Way-Out Wednesday: Hot Child In The City

Lately I've been finding vintage dolls to be charming, adorable, pleasant, fun to look at, normal, perfectly acceptable, sane, good candidates for Way-Out Wednesday, so today I'm keeping with it and showing one more, this Vintage 60's freckle face...someone or other. Enjoy. (?)


Ever wonder what would happen if Marcia Brady, Janis the stoner band chick from the Muppets, Ron Howard, Spongebob Squarepants, an underage 1970's hooker, Joan Crawford, a blowup doll, Carol Channing, Eric Cartman, a pork chop and a transvestite Cher impersonator had a baby?

This:







You're welcome.






"Hot Child in the City" by Nick Gilder.

Atomic Tuesday: Pour Some Sugar on Me

Welcome to this week's Atomic Tuesday! Today's theme is all about a certain type of mid-century modern stacking canisters. For some strange reason, I've been coming across these particular canisters all over the ding dang place lately. I'm concerned. Are the cosmos trying to tell me something? Am I fated to buy a set of these or the world as I know it will end? Have I angered the Gods of Kitchen Condiments by improperly storing my flour/coffee/sugar and tea? Or perhaps it's just a coincidence. (*At that moment the skies darkened and there was thunderclap, shaking the ground below! The black clouds parted and Old Bay Seasonus, the God of Spices, emerged with his garlic press to smite me upside the head for not taking kitchen arrangement seriously.*)

So with that in mind, please enjoy today's vintage 60's/70's stacking canister sets and remember: never underestimate the power of a well-organised kitchen.




Vintage Orange Metal Stacking Canister Set.






Vintage Maroon & Orange Stacking Canister Set. 2-tone you say? Awesome.






Vintage Red & White Plastics Consolidated Stacking Canister Set.






Vintage Green & White White Plastics Consolidated Stacking Canister Set.






Vintage Aqua Metal Stacking Canister Set.







"Pour Some Sugar on Me” by Def Leppard. Yep. I used a DL song today. You know you secretly love it.

Red Hot

One of the last few remaining true rockabilly legends of the 1950's signed to Sun Records, Billy Lee Riley died yesterday at the age of 75.

There will be a ceremony held Tuesday, August 4th at 3:00 pm at the Walnut Grove Grove Cemetery in Newport, Arkansas and a memorial concert is scheduled for Aug. 30 in Newport at the Silver Moon Club, with other greats such as Sonny Burgess, Carl Mann and Dale Hawkins scheduled to play. Cards or letters are encouraged to be sent to his wife Joyce at this address:

Joyce Riley
723 Crest Drive
Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401




RIP, Billy. You will be missed.

Love Rollercoaster

It's Sunday show-off! Just wanted to share this killer vintage 50's peasant blouse with an incredibly cool rollercoaster novelty print! Just listed at Fast Eddie's Retro Rags!



You gotta dig those full, blousey sleeves and ruffle cuffs! A little on the shorter side, it's quintessentially 50's when paired with high-waisted cuffed jeans or pencil skirt! Rock your inner b-movie bad girl.

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"Love Rollercoaster" by The Ohio Players.

My (Aqua) Blue Heaven Friday~ Call Me

Welcome to today's Aqua Blue Heaven! (Today's post will be short & sweet, due to something called a "Henry. Henry is our new dust mop of a puppy who happens to be a glorious little freak show & requires mucho attention. I'm not a fan of needy people, let alone needy critters, but he's so cute I could eat his face right off, so he gets a pass on being an attention-seeking fuzzbucket. More about him later.)


Today's theme is the vintage 50's aqua telephone. And the crowd goes "Ooooo." What a delight! Alas, not too many out there, much like the vintage aqua radios from last week's post, so I hope you enjoy today's bizarro mix of vintage picks!





Vintage 60's Bell Telephone Aqua Keychain Promo




Red Screenprinted 50's Phone Aqua Tee Shirt. Yeah, it's not vintage, but it's cute, so whatevs. The seller can make it in a different color and sizes, too. I love mix-and-matching vintage with modern, so I'd rock this tee with some cuffed jeans and a vintage beaded cardigan over it. Cute!





