16 posts tagged “vintage”
Last Night was the first night of photography class. My friend Sherry is in it as well. But all the others are new. The teacher told everyone that in my head, my imagination takes over (cannot remember his exact words) but it was a compliment, but it also sounded like he was dancing around calling me crazy. Haha! So, there was this guy, I don't quite know why he was in this introduction class, as he has been a photographer for many years, and has all the accessories , ALL the accessories he made darn sure we all knew this, he would interrupt the teacher and argue with him about stuff. Um That is annoying, just let the teacher talk. I hope he feels above this class and stops coming. He is there to show off, nice, thanks. :-l
Otherwise it was a lovely evening.
To Do today:
1. burn CD of the meet up with the belly dancer, this was supposed to be done weeks ago. EEEK!
2. order pictures online of family to make dad a nice album
3. make a flash diffuser with a plastic gallon jug
4. make a list of gifts to buy for the Spring birthday party this weekend, maybe I should send out a gift list to family, telling them I was a) gift card for camera shop, or b) happy socks
5. take a nap, eat tons of strawberries before they go bad, and take another nap. ;-)
I was wondering, If I created a meet-up for Voxers in this area, would any of you come? Just throwing this idea up in the air. We could go on a photo walk, or eat lunch, or both! What do you think?
Yay! New Photo Safari! I love these types of exercises, They teach me a lot. So here are 4 different things, Stacked and with only Natural light. I may be called out for cheating, I have a whole wall of windows. Haha!
I am also putting this in the new group "Favorite Things" because Old Vintage things ARE my favorite things! This is why I live in a home about to burst at the seems.
The Syrups, I have picked up at yard sales, none are over $4 (the $4 one is dated from 1898)
The books all came from a recent sale, 35 cents a piece, I have about 25 of them.
The teacups and saucers, well that blue kills me, I love forget-me-nots too.
Then the wooden boxes are from the 1940's and 50's. You were to keep letters from your sweetheart in them my grandmother has told me.
I went to the antique show and I did not buy anything...Haha! Except some photos for my vintage photo collection. I have nice storage for them. A lot of dealers did not want me to take pictures, so here is what I got.
I am stuck inside, it is raining rather hard this morning, so I decided to take pictures of some of my massive collection that needs to stop. I collect too much stuff.
Thank you.
I knocked on the door the next day, my heart pounding, my feet creaking the old wooden porch boards. A man answered the door, he had long scraggly hair and his eyebrows were tattooed on along with tattoo eye lids. and he had an enormous smile on his face. I introduced myself and asked if he would not mind if I went and took pictures in his backyard. He asked why, I said I am teaching myself photography and his backyard is very interesting. Especially the old building. He said OH, the battery house. Is that what it is made of? Batteries? He said yes. In the early 20's and 30's it had been a battery manufacturing shop that went out of business when the depression hit. He said that they were not allowed to build on this lot until they cleaned it up, back in the day they would just dump the lead and battery acid right into the ground. Now he is stuck with millions of dollars in clean up bills. All very interesting. The batteries that make the walls of the building are not made of plastic, I think it is asbestos. I was shocked to see green beans and other veggies growing out there. A huge apple orchard too.
There was so much stuff out there just rotting into the poison soil. So here is the Battery house and a teeny bit of history. : )
I started the day with my normal 2 cups of black coffee and some cereal. I knew I HAD to go to the post Office. I had to mail my art pages for the skinny book swap. So, I got dressed layered orange and pink striped tank under a long sleeve dusty pink T-shirt and a big orange and purple top over that, dark jeans, blue, pink and green tall striped socks and orange converse tennies. Vintage scarf to cover the hair that was not cooperating AT All, and I was off. Camera around my neck, purse over my shoulder, and art packaged in a bubble envelope clutched to my chest. I did not anticipate how hard it was going to be to let them go. I really loved some of those pages. Sigh, $6 to send them and they were taken to the back room of the post office. They are gone. I walked outside and it was beginning to mist rain so out came the red cherry umbrella.
I decided to go to my favorite antique store, it is only a block away. They gave me so many of the pictures I used in the art pages. I walk in and the older gentleman that owns the shop with his wife is there. He is a smaller man, light blue eyes and a gray beard. He loves talking about his hippy days in San Francisco. Then he pulls out from behind the counter some things they had set aside for me. Two very large scrapbooks FULL of newspaper articles from the 1930's. I love this kind of thing, then I noticed that most of the articles are about Tacoma. It is the history of Tacoma in 1933. There are thousands of articles cut out and glued to the soft and brittle pages. I asked how much. He was unsure, his wife was out in Seattle with her sister who was here from Wisconsin. He called her cell phone with no avail. So he said before I went home I was to check back in to see if he had got hold of his wife yet.
I went seeking lunch at one of the local greasy spoons. It has been there on that corner for as long as that block was built. The long counter with spinning stools lines the middle of this tiny place. Above that is a row of personal mugs with names written on the bottom of all of the regular patrons. I ordered hot chocolate (more for the whipped cream that the much too sweet hot cocoa) and a grilled cheese sandwich with french fries.
The Books are SO amazing! A slice of life from this part of the US in the 30's and 40's. I have not read through either one yet. Some headlines include:
*Becomes Mother 4 times in a year!
*This 20 year old Tabby mother of 166 cats
*Navy Dirigible, USS Akron (and of its demise)
*First Lady is thrown by mount (photo of Mrs. Roosevelt smiling so happily on a horse)
*Girl saves Dog, Dog Saves Girl
*Queen Mary First Visit to USA
*Women nurse Gandhi in death fraught fast
*7 brothers to wed 7 sisters
*Coolidge found dead by his wife
*Shot that killed Lincoln echoes in Vet's memory
*Wears Size 34 Shoes! (pictures man tying laces of huge shoes)
*Stout woman is trapped for 4 days in bathtub
*Stogies?--Old Stuff to Child Smoker aged 2 (I have found 4 photos of children smoking cigars now)
*Tacoma Couple Happily married 66 years
*Worlds Fair opens today (Chicago)
It is SO interesting to read these articles. Lets me see the way life was then. Anyway here are some photos of said books.
Show us something you made by hand.
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I buy vintage purses and vintage fabric at estate sales, thrift stores, etc. I must have more purses than most women. BUT I Never pay more than $12 for any of them. I have so many more, but I do not know where they are hiding this morning. I have thought about selling them on Etsy, but am not sure.
The Cobblers shoe was $8
This is the base of the birdcage. I think I am going to make some sort of collage, mixed media artwork for the cage. Make it into an art sculpture for my home. My husband was not happy with the large purchase as my house is VERY cluttered. But the birdcage was only $10! I could not pass it up. I have always wanted to have an old birdcage for an art project. Maybe I will incorporate some lyrics from they might be giants "birdhouse in your soul" I love that song. : )
So Pretty!
the red metal box on the floor there, that is my grandfathers erector set he passed on to me.
Show us a pile of stuff.
Submitted by The Eugene.
There is a:
*quilt, my big purchase of the day at $20
*baking pans for organizing things in a cute way
*children's toys, blocks, gas pump, clock, 8mm film of a cowboy cartoon
*western stories in a magazine
*kitchen tools, a glass teaspoon/tablespoon measurer, Bakelite handled strainer, creamer, frosting knife
*linens, and hankies,
*tiny suitcase
*vintage photos of a flood, and two men
*two swanky swig glasses
*jock straps for drinking glasses sure to be used at the next poker game
*an old vase
*and some plastic serving cups from the 50's
*wooden kitty
*salt and peppers
*celluloid container
I bought all that stuff for around $40. I had $40 cash and then a lot of change.
