Not me though. I hate outdoors. I do love to garden my face off, but after that nature and I don't see eye-to-eye. However I don't mind a good laze-about with a book on the patio. Preferably with drinks. No, always with drinks. That's where cute, vintage ice buckets come in handy! So it'll be no shock and/or surprise to know that vintage aqua-hued ice buckets is our theme for today!




Vintage Aqua Stripes Ice Bucket available on Etsy from seller I'm So Vintage.





Vintage 50's/60's Aqua Ice Bucket from Etsy seller Selling Vintage. I love the attached kickstand on it! Or whatever it's called. I'm not good with the fancy-like words and such.







May I point out the awesomeness of the bull's head hardware? Well I just did. And may I also point out the randomness of scattered maryjane candies? I don't know what the significance is, but I like it. Don't mess with my candy, man. In fact, those better come with this Vintage 50's/60's Aqua Ice Bucket on Etsy from seller Sweet Love Vintage or someone'll get the horns. Get it? The random movie reference and a crappy pun? Hey, it's friday. I'm allowed.

Way-Out Wednesday: The Cinco De Mayo Edition!

Welcome to a special edition of Way-Out Wednesday for Cinco de Mayo!





When I was searching for something kickass for today's Mexican theme, I didn't feel like schlepping through a million Day of the Dead items on etsy, and besides, that wasn't exactly what I was looking for anyway. I wanted something vintage and a little "out there", you know? I wanted something little. Yellow. Different. (If you're under the age of 30 you probably won't get that random tv commercial reference.) So's then I think I find the something I was looking for. But I was all "Why the fark would someone paint a luchador mask on a vintage hairdresser's bust?! What a friggin' moron." But after seeing more pictures of it, I realised that it was was something completely different. It was awesomeness.


Behold, my amigos, this Vintage Mexican Luchador Chalkware Bust:




Ay, dios mio! This is so cool. I loves me some vintage chalkware and I know you guys do too, but this is totally out of my realm. It seems roughly 1950s to me, judging by the face and the "Mexico" signature, but chalkware can be hard to date and looks pretty much the same from the 50's to the 70's, so I could be way off. Whatevs. Either way, it's strange and unusual and being as though I myself am strange and unusual, I love this thing! (Another random movie reference for you. Sorry. That's enough.)


Even has great detailing to the back!...




I wonder if anyone has info about busts like this? (I just said "busts like this", heh heh heh.)

Prints Charming Sunday: Mambo Italiano.

"A girl went back to Napoli
Because she missed the scenery..."


I don't know about you guys, but we here in the northeast are roasting our keisters off with unseasonably roasty weather. I assume Californians and the like are used to this, but 90 degree days when it's barely May is evil. So I'm thinking it's time to start investing in some more new (read: old) summer dresses to beat the heat. And margaritas. And frozen daiquiris. But for now a vintage dress with a kicky novelty print will have to do. Like this seriously cool Vintage 50's GONDOLA Novelty Print Dress, (on Etsy from seller Vintage Critter) in a perfect-fo'-summa, cool rayon:







See?! Gondolas! That pretty much rules.



And since we're in a festive mood and all, perhaps a little mood musci will cure what ails us:



I have no idea what this freaky-ass video is all about. I figured we all know the Rosemary Clooney & Dean Martin versions, so please enjoy this video of some French actor named Gérard Darmon doing his version of Mambo Italiano, for some godforsaken reason. Also, it looks like a generic version of Muppets and Tony Bennett. Creepy awesomeness.