merry christmas!

hope you all have a happy holiday.

below are a few snippets from around the house.

tale of two floors, upstairs retro holiday, downstairs vintage wisconsin.

please excuse messy kitchen.....

 

cheers!

tree's up!

phew!

easiest christmas decoration to put up. 

xmas tree lots

where all good little 

vintage campers go.

you should be dancing

here's my latest find.

i found it at a garage sale last week.

you knew it had to be a good sale when they had a 

vintage vw van in the driveway.

I have never seen one of these before but it hypnotized me

and said take me home when it spun around.

the folks having the sale had to be in their late 70's early 80's and the lady said

they used it with a color wheel.

a color wheel for aluminum christmas trees???

 soooooo....

is it from the 60's?

i can't find anything info on it so far.

it's plastic and comes apart at the middle 

and the inside looks like the outside,

just much more shiny.

any ideas anyone?

i keep calling it a disco ball.

but i am wondering if it 

is some kind of 

holiday decoration.

need to ask the 

disco ball.......

chritstmas in august

i picked up this peg board at a restore store yesterday.

2 bucks. 

love the patina and thought it would make a cool 

background for the holidays.

true to form i had some twinkle lights hanging 

on the previous display 

and i put them back

on the pegboard and plugged it in 

and they wouldn't light!

only 
4 months until 
christmas!

evergleam

sorry i know christmas is over,

but our local historical museum has an

exhibit of aluminum christmas trees

and my friend denise and i

stopped by to see what is all about.

the historical society says 

it is the states largest collection of classic 1960's aluminum christmas trees.

i bet there is some collector out there 

that has more :)

here is the coveted pink aluminum tree.

don't have a pink tree, you can make

 a silver one pink 

with a pink

canned light as above.

we headed up to the 2nd and 3rd floors looking for more trees,

but they were only on the first floor.

we did however get a nice view of 

the capitol square.

here's a pic of the street on the square to the left of the photo above.

sorry for the glare.

here it is today.

blah, blah, blah.

we noticed a faded sign on the building that is in the previous photo from the 50's.....

do you see it -

barons, department store.

a small remembrance of the good old days.

snow year 2014

happy snow year!

the farmers almanac has been correct -

 bitter cold and snow......

hope you are all off to a wonderful new year,

we are starting it off right with

kyle and julie's wedding in a few weeks 

eek!

pink aluminum xmas trees welcomed

perfect spot for the 

early xmas present 

that santa got for me at 

urban farmgirl.

love it. 

dad-gum-it

last sunday was the last elkhorn flea market of the year.

so sad.

it was a beautiful day, i overdressed, kind of pooped out fast....

so i didn't make it all the way around.

need to go flea market boot camp. 

 here are a few photos from the day.

and here he is.

first time i found hippie tom's booth

hot dog!

i don't think this is an old sign.

but if you have a hot dog, 

you need a pickle.

a huge pickle.

love this sign.

 it will be a long winter, until

 the next elkhorn flea market.