#novelty stores

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Rubinstein's Wholesale & Retail, on the west side of Park Row under the El, 1944. Below, its catalog.

Both photos: eBay/NY in the 1970s Instagram

[metronn]

spock and kirk soaps i bought today (also got all of TOS on DVD yippee!!)

i do have some questions about the spock one. specifically in the third photo.

[ID: two small novelty soaps, one package featuring spock, and one featuring captain kirk. the spock soap boasts "THE LOGICAL CHOICE" and is vulcan mint scented. the kirk soap says "THE FINAL FRONTIER" and is federation herbal scented.

the spock soap features two quotes on its sides: "because the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" and "bath time before amok time".

the kirk soap features: "fresher than a cadet solving kobayashi maru" and "... to boldly go where no soap has gone before".]

[2000ghosts]

september 29, 2008

[wygolvillage]

im like 60% sure i know the Actual blog of the guy running emporium LOL and he is constantly posting ai art on both his tumblr and twitter and is selling it so... do what you will with this information

EDIT: okay yeah this is him

[freaky-flawless]

Something that's really irritating me about the Off-White doll is that when you look at the concept art, she has 0 monster features aside from her green skin. Her monster type was such an after thought, and that's why its so poorly reflected in her design. Like she's supposed to be a fish (I think) where are her scales? Where are her fins? For such an expensive doll, I expected more than just a reused face mold, and a very easily recognizable one at that.

Her concept art really looks like a pale Casta Fierce. And honestly, I would probably like her more if that was the direction they took. Instead of being completely new, lazily designed characters, they could have done something like "Casta Fierce modelling for Off-Fright" or something, and added a witchy twist to the actual Off-White look. I mean, it would still be grossly overpriced, but I guarantee she'd sell better, especially considering Casta only ever got one doll. And it would've been SO PERFECT for an October Friday the 13th release.

[sleepinglionhearts]

pls know that I bought myself a little art scrapbook after seeing yours and I am, like, ABSURDLY excited to use it 💚

HELL YEAH HELL YEAH HELL YEAH!!!

I hope you have a lot of fun!

Journaling and scrapbooking have become a lot of fun to me lately because they're so versatile: you can put all kinds of stuff in 'em, and there's soooo many accessories and specialty items you can get nowadays.

Here's some of my favorite stuff to use with my hobonichi planner: planner-specific sticky notes, regular and mini sized sticky notes, washi tape and washi tape cutter, white-out tape, and a glue pen + tombow's glue dots roller. You can't forget a good pair of scissors or an x-acto knife, either.

So far I've gotten more use out of the glue pen; it's perfect for the mini sticky notes and when I cut stuff out and it's in odd shapes the glue tape can't quite handle:

Don't forget to get a bunch of weird stickers! Get some tape! Marker pens!! A ruler! An edge cutter for papers to make em round or decorative! More stickers!!!!

Again, I really hope you have fun in your scrapbook!! ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

[shiftythrifting]

From The Heart of Ohio

Cool old lunchbox. I really would have bought it if it was useable, but I couldn't clean it.

A musical lighter with Mount Fuji on it. It was in a case so we didn't get to hear what song it was

Bok choy

All the mortar and pestles in the world

And a hornets nest for 85 whole american dollars for some reason.

[coolmugsifound]

“I’m an outgoing cook/I like going out” House of Lloyd mug (1985)

source

[hamilpop]

Nicolas de Lenfent, The Vampire Lestat

I got it into my head that I would make a new vampire custom before Halloween. Well, I was off by a few days, in part because I ended up needing to make a miniature violin by hand.

But I'm pretty pleased with Nikki! Mainly because I proved to myself I can make teeny tiny musical instruments out of toothpicks and Apoxie Sculpt Modeling Compound. 🎻

Available Now at My Etsy!

[krogering]

07/28/2024

[clnclm]

[try-set-me-on-fire]

Tagged by @lover-of-mine @shitouttabuck @rewritetheending and @daffi-990 for seven sentence Sunday! It’s been awhile since I did a mixed media fic, so here’s the start of me figuring out Eddie figuring out his vows

Dear Buck oh its not a letter

Buck

Evan Buckley (?)

From the day we met, I

I take thee to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part except I don’t want to stop loving you when either of us die. I don’t want to part. Till the glaciers have melted and the oceans have dried up, till Mount Whitney (the tallest mountain in California, I looked it up) is eroded to a molehill, till the heat death of the universe do us part. Maybe that will be enough time

I keep thinking about that time you wore those fucking socks to work and Bobby and everyone were trying to really gently asses if you were having a breakdown because we just see AND YOU’RE GOING TO DIE on your ankle and then you laughed and pulled up your pants and it said “GET LOST IN NATURE AND YOU’RE GOING TO DIE” which like I still think is kind of a fucked up thing to put on a sock but you just did one of your beautiful sunshine grins (we weren’t even together but god I still got light headed looking at you) and were like “I thought it would be neat to remind people the importance of safety in nature” and I was kind of teasing and annoyed and laughed about it and that was like three years ago Buck and I still feel guilty about it because if you were going through some kind of crisis I don’t ever want to be annoyed and laugh about it, I want to be there for you no matter what and I hope I’ve proven that to you over the years, that I don’t just love you on easy days, I love you every single day all the time even when everything’s fucked even if I can’t write wedding vows to save my life god this is terrible

I’ve got to make a bunch of different scraps of paper to write these on… tagging @devirnis @buckactuallys @thewolvesof1998 @wildlife4life @shortsighted-owl @callaplums

[mewnette]

[artist-ellen]

So Printify Pop-ups...

What's the deal? From what I've been looking at so far it seems like a good way to test out printify and if they'll be a good long-term shop option. Have you tried it? What did you think? Have you purchased anything from one? I'm all ears!

[m0e-ru]

visualive makes me so sick like it's rabies. what do you mean adachi couldve gotten another friend around his age that doesn't smack him over the head and berate him because that's not what their stereotypical dynamic calls for.

[deafarcher]

//my mom just got back from her trip and look at all the chocolate she got me!!!

I don't know what else she got me yet she just unpacked the chocolate to put it out of the dogs' reach.