One More Day to Enter the Draw!

One more day to enter my Blogiversary Draw - if you haven't entered  - come on over and put your name in the hat - make a comment on the original post here or on my Facebook page - good luck!   The lucky person to get all these neat vintage goodies will be announced tomorrow.

Red Haired Mermaids!

It happened to me again, I think I found something really good at Value Village, which probably should have been in the showcase.  When I got to the cash, the cashier said - "those are collectibles" - that would be why I picked them up!  I'm following the advice of  Thrifter Sister Erica -  she buys anything with Japan on it, so I am too - that's if it's cute, well, this was way too cute....

  They're Lefton Mermaids - I'm partial to anything with red hair because I did give birth to a red head!  The only marking was Japan and 3107 - I can see where the Lefton sticker was - what do you think?  There's no a chip on them, they're not faded - they're the sweetest.  I paid $5.99.

I researched them online, there are plenty of images, many that have been sold on Ebay and Etsy and a few listings now for buy it now - ranging from $150 and up!    That was definitely the steal of the week!!

This old reader looks like it was never used - it's from 1966 - I only know the Dick and Jane readers, I've never seen this one before.  Every chapter is about David...

This isn't an old book - it's the story of Anne before she came to Green Gables.  PEI is the land of Anne, my home, so I had to get it and see just how Anne really did end up with Matthew and Marilla.

I found three Vera's in the last couple of weeks - it's funny, for a while I don't find any wing tip or split tip, whichever you want to call then and now that's all I've found lately - each one was $1 - that's only my second solid colour Vera - I would never really know except it still has the tag.

I had mail this week from Astrid - her blog is Fab and Thirty-Something, check out her blog and maybe start following her - she finds some great vintage things  and in her travels she picked this Vera up for me - I love it - thanks, so much.  And, look at the cute card she sent - it's sweet!   I'm going to SMASH it!

This week is my two year blogiversary - check out the prize here - leave a comment on that post or on my  Facebook page - you just might win!!

Today I'm linking up with Junkin Joe, Vintage Thingie Thursday and Thrifty Things Friday.

Books and a Mini Draw

My blog is nearing it's two year mark - and all of a sudden I've got 200 followers - as I did last year, I plan to have a draw for my blogiversary, but first  I'm having a mini pre-blogiversary draw to celebrate the milestone 200 followers.   It pays to enter, I just won two draws in the past 24 hours!!  Just comment either here or on my Facebook page - you can "like" me and comment there as well - if you're lucky, these vintage cookbooks could be arriving in your mailbox.  The draw will be made on Wednesday night at 9 pm.  Keep watching  - my two year draw will be coming up soon....

The prizes are - Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys & Girls, it is a hardcover book, copyright 1975 and two soft cover books - 250 Ways to Serve Fresh Vegetables, copyright 1949, the other book is Good Housekeeping's Book of Salads, copyright 1958.  I found all of these books last week at the same shop.

Snacks for Boys & Girls

Salads galore..

A bounty of vegetables

I was happy to find an old Golden Book for my collection and a Christmas one is even better - I got out my trusty Little Golden Book Identification Guide - it's a first edition.. Howdy Doody and Santa Claus...

Golden Book #237 - copyright 1955, the spine is in rough shape, but the pages are not torn and have no markings at all.  I paid 50 cents.  

The old Golden Book back cover

The book belonged to Lisa Hammond

I don't remember much about Howdy Doody but I did have a pack of cards with the Howdy Doody gang on them.  

This is a cute one too, it was printed in 1973 and sold for 39 cents

Baby Owl says - enter the draw!

Today the linkups will be - The Nifty Thrifty, Magpie Monday and Thriftasauras