MOvember. Mustache. Calendar.

MOvember. Mustaches. A mustache-growing charity? A mustache-growing season?
What the hell is all this about, and why do all the young men begin to resemble so many young Mario and Luigis this time o year?

MOVEMBER!

Grow the mustache, represent your manly virility and supple silky upper-lippy talents and abilities, and you can also raise awareness for prostate and other cancers men get. Men growing mustaches are sponsored like walkers in a walk-for-cancer type thing. Women who can grow mustaches, I'm sure you can get in on it.

But what about all the other months of the year? What are mustache lovers to do? Where can they get their fix??

I have the answer...



A mustache calendar... the scintillating mustachioed models here pictured are form such a calendar. Great Christmas, Chunnukah, or Kwanzaa present, birthday, or just everyday gift to let the mustache-lover in your life know-- you know. And you support it.

All profits of the calendar will be donated to Movember. (Read about Movember here: http://us.movember.com/about/ .)



You know you need such testosterone-filled images as the one above hanging in your abode, sending thrills of mustache-vitality through every room-- or perhaps you feel a friend would benefit from such. Get it as a present!
Buy the calendar here!---->> http://www.themoustachecalendar.com/about.html
and feel confident every month of the year that the mustache...is indeed here to stay :)

Curtis Jere

It was a fine day when I found this beauty for my shop... at the very end of a Salvation Army trip, while waiting in line to check out, I spied the sculpture hanging from the second floor home decor section. "Hold on a sec!" I said to my boyfriend, and piled more things in his arms before beelining for the stairs. I'd never even heard of Curtis Jere. But I was happy with my treasure as I joined Jason back in line. "Hey," he said, looking over my prize, "it's even signed...."

Yup, it's a Curtis Jere. The name decided upon by two collaborators in the fifties and sixties, Curtis Freiler and Jerry Fels produced art for their company, Artisan House, from 1963 to 1972. They produced bronze and metal owls, flowers, the famous 'raindrops' peice, and abstract peices, and all of their sculptures had that special kind of groovy that the modern day is dying to be injected with.

Could you possibly need some groove in your life? This peice was made in 1966 and, while groovy, also has a more quiet charm. It adds much warmth to a white wall, as well as shape and texture. It can really be the centerpeice of a room.

Way to impress your honey for the holidays-- let him or her come home to find this gleaming on the wall. Or just indulge yourself and spruce up your home by quite a few steps by giving yourself this gift.

Sold here... http://www.etsy.com/listing/76550879/curtis-jere-sculpture-mid-century-art

The Early Sixties, Ellententen Style

Well here's a smorgasbord of really great finds I had the true pleasure of...finding recently. They happen to be all from the early sixties, all in extremely good condition, all my size (*weep*) and all ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS! Yes, this cache of goods is colorful, wearable, and undeniably just fantastic. A floaty ballerina skirt, an emerald green bombshell dress, two unbelievably flattering suits, one mocha, one bubblegum, a tenderly beautiful navy dress, and a snappy and unique orange frock are among the finds up at the store now or very very soon. Oh yes, and one pair of knock 'em dead, fifties/early sixties stilettos. Good gracious. I wish I could see the life these clothes are about to take on, once bought and shipped!

In any case, I had a lot of fun hunting them down and photographing them, and I hope you all will love them too. To finish up this run of Mad-Men-esque goods, soon I will be also be adding some jewelry of the era and some bold and vivacious hats. See you soon then! Unfortunately I do not know a phrase of 1963 which people said all the time to signal goodbye. In any case-- till next time. :)

Mid-Summer Etsy Dreams...

I haven't posted in a while because it seems the summer is whirling by. Quickly, like. I meant to post some pics of summer, evocative and nostalgia-inducing pics of my summer activites, but I just haven't gotten my shite together. Besides that I guess I don't need to be nostalgic about something that I'm right in the middle of...right? Right. So instead, I'll just post a little etsy-blurb.




First off- here's a gorgeous model from Girl Least Likely vintage shop. It's a great shop with lots of really cute and easy day dresses. But more to the point right now: I love this model's hair, and I'm bringing these pics to the hairdresser, with whom I really need to set up an appointment. I always wait until looking at my hair makes me think the words "horse's tail." Then I say to myself, yep, it's time to get a haircut. Thank you, gorgeous model-- you are so cute. And now my hair shall be, too.



And second, look at these pants from Stella McCartney. They're so great! So chic! So easy! So elegant yet practical for everyday! Would they not transform any outfit into a fabulous one? Yes, my friends, we all know they would. But, now-- look at the price. The pants are $289.49. God help me they left that one penny off from $289.50 because that's just too much. Well, they ARE on sale...from ..from -- from $965.00!! Holy ... Dammit. Dammit, dammit, dammit. Well, these pics are from the Saks Fifth Avenue website. Sale or no, it's not like I thought I could buy them anyway. But the thing is I don't see myself ever feeling like two and a half hundred would be a good price to pay for pants. With that chuck o change, I could buy at least three quarters of the first page of my favorites from etsy! And that's something I would much rather do. What would I buy? Well, i just happen to have a few ideas on the top of my head...

