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It’s official- I have decide to give it until the New Year and if the blog stays dormant then it is probably for the best. In the meantime I can be found weekdays adding fresh vintage items to my Etsy store.

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Thursday’s Treasure: Antique Victorian Locket

I was working on uploading these photos last night when I had to head out for a meeting at my kid’s school- but better late then never. This is one of the loveliest antique lockets I have seen in awhile and I wanted to share the pictures of it with you.

Large Antique Victorian Peacock Locket

A close up of the front of the locket.

The inside of the locket has an antique picture of a handsome man- the other side a newspaper clipping of a sailor.

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New Listings for Monday: Vintage Baby Charms

Here’s a small preview of some of our new listings in our store for Monday, August 9, 2010.

A lovely signed Florenza shell cameo pendant/brooch.

I love this mint on card, sterling silver photo locket. It unscrews under the bail for you to insert your photo in.

A vintage sterling silver movable charm of stork carrying a baby boy. Adorable!

Here’s the same charm for a baby girl.

This is just a small preview of our new listings- we’ve also added some antique, Victorian jewelry, and some fun signed items from Sarah Coventry and Trifari. Stop in and window shop or leave a comment here. I’d love to hear from you.  -Michelle

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How Babies Are Made 1968 Time Life Books

Here’s a fabulous book I found this week at a thrift store. Now- generally sex education books are a dime a dozen, but this one is so cool with it’s cut out illustrations. Let’s take a look together, at How Babies Are Made by Andrew C. Andry and Steven Scehpp and illustrated by Blake Hampton. This should be fun and educational to say the least…

Did you know you started out to be the size of a pencil? Me neither- maybe that’s why your brothers always called you “pencil neck?” Go figure…

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Here’s a picture that shows it takes two animals to make a new baby animal, but did you ever wonder how your breakfast was made?

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Oh my- here’s how it was done-your scrambled eggs were made for you with love by chickens. Here’s a picture of chicken love!

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Here come the eggs. YUM YUM! I really understand Veganism now.

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How about puppies? You like puppies, want to know how puppies are made? Check out this cute doggy family.

doggy-family

WHOA there buddy- that’s a friendly puppy! Step away from the dog if it looks like this, kids. Frankly- this picture sums up why I am a “cat person” myself…

friendly-puppy

Let’s just skip the dog part and get to the people part of the book… because what you really came here for is “How Babies Are Made.”

how-people-are-made

Remember the two animals well- it takes two people. Two naked people (hey I used to look like that before I had five kids- sort of).

naked-cut-out-people

I hear Barry White music now…

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Now here we see the baby growing inside it’s mama- pretty cool stuff, eh?

baby-growing-inside

After 9 months or so, the baby is ready to come out. Some babies sooner then others and some later- but here he comes. Come to think of it I have never seen a picture of a cleaner birth in my life. Looks easy- huh kids?

here-comes-the-baby

Well there is a little clean up- see that squiggly thing, that thing gets cut off. Be careful- doctor!

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Here’s the new baby with it’s mama- isn’t that sweet…

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and here you are with all your friends. Now you know how babies are made. Put some clothes on kids!

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My New Site Vintage Charm Collector

Princess Grace of MonacoI haven’t been posting as much, because as some of you know life gets in the way of blogging. However- I am still here and mucking about with my hands in old stuff and selling said old junk on eBay. Finding new old things to love and hoard along the way.

Recently I have found myself rather taken by vintage charms and charms bracelets. I remember when I was a young girl my Mother had what I thought was the most incredible charm bracelet. It was a heavy duty double link charm bracelet covered in an array of sterling and enamel state charms. One for each state my father took her in his super sexy converted and carpeted gold Dodge van. There were at least 45 charms on her bracelet because he took her to over 40 states and then some Canadian territories as well. It seemed like such a sweet and romantic way to commemorate that long 18 month road trip in 1974-1975.

I don’t know what ever happened to my Mom’s charm bracelet, but I know find myself wanting to collect charms and create charm bracelets to commemorate my life and happy moments. I have also started to add to my inventory on eBay a selection of vintage charms. To showcase some of these, my husband designed a website for me called Vintage Charm Collector. There I have been posting vintage charms and some videos to go with them. I hope you will stop by the new site and tell me what you think.

Three Rivers Stadium 1974 Pittsburg Steelers

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