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whipup holiday guide: 30 best wreaths
whip up | December 19th 2009
A handmade holiday is lovely and special for everyone – if you make nothing else these holidays – make a wreath – they are so pretty and versatile – here are some of my favourite wreaths to make this year… 1. felt ball read more
Vintage Sleaze Art and Illustrators It Ain't Just Paperbacks any…
Dull Tool Dim Bulb | December 18th 2009
The great new blog documenting forgotten and unknown erotic and sleazy illustrators from the 1950s and 1960s! VINTAGE SLEAZE includes everything from matchbook covers and dreadful cheesy postcards to cocktail napkins and curious fetish ephemera. Feat read more
Happy Weekend!
Snippet & Ink | December 18th 2009 by Kathryn
Today is a big day... my trip to the post office to mail out all of my Christmas goodies. It's right around this time that I realize I should have started this whole process six weeks earlier, just to avoid the goat rodeo that is the post office the read more
All Aboard the Candycane Train
K is for Calligraphy | December 17th 2009 by Katy
Choo Choo! Holiday Train 1940's Christmas Card EPHEMERA BLOCKS by sushipot Take a stroll down CandyCane Lane with handmade candy cane yummies: (clockwise from top left) candy cane marshmallows by vintage confections Harriet Had a Wic read more
merry christmas library card
Hovering Cat | December 17th 2009
I am a little bit obsessed with libraries and all of the ephemera associated with them, so I fell in love with this library christmas card by simplesongdesigns straight away. You could just send one to everyone this year and stamp them annual read more
Things which brought smiles
Middle of Nowhere | December 15th 2009 by PG
Being properly better at last is enough to make me attempt to click my heels in the air with glee. And thank you to everyone for being so kind in their comments and emails. I hope I am never that wiped out by anything again - too tedious. But terri read more
Unique Letterpress Paper Goods from Parcel
Annie Goes Shopping: Fashionable Finds Under $25 | December 15th 2009 by Anniedz
I enter the wondrous world of Parcel much like Alice following the White Rabbit down the hole. This is what I discover in this delightful paper shop in Montclair, New Jersey. All things dear fill the shop that the owner collects--precious por read more
Board #449: Modern Vintage Circus
Snippet & Ink | December 15th 2009 by Kathryn
Once again I've repeated a few favorites here, namely the large balloons with number tags from Randi Brookman Harris' wedding, and the black and white bouquet by Artfool (now Matthew Robbins Design). What can I say, they're favorites! I actually star read more
Intervención Urbana: Líneas de hilo en Ersilia-Berlín
Look Closer | December 15th 2009 by Miguel Mora
Cada día me asombro más de la creatividad de la que hacen gala algunos artistas urbanos de nuestro tiempo. Si se nos cayó la baba con el land art, con los murales de gran formato o con la profundidad de unas simples palabras, ahora toca fascinarse read more
Baubles and Trinkets
Timeless Lyrical Ephemera | December 14th 2009 by Tauna Scroggins
Day 14 a bouquet of doorknobs bits of ribbon, a teabag or two I smile when I want to cry at this ephemera and you #100days #twitpoem [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] read more
GirlCanCreate
paper N stitch | December 14th 2009 by brittni
Shop of the Day: Toronto based multidisciplinary performance artist , Lisa Pijuan-Nomura, creates these charming collages and limited edition prints for her shop GirlCanCreate. Her use of vintage photographs and other ephemera brings a sense of his read more
Vintage Deal of the Day: December 14, 2009
Chronically Vintage | December 14th 2009 by Jessica
{This edition of the Daily Deal may constitute the oldest item I’ve posted to date here on Chronically Vintage, but the moment I spied this delightful antique catalog, I knew I had to share it with all of you (especially since I know that, like mys read more
Monday Quick Links
design work life | December 14th 2009 by Courtney Dolloff
Designer Kyle Steed has created a hand-drawn vector font that is free for use. Take a look right here. Display is a “Display is a curated collection of important graphic design books, periodicals, ephemera & more” by the folks a read more
Beautiful Printable
Poppytalk | December 14th 2009 by Jan and Earl
Many of you I'm sure know of the amazing scanned in collections from Flickr wonder pilllpat (agence eureka). French ephemera such as paper crafts (my favourite), magazines, drawing instruction books, painting manuals, the collection is endless and r read more
sundry digital ephemera
Mother if Invention Acting School in Los Angeles and San Fra… | December 13th 2009
These digital drawings for the Green Movement by architect Soheil Tavakoli to honor Iran's Freedom Fighters are pretty great. If you had to work for the Man, these offices would be where you'd want to do it. Al Pacino is getting his Shylock on in Ce read more
Yuck: Not worth it!
