Paper Art on Etsy: The Energy of Ephemera

Paper Art

The Ephemeral is Tamed on Etsy

It's everywhere. Even in this age of digital this and video that, we are still often surrounded by paper. "Get me a hard copy!" There are some amazing artists around who create with paper. An international paper art exhibition, Slash: Paper Under the Knife is at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York. See my previous entry for details. In the spring I had a blog post on Betty Pepper. Paper, often recycled, is among her signature materials.

There are many exciting examples of paper art to be found on Etsy. Here are just a few.

The Cruel Sea is a sculpture, an altered hardcover edition of Nicholas Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea. You can find this piece in Andreanasophia's Shop.

In Which She Reveals Her Characteristic Energy is an original sculpture. It's a diorama inside a 7x7x7 inch wooden box. From the description: "The egg shell inside is paper maché made from old books. The paper is all cut by hand in the traditional Swedish method of Scherenschnitte." This item is at Mollybosley's Shop.

Make Waves Which Illuminate is "a cut drawing with burn/fire marks, threaded text, wanting to highlight that it's not just an idea to make waves, but let's have them be purposeful and illuminating for all." This comes from UlaEinstein's Shop.

The print, Cloud Climbing, is from Roadside's Shop. From the description: "The image looks three-dimensional – but it is, in fact, a 2D print. I created it through a unique process of 3D illustration. This involves taking a dimensional work of art and turning it into a 2D image for print - in my case, by digitally photographing my original cut paper artwork."

Supercoolspyclub has the Love Bugs Paper Cut. "This one-of-a-kind piece of art is hand-cut from paper and displayed in a 10 inch x 10 inch shadowbox."

"A sweet paper bird made using a newspaper crossword puzzle. Hand stitched using fine embroidery thread" is the Crosswords Paper Bird Mixed Media Sculpture at Cottonbirddesigns.

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Slash: Paper Under the Knife, International Paper Art Exhibition

I've always been interested in and amazed by the art that people create with paper. The Museum of Arts and Design in New York has had some brilliant exhibits and its current show is called Slash: Paper Under the Knife. The exhibit runs through April 14, 2010.

The artists are international and the techniques are delightfully varied. The types of paper as well as the techniques used are often as meaningful as the finished works themselves. (Image to left by Andrea Dezsö)

Image at right is Célio Braga's Placebos. These garlands were cut from the papers that come from prescription drugs. From Braga's web site:

"I use a variety of techniques involving a constant process of cutting, perforating, rearranging, assembling, destroying and mending
papers, textiles, wax and photographs. The works are often bold and melodramatic, sometimes silent, but always in searching of a balance between excess and austerity."

When you tear up that old love letter, that parking ticket, that photo of the damned so-and-so....

Consider taking back some power over some of tons of paper in our lives, that rejection note, that 'good luck in the future' letter or anything that unfortunately says your test results are positive. Next time why not consider slaying it as it tries to slay us?

There are personal rituals that involve paper. Tearing, discarding or safely burning paper has been a part of certain rituals for a long time. When would you create art from the paper vs. burn it vs toss it into the winds?

Artist Oliver Herring has created Alex, a sculpture out of digital c-print photographs, museum board, foam core, and polystyrene. The subject was photographed, the photos cut up and then reworked like an almost kaleidoscopic puzzle of the original subject to create the sculpture.  Herring has done other works such as Wade.

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has an archived interview in their group of podcasts available on MP3. It's called A Conversation with Oliver Herring and is from 2007.

Carlos Amorales' Black Cloud is actually an installation piece consisting of moths, but as a large group, it has a plague-like, ominous quality. It's a swarm. An April 2008 edition of ArtBlog has a very good article on the piece.

Andrea Dezso's Tunnel Books are part of the exhibit and were featured this month at the museum. Her work is intricate and enthralling and many tell stories. (see top of page)

At the gallery's web site, I like to download the Teacher Resource Packet. A lot of galleries kindly make them available to the general online public and they're very informative and thought provoking. It's worth a visit to the site even if you can't make it to the actual exhibition.

