Tales of Owls and Flowers...

A few more scans from the vintage archives:

This set of 1966 mini posters screen printed on heavy gold card is one of my very favorite finds by this artist, soon to be properly framed and displayed along with a million other cute ephemeral odds and ends (my very first resolution for 2010!)

Have a Verrie Merrie...

Happy Holidays Everyone!
Here are a few scans from my previously semi-secret archives of 60s ephemera:


I've been organizing like crazy for the past few weeks, in advance of a couple of impending super exciting life changes which I can't wait to share! One of the super exciting announcements semi-tangentially involves all of these boxes of cute cards, notes, stationery and paper goods that I've been hauling from coast to coast all of these years, so expect lots more scans from the archives soon!!!
Here's to starting 2010 off with a bang!
xo Fawn

Recent Acquisitions...

Confection Perfection...

Behold the cutest packaging in the world:

By way of the cutest store in the world! Kiosk was on the very top of my must see list on a recent trip back to NYC, and did not disappoint, with tiny vignettes of perfect candy striped twines, traditional German chocolates, beeswax crayons and an enviable roster of mini exhibitions, all hosted in a tiny shop at the end of a labyrinth of dark hallways lit by tiny pink neon arrows ie the semi secret and super perfect shop of my dreams!

Wibele cookies soon to be perched atop our refrigerator alongside an ever growing collection of vintage tins of grandma candies and an ever rotating display of particularly kaleidoscopic peppermint sticks.

Odds and Ends...

We finally found a vintage vanity for the bathroom and I've already taken it over...


with 60s neon pink eyed bunny cotton ball dispensers, Madonna Inn soap cakes and pop pastoral Bo Peep figurines.

Recent Acquisitions...

The most adorable 60s flapper revival bookends by way of Japan:


These have been one of my most coveted vintage items for a million years, and I finally have a set to call my own!

Also shown, their doppelgänger statuette, one of my previous most coveted items in all of the world. Now I have three!

I always wonder if the artist who created these characters may have been inspired by some of the same late 60s and early 70s models that I love...

Probably the most striking resemblance is to Jean White, one of my all time favorites, often credited with everything from being one of the first models to start doing the 1930s look to singlehandedly changing the face of fashion in the 60s:

Recent Acquisitions...

We've been finding entirely different categories of super common cute vintage stuff in the Northwest and have been accidentally starting lots new collections in the process... Oops!

Like adorable hand carved wooden owls:

(Note: the one with pink felt googly eyes was $1 and according to it's reluctant previous owner "about to be firewood!")

And booth upon booth of 70s novelty steins:


The gonk era Magic Mountain stein with a wizard for a handle is one of my new favorite things of all time!

Recent Acquisitions...

Vintage telephone booth bank from Shae (aka Miss Lullie Vintage, who really knows how to pick a gift!) and possibly the cutest little 70s notecard set ever made!