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Vintage Barbie and Midge

Vintage Barbie and Midge showed up at an Austell, Georgia estate sale just minutes from the clinic where I was born.   Funny thing is, they are all about my age.

Midge molded hair head and 3 wigs. I read that the wigs should never be stored on the doll head. The two plastics react and will melt. 

Bar-b-que Apron with Utensils

Student Teacher Dress, glasses were missing

Sleeping Pretty

Barbie in Switzerland

No sew cap and make yourself outfits

Ponytail Barbie

Bubble Cut Titian Hair Barbie, Ponytail Barbie, Midge

Campus Hero Ken

Midge, In doll house my dad made

The Original Pickers

    I wanted to share a small portion of my mother in law's antique collection.  These are all items that my father in law collected from homes in the north Georgia mountains and West End section of Atlanta.  His intent was to sale but the best managed to stay at home.

Majolica

Native American Woven Basket.  This item appeared on Antiques Road Show in 1996

My father in law Raymond Frey going through some chicken boxes

My Terrible Summer

This summer began great with a 9 day trip to Universal Studios in Orlando and Walt Disney World with my dear friend and her kids.

Blues Brothers Show at Universal

Epcot

Sushi at Epcot

Disney's Wild Kingdom 

Disney's Wild Kingdom

When I arrived home I soon found out that my sweet 12 year old dog Emmy Lou had an osteosarcoma tumor under her shoulder.

Emmy Lou

Emmy visited with a couple of veterinarians who recommended that she have surgery to remove the tumor and then chemo therapy to follow.  So far she is doing well.  She did lose her front leg.  I am thankful for each day I have with her.

June 8th my husband and I decided to go to an estate sale and do some picking.  I was walking down some steps, slipped and broke my ankle.  I heard my fibula break.  I was not brave and I cried like a baby.  Once my leg was stable I had to hold on to the fireman in front of me and hop backwards as the EMT held me under my arms.  The other fireman held my broken leg.  I kept my eyes closed the whole time for fear of falling again.  The next step was a painful bumpy ride in the ambulance.  The ER splinted my leg, sent me home with pain medication and crutches.   Once home, I tried to use the crutches and fell on my broken ankle again.  I was home alone and had to crawl back to my bed.  I called my sister and she took me back to the ER.  The splint was changed and new X-rays taken.  I hadn't broken anything more.  I had know idea how hard it is to walk on crutches.  I had out patient surgery where the Doctor put in a plate on one side and screws on another.   July 6th  I was put in bright green cast.  It felt like they wrapped my leg in cactus leaves.  The cast came off  three weeks later.  When the cast was removed I received a cast boot that I could remove.  Finally today, August 13th, I the doctor gave the ok to start walking using crutches and wearing the boot.  

Firemen and EMTS  were nice enough to give me pain medication. 

Brown shoe is my foot.  This is the beginning of  the backwards hop.

My Ride

Did I mention the tornado?  The day after my surgery a tornado blew down my neighbors oak tree and the power lines were pulled from our house.   We were without power for over a week.  I had to go stay with my sister.  We stayed at a Days Inn also while the repairs were being done.  Oh well, I did survive and my husband said he would give me an extension on our 5 year anniversary.

Atlanta In the 80s was a Blast

Here are a few of my 80s Memories tucked away in a scrapbook I forgot I had.

Mitch Easter!!!!

Shades of Shame, Arms Akimbo, Drivin & Cryin.....someone from each band worked at Fellini's Little Five Points....Michael Stipe did not I was just a fan.

Coolies....just because they were fun.

Carta Blanca from Tortilla's(was on Ponce De Leon), Ginger ale from The Lunch Box(think this was downtown near GSU), Bud and Amstel from Fellini's (Little Five Points when it was off Moreland & Euclid)

Ghostbusters Phone

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I met my niece Cassie at an estate sale in Marietta last weekend.  The estate sale didn't start until 9am.  We were so early we saw a fox running across the street and the fattest robins in Cobb County. I finished my thermos of coffee before 8am.  The advantage of arriving early is being first in line.  I went straight to some retro furniture I wanted and then straight to the bathroom....all that coffee.  While in the bathroom I saw this phone on the vanity.   I was able to shop the bathroom behind a locked door.  The Ghostbusters Phone was probably a promotional item for video stores.  I was unable to find the original box.  This phone is currently on listed eBay. 

Genevieve Norris, Women's History Month

I recently acquired an auction box lot with publicity photos and scrap book of ice skater Genevieve Norris.   I enjoyed rediscovering the age of elegant nightclubs and glamourous athletic women.

Genevieve's scrap book includes 1944 news paper clippings of her performances at the Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati, Oh.  She also performed at the Biltmore's Bowman Room in New York.  She would later perform with The Ice Follies and Holiday on Ice.

Contract for Netherland Plaza Performances

Genevieve Norris married performer and artist Ted Meza.  They ran Mez Art Studios, which was a television and prop business.

Hunter Bicycle Co, Photo Postcards and Hollycraft BroochM

Photo Postcard

These are my finds for today.  I think the Hunter Bicycle book marker is great.  Most of my photo postcards are from the early 1900s.  The Hollycraft brooches were purchased at the same auction as well. I Currently have the book marker and Hollycraft Brooches on eBay.

Hunter Arms, Co, Hunter Bicycle Co, Fulton NY, SOLD!  $209.50.

Hollycraft Enamel Butterfly Brooch, SOLD 

Hollycraft Enamel Butterfly Brooch, SOLD

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