Images from the artists' respective web sites, links given

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Gathering Snowflakes

Growing up on the east coast, snowflakes sometimes meant an early weekday morning, sitting anxiously by the radio. You're in your boots and heavy winter coat and hoping, hoping to hear the announcer say that your school was closed due to the snow. Yippee!

You could build a snow fort or make snow angels or go get that metal saucer and slide down the hill. Maybe times like those are part of why I like snowflakes as a motif as much as I do. They're sort of like memories.

When looking for some pretty snowflake-themed items on Etsy, the hard part was finding just a few to feature in a blog post. You cold create a never-ending list of snowflakes!

The first one that caught my eye was a snowflake in name only. It's an original photo of a sweet white cat called Snowflake in the Window from Donnapool's Shop.

AStonesThrow has a corduroy pleated purse in pink with subtle snowflakes.

Spittintoad's Midnight Frost Neck Warmer features handmade snowflake ceramic buttons. The yarn used is a wintry combination of colors with metallic thread woven through for sparkle.

Finally, you can get a personalized One In A Million Snowflake Bowl from Elmstudiosonline.

So even if you've never made snow angels, never had snowflakes on your eyelashes or never had cold snowflakes tickling you down inside your winter boots.... You can still love the pretty images of snowflakes that artists create.

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Lucy Meets The Burtons, Tuesday Flashback Feature, Here's Lucy

This is part of my Tuesday Flashback Feature. We reminisce about classic TV shows usually from the 1950s-1970s where gemstones or pieces of  jewelry featured prominently in the storylines.

Here's Lucy

Lucy Meets The Burtons

Sept. 14, 1970

In this episode of Here's Lucy Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, big movie stars and a famous real-life couple, played themselves. Burton must escape fans and does so disguising himself as a plumber.

Lucy Carter (Lucille Ball) mistakes him for real plumber. Calling himself Sam, Burton takes advantage of the circumstances and says he'll help Lucy.

He fixes the faucet. She offers him $23.50 for his time (later knocking off $.50 because of his Shakespeare recitation) but Burton refuses payment and leaves.

Lucy later finds a remarkable diamond ring in his discarded overalls. Lucy discovers that Burton has forgotten the Taylor-Burton diamond, Elizabeth Taylor’s 69.42 carat pear-shaped diamond ring.

She decides to try it on and accidentally gets the famous ring stuck on her finger. By the time Lucy discovers it is the famous diamond ring that Burton had purchased for Elizabeth Taylor, it's too late and she can't get it off.

Burton returns to get the ring and finds it stuck on Lucy's finger. He starts to panic.

Liz and the ring are to appear at the Hollywood Press Corps in a few hours.

He brings Lucy back to their hotel suite explaining to Elizabeth what happened. Liz suggests that champagne to help get it off. That doesn't work. Liz desperately tries to get the ring off Lucy's finger once, perhaps only half-jokingly, suggests amputation.

Lucy suggests that Taylor stand in front of a curtain while meeting the press with Lucy herself positioned immediately behind her. Lucy's arm, with the diamond on her hand, is substituted for Elizabeth's hidden arm. They're a success!

On television, particularly on comedies, getting stuck, isn't uncommon. A host of things may be stuck on a character's toes or head. More than one program has had Thanksgiving turkeys on someone's head! But I suspect that rings on fingers may top the list: Herman Munster, Theodore Cleaver and now Lucy Carter.

But this show had an added twist. This one had the 1970's version of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and a very real, very famous enormous engagement ring guest starring. It's another engagement ring trouble episode as well!

If they were around now, would the couple of Burton and Liz Taylor be referred to as something like Blizzard in the press? They were a hot commodity and Lucille Ball got them to appear on her show, her third network television sitcom. It ran on CBS from 1968 to 1974.

Some say this episode was the most famous episode of the series. A photo graced the cover of the September 5, 1970 TV Guide. The drama was complete with backstage legend of tension between Richard Burton and Lucille Ball. Supposedly each had unpleasant things to say about the other's style of working when they wrote their memoirs.

The program also featured the real ring which featured a diamond of nearly 70 carats. In 1969, Richard Burton bought his second wife Elizabeth Taylor one of the world's largest diamonds from the jeweler Cartier. The pear-shaped stone was cut and polished by Harry Winston. 

