Sunday, March 21, 2010

Scrapping in the 1930s

Hi everyone!

I wanted to share with you a major vintage find (at least for me, lol). On a past trip to one of my favorite vintage haunts, Kitsch-y Cool Vintage I noticed a scrapbook that was marked as being from the 1930s. Being that it was very delicate, I didn't look all that closely at it and left it where I found it.

Sometimes when I find something cool but it's out of my budget or I need to wait to get it for whatever reason, I go by my "Second Time Mine" rule. If it's there the next time I go, I assume that means God wants me to have it. lol So luck was with me when I went back to Kitsch-y Cool the other day as there is was on a shelf: my 1930s scrapbook.

I brought it home, sat down to really look at it and low and behold: it's filled to the brim with clippings of Hollywood celebrities from the 30s/40s. Amazing! There are so many pages with so many pictures, I decided to make a video flipping through it rather than take a picture of every page. :D Even with me talking and flipping as fast as I could, the video is still 4 minutes long (yikes) so please feel free to fast forward, mute my blah blah blah or what have you. lol

I hope you enjoy seeing this treasure!



P.S.-I'm double posting this on my crafty blog, Just Add Glitter and Stir because I'm needing some advice on restoring it so don't feel like you need to comment there if you're already commenting here. :D

15 comments:

  1. OH, this is a find of a lifetime. you're SOOO lucky!!!! WONDERFUL

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  2. What an amazing find!! As a fellow believe in the "Second time mine" philosophy, I think it was definately meant to be. Thanks for sharing!!

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  3. What a wonderful find! I think that you should try to transfer it to a new book and restore it as much as possible.

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  4. Hands down I agree to redoing the book because that is seriously something that you can fix and keep forever, I think its just completely a treasure. What an amazing find.

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  5. OOOOhhhhh nice find! Thanks so much for the comments on my new blog post honey! I am so excited about it! Kori xoxo

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  6. Amazing! You are so lucky to find a treasure like this, wow!

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  7. Wow Maggi! What an amazing find! So I am curious how much they were selling that for. hope that's not too nosey of a question. I sure hope you find a way to save it! What a treasure and it was definitely loved!

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  8. Ohh baby, I love it!!!
    congrats for the blog <3

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  9. What a wonderful find.
    Lucky you :-)

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  10. Thank you for stopping by...Hope your all well.x.

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  11. I truly cannot imagine a more fabulous find - how stunning! :)

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  12. OMG Maggi!!! What a wondeful fine.I don't know what you put on it to stop the further damage,but by all means possible restore as much as you can.Its well worth the trouble.I also love old vintage pictures.
    Did you ever read any of the old romance comic books? I buy them on Ebay. But I love to read them. I would love to send you a couple ,I have plenty.Let me know.
    Thank you for stopping by.I'm glad you liked my new doll.I was kind of worried about this doll.
    XXOO Marie Antionette

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  13. That was fun! Loved hearing your voice, too. If you have lots of money to spare, I'd take the scrapbook to a book restorer. I don't think I'd decoupage or laminate. I think it would be better just to leave as is than do that. I would suggest you talk to an archival specialist at a museum or library. Just my thoughts.

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  14. sometimes i wish i lived in the 30s... maybe to experience it for a lil. :]

    thanks for the post!

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