And The Pink Breadbox-O-Love Shall Be Bestowed Upon...

(Because everyone says "And the winner is..." and when everyone says something, it's boring)...


....aramblingfancy! Drop me a line with your name & mailing address and your new (read: not new) pink 50's breadbox will be on it's way!

While we're at it, I highly suggest y'all (yeah, I said "y'all" and I'm not even close to being southern, so sue me) check out her blog called, shock and surprise, A Rambling Fancy. Nay, I demand you check it out. It's good readin'- it's nerd girl cool! (I swear, that really is the utmost of compliments in my world!)


Thanks to everyone who played and stay tuned (or whatever) for the next "big one". You know, the next big vintage giveaway. What'd you think I meant? Pervs.

Last Call For The Vintage Giveaway!

Hey, kids! This is your friendly reminder that tomorrow (the 29th) the winner of the 1950's pink breadbox will be announced! If you haven't already done so, check out my original post about it and sign up for a chance to win there ---> Vintage Giveaway.

As always, everyone is welcome to sign up and it's free!

And The Winner Of "The Vintage Housewife" Giveaway Is...

...EARTHA KITSCH! (Eartha, you can drop me a line at pinktrailer (at) yahoo (dot) com and let me know your name & mailing address!) Thanks to everyone who played along and mucho grande thanks to all my lovely new followers! (You guys kinda rock pretty hard, you know that?)

Normally I would literally pull a name out of a hat, but this giveaway had so many people that I used random.com to randomly shuffle your names, and lucky Eartha Kitsch was #1, randomly. (Pennyblossoms, you're the runner-up, should Eartha not be able to fulfill her contest-winning duties.)

So now that I'm *officially* at 300 followers as of today, we can rock our next vintage giveaway, as promised! (damn, that was fast!) Stay tuned for that coming up in the next week or so! (damn, did I mention that was fast?!)

And The Winner of the Holiday Swanktacular Is..

BlackStar!





Thanks to everyone who played along! You crazy bunch of kids make this all worthwhile. I appreciate the feedback from all of you and want to welcome the new followers! I adore you guys something fierce!

Blackstar (I'm sorry, I don't know your name yet!)~ Just drop me an email at pinktrailer@ yahoo.com with your name & mailing address (which is kept secure & never mentioned publicly, FYI) and I'll get this big mama of a box off to you ASAP! Congrats!

Vintage Giveaway: It's a Holiday Swanktacular!

It's vintage giveaway time again, kiddies! Being as though it's the "mooost wun-der-ful tiiiiiime... of the year!", I thought this month was a great choice in showing how much I've appreciated you guys over the past year- your comments, your emails, the new followers to this train wreck of a blog and the new friends I've made- by doing the biggest giveaway yet! It might not be as grand what other people are doing, what with their Target gift cards and whatnot (I made that up- but if you know who's giving those away, let me know), but it's definitely not one you'll see anywhere else. It's little. Yellow. Different. It's my way, so quit yer bitching and don't make me pull this car over and come back there and slap you into next week. The holidays don't officially start until someone yells, someone cries, and then there's presents. Ho ho ho!

December's giveaway will be a chunk-o-vintage items, a chunk-o-retro items and some just for fun. Keep it, resell it, give it away as presents. I don't care what you do with it, just make sure you pass along a little gratitude to someone else along the way. You could call it "paying it forward", but I wouldn't, because I hate that term. I may be jaded, grumpy and a raging bitch, but I do carry a My Name is Earl-ian way of life: "Do good things, and good things happen". You can be jaded and grumpy too, just do something nice for someone else, OK? Or else.


Shuddup and get with the free stuff already!


Here's the whole cannoli:



Seeing as though that's a craptacular picture, I'll break it down for you, clockwise (ish):




1.) Handpainted, blown glass retro tree ornaments. Brand new and they come in a cool, old fashioned-ish wood crate.






2.) A brand new sequined/beaded poodle applique and a set of vintage 40's new old stock green buttons.






3.) A pair of vintage 50's lacy nylon gloves.






4.) A can of "Quick Snow"! Brand new, makes 3 gallons of fake snow, non-toxic and environmentally safe. So there's that.






5.) A set of vintage 60's potholders. They're new old stock, in their original package, never used. (These red & green kitchen-themed ones are the closest I could find to Xmas-themed ones. Yeah. Not very close at all, really.)






6.), 7.) and 8.) A vintage 40's/50's grey organdy apron w/lace & red topstitching, a vintage Xmas tree-embroidered napkin and a set of brand new, unscented silver taper candles.






9.) A vintage 50's winter white thermoset-esque plastic necklace.






10.) 2 vintage 50's unused Christmas cards.






11.) and 12.) A copyright 1972 Frosty the Snowman Little Golden book and a retro wood snowman tealight holder (or something- I'm not entirely sure what it's for. Maybe you keep your Vicodin in it.)






