Vintage Stuff Creeps Me Out
So, I’ve had a definite lack of stuff to blog about lately. I posted the townhouse pics but sice then it’s just been one stressful day after another…just long long days. Long. Did I say long? Yeah. Long….
I mean, it’s gotten to the point where I’m just not excited about owning a townhouse! It’s just another stress point in my life… I have no idea when the hell I’m going to move out. My apartment is a mess. I’m gone for 3 weeks starting Friday after Thanksgiving (though the last week is a vacation and I need one so I’m taking it even though it means I’ll be gone for so long) and the Saturday I come back (15th) is the company X-mas party, Monday after I do the title transfer and on the Saturday after I get the keys. BUT, as I said…my apartment is not ready to move out. I’m gone for 3 weeks before I get the place. And in January it’s looking like I’m going to be gone for 2 to 3 weeks again too…and there’s already an event in Feb. as well I think… Urk…at this point I won’t be moving into my new place until like JUNE!!
Anyway…I signed my loan already. It’s pretty much a done deal. I will get more excited when I get the keys. I promise :) Hopefully by then I won’t be so stressed out either!
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So, anyway, I’ve been looking for stuff to blog about. Mint 3 Musketeers almost made it. And I will post about that too (it was YUMMY!!! YUMMY I TELL YOU!!!). But today, on the way back from the West Side Market, J wanted to stop by a store in Cleveland just on the border between Cleveland and Lakewood called Flower Child. It’s a vintage goods store. I wasn’t sure what to expect. But the place is….well…unique. It’s like an attic of a grandmother in Florida that USED to be swinging and hip back in the 60’s. But it’s just packed with stuff. No order. It’s just the kind of place where you rummage. And to be honest I was really entertained. It was really neat.
She was looking for a very specific item (ceramic angel with an accordion…I found it for her too! Little did I know there was such a sub-genre of angle with accordion figurines). But we ended up rummaging through the place for like an hour. I think they move and add stuff throughout the year too. Everything from vintage clothing, souvenier type stuff, records, books, just…lots of kitch.
However, there were some stuff there that were…weird or disturbing. I don’t have the “fear of antiques” that Billy Bob Thorton has (he does…I swear…it’s weird), but some of these were just creepy or too weird to not share. Of course, my cel phone camera came into play here. Gotta love it. There was ONE pic that I didn’t post because it was probably offensive as hell…. Might still post it…I have to think about it.
Of course, the creepiness and freakiness and oddness of all this vintage stuff could just be me…maybe I’m just weird…but still…weird man…just weird….
Anyway, onwards!! Here is the first picture of a series I like to call “How to Mentally Screw Up Your Child and Give Them Nightmares for a Very Long Time” (or HTMSUYCAGTNFAVLT).
Alright. I know the elves of yore were supposed to be more mischievious and a trickster. But come on…am I the only one that thinks this one looks downright EVIL?? If I was a child and this thing was next to the present for me, I’d be scared to reach for it. Like as soon as I reach for it the elf is going to jump at me. AAAAAA….. Trauma I tell you….
More after the cut!! Click on the link below!