Taylor and Burton had been married in 1964 and that marriage lasted ten years. They married again in 1975 but that marriage lasted under a year.

from www.luciearnaz.com :

Lucie Arnaz, Ball's daughter, said she was nervous about meeting the Burtons. Arnaz, who announced her engagement during the filming of the episode, said her ring looked like a spitball compared to Elizabeth’s Taylor-Burton diamond. According to the actress Elizabeth was kind, and recommended toothpaste to clean it. Security had been beefed up on the set as Elizabeth insisted the actual Taylor-Burton diamond be used.

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The episode appears on a DVD collection, Here's Lucy: Best Loved Episodes from the Hit TV Series This DVD also includes episodes with Jack Benny & George Burns, Flip Wilson, Wayne Newton,Sammy Davis Jr., Eve Plumb and Donny Osmond to name a few.

Bonus material pertaining to the Burtons appearance includes commentary with Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr., rehearsal footage, behind-the-scenes footage, the original episode ending, and the script for an alternate opening scene. According to Lucie Arnaz, so much behind-the-scenes footage exists because of the importance of the Burtons appearance.

This episode was written by Lucie's mother's long-time comedy writing team Madelyn Pugh-Davis and Bob Caroll Jr. This was also the highest rated episode of the program, but unfortunately Lucie and brother Desi Jr. were not in this episode.

Madelyn Pugh-Davis and Bob Carroll, Jr. received a 1970 Emmy nomination for writing the episode.


Pugh-Davis wrote a book  Loving Lucy: An Illustrated Tribute to Lucille Ball. Davis and her longtime writing partner Carroll co-wrote virtually every episode of I Love Lucy and continued to write on all of Lucille Ball's sitcoms through 1986's Life with Lucy.

Each Tuesday, we'll feature a different show, often a US sitcom. Information, including spoiler plot outlines come from various sources.

Particularly when the episode hasn't been recently viewed personally, information will be as accurate as possible. When available, a show photo will be included.

I'm always interested to hear your memories, and will often include links so you can get DVDs of the shows, too.

For a look at Lucy at her finest, Here's Lucy: Best Loved Episodes from the Hit TV Series is available on DVD.

The book, Loving Lucy: An Illustrated Tribute to Lucille Ball has a lot of information about the show as well as a section about the episode with Burton and Taylor.

Thinking of Lucille Ball's and Elizabeth Taylor's arms intertwined during the press conference scene reminded me of images I've seen of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of fortune, beauty, fertility:

Goddess Lakshmi T-Shirt by kshiraj
Create your own t-shirts online at Zazzle.

Elizabeth Taylor poster print Other shots of the glamorous star are available as well as other iconic screen legends. Accept no substitutes.

big girls need big diamonds t-shirt by pinkflamingodzyn
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Famous Femme™ Throw Pillow 
Browse Zazzle for a different throw pillow,
create one yourself with photos and text.

Liz Taylor has been known for her amazing jewelry through the years. Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry is a catalogue of her jewelry but put together as a biography of the woman herself.

Some images from sitcomsonline
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NicoDesigns: Where it's always the season for lovebirds

NicoDesigns is a special Etsy shop not only because of the cute and creative items that are sold there. It's also special because a percentage of the profits are donated to The Ronald McDonald House in Temple and to MD Anderson Cancer Hospital in Houston.

Many of our lives have somehow been touched by cancer and by making a purchase at this shop, aside from getting one of her lovely items, you can also be making a bit of a difference in people's lives.

I like her love birds and the pear pincushions crafted from recycled fabrics. They're charming enough to give as gifts and leave out on a shelf.

Gertie, The Obsessed Art Doll made me smile. I like art dolls in general, and at NicoDesigns you'll find some clever ones.

Her blog, also called NicoDesigns, is worth visiting, a clean and informative site with projects and tips.

I particularly liked the information on Japanese patterns. I've got some beautiful Japanese wire and beading books but am not really sure of all the instructions or how to translate them.

Just like in her shop, her blog has an assortment of goodies, and you'll probably enjoy them all.