These beautiful seaglass earrings, from seaglassin... They're so very pretty, and the extra bonus is that they'd be so nice to the touch, too. They remind me of gumdrops. Honestly I'd probably stick them in my mouth at least once. Gumdrops, the sea, green, earrings-- so many of many favorite things. I need these earrings!



I also covet this fabulous cardigan (from Saks, nonetheless! funny.)



and perfect simple sundress, both from In The Hammock vintage...



I want this gorgeous sweater, hand-knit from RememberADay, which seems perfect for those gorgeous early fall days which I will dare say are on the way, in the distant horizon....



And this beautifully bright and fun necklace from the PolkaDotMagpie is another piece of jewelery that is a joy to the eye but also seems fun for fondling fingers....



Le sigh. Such fabulous items! And would they all added up even be as much as that one pair of Stella pants? I actually forgot about those trousers already...fade away, Stella-trousers. I 'm too obsessed with my etsy favorites!

In the shop lately...

...summer shop preparations....

Iced Coffee. A Reason To Live.

I live in Rhode Island, and here in the tiniest state in the Union, they suckle their babies on none other than iced coffee. Well, I missed out on the suckling because I was born, but not raised here, yet here I have resided for the past three years or so, and I must pat myself on the back for true Rhode Island-ness, true acclimation, because-- I've come up with a really good iced coffee recipe. The morning I inexplicably came up with this concoction, I surprised myself. It is just so good. It is surprisingly good. This iced coffee makes you instinctively close your eyes upon first taste, then open them really wide, and exclaim to yourself or someone around you something like this, WHICH IS AN ACTUAL QUOTE!- from someone who did just that:

"This is the best iced coffee I've ever had in my life."

Yes. So please, watch this tutorial, and try it at home. (I'm a big fan of the Pioneer Woman. She pioneered this awesome picture-heavy step-by-step recipe technique. I follow here in her cowgirl-boot footsteps.)



Step one. Get a mason jar. It makes the coffee a lot easier to make, and foamy, too. I didn't have any mason jars, due to the fact that I take salad dressing and ...iced coffee...to work in them, and then leave them in my car to get nasty in the sun. So, I'm just using a glass.



Ingredients needed: soy milk (I love Silk brand), instant coffee, (however in most things I am strictly store brand) and sugar. Also ice cubes, of course. On a sidenote, I was a little apprehensive to put the sugar horizontal, like pictured, lest it spill out somehow. But as you can see, the sugar, surprisingly, did not move from its place when tipped on its side. It's humid in Rhode Island! Anyway. That's just one more reason to drink iced coffee.

So, step two, and admiring nails en route: get a heaping tablespoon of sugar...





and put in in your jar or glass.



Take a tablespoon of instant coffee and add it to the glass.



Add a little soy milk



Stop to admire the sludge...



Stir it up...



Add a little more soymilk...



and stir, or screw on the jar lid and shake. If you are stirring this mixture in a glass, the next step is to wish you had gone to your car to get your jars and clean them to make this, because it's a lot easier to get so deliciously foamy when shaking, and here in this glass you have to delicately, yet in a frenzy, stir until most of the black dots of instant coffee are gone. However, with patience, it will happen. It's worth it. Those forty seconds. It is worth it.

Once that mixture has all become one add more soymilk, and ice.



Take a sip.

Pause.



Good God. That's some amazing iced coffee! UGH! It's so good. Really. Please try it.
It will add delight to your life. Or at least your summer morning.

HOLY CRAP - what a fantastic idea!

Saw this amazing manicure on simplethrift's blog... and I...I love it.


1. Put on nail polish and let dry.
2. Dip fingernail in alcohol-basically any will do, vodka is suggested.
3. Press a strip of newspaper big enough to cover the whole nail on to your alcohol soaked nail.
4. Pull off slowly and be really impressed with yourself.
5. Paint top coat if desired.

Someone had the cool idea for a treasury of red-heads! There's MY red-head, the girl who look suspicious, top row, third from left.

'Guess A Color Theme....' by Kvist4

vintage 1987 MY LITTLE ... mybabyvintage $5.50	Enchanted Wedding Fairy... MeadowLion1120 $150.00	80s Paperback, "Da... ellententen $6.00	Clockwork Bird - 8x10 G... leaflette $20.00
The Secret Garden - Exc... sibodesigns $135.00	ginger bumblebird $40.00	Faith large print 16 x ... Tarawinona $38.00	Elegant Red and Black ... EmeraldDiamond $120.00
Redhead Print from ... TheLondonIcon $20.00	Perfect JOAN pin-up of ... VANGUARDGALLER... $49.95	The dream within - ivor... gardensofwhims... $94.00	Vintage 1976 Litho - Th... REdesignkc $8.00
Roaring Twenties, Part ... tinrockets $12.00	Redhead - original acry... NancyCCrawford $60.00	Redhead Stickers - set ... Deerface $3.00	Custom Marie Antoinette... RomanticThread... $1250.00

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.