13.) A retro set of 4 glass holiday swizzle sticks.






14.) A set of 2 ruby red crystal martini glasses. The set is brand new, unused, with the store stickers still on the bottoms. And these suckers are heeaa-vy. And I don't mean that in a hippie 70's slang kind of way. They really do weigh a friggin' ton.






15.) A vintage 50's (?) club (as in playing cards) cookie cutter. New old stock, unused and in it's original plastic bag.





So, to enter: leave me a comment on this blog post anytime between now and December 8th, when I'll pick & announce the winner! If you don't follow my blog, all new followers will get a double entry to the giveaway! Everyone is welcome to enter and it's totally free to you! Good luck!

A Day Late, But...The Winner Is...

...of "The Monster Mash, Sounds of Terror" vintage record is...




...


MARK!


Thanks to everyone who played along, and a big thanks to new followers! You guys rock! I'll be doing an extra special giveaway in November for my birthday, and I'm giving away one of my favorite vintage things! Stay tuned to see what it is!



(Note to Mark: You can email me your name & shipping info OR you can leave me a comment here with the info, but I won't post your comment. Thanks and congratulations, man! Happy Halloween!)

And The Winner Is...

...Lizzie AKA Fuzzylizzie! Step right up and claim your fabulous vintage angora sweater from last Tuesday's giveaway! Lizzie, just drop me an email with your name & address and we'll get this show on the road. Mucho thanks to everyone to played along!

I'll be running October's Vintage Giveaway a little early in the month (most likely in the next 2 weeks), so you have plenty of time to use it. Here's a hint: it's vintage Halloween-themed. *enter creepy organ music here* Get ready to rock, kids. So stayed tuned!

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.

July's Vintage Giveaway~ Shaken, Not Stirred

Welcome to July's Vintage Giveaway! All summer long I'm rockin' a cocktail theme! Why, you ask? Why not? Isn't it always a good time for a drinkiepoo of some sort? And you know what they say: It's 5 O'Clock...blah blah blah, you get the point. So this month's giveaway is a vintage 50's/60's cocktail shaker...





...And a handful of swizzle sticks, just for the hellofit!





The shaker stands about 8" tall, with a built-in strainer and removable lid. Made of matte, silver aluminum...





...with contrasting olive green polka dot-y holey cutouts showing through!



(Please excuse today's less-than-stellar pics. The shaker and stirrers are in perfect condition, showing almost zero wear, just so's you know. The crappy pictures may make it look otherwise. Damn you, cloudy day!)



Everyone is welcome to enter the contest, even if you're new around these parts! Just leave a comment that you want to be entered in the contest, or email me if you'd rather. I'll draw a name and announce the winner in one week from now, on July 27. Remember, the Vintage Giveaway is totally free to the winner and your personal info is kept completely private. Good luck to everyone and enjoy a drink on me!

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.

This is your Captain speaking...

Just a reminder, folks, about June's summer tiki-themed giveaway. The winner will be announced later this evening, so there's still time to sign up- just go to the link below. While you're signing up, please enjoy the musical stylings of Charo on the Lido Deck, where William Shatner will be passing out leis and teaching the hula. Also, the staff here would like to advise against eating the clams today, as we've been informed they may or may not have something to do with the recent outbreak of the Clam Flu. That is all.

Give me free tiki or give me death!

Jungle Madness

Welcome to June's Vintage Giveaway! Seeing as in one week it will be O-fficially summer, I thought it only apropos to give away something apropos of summer. Duh. So what could be better than something tiki-themed? Everyone loves tikis. Yo' mama was a tiki. I'll tell you what's better than a tiki theme~ a tiki theme and cocktails.



So this month's giveaway is this fun plastic cocktail shaker and cups set! OK, so it's not technically vintage, dated 2002, but if you wait another 13 years it will be, so there. I got this as a present 7 years and it's never been used, so it's time I destash and bestow this re-gift upon someone else. It really was a well-thought, charming little gift from someone, but I just have way too many actual vintage cocktail shakers and glasses already that I've collected over many moons. Am I bad a person? Let's consult the Magic 8 Ball. *shake shake shake* Magic 8 Ball says: "It is certain." Sigh.

It's tiki time!



No, really. It says so.




I'm pretty sure that any native anywhere wouldn't drink something called a "Grass Skirt" but who am I to argue with a cardboard box?




Each cup has a tiki mask on one side and a cliche-ishly named drink recipe on the other. ("Lei Lady Lei" sounds like something stupid and corny I would say, so naturally I'm both repulsed and enchanted.)


