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My Pretty Baby Cried She Was a Bird
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Tangents, tchotchkes, totems, tattles, tips, quips, quilts, quills, girls, ghouls, crafts, laughs...all in all, a terrifically "tops" teller of tales tells yoooou....what to do.
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Estatesales.net

Cat pillow + 70s couch + yellow linoleum floor + huge Stein Mart bag as storage = probably a pretty good sale.Good morning! While going through some sales Im interested in attending tomorrow (possibl...

10 h ago

"Aprés" (2012)- Iggy Pop

Good morning! The chain of discovery two nights ago went something like this: friend-of-Matthews puts "Did you see his eyes? Did you see his crazy eyes?" as his Facebook status. I wrack my li...

1 day ago

The Big Valley (1965-1969)

Good morning! Hope everybody had a great holiday weekend...we had a lot of fun, but I am w-i-p-e-d o-u-t. And today would be the day that I start an online class for the summer semester. Im going to ...

2 days ago

Etsy Shoppin: Happy Memorial Day Edition!

                                             Antique Carved Patriotic Soldiers Wood ...

3 days ago

Photo Friday: Meet Doris and Ray

 The giveaway closes on Sunday! Why dont you ENTER to win a $25 gift card? Good morning! On this very special episode of Photo Friday, Id like to share with you some photos from an estate sale I...

6 days ago

Weekend Finds

 ENNNNTERRRRR THE GIVEAWAAAAAAAAY......Good morning! And if it wasnt a banner weekend for "the most random picks in the most random places". Take a look at some of the things I took home...

24 may 12

Marchesa Casati (1900s-1920s)

Good morning! Have I told you, lately, that Im doing a giveaway?I think if there was a dead-serious, Edwardian, bohemian female counterpart to Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man in the World", i...

23 may 12

Mini Mart a la Carte (2005)

Good morning! Dont forget to enter the GIVEAWAY!Having been a hardcore supporter of the convenience store lifestyle in college, the title of the book Mini Mart a la Carte appealed to me right off the...

22 may 12

Dressbarn Dresses (plus $25 gift card giveaway!)

Picture blatantly stolen from Earthas blog. Thanks! :) Hi guys! I had a really fun time Thursday night at the Dressbarn at Opry Mills. You heard that right! While it might not have been the firs...

21 may 12

Photo Friday: German Victorian Edition

Good morning, kids and kidoos, whats the scoop? Its Friday! As usual, I have estate sales waiting for me at all corners of Davidson County, but I wanted to show you these weirdo strange-o photos I fo...

18 may 12

"I Was Made to Love Her" Stevie Wonder (1968)

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17 may 12

What Would Jackie Do? (2005)

Good morning!I picked up this book at McKays a while ago in a fit of desperation as to how to spend my trade credit on something I could take home with me that day. That particularly used book dealer...

15 may 12

60s Collage Craftiness

So, one of Matthews dear friends from high school got married this weekend and we had a blast at the wedding! Im always so excited to go to these things as Im just hitting the age where everybody we ...

14 may 12

Photo Friday: Distressed Photos Edition

Do you see the guy at the lefts "Black Power" fist? The back of this photo says "JUST FRIENDS" in all caps,in ballpoint pen.Good morning! This Photo Friday comes to you from two album...

11 may 12

Every Frenchman Has One (1962) by Olivia de Havilland (!!)

How adorably early 60s is this cover? Would you believe what was sitting on the "in-house count" return cart this morning? While Im usually greeted with dogeared, stained copies of occul...

10 may 12

Haband Ties By Mail (1948-1950)

Good morning!I was doing my daily browse through some of Life magazines back pages today when I was struck by an advertisement for mail order ties the likes of which you have never seen!&nb...

09 may 12

The Complete Book of Interior Decorating (1948)

 Good morning!My question for you readers out there on this rain-threatened Tuesday morning: Do you ever get the hankering to do-the-heck-over your whole house?Five years into living in the 1950...

08 may 12

Django (1966)

Good morning!Ive survived the weekend! I was excited to see some of the new photos released from Quentin Tarantinos upcoming project, Django Unchained. If youre a big QT fan, youre probably already a...

07 may 12

Photo Friday: Souvenir Photo Edition

 Good morning! Its Friday, so you know Im about to hit the estate sales, but I thought Id take a quick minute to share with you these two souvenir photos. Very different, yet very adorable, and ...

04 may 12

Weekend Finds!

I feel about as inelegant as a baby deer on its first steps with this new Blogger layout. Seriously! Its like Im someones aged grandmother asking how to send an email when I try to google how the he...

03 may 12

Your Power as a Woman (1957): Makeup Tips!

Oh, Alma Archer. How Ive missed your stern yet encouraging voice over the last week. The next chapter in 1957s Your Power as a Woman has your favorite self-help proto-guru explaining the ins and outs...

02 may 12

The Amazing Kreskin

Well, Im too sick to even keep my head up today, but luckily the library is closed to the public and my job of answering reference questions and the phone is not too demanding (sick days? Who needs s...

30 apr 12

Photo Friday: Flappers in the Sun Edition

I found this non-descript portfolio, about the size reproduced above, in a box of photos at an estate sale in Inglewood a few years ago. Nashville-ites who know the area, it was one of thos...

27 apr 12

Weekend Finds

Good morning!The 8 AM sunshine found me running out into unusually temperate weather this morning with an armful of estate sale goods to photograph for you (and posterity) in the omg-I-only-have...

26 apr 12

Clutter, Clutter, everywhere!

Good morning!Well troops, I had the first of my new work schedule perks bestowed upon me this past weekend-- every other working week, I end up with a schedule that allows me Friday, Saturday, and Su...

25 apr 12

Carnation Evaporated Milk (1953)

Im sorry to be stuck in such a rut, but I just cant get over ads and recipes for 1950s convenience foods. Today, Ive whipped up a batch of Carnation Evaporated Milk ads from the year of our Lord 1953...

23 apr 12 1 person likes this

Photo Friday: Sunday Best Edition

Good morning! As soon as I said the other day, "Nah, I dont really collect that many pictures of kids; a kids a kids a kid, you know?", I started to become aware of the many, many photos of c...

20 apr 12 1 person likes this

American Can Company Regional Recipes (1951-1954)

Hello again! In speaking of grocery stores and diets this week, I thought we could stay on theme today with a little look into Americas cupboard for a very familiar item: the tin can. I was searching...

18 apr 12 1 person likes this

Your Power as a Woman: Diet, diet, diet!

Good morning! Im back into Alma Archers 1956 book Your Power as a Woman and thought we would focus this week on D-I-E-T. If you ask me, no four letters of the alphabet can be put together to form a m...

17 apr 12 1 person likes this

A and P Supermarkets/Groc ery Store Rant (1940s)

Good afternoon, everybody! I got a story for you...a story of groceries and missed sartorial opportunities...gather round the old vintage campfire and Ill tell it to you straightaway.Yesterday, I pul...

16 apr 12 1 person likes this

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