"Repairing Halloween"

The other day we were taking out the Halloween decorations we had our first casualty, one of our pumpkins did not survive the year long storage and was found shattered in pieces. Of course my wife’s answer was, oh just throw it away, I said nope! I’ll fix it. So I gathered all the pieces and got to work.

 These were all the decent pieces that I could find, all the rest had turned into dust.

 I also had to recreate one of his eyes as the pieces were to far gone.

Here he is all put back together, I would give all those kings horses and all those kings men a run for their money.

And Here with the first coats of paint, went with a bit more natural color.

X-Ray Vision for $1

 

Remember seeing those ads in your old comics, the ones that offered cool toys for almost nothing, only to get a NO as soon as you pointed to the ad when asking your parents for money, then wondering what it would've been like to have that awesome toy? Well there is this cool guy that put together a book that will answer that question and more, its called "Mail-Order Mysteries" and I have to say that this book is AWESOME!

 

This was one of my favorites to read about. I was always curious about what would actually be sent to who ever ordered something like this. I would've had a blast as a kid if I had one of these.

 

There are also some secrets revealed about some of the items that were offered, like this "100pc Toy Soldier Set". The ad description was a bit flat...sorry, had to.

 Oh and you can't forget the original that everyone can say that they wanted, the amazing "X-Ray Spex". Every young boy that saw these knew that they had to get them for one reason and one reason only...to see what was inside those Birthday or Christmas gifts...you thought it was going to be something else huh.. don't lie you know you thought it.

I had a hard time putting this book down there is so much great stuff in this book I had fun reading this and promise that you will to although I made myself stop reading from time to time because I didn’t want it to end.

Special Thanks to Kirk Demarais for the OK to write this. Want to know more about him and his work head over to SecretFunSpot.com you can find links to his other sites.

Oh and check out his short film "FLIP"

See it here: http://vimeo.com/979599

Get The Book Here

Another Fun Video

Well here we have another kit that I found, actually I won this one in an auction a while back together with some other kits. Enjoy

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"Still Here"

Hey all, We are still here and still working on the websites, well a little here and there really.
but im surprised by all the views that we am getting and even our Facebook page is up in likes.
Well I just wanted to say that we are still here and all is well.

Oh and its time to clean house in the Nostalgic Memories Office(aka spare room) so all the stuff that I can part ways with must go to make more room for other vintage stuff. I will put stuff up on eBay or find another way.

Fun with no space....

Well we will attempt to put this fun stuff up this weekend, we have a lot of decorations and not enough space on an apartment balcony for it all and I think a 5ft inflatable pumpkin would be overkill in such a small place. My favorite decoration is the one that we made from scratch it even has bright LED's installed in its eye sockets. The best part is that we paid less than $20 for the material to make it compared to $45-$50 decorations at a store.
 I will Post it set up and in action, there is also a cauldron that we put water with dry ice to make a neat effect also with LED's. Oh and some lights...blah blah blah check back tomorrow for an update on the set up...

"Just Letting Out Some Steam"

"Just Letting Out Some Steam"

Top 5 things I can get less of on Social Media Sites and NOT! Lose sleep over.

#1 Game Invites (If I didn’t accept your first 10 invites it’s probably because I don’t want to play)

#2 Girl Fights (When a girl acknowledges what another girl did to her and then say that it did not bother them…Well then don’t say anything at all! That just means it did bother you and you want input from others)

#3 No Bad Posts ( Why won’t anyone post when their car gets reposed or anything bad… but you do post when you bought your new ride.. then please post when its gone because you can’t afford it)

#4 Money Chain Letters (This one I cannot stand at all…how in the world is sharing a picture of money going to help you get money…last I heard you had to go to work and earn it. Uh...if it was only that easy….oh and if you are sending these out please follow #3 because thats whats coming)

#5 The Sympathy Card (FML….. or could this day get any worse….. and how about this one, what a bad Day, I don’t want to talk about it…..What!?! Then don’t post about it)

Alright enough for now these are just some of the ones that bother me…..they are not in any specific order and there are many more, so I will post some more later on.

Feel free to post your “not so favorite ones” in the comments below.