Some sneaks and peeks!

I had the drawing for the big winner, but this is the first glimpse into those who sent me new followes, and some  runners up and new followers... More in the morning, AND who gets what.

Drum roll time! A day late, sorry!

AMBER VON FELTS!! CONGRATS!

ok...There can only be one BIG winner, but, as promised, tonight I will post all the extra gifts for those who helped bring my follower list up to 58! In the meantime, Ziggy the dog, man of the house and alpha male picked......NOW, FOR SOME OF THE RUNNERS UP...FOR PROMOTING MY LIL' BLOG!

tune in tonight! I'll post the groooooooovy prizes. They are fabuloso!

My bestest friend Merilee at RetroCurbclimber gave me this a while back, and two of the chairs are no longer usable, but I love the print on the chairs! Plus - This is my new look in the "dining room: converted from a bedroom off the living room. A while back, I moved my bedroom to the back of the house. I have had this table, but in a different place. I love the boomerang legs! It matches the blond desk and china cabinet! The green formica is now spending the summer on my deck, and has more seating when we eat out there! I have the "leaf" to extend it, too. Angel my beagle baby is snoozing in the corner as usual.

Chairs are visible here.

Hey hey hey! Counting down to Mick's party! This is now my new screensaver! I ran acrossed these houses RIGHT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Time to take the shades off and face the crowd!

Here I am. Zootsuit mama. I hate pictures of me, but oh well. 55 and counting! I still feel like I should be 35 or 25, but since I have kids aged 38 in August, 36 in June and 20 last Sunday June 13th-I guess it's time to face reality....Keep in mind that this was 6pm, after working all day . AND, I cannot see how kids take their own darn picture with those camera phones, but I look like a convict. Soooo.... I will vow to start showing the real me, in vintage clothes and say "Whatever" I am what I am. Could be better, could be worse, but glad to be alive and 55 (56 on June 25th!) I wouldn't go back, and every day gets better. So -tell me?

If I have only one life, should I live it as a blonde? Only my hairdressers know for sure if blondes have more fun. Of course, I had fun with grey, black, red ....whatever the haircolor!

INside-I am still that crazy smiling girl at the Thanksgiving table, in 1966! Pre-Beatles, pre-mod, British invasion me.

It's two o'clock in the morning...and time for a give a way!

I finally got my rear in gear and took the pix! For 50 followers I will be giving...a retro cookbook (love the dull pictures, so appetizing??!!) a poodle bookend/penholder, and gravy boat, some Florida and Hawaiian coasters,and a vintage tablecloth! Just write something about the contest and you'll be "in like Flint".

But wait! for an added bonus, just get someone new to join my blog, and I'll send you and extra special prize!!

51 followers!! Thanks guys and dolls!

I have been on the "blog circuit" for a fairly short time. In that time I have met some of the coolest, nicest people in the world.Thanks for including me in the fun! Now...I promised a give a way? Oh, yes...Stay tuned -tonight I will post the pictures and reveal the mystery gifts. One hint....it will include vintage table clothes in the mix, but .... THAT's NOT ALL, FOLKS!

PS-I guess the last post is "all washed up"...But -I did learn something. Maybe there just isn't that much real vintage laundry stuff (mid century mod, that is) to be had? Stay tuned, also, for a big debut of MY retro laundry room. Hopefully I will get it back together this weekend!

Hey all you hip chicks and dudes! I have a PROPOSITION!!

For some reason, I am obsessed with laundry rooms. I wonder, could it be because my cute little retro laundry room was taken over a few years back by my son? Why, yes. I believe it is the reason. If I am using short curt sentences, it's only because I am stifling a scream!! Not once, but twice, my son was allowed to move back into my extra room off the basement. Ya know what the definition of insanity is, RIGHT?? "Doing the same things over and over, and expecting different results".

I can't believe I never took any pictures of my little launderette, just to prove that it really did exist. That was before my blogging days...many long years ago.

So, I am relying on cute pix from the internet to compensate, and when the lil room gets back together, I'll take a bunch of pix!

