Vintage Clothing Auction!

This looks like another great vintage clothing and accessories auction! I'll have to check my schedule and see if I can make this one. Who wants to go with me??? That bakelite bracelet and earring set will most definitely bring a pretty penny...I've never seen anything like it. Check the website to drool over the rest of the pictures!

Andi Charkow Presents

Saturday November 14th

10 am ~ Preview 8:30 am

Preview by appointment Thursday 11/12 & Friday 11/13.

Horsham V.F.W.

324 Sawmill Lane

Horsham, PA

Racks & Racks of Fabulous Clothing Spanning 100 Years!!!

This Wonderful Selection is in Excellent Condition & Extremely Wearable.

Plus There's Something in Every Price Range!!

Love those decals!

Maria the owner of Sweet Gal Decals contacted me when she saw how faded the labels on my Griffith spice jars had gotten. She was nice enough to send me a new set of decals to replace the faded ones. In all fairness, I put these labels on eight years ago and I think the fade gives the jars a nice vintage look.

You should really stop over and check out all the vintage inspired decals at Sweet Gals! Lots to choose from and a variety of possible ways to use them too. All her decals are made from waterslide material which makes em really easy to use. I'm really digging the cowboy decals! Now, I just have to find something to use em on! YEEHAW!!

How the magic happens...

I was home from work today being sick. BLAH! I hate being sick, I hate missing work. I don't trust substitutes with my classes. I am also off tomorrow for a planned personal day. I hate missing work 2 days in a row. My classroom will be a mess when I get back on Friday.

After sleeping all day today, I am now wide awake and decided it's the perfect time to give this hair tutorial by the Vintage Starlet a try! I sprayed my hair with some lotta body, rolled my hair up in perm rods and sat under my vintage hair dryer for an hour!

Not to bad for a first experimental attempt! All in all, I like using perm rods. The curl is much nicer and fuller then when I use a hot rollers. I'm gonna experiment a little more with brushing out and see what other looks I can get.

Letting go

I've decided to clean out my house and get rid of some things that I'm not attached to any more. I was thinking of going full out and renting a booth at an antique mall. I'm sure some of my DeluxeVille readers do that. Care to discuss with me the pros and cons of this endeavor? What kinds of items are selling for you? My biggest concern is once I sell some of the things I don't want, then I would have to go and find more things to sell in the booth. I just don't know if I want that responsibility. I'm also concerned about the economy, are people really buying right now? Perhaps etsy is the best way to go?? All I know is it's gotta go, I just don't have the room any longer!

I have a lot of kitchen stuff to get rid of!

I also really need to start getting rid of some of my lamps.

Flashback in Hanover

I spent some time today in the town of Hanover, PA where I lived in the early years of my childhood. Why do I not realize until now how cool this little town is? I drove down Jefferson Street to take a peek at the first house I ever lived in. Wow, there use to be corn fields around my old house but now it's filled up with housing developments. YUCK! Then I drove down Diller road which is right around the corner to see the second house I lived in as a child. I was very disappointed to see the decaying condition of both houses. I guess the current owners don't believe in up keep on their properties... how sad. Then I continued driving down the street until I ran across the house of my dreams! A house I use to ride my bike past on the way to the park all the time when I was a kid. How did I not love this house as a child? How did I not remember this house? I must have been speeding past to fast on my hot pink bike with the banana seat. That damn bike that I would get my bell bottom pants stuck in because it didn't have a chain guard. *I walked home in my underpants, dragging my bike behind me quite a few times because of that missing chain guard. * Anyway, I just thank the sweet baby jebus that no one was behind me because I stopped dead in the street for this sweet little mid century house...my dream house...who ever lives here is one lucky bastard.....

Onto the cool movie theater I use to go to as a child....poor sad theater now but still cool. Then onto York Street Treat for some ice cream. Yum!

Then of course I had to stop in at Yesteryear Antiques Center to check out what was in there. I found a deadstock 50's acetate blouse and a 40's feedsack skirt with cute pocket details.

I wish I had more time to spend in Hanover taking pictures of all the cool downtown buildings that I didn't appreciate when I was a kid. To learn more about what Hanover, PA has to offer check out their website...Welcome to Hanover. I'll definitely be going back sometime soon!

Hey All...

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted but fret no longer DeluxeVille readers because I'm back to show off my new score from my latest auction! First off, I know that inquiring minds want to know just what does MaryDeluxe look like at the ass crack of dawn on auction day? Just what is the customary uniform of the all day auction obsessed? So, here ya go..... jeans, t-shirt, a cardy, and my converse....

So, what exactly was it I was after that I would drag my ass outta bed on an early Saturday morning for?? Why these little beauties of course! Yup, the lamps made me do it.

Lustron Home

I love cute little Lustron Homes! They are very rare and hard to find. But when you do spot one, you'll know exactly what it is because of how original it looks. These all steel houses were built post World War II and were meant to ease the housing shortage for returning military men and their families. Less than 2,500 of these futurist homes were built before the creator and owner Carl Strandlunds went bankrupt in 1950.

I got really excited when I saw a Lustron House for sale in the area I teach in... Lustron for sale Then, I ran across a Lustron group on Flickr and found these wonderful pictures of a Lustron house taken by Joey Harrison. The story is that Mrs. Nation and her husband were the original owners of this little gem of a Lustron. After Mrs. Nation passed away 2 years ago the house went up for sale. Included in the sale of the house was also ALL the original furniture! How very cool is that! Asking price for the house when it was for sale 2 years ago was $69,900. Lustron houses came with all the built ins that you see in the pictures below.

More info on Lustron Houses : Lustron Preservation
More Joey Harrison pictures and more info on the house: Flickr.
Joey also has a very cool Mom and you should check out her vintage photography : Mom's World