Woodstock Music Festival Seems Like a Long Time Ago

Among the items we acquired recently is a Life Magazine Commemorative Edition on the 35th Anniversary of the music festival, Woodstock.  This now iconic music festival was held August 15-18, 1969 in upstate New York and attended by thousands.  The Life Magazine commemorative has many of their original photographs from the first issue about Woodstock, including photos of colorful buses, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, children playing in the dirt among others, including the fields of trash left behind afterwards.

Janis Joplin

I didn't go to this festival, although I did go to others somewhat like it, but I knew many people who did go to Woodstock and they all came back home very glazed and glassy eyed saying how cool and awesome it was.  They went on about the great music and who they saw there.

The Life Magazine commemorative has a list of the singers and performers but I have a feeling they left a few people out.  I'm selling this Life Magazine on Ebay, under my seller name mugsim7, as we decided we have too many old papers and books and magazines here and we just hoping there is someone who would like this one.

Grace Slick

Glossy Black Faced Suffolk Sheep! Sold!

I'm not kidding, these two little sheep and the ram were for sale. And they went went fast once I put them up on Ebay.  These vintage collectibles are shiny glossy Berwick ceramics made in England and are in very good nick, that is, no cracks or nicks and no scratches or missing bits. They stand a few inches high and wide and they are totally delightful to look at. They were in a lovely collection of animals, birds and creatures that my now deceased mother-in-law had collected.  I believe she bought them on a trip back to the old country, possibly when she took a trip to Scotland. They are black faced Suffolk sheep figurines, commonly found all over the United Kingdom and contribute their wool and meat to the economy.

Of course, I sold them on Ebay under my seller name mugsim7 to someone who wanted to give them a better home than the shelf in the basement where I kept them. On the other hand, I almost didn't want to sell them, they are so cute and unusual! But I did! Sold!

Does Anyone Still Listen to Cassette Tapes?

I really don't know if anyone still uses cassette tapes to listen to music but when my father died I acquired a dozen of them, but not, mysteriously enough, a device to play them on. So I've not been able to test them and see if they work, but the cases look in good order and they have the original papers in them, not at all dog-eared and my guess is that they weren't played that  much.

So I've put them on Ebay in the hope that there are some people who still play cassette tapes and would want them.  There's a set of eight classical music tapes ( that includes The Best of Bach, Vivaldi, Kreisler, Beethoven and some  Mozart, Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, 1812 Overture, and some others).  Also a set of three religiously-oriented cassettes such as Christmas With You, Songs of Praise, and Gregorian Chants.  So these cassette tapes can be found under seller mugsim7's stuff on Ebay for a very good price. 

Boots, Top Hats and Baskets of Pressed Glass Make for Lovely Window Displays

I've acquired some lovely vintage glass items that were collected by my now deceased mother-in-law.  She had a fine eye for pretty shapes and colors and unusual objects made of glass.  For instance, I had never seen or heard of glass boots and shoes pressed by the Fenton glass company here in America during the mid-century period.  But she had collected a few of them, as well as a set of four top hats, two little baskets and some bowls or dishes.   I find the colors extraordinary and the detail quite impressive.

I think my mother-in-law did too as I recall she had put them on little shelves in a large window and the sun would pour through them lighting them up and casting beams of amber, amethyst, olive green and cobalt blue into the room.

Now that I've got them up for sale on Ebay, I'm hoping there are other collectors out there who will want them and put them to a pretty window display use.  If you looking for them, go to Ebay and look for things sold by mugsim7, that's  me. Then just search on Fenton pressed glass or "glass boots" or things like that and hopefully they will pop up on your screen.