Our first professional photos, thanks Becktoria Photography!

National Handcraft - Head 'N Shoulders Ring

The back of this card reads:

"Head 'N Shoulders Ring - Most versitile accessory ever invented. This glamorous head or neck piece of glistening white fabric may be worn many ways. A style sensation when trimmed with imported iridescent beads, crystal drops, and custom made braid. Head 'N Shoulders kit also available in Colorado Blue."

Sounds pretty exciting but perhaps this 'Most Versitile Accessory' might have been more of a hit if it did not closely resemble and old time maxi pad wrapped (belt and all) around the head and/or neck....

    We sell a lot of vintage postcards tho I can't see much of a demand for this one, I bought it anyway because the expressions on the models face (as if she is wearing fine jewelry instead of sanitary products about her head and face) just cracks me up to no end...

                                                                                 -Laura

More pages from Beatlemania teen magazines

More pictures from mid 1960's teen magazines. 

I was born in 1970 so Beatlemania was a bit before my time but through the years I've read every Beatle biography I could get my hands on. 

I picked these up at a record show I was selling at recently, having read about those old guys, The Beatles, having been teen pop stars at some point in the past is way different than holding artifacts from that time period.

  I'm quite sure I read them with a similar giddy excitement of a 16 year old in 1965....    

I don't remember Frankie lighting up a smoke on the beach in any of his flicks with Annette...    

          I don't think that finding "the right girl" was really a priority for Richard Chamberlain... 

John Jr. is known as Julian to my generation... 

Great Pick! - Beatles Teen magazines

Grrl Pickers were selling at the New England Record Expo this past Sunday and although the day was stormy (about 6 inches of snow and wild winds blowing it all around) the day was a success in more ways than one. We made a nice profit on our own wares but we also made a great pick.

It was a real win-win kind of day!

 We picked the cream of the crop from a large stack of magazines being sold by our friends at The Randolph Music Center (North Main Street, Randolph, MA) and beyond the good investment (we would put all our money into Beatles memoribilia before any publicly traded stock any day of the week...) we are laughing ourselves silly at all the great quasi 'articles' published within.

The 16 magazine that we remember from the 1980's was similar in format but more than the faces of the young pop stars within have changed from 1965 til 1985 and I would bet even more changes occured from 1985 til now...   

 

Can you possibly imagine a teen magazine published today featuring a full color pin up of a 'teen idol' with a cigarette? 

 

Not only were the pop stars featured in 1965, thier non-pop star girl friends were of apparent very high intrest. Articles featuring women/girls are almost equal in ratio to articles featuring 'the boys' in the small group of magazine we bought.   

News flash: George hates tea or coffee without sugar.

 This fascinating information is accompanied by a rather unfortunate shot of the man who clearly was not expecting his picture to be taken at the time.

Would 16 publish a photo of Justin Beiber swigging on a 40? 

I believe the drinking age in the US when this was published in 1965 was still 18 but the mind wonders just what the editors were thinking and if maybe more than a few preachers and parents just might have been a teeny bit right about 'them Bee-tles' being less than proper roll models for their influential youngsters...    

  

It gives one a wee bit of a sqeemish feeling to know more about these people (total strangers) now than they even knew about themselves at the time this shot was taken.
 
                                          (insert Doctor Who theme music here)

Pattie Boyd went on to marry George and Eric Clapton, inspire some incredible classic rock songs and suffer her own sadness in an other wise star crossed life and Brian Jones?

 Words fail...

In contrast, our generation's teen magazines were decidedly different:

Boy, we hope Matt Dillon's chest hair finally grew in. Poor kid...         

A well over 21 appearing Rick Springfield attempts to boost his career with a centerfold in "Quite Legal But of Extremely Questionable Taste" magazine...

Leif Garrett models his mom's disco blouse.

 No wonder this guy is such a mess, look what was done to him!  

  Poor Leif...

         The squeeky clean Hardy Boys was THE BEST SHOW EVER!!! when we were kids and Shaun Cassidy and his ever so fluffy hair was absolutely the coolest part of the whole show.

Little did Grrl Picker Laura know at 16 she would be absurdly proud of getting the same, at least 10 years out of date and the (debateably) wrong gender, haircut.

Laura says:

"I bet the hairdresser saw my dorky ass coming a mile away,

"Give her the 'Shaun Cassidy' she'll never know..."

The same hairdresser also gave me my first 'perm of a 40 year old woman'.

 I was 12 at the time and clearly remember a cute boy classmate laughing himself silly over it, kinda the way I'm sure the hairdresser laughed herself all the way to the bank..."

Anyhoo,

Great weekend, great sales, great pick and a good time was had by all. 

Except poor Leif Garrett.

  Poor, poor Leif Garrett... 

*sigh*

Upcycled, hand punched Archie comics confetti

New fun heart shaped confetti upcycled from vintage (1980's) Archie comics now available in our Etsy shop!

Custom Packed Confetti Hearts - New Twist on Upcycled Idea

We can't take credit for the idea of upcycling vintage sheet music in this manner but we are quite excited that we have thought to add custom stamped packaging to our product.

   Grrl Pickers handpunched heart shaped confetti eBay listing:

     Upcycled Vintage Sheet Music Confetti Hearts

    We just posted this item today so we aren't 100% sure custom packaging is going to be successful idea, but we are pleased that we added something a little outside the box to this product idea.
 
     Maybe someone else will see this idea and be inspired to add another custom twist to thier own product.

     Maybe we will sell 100's of these and be able to retire our day jobs and just punch fun confetti all day, who knows what the future will bring!



                       

 

sbettyboutique on eBay

Looks like the merchant gene runs in the family!

    This is my sister's ebay page:

          sbettyboutique

              She's got over 800 DVD's up for sale right now at great prices, I can't wait to watch how her shop grows!

                      Best wishes Sbetty!
                                : )
                                         -Laura