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Friday, June 29, 2012

Friday Finds

A quick stop in a seldom shopped Thrift netted some vintage goodies today.  

A nice bBIG vintage chalkboard, an old book, a nice pile of vintage clothespins with great patina, a vintage jump rope - the long kind that two kids turn and a globe missing it's base.  I have found three globes in less than two weeks.  The good ones went straight to the booth.  This one didn't have it's base, so I pulled off the Equator like Super Woman and pulled it into two pieces.  Now I can do something creative with it or glue it back together and throw it in the booth as is.  Sometimes I have big ideas and then I gets lazy.  :(



I also found a little sack of vintage Jacks (or is it Jax?)

I've been picking them up when I find them and throwing them in a jar.  Now my jar is full!  Does anyone have any ideas of anything to do with them?  I looked on Pinterest, but I only saw one pair of earrings made out of some.  (Uh, no thank you.)  
I used to love to play Jacks.  You could keep a set in your pocket and have instant entertainment at any time or place.  Ah, the simpler times.  Not like these whippersnappers now with their high falutin' techno-logical handheld video games ans what not.

I kid.

*Anyone going to see Magic Mike?  I suspect it is full of bad acting and a sorry plot line.  But the stripper aspect outweighs all of that, huh?  Hubba Hubba.

7 comments:

  1. We played with jacks,chinese jumpropes and those knickerknocker glass ball toys that should have never been manufactured.

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  2. I LOVED jacks! Mine came in a little zip up clear bag that I also loved for some crazy reason. I had them with me all the time!

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  3. I WILL be seeing Mike on the big screen at some point here. Waiting for the crowds to die down a bit. The reviews are actually not bad. Besides, that group is not really a bunch of bad actors, now are they? ;-)

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  4. What a great finds. I loved jacks! I don't have any ideas of what to do with them other then putting them in a jar like you've already done! :) Now I would not mind seeing Mike on the big screen at all! hugs, Linda

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  5. I don't have any desire to see the Magic Mike movie. But I do have an idea for the jacks - what about using them on a wreath? Maybe a styrofoam wreath, they would make a really cute decoration. Maybe not child safe, though.

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  6. I love those old vintage jacks! I think keeping them in a jar is a fun way to display them. I just recently found your blog, really enjoying it :)

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  7. Just wanted to stop by and say hello. I may not comment but I enjoy your posts. Stay Cool!

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