Christmas Buying Guide Part II

Today we have neato home decor items.  

Mainly because there's no one alive who really needs another sweater.

First, see some maavelous tapestries.  Again, all made in USA.  Perfect for transforming a room!  Note that the print of each of these is sharper in person.

For the retro decor

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Dr. Zarkov is in the house !!!

From a 1930s series of Sunday newspaper dolls, Flash Gordon characters

My shop several other tapestries featuring Flash Gordon characters. 

A neat addition to the Golden Age comics decor/collection.

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A hep cat,

perfect for the Mid-Century Modern Decor and/or jazz decor

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This beautiful bird print began life on a Victorian trade card.

Makes an exquisite addition to the antique decor, eclectic decor and/or bird-intensive decor.

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Something for the floral decor.

In addition to flowers we have butterflies and a hummingbird !!

There are over 300 tapestries in my shop.

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Next we have throw blankets, which also make great gifts !!!

Something neat for the country decor and/or pig decor

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Festung Coberg aka Veste Coburg aka Coburg Fortress

Perfect for the antique decor, traditional decor (i.e. Ethan Allen furniture-intensive decor) and/or European decor.

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something hugely fun for the retro decor and/or as a gift for the hippo collector !!

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another throw blanket for the country decor.  

Also perfect for the apple decor and/or vintage advertising decor and/or eclectic decor !

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A lovely addition to the romantic decor, Victorian decor, or antique decor !!

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More Victoriana in the form of a print that began life on a tradecard for 

Superior Stoves and Ranges

It wasn't uncommon for trade cards to have a print that had zero to do with the product the cards were intended to advertise.

Something neat for the Victorian decor, antique decor and/or as a gift for the cat lover.

My shop has over 700 throw blankets.

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Next we have serving trays:

Something fun for serving seafood on and/or something neat for the shore house decor.

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The perfect tray for taco night and/or any other Mexican food-eating event !

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Something perfect for the home bar, rec room and/or man cave !

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Let's serve some Greek food !!*

*The print is actually Roman, but nobody eats Roman food, and lotsa people eat Greek food.

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Something maavelous for the beach house decor !!

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Something perfect for the kaffee klatsch and/or tea time

My shop 80+ serving trays

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Stay tuned for Christmas Buying Guide Part III

Until then, have a look-see at the other over 25,000 items in my shop !!!

See more, get more here:

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

November's second haul of antiques and untiques

As always some wowey wow wow wow merchandise!

 First we have a beautiful hand-carved head of Jesus for your wall SOLD

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Now this is something VERY special beings as it's a crazy cool

 -- and VERY shaggy - black fake fur coat from around 1970 by Olympia Fashions. SOLD

SUPER THICK faux fur, and perfect for channeling your inner Yeti.  AND made in USA. 

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 Next we got a mink stole by Dernberg-Singer   SOLD

Note that the photos don't do justice to the deep chocolate brown of the stole.  

Back in the day, the life's dream of every woman on every TV show was a mink stole.

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We be having Christmas balls

All six of which began life as candy containers

The above are papier mache from Germany - or 'Western Germany' as stated on the insides.

Below are from England

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What we have here is a large-ish boxer dog figurine that doubles as a planter!  SOLD

A super-neat gift for the boxer lover.

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Time for salt and pepper

i.e. these are salt and pepper shakers !  VERY neato, and with original stoppers

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That's it for today.  I have a lot of housework to do, plus amma go to the hardware store and see if I can find a mesh plug thingie for my kitchen sink.

So while I'm doing that you can...

See more, get more here:

www.etsy.com/shop/AntiquesUntique

Christmas buying guide Part I

If you want your Christmas gifts to be made in USA, you've come to the right place.  

Our Christmas buying guide also applies to the other late fall/winter holidays, i.e. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Festivus, and New Year's Eve/New Year's Day. 

