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take this seller for example- they went to all the effort to make sure they had a good dinner of Lasagna flavored Hamburger Helper before they shipped my lot of Mr. Bean cartoon videos.

I really appreciate how they made sure there were no bits of dry pasta left in the box or lasagna flavored powder residue, before they packed up my dvds.

Last year- I went to a church rummage that was run by ancient elderly people. While there I bought so many cases of vintage Christmas ornaments that I needed a large cardboard box to carry them out to my van in one trip. Needless to say a lovely cashier working the sale helped me pack them all carefully into a huge cardboard box that had large, bold lettering on the side that read “case of adult diapers.” I felt fortunate to score such a great box since shipping materials are costly and I thought it would make the perfect box to ship a lot of maternity clothes to some chick in New York…

Regarding the dvds- I think it was kind of cool my dvds came in an old Hamburger Helper box. No more trees had to be cut down  in order to get my kids their silly videos.

I do have two final things to say about this though… if it was vintage jewelry shipped in a Hamburger Helper box- I would have gone ballistic. Other then that- there’s not much to say, except of course that there are much better flavors of Hamburger Helper then lasagna… I mean  who eats lasagna flavored Hamburger Helper- Garfield the Cat?

Dear Elvis

I love you very much teddy bear-  and I am sorry it seems like I missed your big week. I know I am in TROUBLE with you but really I didn’t forget- it’s just that I have been all shook up with three of the kids having the flu and eBay keeping busy. Then there are all these bloggers who have interesting things to write or have tips for me and I forget about my main love… (not vintage). It’s always been you and no one else.  You have been always on my mind all week and wish you were here. I Apologize- do you forgive me? I hope so and I hope we can move on with our life because I can’t stop loving you. I have been taking care of business while you are away.

Smooches Big Daddy Elvis,

Love Michelle

I am updating several of my blogs, including this one. This weekend (hopefully) there will be a whole new look to OOAWKI. I have finally been able to weasel my way into my husband’s web development queue…

I have also launched two spin off blogs, that I am working on customizing. One blog is Vernacular Photography- which still is in the makeover process. The other Vintage Jewelry Pictures dot com - is close enough that I am ready to announce it here. It has actually been quite popular with the Stumble crowd in the jewelry category.

A special thank you to Pete of MY GPS CAMERA PHONE - Pete gave me the idea for the header with a recent tutorial Using the History Brush in Photoshop: Partial Color Imaging Re-visited. Thanks Pete.

After you are done visiting Pete- let me know what you think of my new blog?

and I normally don’t care to buy old magazine unless they have really good vintage ads (as in vintage jewelry) in them but I couldn’t resist this cover from 1941. If you look at the cover it looks like Bette Davis naked in the park in trouble, being man-handled by a serial rapist!

I am not sure if I am going to read this magazine or not, I don’t want nightmares. It kind of squashes my idea of an idealistic, gentler time in the 1940’s. I like how it says on the cover “official” detective stories, it makes me wonder what the unofficial detective stories are? Those must be super scary stories! Maybe the unofficial stories have aliens, ghosts, and all sorts of paranormal activities. I wonder if aliens probed people in the 1940’s- ’cause they probe people all the time now- and don’t pretend you don’t know what I am talking about. If you are on my blog you have probably been accosted by aliens- yourself.