The View-Master

So......how many of you can remember the View-Master?  I can't because it was before my time.   

I remember being a little girl and quite fascinated by the view-master.  I could travel the world sitting on the sofa and not having to ask my parents for money for the trips.

I got to see Alice in Wonderland and prehistoric animals roaming the earth.  

You could meet the Partridge Family and other Hollywood stars.

 

 

The view-master was pretty darned cool from what I heard.  

Vintage Hats

I was looking at these gorgeous vintage hats courtesy of Everyday Beauty.  I love them so much that I am asking God to please help me to resist starting my own collection.  :-)  I collect enough things at it is.  They are so beautiful and the pink ones I especially adore.  

 

Vintage Vanity Dressing Tables

I really love all things vintage and one of the things that I am so drawn to when I visit thrifts stores are vintage vanity tables and dressers.  These vanities were very common in households back in the day.  When I was a little girl I thought they were the ugliest pieces of furniture, but as I got older I started to see the beauty in their design.    
 

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I think that these vanities look great in just about any room.  If you have a kitchen that is large enough I see nothing wrong with putting one in there  The drawers can be used to store silverware, kitchen towels and gadgets.

  

Painting vanity tables and dressers is very popular now a days.  Some people react to it as if it was a crime, but it does not matter to me.  Painted or not I love both looks.

I have four vintage vanities.  Here are photos of two of them.  This one is in my front parlor room and as you can see is not painted.  It is unusual to finds them with oval mirrors.  This gem I got from the Habitat for Humanity ReStore for only $95.00. 
 

A woman came in and saw this before I did, but her mistake was going home without buying it.  Just a few minutes after she left the ReStore I walked in, fell in love with it and bought it.  After I left the other woman came back to the ReStore to buy it but it was too late.  When I went back to pick it up I was told that she was so upset.  If you snooze you lose.  The woman put a note in the top drawer saying that if I change my mind to please call her.  
  

This is a picture of one of my vanity dressers that I painted.  I have one other vanity dresser that is also painted and another vanity table that is not painted.

Mystery Date Game Memories

This board game was very popular when I was a little girl.  I was so naive that at first I thought if you played the game you got a real boyfriend.  How silly was that?...LOL   Anyway, this is the first version of the mystery date game that I remember from the 1960's.  
 

I remember this commercial from the 1960's about the mystery date game.  Click on the video to see it. 

This is the mystery date game from 1972.  

This is the 2006 mystery date board game.  I had no idea that this game was still being made.

Easy Bake Oven Memories

Oh my goodness, I can remember getting an easy bake oven for Christmas one year when I was a little girl.  I remember this box that it came in and this is what the easy bake oven looked like in the mid 1960's.  I was so excited  about getting it for Christmas because I really wanted one.  The oven worked and it came with miniature recipe mixes.  I was disappointed in it though because none of the cake or cookies mixes came out good and I did follow the instructions.  It was not long before I totally lost interest in it and eventually it went in the garbage. 
 

This is what the easy bake oven looks like today; a microwave oven.  

Lovely Perfume Bottles

I thought it would be nice to follow up my post about vintage talcum powder tins with one about vintage perfume bottles.  A lot of perfume bottles are so pretty.  Even today I find a lot of them, so pretty that it is almost a shame to throw away the bottles once all the perfume is gone. 
  

The blue bottle above and the pink one below are exquisite.  

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