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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Aug 08 2012 : 07:07:47 AM
I've been looking at this vintage pram for the last few days while driving up our street...the firs time I saw it, I slammed on the brakes and started to hop out and thought, "my husband will KILL me!" and so I've refrained, even gone so far as too look to the other side of the street when I pass the driveway it sits at...
Last night, when driving home with my husband, he slowed down and said, "Do you want that pram? It's been sitting out here and I was sure you'd seen it..." YES! YES! YES! I WANT THAT PRAM!!!!! and so I hopped out and put it in the back.
It's a little rough around the curve, but I think i can find some waxed canvas to stitch there. The mattress is in great shape, and someone took great care to make a lining for it in the last few years, so I'm thinking it was used for a wee one. The lining washed up really nicely, and I'll get a bassinette sheet for the mattress. Violet will be getting a "big girl bed" near October, so this will go in her room to hold all her doll babies and stuffed animals. You can tell, she's pretty excited about it :)
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Aug 15 2012 : 06:05:56 AM
Nicole--I know, she's shot up like a weed this year--all of the 3T shorts that I bought her at the beginning of the season are now a little "short short", but she's still a string bean, so 4T's are just too darn big in the waist! People think she's much older than she is becuase she's so tall and soooooo verbal!!!
I really did want to grab it, but in the past, I've been a little bit "over productive" in my salvage efforts and we've run out of space for things that I thought we would use, but never did. So, even though I did want it, I really challenged myself to think of a way to use it. When my husband said, "hey, do you want that!?" I knew it was meant to be :)
I'm really excited about using it for her dolls and animals. We have a flock of them, and it can be conveniently moved to other parts of her room more easily than the big baskets o' animals that are currently in service. I also had thought about those hammocks, that hang from the ceiling, but how would she get to them (she plays with at least 3-4 of them, different ones, each and every day) and also, they only come in really bright colors (at least the ones I've seen) and that's not what her room is like.
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
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| texdane |
Posted - Aug 14 2012 : 2:29:47 PM
Jonni,
What a find! Those are so expensive in stores, even when they are "retired" from baby use. I can't believe you didn't grab it at first sight! And may I ask, when did little Violet grow so tall? She is just adorable!
Nicole
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| westfork woman |
Posted - Aug 14 2012 : 10:11:33 AM
The buggy is so cool. My sister and I shared one for our children. My youngest was born in August. It was so hot that summer and all fall. I put my baby in the buggy, covered it with a mosquito netting and could take her outside when I was working. She was so comfortable, and cooler than an infant seat of stoller. I used it when we went to town until she 8 or 9 months old, she never tried to get out of it. One day we were shopping in a fabric store, I was pulling it behind me. I heard a noise and my daughter was pulling bolts of fabric off the shelf and into the buggy. I had to go to a stoller after that.
I think your idea of using your buggy for dolls and toys is a great one. My sister still has ours, maybe her granddaughter can put her toys in it.
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| darlenelovesart |
Posted - Aug 13 2012 : 6:44:30 PM
Boy that was a good find and in such good shape too.
I like those kind of deals.
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Aug 13 2012 : 06:56:12 AM
Shirley, that's too cute--and it reminds me of when I first moved to the area, there was a man who was mentally challenged, who walked a pram every evening up and down the neighborhood streets with 4 Pug dogs inside. EVERY night! It was the sweetest thing I've ever seen and I worried so much about him--hoped that noone shouted horrible things at him because it was the utmost picture of innocence to me.
Violet does love it--she keeps pointing to it in the study and says, "that for me and my dollies?"
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Aug 13 2012 : 06:52:43 AM
Love it! I remember playing with one just like it (which had been my sister's and mine as babies). I would walk up and down the street with my doll inside (and sometimes my puppy, who was not happy) . It looks as if your daughter loves this one as well!
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| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Aug 10 2012 : 09:00:21 AM
How neat! When I was a kid, my Mom still had one that was just like that and all black. I have no idea what she did with it, but we used to play with it with baby dolls.
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| crittergranny |
Posted - Aug 09 2012 : 3:47:53 PM
Score!
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Aug 09 2012 : 09:14:04 AM
Yeah, their like rabid dogs around here, Janice--it makes me mad. My friend Luke has this old brass bed that is falling apart and he refuses to put it out to the curb because of the scrappers. He's going to cut it down and put it in his car to take himself so HE can get the money :)
All of the houses that are around us, that have been foreclosed and vacant for some time have been stripped of all the copper pipes and one had to be condemned because of the damage caused after theives broke in and stole the piping. Major water problemns and high mold. Jerks.
