Did you know...

52 years ago today the world first met Barbie

Fifty-two years ago on March 9th Barbie made her official debut at the American International Toy Show in New York.

The brainchild of Ruth Handler, Barbie was named after her daughter (Barbara), who one of Ruth's main inspirations behind creating the Barbie doll in the first place. Ruth noticed that when Barbara was playing with her paper dolls, the young girl often gave them adult rolls. This struck a chord with Ruth who realized that most dolls at the time were created to look like babies and young children. Sensing a genuine need in the toy market for a more mature looking doll, Ruth put the idea for just such a toy forward to her husband (Elliot Handler), who was the co-founder of Mattel.  It took several years to start production of the great icon ~ fashion doll.

Just some vintage news for today.

Hope your week is going well!

Sharon

Coming Soon!

My 2011 Spring Give Away!

This week I will be posting more information about my Spring Give Away.

I will have some special goodies for the give away!

So please check out my posts for this coming week for images of the goodies!

There will some vintage items as usual but there will be a special item from an Etsy seller.  When you see this special piece...you will know the seller immediately!

Wishing you a wonderful Sunday dear friends.

Sharon

Vintage Image Friday

Vintage Image Friday

I scanned a few images this week from my vintage Easter and St. Patrick's Day postcard collections.  I did not retouch any of the postcards scanned this week.

This is a peek at my second time around fabric collage.

In my earlier post this week,

I mentioned that my first collage was lost in the mail.

So here is a peek at my second collage for Sharon.

For this collage I used vintage laces, buttons and a cabinet card embellished with vintage rhinestones/pearls and a millinery flower.

Thank you for visiting today.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend!

Sharon

swap goodies, mail surprises, and vintage finds

 As promised, here are some photos of a mail surprise, winter swap goodies, and some vintage finds.

Warning a lot of photos in this post!

If you follow my blog, you know that I lost a camera.

This is Valentine from Paula Clare.

Beautiful detail! 

Thank you Paula Clare!

I participated in the Winter Swap. 

My swap partner was Sharon at Red Lead.

I love the mixed media in her fabric collage!

Thank you Sharon!

Please visit her blog for wonderful stamps!

Now the bad news!  I made this for Sharon.

But it is lost in the mail!

So I am making her another fabric collage this week.

This is the first time a swap of mine has been lost in the mail...

I am so embarrassed.

This is a group of vintage tea cups I found.

Have I ever told you...I love vintage plates?

I hope you enjoyed your visit today.

Wishing you a wonderful day!

Sharon