How'd You Pin That One On Me

Did you ever notice that when you have no dough, you find everything that you want? Screw what you need, like Veruca Salt said "I want it NOW!" Word to the wise: never window shop when you don't have the resources to buy things that you'd sell your soul to the devil to have, if you hadn't done so half a dozen times already for a bag of Cheetos and a Cherry Coke.

I'm usually the junk jewelry kind of gal~ oh wait, I'm sorry, the PC term is "costume jewelry". I like cheap stuff, plastic crap, and I'm a huge fan of pins, especially the enamel flower types your Grandma wore in the 60's, that sort of thing. I'm not a girlie girl or high maintenance when it comes to accessories. No need to give me diamonds, I'd rather have the plastic gem ring out of the 25 cent candy machine at the supermarket. But I'm noticing that as I get older, I really need to upgrade my jewelry collection, make it a little more growns-up. That doesn't mean looking like everyone else in the crowd and resort to shopping for a dime-a-dozen crap from Kay Jewelers at the mall~ you can still have your vintage jewelry and eat it too. Or whatever.

So while window shopping online (computer screen shopping? I have no idea), I found some kickass-tacular vintage pins that have enough quirky flair (yes I said "flair", shut yer piehole) to please people like me, who refuse to grow up, yet they're growns-up enough to reflect that you're in fact, not 10 years old. But not just any random pins~ delicious, vintage 30's Bakelite pins. Ooooooo! (That's what you're supposed to say, as a collective crowd.) So even though moths are flying out of my wallet, doesn't mean that the rest of the world does, and I know you guys love you some Bakelite, correct? (This is where you collectively scream "hells bells yeah!)

Enjoy the wonders of the vintage Bakelite pin:




Vintage 30's Deco Butterscotch Brooch.




Vintage 30's Ribbon Bakelite & Celluloid Brooch. I *lovelovelove* pins that have dangly, jangly bits! So with that in mind, wait until you see the next 2...




...See? What'd I tell ya?! Swoon? I think so! Vintage 30's Amazing Cherries Cornucopia Bakelite Pin from Dorothea's Closet Vintage. But wait! There's more...




...More hanging bits! Love it! Another Vintage 30's Cherries Bakelite Pin from Dorothea's Closet Vintage.








"How'd You Pin That One On Me" by Dinosaur Jr.

Atomic Tuesday: Little Star

Welcome to this week's Atomic Tuesday! I haven't featured anything very glitzy or girlie or glam-ish in a while, so today's atomic theme is all about...well...glitzy, girlie, glam-ish things. How's that for descriptive? (Sigh. I'm not so creative with the words this morning, apparently.) Today's feature is the vintage 50's/60's starburst-y pin. Or "brooch" if you're of the fancy persuasion, which I am not. It's a pin. And fab ones, at that! So let's get this party bus on the road, shall we?
(What?! Sigh. I'm going back to bed.)




vintage enamel gold swirly starburst pin.





She wore bluuuuuue....rhinestones vintage atomic pin. (Was that too heavy on the cheese? I bet you're singing it in your head now, aren't you? That is my gift to you.)





vintage gold sputnik-y starburst pin.





vintage rhinestone highly atomic pin. Now that looks like the closest thing to an atomic symbol I've seen in a long time! Swell!





vintage asymmetrical rhinestone starburst pin. Oh man. This one's my favorite of the bunch! "Meet George Jetson..." is stuck in my head now. Yours too? You're welcome.






vintage big ol' explosion of rhinestones pin, in my current favorite color combo of aqua and green! Plus, it looks like one of those poisonous, under-the-ocean plants that tricks fish into thinking it's just a pretty plant and then-POW!-it eats it. I'm not sure if it's healthy that I think that way.





Speaking of poisonous sea critters, this vintage beaded spikey earring & pin set also looks like some demonic sea creature. Sea urchin? Deadly pufferfish? Undersea mines? All this talk of explosives and venomous spikey death fish has made me randy. Paging Dr. Freud.




"Little Star" by the Elegants.