Business as usual...

My day has been absolutely made by an order for trading cards that charmed me to no end. Part of the address included, "Honeypot Business Center" and all I could think was "Like where Winnie the Pooh would work?!?" I seriously want to stick Winnie the Pooh stickers all over this envelope but what if it's a serious business building? It could be.. I would hate to lose a potential repeat customer for sticking silly stickers on an envelope headed for "The Honeypot Business Center" if it's actually a Fortune 500 international banking hub and I'm just too daft to know anything about it. "Honeypot" could also be an adult business center, specializing in "mature" business for "adults only" and I think that would be even more awful if an envelope covered in Winnie the Pooh stickers showed up at the office. So, Boring as it is, the cards will be sent in a plain white envelope and I will just have to keep to myself the charming thought that perhaps, just perhaps, Grrl Pickers can now count inhabitants of the 100 acre wood as customers.... : )

Your Lucky Day Thrift Shop - Sunday Flea Market Stoughton, MA

 
   I am headed over to Your Lucky Day thrift Shop in Stoughton, MA to participate in their Sunday  Flea Market.

   Looking forward to a new venue and the fact that this particular flea market is indoors, I've had enough flea market sunburn this season to last me a lifetime!

     If you are in the neighborhood today, stop on by!

      If not today, stop by some other time, or go ahead and "like" thier facebook page.

    There is always something new and fun at Your Lucky Day thrift shop!



Your Lucky Day Thrift Shop Facebook Page

Have a very vintage summer!

Only a few short weeks of summer left, enjoy the time left in vintage style!

(Clara Bow and her dog, Duke)   

Dog Days of Summer (vintage postcards featuring dogs)

A few cute vintage postcards featuring dogs:

And Grrl Picker Laura's resident live in beastie, "Chewie". He is not a postcard but he's cute enough to be featured anyways...

Ray Bolger postcard - Scarecrow Wizard of Oz

Interesting postcard featuring actor Ray Bolger who went on to star as the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz.

Evelyn Nesbit - Hollywood Scandal

Grrl Pickers love historic Hollywood and even more so, historic Hollywood scandal.

While looking at vintage postcards online, I found this one and the name of the model rang an instant bell.    

  

Wikipedia - Evelyn Nesbit

One more great thing about postcards is that one can find images of famous (and perhaps infamous as well) persons that are not as widely distributed images as found in magazines etc.

Coniving seductress or misused child actress grown into confused woman, it's hard to say who Evelyn Nesbit really was but we sure do love the mystery of wondering... 

Cardcow.com - Great Vintage Postcard Site

Grrl Pickers love old postcards and the best site we have seen (so far) for a wide variety as well as rare images is Cardcow:

   Great Vintage Postcards at Cardcow.com

      here are just a handful of wonderful postcard images that we have "borrowed" to illustrate better just how delightfully wonderful looking through postcards at Cardcow is:  

    (another plus to adding to postcard collections through cardcow.com is looking online one doesn't get the sniffles from opening boxes of old postcards in the back of dusty vintage stores! : )