Vintage 60's Aqua Rotary Phone. Now that's what I'm talking about. Willis.





Vintage See-A-Dial Rhinestone Rotary Dial Cover. I would like to know why I wasn't informed that such a beast existed? Did you? What a fabulously kitschy and unnecessary thing to own! Had I know I could have been bedazzling the crap outta my phone, I would have started years ago! Bedazzling is my god-given right and you will have to pry my Bedazzler from my cold, dead hands before I give it up!...Wait. What was I talking about? I get so distracted and feisty when it comes to beads and rhinestones and useless plastic things to covet. Carry on.





"Call Me" by Blondie.

Rock A Hula Baby

There's nothing like a vintage tropical print maxi to rock the summer. From vibrant hues to kicky details to bold, jaw-dropping prints~ Fast Eddie's Retro Rags does Hawaii. (Oh yeah. of course I went there.) As you probably figured out by now, I'm usually not a fan of the 1970s or the fashions of the era. But sometimes, once in a blue moon and depending if I'm drunk enough, something about 70's vintage knocks my socks off, and these maxi dresses do just that. I am now sockless.

I should clarify, I loathe 70's hippie fashion. I adore eccentric fashionista 70's fashion. Picture this: Miami. 1970's. Bleach blonde hostess named Dixie in her mid 40's throwing a cocaine-and-booze-soaked party, mambo on the hifi, leathery tanned skin, gold jewelry dripping off of her, teetering around in suede platforms, martini in one hand, cigarette in the other, flirting with the waiters and cabana boys. Like Magda on "There's Something About Mary". That's the 70's style I love. Is that clear now? I thought not.

Anyway. Each picture and link is clickable to the listing, should you also weirdly covet maxi dresses in a way you never though possible.



RED HOT HIBISCUS Long & Lean Cotton Maxi Dress




BELL SLEEVE Vintage STAN HICKS Empire Ribbon Hawaiian Maxi Dress




PAKE MUU Vintage CUTOUT SLEEVES Hawaiian Maxi Dress




TOMATO PRINT Vintage FLOOR-LENGTH SLEEVES Maxi Goddess Dress

This one especially murders me. It's silk chiffon, has a tomato and flower novelty print (zuh?) and these incredible, floor-length sheer split sleeves that you can wear down as in the picture, or tied to the back, so your arms are exposed. Sigh. So dreamy. Pass me a rum and coke.

Way-Out Wednesday: 16 Tons

Welcome to this week's Way-Out Wednesday! Today's theme is inspired by a conversation with an old neighbor lady remembering "the good old days" of being a little girl, when times were tough (alot like now) and money was tight (alot like now) and her parents were out of work (alot like now) and they buried their money in old food cans in the backyard. (!) Many folks didn't believe in/trust the banks, so they buried their money in the ground or hid it around the house in unsuspecting places that potential robbers wouldn't find. The old "money in the mattress" trick we often see in movies or in old cartoons was tried-and-true. Cliche, but true. (Note to self: Buy shovel. Start digging.)

So today's theme is inspired by money. The lack of having it, the needing it most when you have the least, the saving every last penny of it for a rainy day. So today, I give you the vintage bank, Way-Out Wednesday style!





This Vintage 60's Hobo Bank certainly represents the down and out in Beverly Hills everywhere. It would be funny if it wasn't so true. When you see the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Rachel Ashwell riding in on their clashing-but-cutesy plaid and rose print horses, it's game over, man. Turns out, our worst nightmares will come to fruition: shabby chic will rule the universe.






Vintage 60's Devil Bank. I think he's after Rachel Ashwell.





Holy moses, this guy rules. This is what I would look like if I was a male ceramic decapitated bank from 1962. I know you've been wondering. Vintage 60's Cuss Bank.





...?...I have no idea...I mean, what the hell...?...If Bert from Sesame Street and Julia Roberts and a pear mated they would create this abomination? Vintage...Smiley Guy...?...Bank.





"16 Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford.