Pigeon Circus is starting to roll into town! Visit Creme Caramel's parlour for some fancy new brooches that will add a bit of sparkle to your festive outings.

         

Great scans of 19th century Japanese mermaid illustrations over at Pink Tentacle

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If this is what Christmas fairies looked like, I would be stoked.
This is a Pink Fairy Armadillo from Argentina, where apparently he is very rare and is the smallest of the Armadillo family.

 via Nick Baker

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This Saturday I will have a table selling my wares at the MOAD sale in Kingsland, Auckland.  Come along if you are in the hood! For details see flyer below....



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SPOOKYPOP always seem to produce great steampunk/vintage inspired collectible toys.  Here are some of their amazing customs.....





Never fear, you can buy your own piece of steampunked goodness - SPOOKYPOP's Doctor A teamed up with MINDstyle and produced the 'Mechtorians'.  Six deliciously victorian-esq robot/creature from the deep figurines.


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Old Hat Records specialize in reissues of vintage American music.  Great for when you need to inject some scratchy, back-porch southern blues atmosphere into your living room. The 'Good For What Ails You - Music from medicine shows 1926 - 1937' looks especially interesting, with song names like 'The Cat's got the Measles and the Dog's got the Whooping Cough' how can you go wrong?



Their collection of photographs of musicians from the early 1900's is also very interesting, and worth having a lo...
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Terri Petit has a large database of vintage paper doll scans available for download.  Great for last minute birthday cards or for releasing the inner geeked out child. Here are a couple of examples from the extensive site...
Betsy MCColl October 1955



The Candy Stripers - 1973





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Found a very nice vintage clothing store vintagetextile.com. It is full of amazing dresses, hats, shoes, fabric and accessories from the 1820's through to the 1980's. Even though there are multiple items to drool over, this dress in particular caught my eye, a very flattering 1950's black silk dress. 





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