Have a Vintage New Year!

Wishing you the best New Year Ever!

Click your tin-litho vintage clickers and ring in the New Year safely!

Tin litho clickers found here on Etsy for under $10.

Vintage Porcelain Glove Molds on Etsy

Vintage Porcelain Glove Molds are Back!  Here are my latest finds...... watch them go from this :

Glove molds available at RetroChalet range $28-$45 on average

To this! Ah, yes, the industrial relics look lovely as urbanite home decor.

Glove molds available here.

So how does one get the funk, junk, and rubbish off of them? Hard darn work, comet, soap, scrubbies and elbow grease, that's how.  Scroll below for my tips on cleaning....

Read my Squidoo article on Glove Mold History and Cleaning here.

Vintage Supplies on Etsy An Artists Dream

An assemblage artist's dream...

$5 from Estate Sale Treasures, one of my all time favorite Etsy shops!

A collage artist's dream...

Train war bonds, $7.95, RetroChalet

A steampunk artist or scrap-booking guru's imagination can only say what these could be used for...

Lots of colorful vintage clock hands, $11.95 from Steampunkjunk

1960s Fashion 1960's Mod Clothing on Etsy sixties style

Oh how I love the 1960's fashions. I really wish I had lived in the 1960's.  Check out these cool Etsy finds!

Allyn Rose Vintage says Dream it and Do it with this mini dress, $52

The greatest things came out of the 1960's....from birth control pills to Muscle Cars. Just imagine, a world without either.  Let's not forget the hype of the troll doll...

ChestersTreasures has a troll for $24 that reminds of us a bygone era.

Mod designs and simplicity were part of the 1960's.  Pop Art dresses were left for the night...

Bad Girl Vintage has a hand painted COUTURE designer dress, $2500!

But the daytime was casual and simple, showing the natural beauty of everyone who wore the designs...

Vintage 1960s SHIRT and SHORTS Set, $34 from Spun Sugar Vintage

Sew your own with this 1960's Simplicity Pattern $5.95 from PatternsFromthePast.

You could be free, you could be cute, you could be you.  Now you could do a simple swept do and still come out looking simple and sexy, how about this stylin'red dress, it's so sassy it says cute but sexy all at once! 

Late 1960's bordering on the 70's  Mod chic dress from Old Age, $58

Vintage Gift Guide For the Unique Family Members

For the girl who rides horses:

Schleich bendy horse Germany

This vintage bendy horse I love , he's cute and unique, and on sale at Vintage Goodies.  What a cute little trinket to sit on the desk, and to play with when times are slow. 

For the Sporty Guy:

 

From Selected and Collected!

Nothing says I love you (ouch) like this vintage metal dart board, that comes with real magnet darts! For use to play with or as a decoration in Mr. Sporty guy's house, this will surely big a big retro hit!

For the Car Buff: 

Old Automobile Speedometer, Estate Hound.

This old vintage speedometer is just cool. I guess just sitting it there like this would be cool. You know the kind of guy or gal who are always tinkering around on the old cars or in the garage? I am sure they could find something real cool to do with this piece of industrial history!

For the Retro Girl:

SwirlingOrange11 offers this great retro clock!

Clocks in retro colors and great working condition are getting harder and harder to find. I can just imagine seeing this in my Bestie's retro kitchen.  How lovely!

For Anyone: 

Vintage Glove Molds, find them here!

Surely worth their weight in vintage porcelain, these industrial relics from yesterday prove to be cute additions to the home. Use them for jewelry display, industrial statement statues, or to funkify up a new room. Yes, I said FUNKIFY.  Find a bunch at RetroChalet.

Vintage Wrapping Paper Ephemera For Crafts and More

Raggedy Ann wrapping paper $6.95 at Lady Libertine Vintage

Vintage wrapping paper, how did it all survive? Left in the bottom of someone's drawer, or in a box of holiday mayhem just waiting for the right occasion.....then...forgotten forever.  Or was it? Not so, thanks to it showing up in thrift stores, estate sales, scrounged up by the younger generation, who loved that old wrapping paper just as much as if it was brand spankin' new.  Something our grandparents grimaced at we just adore.

9 unused Rolls found totaling 450 feet, $52 at RetroChalet.

Welcome to the creative reuse.  Vintage wrapping paper may be used for wrapping gifts, but over time the paper may become brittle or rip when bending around the corners of the package.  So you may use it for:

• Mixed Media Work
• Cut out a small snippet and put it on a package tag
• Cut out a 4"x4" square and glue to the front of a kraft paper card, give the cards for Christmas!
• Use to faux-wrap a customer's purchase if you sell antiques before shipping. 
• Use in gift bags, crumbling it up tissue-paper style.

I just adore the way JenuinePaper used recycled snippets and made this card $4

'Vintage Wrapping Paper Ephemera' by RetroChalet

Holiday Christmas gift wrap ... MothtoaFlameSt... $10.00	Vintage Norcross Christmas S... berryetsy $12.00	Vintage 50s Wrapping Paper munnypenney $5.00	Vintage 1980's Christmas... SamuraiSmurfet... $2.00
Vintage 1970's Christmas... SamuraiSmurfet... $2.00	Christmas Wrapping Paper 40&... letsallsing $7.95	Vintage gift wrap MothtoaFlameSt... $4.50	Rare and Wonderful Jewelry S... kimberleeedgar... $7.50
Mid-century 50s vintage Chri... GingerLoganVin... $3.00	Vintage Christmas Gift Wrap ... timepassages $4.75	Vintage 1980's Christmas... SamuraiSmurfet... $4.00	Vintage Christmas Gift Wrapp... mverdi $8.50
Pink Poodle Merry Christmas ... LillieAnnesClo... $9.99	Vintage 1970's Christmas... SamuraiSmurfet... $2.00	Vintage 1980's Christmas... SamuraiSmurfet... $4.00	1970s CHRISTMAS GIFT WRAP / ... ArchipelagoVin... $7.50

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

1 sheet, $4.81 from VintageVic