Amazing Vintage Ads

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Ahh the good ol’ days! When neither the cigarettes nor the advertising companies had a filter. These are fantastic!

funny vintage ads - smoking cigarettes blow in her face

Smokers of America, do yourself a favor. Make your next cigarette a Tipalet.

funny vintage ads - lady opening ketchup

Del Monte Ketchup – a new top that’s so easy to open, a woman can do it.  Yay!

funny vintage ads - wife gets vacuum for Christmas Hoover

Vintage Hoover print ad

funny vintage ads - sexy secretaries

I thought this was a nail polish ad! Nope, just a typewriter that keeps your hands pretty. Continue reading

Let There Be (Fancy!) Light

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Chandeliers are so in right now and I’ve been on the hunt for the perfect one for my bathroom.

After reviewing retailer after retailer, design blog after design blog, here are a few that wowed me — some because they’re so stunning, others because they’re so out there…

Pink chandelierPut your flowers overhead… more room on the table for your food!
Pink chandelier with flower vases, countryliving.com.

 

Bird cage chandelierSo simple, yet one of my faves. How sweet is this?!
Chickenwire and birds chandelier, chandelierswith.com.

 

Crystal art chandelierI feel like I may break this one just by looking at it.
Modern crystal art chandelier, contemporary-chandeliers.org.

 

Antler chandelierDeer antler chandelier from antlerchandelier.org.

 

Mason jar chandelierMason jars chandelier, BootsNGus Handmade Lights.

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I <3 New York

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Until recently New York City had always rubbed me the wrong way. Too crowded, too dirty, too rude, too rushed. That all changed a couple of months ago when I spent two weeks there.

A few highlights:

Louis Vuitton window display, below. If only I had known about High End Fashion New York City Window Display Maker as a career possibility when I was 6, I tell you what…

louis vuitton window display NYC

Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum was incredible. I stood in line for an hour and a half and I’d do it again to see his genius-slash-psychotic-episode-induced creations all over again.

Alexander McQueen's Savage Beauty Exhibit at the MET

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