Beaver Hat

This may be the most charming mannequin I've ever seen.

I like to call him "Rico."

Charming mannequin head modeling beaver felt hat found in Fat Spazzy's store on Etsy.

Worst Grandparents Gift Ever

"Hey Grandma and Grandpa Zimmerman, here's a crappy photo of your grandson lying on the floor in an ugly sweater looking bored in front of a turtle. It's on wood, and it's engraved!" 

Found in a thrift store in Florida.

Orange Jungle Animals Mugs, Basset hound and kittens

The first ever double-feature! GiddyGirlVintage's shop on Etsy has two items I admire.

These mugs are weird and cute and psychedelic all at the same time. Big jungle leaves in that orange, with carefully rendered animals in black and white. Why? She calls it "Jungle Fever." I also like the sales pitch:

"Perfect for you and your friends!
 No friends?
 Keep one and smash the other three.
 Problem solved."

She also has a lot of other great items in her store, such as this:

People used to just love sealing images of absolutely anything onto pieces of wood in the 70s! I bought something sealed onto wood while I was in Florida last week that will prove my point. Stay tuned.

Both items found in GiddyGirlVintage's shop on Etsy.

I Want These Crazy Boots

I wish I had size 7.5 feet and $200 to blow on these awesome boots.

Found in OldBaltimoreVintage's shop on Etsy.

Salvador Dali Cookbook!

Salvador Dali's Les Diners de Gala, a cookbook found in GentlemanlyPursuits's shop on Etsy. It contains such appetizing images as this:

Vari-Vue Poodle Portrait

Continuing on the poodle motif, I really wish this hadn't already been sold. "3D" lenticular poodle photo in fine gilded frame with light.

Found in weareMFEO's shop on Etsy.

Glamourous Poodle Sculpture

A fine, distinguished pooch. Found on eBay. 

Upcycled Vintage Elevator Glass Lights

Darkly luminous, salvaged etched elevator glass upcycled into a wall lamp with an Edison bulb inside. 

Found in tmorrowsantiques's store on Etsy.

Victorian Serpent Brooch

I've had this one in my Etsy treasury for a long time, and it finally sold. Plenty of other great things in this shop though.

Found in vintagesparkles's shop on etsy.

An Unseasonable Craving

They're way too small and certainly not for this weather, but I think these are adorable.

Found in 3birdz's shop on Etsy.

Etsy Treasury: A Salute to the Vintage One-Piece

My favorite vintage one-piece swimwear finds for this season on Etsy.

Girls Don't Come Around Here Much...(A Father's Day Gift Guide)

Just thinking of stumbling upon a bar where a mash-up of slightly ominous cowboys, bikers, and misfit manly men hang out, and what kinds of things they might be wearing, then thought these would be good gifts for father's day.

Etsy Treasury: We Are Siamese If You Please

A tribute to Siamese cats, in pairs, of course. I got the Peggy Lee songs from Lady & The Tramp stuck in my head and made this treasury.

BOOZE: The Book

A 60s cookbook containing only recipes that use booze, by June Dutton and Edith Vanocur. 
Illustrations by John Astrop and Eric Hill. © 1967 Determined Productions. Found in ismoyo's shop on Etsy.

Etsy Treasury: Let Tangerine and Turquoise Put a Spring In Your Step

Needlepoint Cameo Brooch

I find this little needlepoint lady brooch really funny and charming.

Found in dottirosestudio's shop on Etsy.

Vacation Accumulation: Old Records

Every time i go on vacation to visit relatives, I hit up local thrift stores and keep an eye out for old records and other random treasures. I've gotten a lot pickier about what I consider a "treasure" over the years, and once I got my first digital camera, I started taking pictures of interesting things instead of buying them in order to curb my rampant accumulation and sate my desire for their documentation/ preservation. Vintage Treasure-a-Day indulges my need to share them. I usually come back with an old record or three. This time, I acquired about 20. 

i'm going through and listening to each one now. i just finished the two "CHA-CHA-CHA"s, and I'm onto "Truck Drivin' Songs."

my record player is a faux-bois Newcomb EDT-S 50 school language lab style player with a mustard deck. It has speakers that stack on top and latch together with the deck to transform into a heavy, bulky, fake-wooden double-wide-but-nonetheless-portable sort of briefcase that has "MUSIC ROOM" scrawled all over it in sharpie. I got it on ebay. It is part record-player, part fetish object. I realized this when I was offered a brand new record player for xmas, almost gave this one away, and at the last minute changed my mind and turned it all down. I like the way it looks. I like the way it sounds. if a record is all scratched up and busted in nasty shape, it's not going to sound "good" any way you play it, so might as well play it with a banged up old shitbox record player. but more than that, I love possessing something that belonged to an institution that once held so much power over my life. Discuss!

here are pictures of the records i've listened to so far.

This one was excellent. I got it because I love old cha-cha records.Despite winning cover-wise, this record was not as good as "cha cha cha and rhumba."  

This may just be my favorite record.

Hazel Atlas Gay 90s Glasses of my Absolute Nightmares.

Some of my absolute, most vivid nightmares that i can remember from childhood are about cartoons like this. they repel and horrify me, yet I have a crazy attraction to these glasses! but i need more drinking glasses like i need more nightmares.

Found on MyOtherMind's shop on Etsy.

Doctor's Love

Not sure who has a creepier look on their face...or who has the creepier face.

Found in TurtleHillShop's shop on Etsy.

MytiFine Man Buttons

"My, these buttons are my-ti-fine! They keep my head on real tight. And they go well with my cigarette and flyaway tie, too."

Found in SewlyButtons's shop on Etsy.