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| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Aug 09 2012 : 09:04:35 AM
Yeah, Jonni. The scrap people was what I had in mind, really. Somebody even took the metal garbage can from up next to my dad's house. Even the sewet grates from the alley where we walk the dogs. That's kind of dangerous. Leaves a big hard to see hole.
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| Emily Anna |
Posted - Aug 09 2012 : 07:29:21 AM
Wow! I can't believe the guy had the audacity to try and take the seed spreader when it was obviously being used as a planter!!!! I'm all for people trying to salvage other peoples' "junk", but only if it's by the curb and clearly the people are getting rid of it. Obviously something that is holding beautiful flowers.....NOT weeds, but beautiful flowers!!!!......is NOT junk! People just tick me off.
Anyway...didn't mean to turn this thread into something negative. Great find....Violet's a cutie! Woo hoo! :)
Em |
| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Aug 09 2012 : 06:20:18 AM
Thanks girls--it really is a great little find. Justin worked on the wheels yesterday with a course sanding paper and they have shined up nicely! I'll go to the fabric store over the weekend and see if I can come by a remnant that will go with the battleship blue color and see about stitching those corners. It's just where the vinyl or whatever has dried and flaked off--the fabric underneath is still there.
I was actually surprised it was still there, too, honestly--not because someone like us would pounce on it because it was a vintage cool find, but because the SCRAP people patrol our street like police in a riot zone, each and every evening, looking for stuff they can make cash on. I even had one guy try to lift my old steel seed spredder that I got for $1.00 at Goodwill before Violet was born and put it into his truck (WHILE FULL OF IMPATIENTS AND GERANIUMS) because I had it parked by the driveway as decoration. He just decided it was for the taking--and when I yelled out the front and said, "hey! What are you doing?" He responded by saying, "well, this will bring some cash and I thought you were getting rid of it. Can I go ahead and take it?" Um...NO.
So, yeah, we're all pretty excited :) Thank you for the compliments to Violet--she is really so much fun and I'm enjoying this age so much!
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
The Only Living Boy in New York, Paul Simon |
| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Aug 09 2012 : 06:02:49 AM
Nice, Jonni! I'm surprised it stayed there for days. It wouldn't have around here, for sure. :)
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| goneriding |
Posted - Aug 08 2012 : 6:35:05 PM
So very cool!! Isn't it a blast to find 'finds' out of nowhere?? Congrats!!
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| Alee |
Posted - Aug 08 2012 : 5:13:01 PM
That's fantastic, Jonni!! I love it! What a great way to store all the animals and such!
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| Emily Anna |
Posted - Aug 08 2012 : 5:03:24 PM
I think the whole thing is pretty funny. You looking at the other side of the road as you drive by to ease the temptation knowing the hubby will kill you if you bring it home. Then driving by and your hubby asking if you want it. So glad it worked out and so glad it was still there when the both of you drove by together! :) Violet looks pretty darn cute pushing it too!
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| Ga Girl |
Posted - Aug 08 2012 : 4:57:54 PM
That is so cool, great find!
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| Fiddlehead Farm |
Posted - Aug 08 2012 : 4:32:26 PM
They just don't make em like that anymore!
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| delicia |
Posted - Aug 08 2012 : 4:20:16 PM
How Wonderful. I am so happy for you. I think it is so exciting when you find a treasure. |
| rough start farmgirl |
Posted - Aug 08 2012 : 3:36:04 PM
Violet looks thrilled. I know I would be!
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| Dorinda |
Posted - Aug 08 2012 : 3:03:25 PM
Thats cool. I love it...Your daughter is beautiful also.
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 08 2012 : 1:36:30 PM
Nice find! Your daughter looks happy.
Marly
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Aug 08 2012 : 12:20:52 PM
Oh my! What a wonderful find! BEAUTIFUL!
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Aug 08 2012 : 10:54:50 AM
We're going to clean it up, nabrown, and put it in my daughters room when we get the "big girl bed" in a month or so. We'll use it to hold the myriad of stuffed animals and baby dolls she loves so much! Currently, they are in lovely, but space-taking baskets and containers on the floor. This puts them in once space, and can be moved, too :) The other stuff can then go into the closet for other storage.
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
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| nabrown42 |
Posted - Aug 08 2012 : 10:06:40 AM
What a lucky find! What are you going to do with it?
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