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Present for Dee, Tuesday Flashback Feature, Whats Happening

This is part of my Tuesday Flashback Feature. We reminisce about classic TV shows usually from the 1950s-1970s where gemstones or pieces of jewelry featured prominently in the storylines.

What's Happening!!
A Present for Dee
February 9, 1979

Dee's (Danielle Spencer) 14th birthday is coming up. Her big brother, Roger, known as Raj, (Ernest Thomas) and their friends decide to have a surprise birthday party for her.

Dee figures out the plan ahead of time. One surprise gift is a necklace. It came from Little Earl (David Hollander) and the necklace was stolen.

Dee dislikes it. When she goes to the store to exchange it, she's wrongly accused of shoplifting. When Shirley (Shirley Hemphill) comes to help, things get even more interesting.

"Roger, Rerun and Dwayne are three buddies growing up in Los Angeles. The three of them always have a penchant for getting into mischief and trying to find ways of getting rich quick."

The show ran 1976-1979, and almost always the guys' schemes wind up getting them into trouble. It is up to Roger's mother to get them out of it. Roger's sister, Dee is bratty and the source of additional trouble. [Painting from Rbecoskie's Etsy shop.]

Each Tuesday, we'll feature a different show, often a US sitcom. Information, including spoiler plot outlines come from various sources.

Particularly when the episode hasn't been recently viewed personally, information will be as accurate as possible. When available, a show photo will be included.

I'm always interested to hear your memories and will often include links so you can get DVDs of the shows, too. In the interest of supporting fellow artists, I'll be featuring a few shops where the pieces tie into the general theme of the featured story.

You can get the series is on DVD. This episode would be contained in The Complete Third Season. The What's Happening: Complete Series set is also available.

You could have your own Stolen Moments Necklace without worry of the law if you visit WesleyAsher's Shop. (left)

That's What's Happening to Me is the name of a painting at Rbecoskie's Etsy Shop. (see above)

There's a pretty Rectangle Ocarina, the Key of D at Fairyringmushroomco's Shop. I bet Dee would like that.

Raj also might have been better off getting his sister the Dee Light Bouquet?? It's a colorful bouquet of plastic buttons. Yanadesigns has one that's cheery.

Dwayne's character is well known for his greeting, "Hey, HEY, Hey," which differs slightly from Bill Cosby's Fat Albert's "Hey, Hey, Hey."

I read that Dwayne (Haywood Nelson) is the only character who appears in every episode of What's Happening!!

In a TVLand list of the Top 100 TV Catch Phrases, Dwayne's greeting was number 55. Barney Fife's "Nip it!" from The Andy Griffith Show was number 100. "Heeeeere's Johnny!" from The Tonight Show was number one.

If you visit SheRadiates, there is a pretty Hey Hey Hey Baby brooch.

Rerun the Happy Hippie Cat pincushion can be found at FatCatCrafts. (above) Rerun the nickname of the third member of the trio of friends on the show.

Even more reason to shop for birthday presents on Etsy. A bit less likely that Dee's problem would arise? Handmade Rules! :-)

Some images from sitcomsonline
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Portraits Done in Unconventional Materials: Your Face Can Stand Out in the Crowd

Have you ever had your portrait done? Artists are creating portraits in materials other than or along with paint and any time I see artwork created in unconventional materials, I want to hear more. That's an artist to keep your eye on.  (Image at left from CadiGirlDesigns, Etsy)

This is another installment in my Anatomical Art series. If we must be specific, let's say it's about faces, 3-D portraits. These offer up interesting textures and often fascinating feats of construction as well as eliciting double-takes from the viewer. Some artists go for realism while others are more a caricature.

Lisa Kokin is an artist whose work I've been wanting to talk about for a while. I like buttons, partly for their diversity of material and form and partly for their history. Kokin is so creative using them in amazing portraits. (see image below, from her web site.)

"My work has always had an obsessive quality and this body of work is no exception. Every button is stitched to its neighbor to form a low-tech pixilated composition. 

"Up close each piece is an abstract melange of colors and shapes; the further back one stands the more decipherable the image becomes. This interplay between abstraction and representation intrigues me. 