But, wait! I'll describe it. First off, after I fumigated and washed everything down with bleach (YES IT WAS NECESSARY!!) I painted the walls white, moved in my oriental yellow formica table with the inlaid oriental women, put up all my retro tin laundry signs etc..and even made a little corner for my sewing machine that I have never used. It was precious. I could wash, dry and fold my laundry, without having to fight the dust bunnies from the dryer and trip over years worth of vintage stuff that I just couldn't live without! It was cheerful and homey. And then, I lost my mind for a minute, "Why don't you, and your girlfriend, move in until you find your own place again?" Ha ha. Two years later, and my little room was filled with any computer equipment that was known to man, stacked to the ceiling crap, a bed, shelves, TV ....on and on. Then came the famous day when my sanity returned...but that's a story for another time. But, before I could remove the stuff ("I'll come get all my computer garbage soon...") guess what? A flash flood, stopped up sump pump and lots of slimy clothes, junk, computer equipment sitting in water up to my knees. And, it's funny, but guess who hadta remove it? Right! Zootsuitmama. So - if I ever post something that even hints that I again am losing my mind and about to let someone move in, please do an intervention!!

So.... until I get the laundry room back together (oh, and I forgot to mention my pink ironing board!)-I have a propostion. I am about to reach 50 followers...so-ya know what that means? Give a way! I need pictures, stories, or both posted on your blogs about retro/vintage laundry stuff. That's all it takes to enter. I'll post pix tonight of the give a way goodies! So - get on it! It will motivate me to get down there and get my room back together!

Believe it or not, this is the first  type of washer I remember my mom using as a kid!

Groovy flat top house for sale!

So....come in sit down and share a nice cuppa "joe".

My lil round camper would look good in the back of this house!!

cool house for sale!garage

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday, Charcoal burnin everywhere! Hey groovy bloggers. I saw a fifties house for sale today, and I am, at the very least, gonna go for a tour!

Saturday and the weekend - finally!

My beets in the white fence are the seedlings I transplanted!

Welcome back to my blog! I've been sorta out of the blogoshpere this week. Not only was it a short, but busy one-but a lot of "challenged" people around. Challenged like, "YOU need to go to charm school" challenged. I cannot wait to get home to my little garden and family/ dogs.My garden is coming along-

I have one little tomato, but you'd have thought, "Where is it" if I did a closeup! There is also a pix of my tiny trailer sink, stove, and the front garden, that is getting a little taller. The yellow squash are bloomin!
Thrift stores haven't had much, so I am focusing on the outdoors for today. Tomorrow I plan to get another give a way together for  my  50th Blogger..I now have 49-so tell one and all!! Zootsuitmama

The Long, Long Weekend and the Short, Short Trailer

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I know - I have posted some of these pictures before. But I wanted to "bring it all together" as best I can with the pictures I already have. More to come, renovations, and Paint?? We'll get started on it this week I hope!!

This is my backyard. I have a covered deck on the back of the house, on the left, I have almost filled the entire left side of the yard with garden space. The sidewalk leads to the "patio". There sits my little 1972 Boler camper. I did have a cute blue awning on it, but a storm did it some damage and haven't replaced it. I got the camper one Sunday morning when dropping my daughter off at work.As often happens, like when the thrift store gods are calling, I get this "thought", "Go find a camper!" Well, I did! I drove right to it..got outta the car in my PJ's, and marched right up to the door of the house. A man answered. I asked, "Is the trailer for sale??" He looked at me kinda strange (I thought it was my hair sticking straight up (bed hair) or my PJ's) and said, "I was just going to put a for sale sign on it! So I looked inside and there was a cute lil fridge, stove and sink! The upholstery on the booth was in near perfect blue and white checked perfection. I bought it, and the guy hauled it over to me without any money transactions. A true God thing.

 The second picture is the little booth. I have a vase full of flowers, a vintage tablecloth on it and a turquoise and white 50's radio that works on the table. The lamp is driftwood from the Lake of the Ozarks, and I made the shade by laminating and blowing up some vintage postcards.

Third picture is of the Moose outside the door, with a sign that says, "Wipe your hoofs".

#4 is a towel that my friend made especially for the camper, it's embroideried Missouri.

The fifth pix is my "If the hats missin'-I've gone fishin' clock"

#6 The "lifesaver" on the trailer door. and #7 is the other trailer window. Below it is a blue and white checked seat.#8 is a vintage travel map and pamphlet. # 9 a little shelf above the seat. I found this cute vintage travel game. #10- I found some of these "banners" at the Goodwill, and thought they fit"! More trailer to come...the painting , finding time to finish cleaning it, etc... Zootsuitmama