It's Time for Some Vintage Ads

My idea originally for this post was to go through my tub of vintage magazines and pick out all my June copies of whatever I had and to pick out all the summer related advertisements, well, I did that but that would give you over 40 pictures to look at so I narrowed it down to copies of Woman's Day, I have three, 1956, 1957 and 1976.  These posts are always fun to do and it's so amazing to see how the advertising has changed.  So, here we go...click on any picture to get a closer look.

Remember when clothing was Sanforized???

One thing that never changes is the plentitude of cigarette ads - "Don't miss the fun of smoking" what a caption!!  And look further down - Remember the "Old Grad"with a carton of Pall Malls on Father's Day!!  

These paper placemats look like fun!

I notice that the older magazines have more children in their advertisements.

This Aerosol Bomb sounds powerful!!

This issue didn't seem to have that many summery ads.

This is a pretty ad for Pepsi

Those SOS pads look like rocks!

Another issue - another cigarette ad!!

By the 70's, the advertising is definitely more sexy!

Oh, those pantyhose used to be hot - I never had summer sheers!!

No ads like this back in the earlier issues!!

These shoes are made by Uniroyal - isn't that a tire company!  Hah!!

More bug spray.

I love to find these old magazines, you should keep your eye out for them too!

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My Favourite Posts from the Year

My favorite posts from the year are not necessarily my most popular ones but just ones that I like - it's amazing when you go back and check the stats and see what really was your most popular one for the year - for me it was Everything Cookies are so Good that I wrote about in October - I think I owe Pinterest on that one!!

So, here we go - starting off with January - we had just started making homemade egg rolls, it was worthy of a post, in February I joined in on the SMASHing craze with Do You SMASH? and in March it was all about Vera - Scarves were Everywhere -oh, that was a grand day, finding all those scarves!!!  

In April I found some beautiful Red Haired Mermaids - Lefton ones to be exact.  I found the best brownie recipe in May - it's the only one I make now - you should try it too - right here.  In June, I blogged about my old Barbie and her clothes - Loved Barbie!

We went "home" at the end of June so I blogged about The Place I Come From when I got back in July.  It was hard to pick one post from August, but I chose $1 Spent Here, $1 Spent There - Pyrex was involved!  In September I wrote about Mom's Depression Glass - looking for help on identifying patterns and I got it!!

Carla came home for the weekend in October to SMASH - that was definitely my favourite post.  In November I highlighted my 1966 Woman's Day Magazine - that was a very popular post, it was a fun one to do too!  It wasn't easy making my December selection but I settled on This is Really Christmas Kitsch - I didn't like having to pack that beautiful piece away today!

It's been another great year of blogging for me - thrifty finds are not as plentiful as they used to be - but if there isn't anything to be found, there is always something in the wings waiting to be written about.  Thank you so much to all my followers - I know there are a lot of blogs out there to read, I appreciate that you stop by here to see what I've been up too and maybe leave a comment - comments make my day!!  

Happy New Year - from 1935