"It is as though I am painting with buttons, building my palette as I go along, adding and subtracting until the interplay of colors and forms coalesces into a coherent image." -- from Lisa Kokin's web site

Among Sally Heller's artworks are portraits of pinup girls created with acrylic fingernails. I featured Heller in my post on fingernail art a while back.

Betty Milliken uses materials such as chewing gum, caulking compound and dried grapefruit peel in her portraits. There's an online tutorial, The Chewing Gum Portrait Project. You, too can be unconventional.

Jo Hamilton's crochet work includes portraits that she's made by turning photographs of people's faces into fiber. She also stitches colorful 3-D distorted cityscapes incorporating fibers of different types. (Jo Hamilton's work above)

Artist Michael Murphy mixes manure with paint for his portraits of some public figures including politicians.  Murphy's work appears to be bi-partisan.

In 2009, an exhibit called Faces: Chuck Close and Contemporary Portraiture as at the Nevada Museum of Art. 
Can a face tell a story?

On Etsy you'll find artists who make custom portraits in different materials.

At Papercutsbyjoe's shop there is an 8x10 Custom Paper Silhouette Portrait.

zJayne offers an ACEO Copper Collage custom made for you. (left)

A portrait/fiber art piece consisting velvet and decorator fabric on a burlap backing is at CadiGirlDesigns.

For those of you who are into cross stitch, visit Weesandy. You can get a custom Cross Stitch Pattern from something like a photo or your child's artwork.

Moonikins can create a 3-D portrait of your pet on a wooden magnet or keychain. A portion of sale is donated to AHS.

So don't keep your good-looking face in a jar by the door. Get an unconventional portrait made. Or try your hand at creating one yourself. I'll bet you've got some materials handy right now.


Like the other installments in the Anatomical Art series this portrait post just skims the surface and may well have a sequel in the future.

 

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The Locket, Tuesday Flashback Feature, All in the Family

This is part of my Tuesday Flashback Feature. We reminisce about classic TV shows usually from the 1950s-1970s where gemstones or pieces of jewelry featured prominently in the storylines.

All in the Family

The Locket

November 25, 1972

Edith can't find the gold heirloom locket that her grandmother gave to her on her deathbed. Grandma also told her not to marry Archie. Archie wants to report the locket missing so he can collect the insurance money.

Even though he has to lie and say that the necklace was stolen while filling out the report, he's so confident that he'll get the insurance money, how much it's worth plus extra for sentimental value, he orders a new $300 color television set to be delivered to his house immediately.

He then runs into problems when an agent comes over to verify the claim. It turns out that his greed got the better of him in this situation and the ending has something of a twist.

Lockets tend to be used in storylines particularly when they want something that has an heirloom and a special emotional and historical as well as monetary value.

Aunt Bee's heirloom brooch went missing on The Andy Griffith Show and they collected an insurance check for that. There was some resulting mayhem, as you might recall.

This week's Hairy Situation article is also about an episode of All in the Family.  Black is the Color of My True Love's Wig.  Gloria's brunette wig turns her husband on very much. He's sleeping on the couch and she's very insulted!

You can get All In the Family: The Complete Third Season on DVD at Amazon.

They also have the entire series, All in the Family Seasons 1-6 Bundle. No network ads or watermarks, no commercials. Remember how tv used to be.

Samantha: An American Girl Holiday, a limited edition DVD gift set comes with a locket. And please check out Angelina Ballerina: The Silver Locket.


Each Tuesday, we'll feature a different show, often a US sitcom. Information, including spoiler plot outlines come from various sources.

Particularly when the episode hasn't been recently viewed personally, information will be as accurate as possible. When available, a show photo will be included.

Please note: The Etsy shops mentioned may be out of business, many of the items may be sold out. Thanks for their letting me feature and discuss them here.

I know what you're thinking. You'd like a locket of your own now. Maybe another locket to add to your collection?

There's a Sterling Silver Photo Ball, Locket For Six Pictures that you might like.

Basilthecat has a Shooting Stars Vintage Locket Necklace that will hold four pictures. (above)  

A vintage photo titled Uncle Ed and Aunt Edith can be seen over at MustyBoxesEphemera. (right)

A nice graphic Mike Brand Indian River FLorida Grapefruit Crate Label which I bet Mike Stivic would like is at LABELSTONE. (below)

Dress up the little one's tootsies in a pair of Edith Cloth Baby Shoes.

