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Of Brie, a teddy bear, and the Golden Knights

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The Vegas Golden Knights won the Stanley Cup last night. This is my beautiful friend Brie, who was a huge Knights fan from the time the team started playing in 2017.  (Her favorite player was Mark Stone).  I met her on a message board in the spring of 1999 and we talked several times a week, if not every day, for nearly 23 years.  She passed away in April of last year.   A few weeks before she died, I found a Golden Knights teddy bear on one of my many trips to Value Village.   I bought the bear with the full intention of sending it to her.  But she passed away before I could send it.  In fact, the last time I ever talked to her, I asked for her mailing address so I could send the bear.  I wish our last conversation hadn't been about something so trivial as a teddy bear.  Anyway, I decided to keep the bear as a memory of her.  Then my friend Lacey on Facebook suggested that I put her name on the back of the bear's jersey as a tribute.   I bought some iron-on letters from Michae
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A Barbie...snowmobile?

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Dusting off this blog after a looooong hiatus.  I have so much to share about my thrifting adventures and other things, and this will be the outlet for it. Long ago, back when I was a little girl, my beloved grandmother and I got into an argument.  She was insistent that a Barbie jukebox existed.  I said, no way.  We kept on back and forth about it for a while until she presented me with a Barbie '50s diner playset...complete with the aforementioned jukebox.  I stood corrected. Fast-forward to today.  I was thrifting (as usual) and collecting all things Barbie is my passion (as usual).  I came across something that's just as random and weird as a Barbie jukebox, if not even more so. Introducing the Barbie snowmobile!  Ignore the fact that Barbie is in attire that is completely not appropriate for snowmobiling.  What makes this find even more ridiculous is that the snowmobile is entirely too small for the doll.   I guess Barbie really does have everything!
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Happy 30th, Ren & Stimpy!

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30 years ago today, on August 11, 1991,  The Ren & Stimpy Show premiered on Nickelodeon.  It was one of the three original "Nicktoons," along with the shows Rugrats and Doug.  I have been a fan of the show since I was in my tweens.  My first exposure to the cartoon was the "Kilted Yaksmen Anthem," the lyrics to which I can still recite by heart nearly 30 years later.    John Kricfalusi, the show's creator -- along with his animation studio Spumco -- was fired from the show in 1992 among missed production deadlines and controversy about the show's content.  The show was then taken over by Games Animation, Nickelodeon's in-house animation studio.  To be honest, I prefer the Spumco episodes over the later ones.  To me, there is just something that is lacking in the Games shows.   I do have some Ren & Stimpy collectibles in my room. One of my favorite material possessions -- though not my first one!  An original cel of the Tooth Beaver from "Ren
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Rockin' the buzz

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  I recently buzzed my head!  How does it make me feel?  Strangely liberated.  I think that every woman should experience this at one point or another in their life.  It also feels great that it only takes about a minute to wash my hair now instead of the several minutes it took when my hair was long. I used Remington clippers which come with a set of guards.  For this cut, I used a #1 (3 mm) guard.  I basically went around my entire head but I did have to enlist my mother to help me with the back.  I also have a pair of hair cutting scissors so once that was done I took the scissors and trimmed up any places I missed. Other tips:  If you are buzzing your hair for the first time, go longer.  You can't replace hair that you've already cut but you can always go shorter if that's what you want.  Also, wear an old t-shirt.  You are going to be covered in picky little hairs, and that's annoying.  Doff the shirt once you're done cutting.  Finally, keep your clippers clean
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My collie collection (so far...)

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I love collie dogs, and have ever since I was a little girl watching The New Lassie.  Unfortunately, I am not currently able to have a collie, mainly because I live next to a major highway and there is simply too much risk of puppo getting hit on the road and killed.  So I have decided to surround myself with lovely collie things!  I started collecting a few months back and so far have amassed a decent sized collection, most of it coming from local antique shops and thrift stores. Here is my collection! This antique collie cross-stitch came from eBay.  I do not have the patience to do cross-stitching myself, so it was nice to find one that was ready made.   This plush Lassie also came from eBay.  I believe she was a tie-in with The New Lassie TV series. This 1948 calendar came from a local antique store and is what "flipped the switch" on my collecting collie things.  All the months are intact on the calendar pad and I had it custom framed at my local framing shop.  Also on t
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Teddy, Terri, and T.J.

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What better for an inaugural post for this blog than a post about one of my favorite things in the whole wide world -- teddy bears!   I should preface this by saying that I am a thrift junkie.  I LOVE to thrift.  I am not able to do it currently because of the lockdown in Ontario but usually I am in my local Value Village at least once a week.  And I also love to research my items when I thrift them, as you'll see in this post. One thing I remember from my childhood are the Dave Nichol Insider's Report teddy bears.  I did not have these toys as a child (probably because I don't think there was a Loblaws supermarket in my area), but I knew others at school who did.  And one of the sections in Value Village that I love to check out are the stuffed animals.  So when I saw Teddy in the stuffed animal section several years ago, I knew that I had to have him.  About a month and a half ago, before the lockdown, I was lucky enough to thrift Teddy's wife, Terri!  However, I knew
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