And The Winner Is...

...Of the Vintage Giveaway contest (remember? the olive green polka dotty cocktail shaker? you didn't forget already did you?)...

Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein! Huzzah, guv'na! (..yeeeah, no idea where that came from, man. How embarrassing. Nerdy McNerdsville calling.)

Monkey, you can drop me an email or you can leave me a comment here with your name & shipping address info and I'll get that ding dang shaker off to you ASAP! (Of course, if you leave a comment with your personal info, I won't post it!)


As always thanks to everyone, old friends and brand spanky new ones, who did me a solid and played along! Without you guys, I am nothing. You are the wind beneath my....ehh, fugeddaboudit. Tune in next month, where I'll be rolling along with the vintage cocktail theme of vintage summer giveaways! Starting September, we'll start heading into a whole different angle of the seasonal vintage giveaways! Something more...autumn-y, perhaps? What could be something suitable that's vintage and also fits into the autumn theme? (Whatever. Why am I freaking over this now? I have issues, apparently.)


Anyway, thank you guys so much again! You make this fun! And tipsy.

And The Winner Is...

...of the Vintage Giveaway tiki madness contest is...



Radiation Cinema!


Yay! Sweet! Huzzah! Whoomp there it is to you, my good sir! Just send me your name and mailing address info either in a comment (which I won't make public, you know, for privacy and crap) or drop me an email and I'll get the tiki cocktail set out to you in a jif! Or when I remember to. Whenever.

Thank you so much to everyone who comments, follows, takes part in, plays along with and/or shows a lukewarm to mild interest in the giveaways here! Stay tuned in a few weeks for whateverthehell July's Vintage Giveaway will bring.



Notes of Interest: Tomorrow I'll be starting a brand new weekly theme! You know I lurves me some themes and since you peeps seem to dig the weekly nonsense that goes on here so far, it only made sense to make things harder on myself. (I said "make things harder on myself". Uh huh huh.) So I'll see you tuesday for the Grand Unveiling (yeah right, it's really not so dramatic) of the new theme. You'll love it! You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll say it's better than Cats.

The Aqua Net

I think it's time to add another regular, themed day-of-the-week, don't you? Something along the lines of what Way-Out Wednesdays are around these here parts, only not as odd. Or maybe it will be, who knows at this point. What gave me the idea was a convo (I said "convo" like I'm hip with the modern lingo or something) I was having with some peeps recently about specific colors of things they love. Personally, I collect original pink 50's things and it's gotten to the point where my house looks like it wharfed up a bottle of Pepto. (It's getting a little too girlie up in here y'all, and am starting to re-think my decor plan, but that's another story.) Some people like the 40's red and white kitchen schtick, some people go the mid-century modern/minimalist earth-tone route. But one thing that just about everyone I know agrees on is the color aqua. What gives? Why do 50's fans so dig the aqua?

So starting today and every Friday from now on, I'll be posting aqua-hued vintage finds, because apparently what I really need to be doing is making more themes for this blog. Monday's looking a little bare, so I might have to do a Monday-Wednesday-Friday theme thing. ANYWAY. Onto the first installment of Aqua Net Fridays. (Ha! What a cleverly stupid name. I'm so easily amused.)



Today's aqua love is in the form of vintage 50's stools, taken out of an original A & W, so the story goes. They're located in Nebraska, of course, because all great old finds are stuck in the midwest, aren't they? (But if you really have the hots for them, the owner can ship them to you. Click the pic for the listing and all the gory details.) Screw the happy family soda shop thing, I would sooo mosey these stools up to the bar!

Christmas Tree Boogie

Because I'm especially fond of A.) making lists B.) structure and C.) themes, I'm going to be doing "The 12 Days of Christmas" vintage-style for the next 12-ish days, where I might find some kind of vintage item that goes with the day, maybe some vintage vinyl, maybe some random retro shout-out, or perhaps nothing at all related, just to screw with your heads. It should be 12 days in a row, but I'm a fan of slack and also I forget alot, so it'll probably be more like the 17 ½ days of Christmas. Does it not sound terribly confusing, more work than it should be and not at all fun? Will I ruin Christmas, Hanukkah and possibly even Boxing Day? Good. Let's start!

On the First day of Xmas my true love gave to me...


...a partridge in a pear tree...




You don't have to say it. I know this is quite possibly the lamest picture I've ever had the displeasure of finding on the internets, next in line to the nude picture of Pete "homo-erotic" Wentz that's floating around out there, but do you know that there is nothing great in vintage land to show you for neither partridges nor pear trees? (Unless you find a 1980's Avon partridge in a pear tree collectible figurine with Bonnie Belle gingerbread Lipsmacker lip gloss hidden inside a great vintage score. Then it's your lucky day and I think you may also be mentally disabled from smoking too much of the crack and I will have to say GOOD DAY SIR. (See? Christmas is such a freaking joy already! I'm already yelling at crackheads and it's only day one!)








* "Christmas Tree Boogie" by the Swing Cats