Book Review: Nestle Make-It and Bake-It Kids Cookbook

Mmmm, Nestle Quik!  This fun book tells all about how to make lots of tasty items using Nestle Quik. 

Buy This Book on Etsy for only $5!

Quik Bunny and Semi-Sweetie are your tour guides to great tasting treats!

Remember kids, always get help from an adult!!!

Aww, fun crafts too!

Love the spoon and plastic Diner cup.  I wonder if the coupon is still valid?  There's no expiration date.

Get your new friends in plush versions too!

And don't forget to beg your parents to buy all of these great Nestle products kids.

 

Help Save The Drive In

If you have been following the blog for a while, you know that I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Drive-In.  My closest Drive-In theater is The 99w in Newburg, Oregon. This theater opened in 1953 and is still run by the Francis family today. Next year all movies will be digital and no longer produced on film. That means that Drive-Ins across the country have to upgrade to new digital projectors. These are about $80,000. A small independent family run theater just doesn't make that much money.

So here is how you can help...

Honda is running a promotion. Project Drive-In allows people to vote everyday for the next 30 days, for their favorite Drive-In. They are giving away 5 digital projectors to the top 5 Drive-Ins. You can also pledge to support your local Drive-In by, you know, going there. And you can share on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or whatever.

I'm gonna remind you a few times because I feel that it is really important to keep our cultural history alive! So please go and vote AT LEAST once!  Please vote for the 99W or your local Drive-In.

http://projectdrivein.com/

Reproductions - or - Does it have a tape deck in the side?

I konw that most serious collectors hate reproductions. But, I don't consider myself that serious!  I actually think that reproductions, or repops, have their place.  It's great for a newer collector, or a broke collector like me, to get something that they may never find or afford.  They can be useful and functional, while originals may just be for show and don't work or aren't useful.

In the 90's, when people really started to get interested in the past again, lots of reproductions hit the market.  We were still in the age of wanting everything new and shiny and so no one seemed to care that items were repop. 

One of the most popular repop items were the old radios.  Great little wood cathedral shaped radios, with a tape deck on the side.  My sister and I go to a lot of antique malls and collector's shows.  Our fun way to identify a repop is to say it has a tape deck in the side.  Even if it's a repop Barbie or Coke item.

This DOES have a tape deck on the side!  I must have one of these!

Great 40's style reproduction Radio, with, you guessed it, a tape deck in the side!

Yep, its got one!

I like the combo of the wood and the digital buttons! On this reproduction vintage phone.  But I don't think there ever really was a phone that looked like this, it's too strange looking.  It's as if they mixed a bunch of different old phone ideas together.  Love the pay phone, we have this in PINK!

This singer sewing machine reproduction is AWESOME!!!
Functional and faboulous looking.

These great images came from a 1993 Montgomery Ward Direct catalog, that I have on ebay now.  There is some other pretty great stuff in there too!

When you see this gal coming you know you are going to be pressured into buying a boat.

One Garth Brooks song comes on the radio and suddenly everyone wants to be a cowboy!  Oh, me too, me too!

Mickey Mouse Kitchen.  I'll take real versions of these!

Amazing Thoms the Tank Engine bunk bed.

These outfits are a little dated for 1993.  I think my sister had this outfit in 1983.

Play tractor, play Harley Davidson, and Batmobile!!

I had that Epson printer, it was the WORST.  It took 3 minutes to print out one page, and I had to replace the ink after 5 or 6 pages.  That is, when it worked.

 

The Real Griswolds take the Family Truckster to Wally World

It's the 30th Anniversary of the movie "Vacation".  One of my favorite movie series!  A real Griswold family has recreated the Road Queen Family Truckster and they drive it to Wally Disney World 4 or 5 times a year!

It’s the 30th Anniversary of ‘Vacation’: Real-life Griswolds Travel to Walt Disney World Resort

Christmas Story, the best Holiday Movie!

Target has some awesome Christmas Story items in their dollar section right now.  They've got notebooks and pens along with stress balls (or bars) and Cookie Cutters.

"Oh Fudge"  Lifebouy Soap shaped stress bar.  Are you supposed to bite it?

Leg Lamp Cookie Cutters.

 

Play Kitchens

I love, love, love vintage play kitchens.  Especially dollhouse size!  I have a few pieces from the 40's and 50's that I think are just adorable.  I have only recently started collecting these, so I'm still trying to figure out what I want and what I have space to display.  I recently bought this ADORABLE Deluxe Dream Kitchen that is the size of Barbie, Tammy, and other similar size fashion dolls.  It's super cute, but much too big.  My sister came over and we played Barbies! 
We got them all set up and I took tons of photos.  I am listing it for sale because it doesn't really fit in with my other dollhouse size toys.  It will be sad to see it go. I guess if I kept everything I ever wanted to, they would have to do an episode of Hoarders about me.

My nephews once played with my Strawberry Shortcake dolls.  They were certain because all they were doing was dressing them and brushing their hair, they weren't really playing with them.  I told them that's pretty much what we do when we play with them.  Getting their hair, outfits and house set up is all the fun part!  They immediately dropped the dolls and went upstairs to play with trucks!

 

Hasbro Watchimals

Hasbro introduced Watchimals in the 80's.  Problem with these was that kids watches are junk, and the watch inside this was no exception.  Once the watch breaks, it's still neat to have a plush bracelet, but it really lost its cool factor.  The fun thing was that this was a way to sneak stuffed animals into school.