Aqua Blue Heaven Friday: Swiss Congeniality

Welcome to another Aqua Blue Heaven Friday!



I *love* when a vintage glassware pattern matches the dinnerware, I really do. And I *especially* love when you discover glassware that matches a line of dinnerware and never knew such a thing existed! Make sense? Yeah. I figured not.

Behold!




This is just one of a Set of 4 Vintage 50's Swiss Alpine Glasses. It's such a happy little pattern, isn't it? The aqua flowers! The wee trees! All the cute could kill me where I stand.

Swiss Alpine is one of my favorite non-pink/non-atomic patterns. The pattern was an American line available from the company Marcrest, and here's one more little useless factoid to drop on you~ the Swiss Alpine pattern was discontinued in 1960. So dig that. Alex Trebek, you best watch your back, because now we're ready to drop some serious knowledge on yo' ass. Seriously though, I'm way excited that there's a line of matching glassware, as I figured there was just the standard dinner plate/teacup/gravy boat option. Not that I need any more glasses (like I need a kick in the pants), but still, it's nice knowing they're available!

Set of glasses now available on Etsy from seller Vintageer.

Way-Out Wednesday: Snootie Little Cuties.

Welcome to Way-Out Wednesday!






Vintage dolls are a favorite topic to blog about around here. Now, there are vintage dolls. There are creepy-ass vintage dolls (our favoritest of all kind, of course!), and then there are these...







I know what you're thinking: "Have you lost it, woman? What's the dealio, these aren't weird, ya nutbag." Well my friends, they're not *just* vintage doll heads with unnaturally-hued, Tina Turner-coiffed hair, mind you. No, no. That's not overly weird at all, you know, if a seller on Etsy sold *just* vintage doll heads. Doll heads could, in fact, be used in literally a plethora of crafty-ass projects. A never-ending myriad of crafty-ass projects, even! So that's not the weird part. The weird part is this:





...they're doll heads that are tissue holders. Ya heard. Hollowed-out doll heads with a square box of tissues shoved up in there. Ingenious or morbidly tacky? And that's exactly why I love them. Plus, I'm not 100% sure that I don't want my home to look like it was decorated by a mass murderer, so there's that.



Awesomely wrong Set of 3 Vintage 60's Doll Head Tissue Box Covers are currently available for 35 bucks on Etsy from seller Orbiting Debris.

Prints Charming Sunday: Leave It To Barbara

Welcome to Prints Charming Sunday!





I thought today's post should be done in honor of Barbara Billingsley, who I'm sure you all remember for her role as repressed housewife June Cleaver on the 1950's-'60s tv show Leave it to Beaver. R.I.P, Miss B. We'll miss you!

Barbara's fashion style on Leave it to Beaver was upper middle class, but not flashy or too "money" (she was "just" a housewife and mom, after all). She rocked smart, matching shirtdress and cardigan sets and the ubiquitous (and now cliche) pearls like nobody's business!





It wasn't an easy feat to find a classic shirtdress with a novelty print that wasn't *too* nutty or over the top for today's post, as her character never would've worn anything too bold, but I think I found just the thing (and how much it resembles her dress in the pic above is kinda cool), this Vintage 50's Butterfly and Pocket Watch Novelty Print Dress, available on Etsy from seller Our Tea Party, for a mere 40 bucks!:




I admit I never knew too much about Miss B and her acting career outside of Leave it to Beaver, though I recall her small but WAY sassy bit part on an episode of the tv show Roseanne in the '90s. But my favorite is, of course, her *ingenious* role as the jive talkin' old white broad on Airplane! ("Stewardess, I speak jive."). She was ahead of her time in those unexpected comedic roles, long before Betty White became, well, Betty White. And so I leave you with these final thoughts, immortalised by Miss Jive Talker herself: "Chump don' wan' no help, chump don' GET da help!"