Everyone and anyone is welcome to sign up! It doesn't matter if you've never left a comment before or you're not following this blog (though it sure does help. Zing!) And it's totally free to you! To be eligible, just leave a comment that you'd like to be entered in the contest - or - you can drop me an email if you'd rather keep it on the down low.

The winner's name will be drawn from a hat (seriously. I really do it that way!) in one week, on the 21st. What better way to celebrate the first day of summer than by getting loaded on a "Grass Skirt"?






"Jungle Madness" by Martin Denny.

And the winner is...

...of the vintage 50's, embroidered bowl o' soup tablecloth...Terry!
Drop me an email with your name & mailing address or leave me a comment here (which won't be posted!) and we're ready to rock. Congrats, Miss T!

Thanks so much to everyone who took part in this month's Vintage Giveaway! You guys make it fun to do and make me want to keep upping the vintage ante, as it were! OK, enough of the warm fuzzies, I'm making myself wanna barf. Stay tuned in the next couple of weeks for June's giveaway.

And because June's giveaway is the kitschiest and funnest (I know it's not proper, lay off me, people! I'm a big ol' grammar Nazi! Though I do make up words all the time...but that's different...somehow...) giveaway so far, I'll let you all in on a hint...



**Skip this part if you like the drama of not knowing anything and like total surprises!**








Hint: it's tiki themed, has never been used, is not technically vintage but I don't think you'll care and is stupid cool, if I do say so myself. Do with that what you will.

Memphis Soul Stew

Welcome to another addition to Vintage Giveaway! This month's month's giveaway is a vintage 50's square "card table" tablecloth with a kitschy cute little embroidered soup bowl & spoon.



Oh, and a random fork. Yep. A fork. Just because. It's made out of soft white cotton, feedsack-ish. Measures 33" wide and 32" down, which is a little odd but if anyone can sashay the hell out of it, it's you guys. (And yeah, I totally said "sashay" because apparently I'm RuPaul.)




If you're all like, "Who plays cards? And who uses a tablecloth to play cards, any damn way? Nerd.", then you crafty types could probably rock it into something cool and upcycled like you do, maybe a pillow or a skirt? A little kitchen curtain would be swell, too. Whatever. Wear it on your head if you want, what do I care.

How it works: As usual all are welcome to sign up- first time posters, regular posters, old winners, old losers, everyone- and it won't cost you a dime. Free vintage crapola is my recession ass-kicker present to you. If you'd like to enter the contest, leave me a comment that you'd like to enter -or- if you can always drop me an email and let me know that way. I'll write everyone's name down and draw a very random name from a hat and post the winner in a week from now, on the 26th.

Note: I'd love a picture if you do take the tablecloth and use it as something else! Or as a regular ol' tablecloth. I'll do a blog post about your artsy fartsiness with a link to your blog/website/favorite meat wholesaler/whateverthehell. Free advertising for craftiness!



"Memphis Soul Stew" by King Curtis. Go funk yourself.

And the Winner...

...of the vintage 50's sunglasses is...




Shrinky Inky! Yay, woohoo, huzzah and all that! Shrinks, (do ya like how I call you "Shrinks"? Yeah, I didn't think so), drop me a line with yer important info and we'll be ready to rock. You drive, all incognito-like, with your sunglasses on for night driving. I'll be drunk in the backseat, chain smoking and rambling about kids these days and their damn jazz records.


Thanks to everyone, newcomers and oldcomers (is that word?) alike! Stay tuned in the coming weeks for May's Vintage Free Crapola Giveaway! (I don't know why I capitalized that. For dramatic effect, maybe.)

Eye Of The Tiger

Jumping moses on a pogo stick, I almost forgot about this month's vintage giveaway! How dare I and who do I think I am anyway? So without further yada yada yada, I bring you the free crapola vintage giveaway for April: vintage 50's sunglasses, shazam! These are certainly not schmancy by any means, white plastic cat
eye frames with thin green plastic (non-prescription) lenses by Cool Ray Polaroid.



(You are impressed by my fancy outdoor picture-taking skills, of that I am sure.)

I have far too many white cat eye sunglasses, though I'm not sure how that happened anyway. How very "1959 Barbie" of me. They're not the best of quality, most likely these were the el cheap-o drug store variety, but cheap ones are the best! (Screw you, Olsen Twins and your stupid $500 glasses.)

So if you want in on the free giveaway, sign up here by leaving a comment that says "Hey, I want free crap! I needs me some sunglasses! Throw my name in already, GOSH!". (And no, you don't really need to leave that comment. You can leave a comment in Elvish telling me to that I suck for all I care, just as long as you leave a comment that you want in!)

So. I'll pick a name... when?...how's about a week from today, the 24th? Good? Good. As always, everyone is welcome to play and it's fo' frizzle. (That means it's for free. I know I'm a cheese, as if I wouldn't know that.)



"Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor. Yeah, I know. Sorry 'bout that.