The Tuesday Song of the Week

I was thrilled to find this, because you haven't lived until you've seen the West Philadelphia Orchestra.

The first time I saw them was directly after this VERY oddball opera the hubbage and I had attended, the plot of which was about a Serbian girl hanging with her friends the night before her wedding.  After the opera the audience moved to another room to take part in sort of a party* that sort of approximated a Serbian wedding reception.  

Enjoy !!

'Zla S'dba' - West Philadelphia Orchestra

* A year or two after this event, I was on a focus group for Opera Philadelphia. The woman running the discussion had passed around some pictures, including pictures from this reception. The hubbage and I were in the picture.

The Star Made Me Buy It

Today's star is Joan Fontaine for Lux Toilet Soap:

    

Today, that would be a very confusing name.

Toilet soap????

Back in the day, the idea of toilet (or twa-lay) was about the process of washing oneself, dressing and attending to one's appearance.  

It's hard to believe that she and her sister (Olivia de Havilland) had such a horrible relationship.  They usually played very sweet women, although I seem to remember seeing  Joan play a flinty character or two.  

September Affair, the movie the ad is advertising, is pretty good, alas with the usual Hollywood ending for these kind of plots.  

February's first load of antiques and untiques

 As ever and always the most marvelous of marvels:

     first up a black fur coat in mystery fur  SOLD

Sorta like Persian lamb.

VERY glam

And with a little swing coat appeal

AND it's a big size -- around a size 20W

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from the very big to the very small   SOLD

This may have begun life as a candy container.

Would look very sweet in your fairy garden and/or as something to plant a small cactus in and/or just put it on a nearby shelf and enjoy its charm

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suh'm pretty for your vanity table  SOLD

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for the fan of Charles Dickens and his zillions of characters  SOLD

Job Trotter from The Pickwick Papers

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        junk drawer treasures !!  SOLD

Lotsa buttons, and tiny locks - with their keys - , coupla pieces of jewelry, tiny toy cars, and MORE

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back to the early 1970s  SOLD

plaid wide leg/bellbottom pants

approximately a size 8/10.

29.5" waist, 38" hip, 30" inseam,and a very generous 26" in circumference at the cuffs.  

Made from acrylic pretending to be wool or a wool/acrylic blend.

PERFECT condition

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See more, get more here:

www.etsy.com/shop/AntiquesUntiques

Tickets please

Yet another stub from a movie that I did see,

but which I have zero recollection of:

The Snapper, which was some Irish movie about somebody getting pregnant by somebody they don't know.

I can't imagine why I would want to sit through this.  Maybe all the other movie theatres within 20 miles were running brat pack movies.  

 

Bag o' the Day

Lotsa snowy owl stories in the news lately.

The one seen in Central Park.  Then some story about a guy who saves snowy owls from airport runways.

That's only two things, but we never hear about snowy owls, so two is a lot, am I right?

Of course I am.

Which brings us to todays BotD:

Snow Owl brand pears crate label print bag

Get it here:

https://www.zazzle.com/1930s_snow_owl_brand_pears_fruit_crate_label_print_tote_bag-256170863454561474

new old sewing patterns

Some of the latest:

from the late 1970s

Proof positive that not all Seventies fashions were awful.

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As seen on Barbara Feldon in Get Smart.  SOLD

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We also have knitting patterns !!!

Make some VERY fun socks, plus hats, gloves, neckties

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I LOVE THIS

If I could only sew.

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                 We be wrappin'            SOLD

blouse, wrap-around skirt, shorts

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floofy skirt, not floofy skirt

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See more, get more here:

www.etsy.com/shop/PurtyPatterns 

It's time...

... to see some neato clocks !!

Something marvy for the baroque decor and/or Hollywood Regency decor

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 For the Man Cave and/or the cigar lounge and/or for the fan of old timey advertising.

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And it's blue

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Something for the Victorian decor

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Watch !!

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And face it !!

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See more, get more here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=clock&dp=25252064670387087

The Tuesday Song of the Week

Big snowstorms all over the place in the last few days.

But here downashore we're just getting rain.  Really COLD rain. Plus free-floating drearyness.  

Today's TSOW is from one of my favorite British invasion groups:

'Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again' - The Fortunes 

Bag o' the Day

Princesse de Broglie is in the house!

Get it here:

https://www.zazzle.com/princesse_de_broglie_tote_bag-256580497492998032

BTW, there's a very interesting thing on Wikipedia about the creation of this painting.  That's here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princesse_de_Broglie

Mug of the Month

 As ever and always our February MotM is something romantic:

And, as ever and always, the print appears on both sides of the mug, in mirror image.

Get it here:

https://www.zazzle.com/the_clinch_coffee_mug-168228333963330706

See the other 800+ mugs in my shop here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=mug&dp=252936654337358919

February's cool ties !! Retro ties !!! Fun ties !!!! in RED

I haven't made many ties so far in 2021, so rather than show you non-existent new ties, amma go Roy G. Biv, i.e. for the next couple of months showing ties, with prints in...

Red for February

Orange for March

Yellow for April

Green for May

Blue for June

Indigo/Violet for July.

So here's what we got today:

red carnations print tie

Note that my shop also has other versions of this tie, with a green background, and a gray background.

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VROOM !!!

My shop has a number of real life red cars from the 1940s and '50s on ties.  

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exposing phone guts print

Something fun for the engineer.

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suh'm's fishy

My shop has several more ties with prints from old canned salmon labels.  

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suh'm fun and canine

My shop has dozens of ties with dog prints.

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shock and awe

My shop also has dozens of novelty print ties.

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See more, get more here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/ties