Winners All Over The Freakin' Place!!!!

First, I wanted to thank SusieQT of Practice In Time for choosing ME as the winner of her giveaway!  Well, that's not quite true--she used Random.org to randomly pick the random winner but since I wanted the salt & pepper shakers SO MUCH the random gods waved their magic wands and voila!  

I already have one of these souvenir plates from New Orleans so now, guess what? It's a collection, and since I (a) live 50 miles from New Orleans, and (2) have visited Mount Rushmore not one but TWO TIMES in my life, these plates are from actual places I've been.  Awesome!

You know, they say losing makes you stronger, but WINNING MAKES YOU DO THE HAPPY DANCE.  WOO HOO!! 

Second, the very useful Random.org assisted me in finding the winner of the Vintage Christine 100 Follower Giveaway.  And the winner is (drum roll, s'il vous plait):

NINNY! 

If you will kindly email me at chris.1950@hotmail.com with your address I'll sending that darling little kittycat right on out to you!  Thanks to everyone who left a comment -- there were a total of 43 entries which is pretty darn good!

Third, ANOTHER GIVEAWAY.  Hey, I'm on a roll here--and now up to 120 followers.  I'll give details in tomorrow's post.  Thanks to everyone for leaving such wonderful comments--it's just amazing how people will fawn over you if they want something, isn't it?

Just wanted to share a photo of a beautiful fan vase I recently added to my fan vase collection.  It's "Silver Crest" by Fenton, one of their most popular lines--they've been making it since 1943.  My vase isn't marked Fenton so that means it's probably pre-1973 (the line is still in sporadic production due to its popularity).   They produced a floor lamp with a "Silver Crest" shade that is to die for!

Oh, and about the crown in the banner picture--I saw it at the flea market and scooped it up, intending to pay just about whatever they wanted for it.  It was just SCREAMING vintage Mardi Gras ball!  And when I asked how much and they said those magic words, "Oh, I don't know, how about ten bucks?" I literally wanted to hug them!  Whipped that tenspot out of my wallet, put the crown on my head and floated away.  Since it fits MY giganto head it was probably made for a ball king, but who cares--it's old and ALL the rhinestones are still there!  I wanted to wear it to the Mardi Gras drag ball I attended this year but my cousin said if I showed up in a crown I'd be banned, and since this was a DRAG ball I'd probably get bitchslapped and my eyeballs scratched out, as well . . .

Hope everyone had a great holiday.  Happy Tuesday, y'all!!