We have fun stuff:

Like jigsaw puzzles for the family to work on together

Or if you'd like to give a jigsaw puzzle as a gift, my shop has over 2000 - yep, that's TWO THOUSAND - of them.

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We have fun notebooks.  Be the star of the class!  Or at least the coolest person therein.  They also make bo cool stocking stuffers.

We have spiral-bound notebooks, each with the image on both the front and back cover, in mirror image.  (Unless there's writing on the print  - then it's not in mirror image).  

We also have pocket notebooks - PERFECT for stocking stuffers.

There are more than 700 other notebooks in my shop.

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Next up we have oodles neato tote bags !!  Over 800 of them !!!

(Our shop also has hundreds of other kinds of bags, but due to Covid, the manufacturer has temporarily put the breaks on making these.)

One of many lovely floral print bags

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A neat gift for your sister. if you're fortunate enough to have one

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for the opera fan

the print depicts Brunhilde weeping at Siegfried's funeral pyre

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for taking to the supermarket

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For the fan of Victoriana

MANY more bags with Victorian prints are in my shop.

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for the Christian lady

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for the dog lover

My shop has many more bags with dog prints, as well as other animal prints.

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Until the appearance of Christmas buying guide Part II, why not take a look of the other 25,000+ items in my shop?  (Yes.  Really.  Over 25,000 items.)   ALL made in the USA.  Except for leggings, which are made in Canada.  Close enough, though, right?  Canada's just a nicer version of the USA.  

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

November's first haul of antiques and untiques

It's been awhile, antiques and untiques-wise.

Nevertheless, we have some VERY awesome awesomeness to show you, and oodles more in the pipeline.

Like always.

old sewing patterns - vintage sewing patterns

Some nifty items from my Etsy pattern shop!

 from the early 1980s when prairie styles were in

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Also from the early 1980s, when Marlo Thomas had a line of sewing patterns

LOVE those Eighties blouses.

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Chleessmiss is coming !!

I once heard somebody pronounce it 'Cleesmiss.'  I like that better than Crismiss, which is how everybody else pronounces it.

Anyway, the pattern makes some VERY cute things for your Christmas decor, PLUS the pattern is uncut and in overall perfect condition.  Which is nice.  

Keywords: McCall's Christmas crafts pattern

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Hello Dolly clothes  SOLD

Keyword: 1960s McCall's doll clothes pattern

Note my shop also has a pattern for making Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls in THREE sizes !

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 I wish I could sew             SOLD

I also wish I was a 1950s size 14.  Because that's today's size 4/6

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This is my favorite of all my patterns currently

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I have - at the very very least - another 200 hundred patterns, some going back as far as the 1930s (and maybe one or two from the '20s) that are still in the pipeline.

To see what's in the shop right now, go here:

www.etsy.com/shop/PurtyPatterns 

November's awesome ties !! retro ties !!! vintage ties !!!!

 Some SUPER-COOL items this month.

Wanna see?

From an old seed packet for leeks

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Medusa is in the house

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Another mythologically-oriented tie: gryphons !!

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Remember last month tie from an old cigar label?  Here's this month's:

Frederick the Great on the left, Peter the Great on the right, Idunnowho the Great at the top

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Another seed-related print

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To see HUNDREDS more neato ties -- each and every one Made in USA -- go here:

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

NEW NEW NEW !!!!

Wanna be the star of your yoga class?

You will be, if not the star, at least the object of a little jealousy.

We be having luxury designer* yoga mats !!!  *The designer is moi.

Each and every one is made in the USA.  

EVERYTHING in my Zazzle shop is made in the USA, with the sole exception of leggings, which are made in Canada.

Let's see those yoga mats!

Note that the prints on the actual mats is sharper than what you see here:

There be florals  

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There be semi-abstract prints

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There be some completely abstract prints

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We also have some very lux prints:

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There are not yet a ton of them in my shop, but what's there is exceedingly maaavelous !!

See more, get more here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=yoga