Lisa's Geekery

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 reall...

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 l...