Try to remember where your lockets are at all times or Archie might come over and try to work out a deal that you may regret later....

One image from sitcomsonline

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Etsy Treasury Feature, Most Likely To, I Love Turquoise & Lime

We're in a Treasury! I love turquoise and lime

My Green Swarovski crystal and Italian Glass necklace is part of an Etsy Treasury!

This Treasury was created by TinaFrancisDesigns

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The Engagement Ring, Tuesday Flashback Featue, The Flintsones

This is part of my Tuesday Flashback Feature. We reminisce about classic TV shows usually from the 1950s-1970s where gemstones or pieces of jewelry featured prominently in the storylines.

The Flintstones

The Engagement Ring
November 25, 1960

Barney buys an engagement ring for Betty. It seems that he never got her one, and she's been hinting throughout their marriage that she'd like to have one. He's gotten it on credit but it's worth it.

He asks Fred to hide it at his house. He decides to hide the ring from Wilma assuming that she'd tell Betty about it before Barney had a chance to give it to her. 

First he puts it in the flour container, since Wilma hasn't baked a cake in a long time. Of course, Wilma bakes a cake and Fred has to find a way to rescue the ring once it's in the cake! He ends up stealing trash from the Bedrock garbage man.

Once he has the ring back, he hides it in one of the finger holes of his bowling ball. The ball falls off the shelf and as Wilma is putting it away, and the ring falls out. Whoops! Wilma assumes that the ring is for her, as she's been wanting an engagement ring, too. She shows the ring to Betty, and Fred can't bring himself to tell her the truth about whose ring it is.

Fred wants to buy a second ring, but doesn't have the cash or the credit to get one. He cons Barney into going several rounds with a boxing champ in order to win a $500 prize. Eventually they manage to get the money together, thanks to Wilma actually, and a second identical ring is bought for Betty.

Each Tuesday, we'll feature a different show, often a US sitcom. Information, including spoiler plot outlines come from various sources.

Particularly when the episode hasn't been recently viewed personally, information will be as accurate as possible. When available, a show photo will be included.

In an earlier Tuesday Flashback Feature, Ann Marie, That Girl, also worried about having baked an engagement ring in a cake.  TV plots where wives find gifts that their husbands are hiding for their friends to give their wives have been made before and after The Flintstones.

In an episode of The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show, which aired in the 1950s, George agrees to care for a mink stole for his neighbor. Uh-oh.

Have you thought about going incognito some evening?  You could try the Adult Wilma Flintstone Costume. Maybe no one will know who you really are, and you'll be able to giggle just like Wilma and Betty do? Wilma and Betty, like some other cartoon ladies, were tinier than tiny and not quite realistic. Also available is Rubies' women's Wilma Flinstone, Adult Plus Size Costume And Wig.

The Flintstones movie with John Goodman and Halle Berry has a Collectors Edition available on Amazon.

A Barbie Collectors set, The Flintstones: Wilma and Betty at the Cactus Room is just right for reminding you of who the real stone-age fashion-plates really were.

Wilma also can be found as a little Barbie The Flintstones Kelly Doll.

The Engagement Ring was part of The Flintstones: The Complete First Season of the show.

I'm always interested to hear your memories. In the interest of supporting fellow artists, I feature a few shops where the pieces tie into the general theme of the story.

Wilma Flintstone was known for her glamorous necklace of large rocks. I'm not sure if there was ever an episode that explained where the necklace came from. Many Wilma costumes have been made that included that trademark necklace.

Wilma is one of the characters on a set of character glasses. The Flintstones Kids Wilma Vintage Drinking Glass is from Pizza Hut in 1986.

Betty shouldn't mind if you get these Vintage 70s Flintstones Barney Rubble Clothing Hangers.

They say that The Flintstones was an animated take-off of the show, The Honeymooners, which aired 1955-1956. The Honeymooners: Classic 39 Episodes are favorites.

Happy New Year!
May you have far too much Yabba in your Dabba-Doo
than you know what to do with in the new year!

Some images (c) Hanna-Barbera

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