Way-Out Wednesday: Don't Send In The Clowns! Part 3

Welcome to Way-Out Wednesday, bringing you the finest weird vintage crap available on the internet! For all you newcomers, "Creepy-Ass Clowns" has become a favorite theme around here, so please "enjoy" today's pick...





Asschin O'StankPants would like to be hired by you for your kid's next birthday party! Asschin O'StankPants would also like you to know that he brings all his own equipment. Like that rope. For doing rodeo type stunts. (Kids like that, right?) Yep, that's it. Stunts. Not for choking. Definitely not for choking. Nope. Asschin O'StankPants hopes your living room carpet has been Scotchgarded.


Vintage 60's/70's Signed Clown Painting, currently available on Etsy from seller BackGarage for $46. You're welcome.

Atomic Tuesday: Let's Bake Love

Welcome to Atomic Tuesday! (Thanks to the 3 day weekend, it feels very Monday today, doesn't it? I'm all verklempt and wrong-feeling today!)




First some quick announcements! Don't worry, they're good ones. (But you can still chew your Hubba Bubba and read your Archie comics at the back of the class, I won't tell.)


First: I realise I haven't done a vintage giveaway in a LONG time- not since December. (D'oh!) So stay tuned for one coming up soon- probably this week if I remember or am sober enough. I won't give away any details, but I can tell you the theme is "The Vintage Housewife". (Sorry, no hot pool boy will be included.)


Second: I'm quickly approaching 300 followers, which is both crazy cool and insane to me! Who knew so many of you have masochistic tendencies to like this strange, train wreck of a blog of mine. (And yes, I did just say "crazy cool" because apparently it's 1992 I'm a member of TLC.) Keep following, my homies, because once I get to 300 followers I'm going to do a vintage giveaway of epic proportions! (You know, sort of.) It's something very special from my personal collection of vintage PINK things! I think you'll like it...



Onto Atomic Tuesday!



I'm really into big pops of red lately, which is odd because everything in my house is pink, pink, and ohmygodenoughalready, pink. I don't know if it's these long bouts of rain we've had lately and I'm looking for some kind of cheery escape or if it's because I'm a Scorpio and red is like, our "thing". Or maybe who the hell cares why and just get over it already because red is awesome, end of story? (Yep. That's it.) So today's vintage pick combines both the excellent factor of atomic awesomeness and red. Win/win, I say!




Isn't it the awesomest/ginchiest/raddest/enter-any-slangy-adjective-of-your-choice-here? I adore this Vintage Red Starburst Casserole Baking Dish!




Atomic casserole currently available on Etsy from seller JudyGoVintage.

Happy Memorial Day!

Wishing all my friends in the States a fab Memorial Day! May you eat, drink and be merry all day long. And now, here are some fantastic, classic shots of our boys in uniform during the WW11-era 1940s and their pinup art. Enjoy!

Prints Charming Sunday: Americana, The Beautiful

Welcome to a Memorial Day-inspired Prints Charming Sunday!




In honor of tomorrow being Memorial Day here in the States, I figured we really should rock some kind of apropos vintage novelty print, so let's get right to it! I really dug around for today's theme, wanting to stray from the usual red/white/blue theme and find something a little more unusual. But, you know, in a good way. Duh. Hopefully you'll appreciate the kitschy goodness of today's vintage as much as I do!

I give you today's pick, this Vintage 60's Americana Novelty Print Dress:








Americana-themed dress is currently available on Etsy from seller Loulou's Vintage!

Way-Out Wednesday: Read Between The Lions.

It's Way-Out Wednesday, kids!




I was going to save today's pick for this sunday's "Prints Charming Sunday" theme (being as though what you're about to see is a damn cute novelty print. DAMN CUTE.) However, my toe-curling joy from vintage love could not be contained and therefore must be shared with you now! RIGHT. NOW. And while that sounds borderline filthy (if you didn't read it that way then move along Grandma), I promise today's pick is not borderline filthy. It's a wonderfully dorky and therefore made of the most extreme kind of AWESOME, this Vintage 60's Lion Novelty Print Shift Dress, available on Etsy from seller TMHL:




A lion. Wearing glasses. Reading a book.



Win, win, win and oh my god WIN. Nerds of the world unite! Our time has come. Oh yes. Our time has come. How nerdy am I, exactly? The whole time I wrote today's post, I imagined that the lion's voice probably sounds exactly like the animal kingdom's version of Jerry Lewis's Nutty Professor and how ass-kicking it'd be if there was a cartoon based solely on the Nerd Lion from this dress. That's how nerdy.

Atomic Tuesday: Hey Bartender, You Make My Heart Surrender

Welcome to Atomic Tuesday!





I've seen- and collected- a lot of vintage barware in my day. And I mean alot. As in: you'd think I was a Kennedy with all this bar and glassware around. Yet it's always exciting to come across a great vintage bar score, like this extra swanktacular Vintage 60's Atomic Starburst Cocktail Set:








Everything about this set is killer: the tripod stand, (the fact that it has a tripod stand), the long, tall pitcher, the gold starbursts, all cool. The set is available on Etsy from seller Atty's Vintage for an even cooler $38. I love it! Now if you'll excuse me, I have some very important cocktails to make. Dishes to do. Laundry to fold. Cocktails to make.

Prints Charming Sunday: Umbrella Enchanted

Rain, rain, rain. That's all we seem to be getting lately! (But it ain't raining men or money.) But I'm not hatin'. I love the rain more than the sun. (I'm sure that's shocking to you all, given my always-sunny demeanor and all. Harumph.) So I found the perfect solution to beat the rainy day blues for those of you who like the sun. (The solution does not include 1 or 2 or 5 cocktails, I'm sad to report. Or a hot pool boy. Or to be filthy stinking rich. Or to have the power to make your enemies and/or spouses spontaneously combust. Sigh. Moving on.) How about a vintage umbrella novelty print? (Yeah, I know. It's not as good as those other things, but you gotta make do with what you got.)

I couldn't settle on picking just one cute print like usual, so I picked 4. (Just like men and cocktails- you can never have just one. Thank you! I'll be here all night.)







Vintage 50's Umbrella Print Heels & Clutch Set.









Vintage 50's Sheer Umbrella Print Dress.









Vintage 40's Umbrella Print Dress.









Vintage 60's Umbrella Print Beach Coverup.