Addicted Scrapper | December 13th 2009 by Natalie
I know as a scrapbooker I have companys that I love and cant̕ wait for their products to come out. My Minds Eye has amazing paper lines and I often pick up a set of pages from their lines when I am at the sbking stores all over Vancouver Island. read more
Week 12: lifestream summary
E-learning & Digital Cultures | December 13th 2009 by Tracy Dumais
This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series weekly summaries I began my lifestream with a sense that I would be saving ephemera. In my early blog posts I played with the ‘why?’ of the activity. Was I creating commonplace book, a scrapbook of no read more
Bonhams posts record total … including Ephemera
Encore-Ephemera | December 11th 2009 by Tom Murphy
“Bonhams celebrated a £3.7 million result at their annual sale of Important Collectors’ Motor Cars & Fine Automobilia on Sunday at London’s Olympia…. Alongside this, a collection of ephemera relating to the Ferrari activities of read more
Delphine Ephemera {Thanks for the stationery LOVE!}
ABCD Design | December 11th 2009 by ABCD Designs
Oh my goodness me! These 2009 Sucked Ass cards are getting a bunch of notice. I must say I was a little bit shocked when Etsy sent me a transaction notice that another stationery designer was buying one of my designs. Furthermore, she was kind enough read more
More Christmas Decorating Tips For Collectors: Greeting Card &…
Collectors' Quest | December 10th 2009 by Martin Mateev
I know a lot of people look forward to Christmas simply because they can rotate their regular collections, swapping out the usual for holiday decorations. But some of us *cough-me* resist doing this. Sure, it makes perfect sense, and more space, to read more
FREE Vintage Ballet Dance Clipart!
Vintage + Goodness = Happiness | December 9th 2009 by Mitzi
I have been working on getting some ephemera packs together to list on Etsy, and among them will be pieces from the vintage 50's and 60's Dance magazines that I got a couple of months ago. I scanned in some of my favorite bits, I left them extra larg read more
Alfred Stieglitz Photographs in Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction @Wh…
DLK COLLECTION | December 9th 2009
JTF (just the facts): The main Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit contains over 125 paintings, drawings, and watercolors, spread across several large adjoining rooms and galleries. In a small side room, a total of 13 black and white photographs by Alfred Stieg read more
Gypsy Rose Lee Ephemera Collection
ephemera | December 9th 2009 by Marty Weil
An eBay seller with a collection of six autographs by the famed 20th century Vaudeville and burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee. As the seller explains, this is not a random collection of index cards, but rather a grouping of ephemera... read more
Holidays On Display
Busy Bee Lifestyle | December 8th 2009 by Kim
Look What I Found – Holidays on Display! So many of my Christmas memories are rooted in annual family trips to Philadelphia to window shop, enjoy the lights and walk through animated displays like the Dickens Village (still at Macy’s!) and th read more
Edmund Sixtus “Ed” Muskie Ephemera
Encore-Ephemera | December 7th 2009 by Tom Murphy
Edmund Sixtus “Ed” Muskie was a Polish-American Democratic politician from the State of Maine. He was a Lieutenant in the US Navy during World War II, served as Governor of Maine, as U.S. Senator, and as U.S. Secretary of State. He was th read more
The Victorian Chromolithograph
Eastlake Victorian | December 7th 2009
Victorian chromolithograph trade card, 1886One of my first memories of falling in love with Victoriana was my introduction to Victorian scrap in the form of chromolithography. For several years at Christmas, my grandfather would buy me a German ginge read more
Profile of Victor Minx and vintage sleaze
Gals Gams Garters | December 7th 2009
Bettie Page, Anonymous Artists, and Cocktail Napkin Nudes and Dirty Drawings combine for space on the sites (and books) maintained by Victor Minx, a collector and Garage Sale shopper who collects and presents a mind-boggling array of, as he says, Gal read more
Mealy’s: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera
Auction Site Owners Blog | December 7th 2009 by Dave Langston
Rare Books, Manuscripts And; Ephemera Dec 8, 2009, 10:15 AM GMT Mealy’s: Dublin, Ireland Go to Source read more
Victor Minx Cheeky Women Pin-ups Forgotten Photographers and Nost…
Vintage Sleaze | December 7th 2009
Bettie Page, Anonymous Artists, and Cocktail Napkin Nudes and Dirty Drawings combine for space on the sites (and books) maintained by Victor Minx, a collector and Garage Sale shopper who collects and presents a mind-boggling array of, as he says, Gal read more
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