Update: We have a confirmed winner, Dulcie, whose number came up when I spun the random.org random number generator. Her comment was so happy, too:
That collage is the cutest! I don’t have a crafty/artsy bone in my body and I admire people who do.
Here’s my contribution to leave some happiness – or at least a bemused smile. My bathroom isn’t pink, but it is unusual in a different way. I currently have 40 4-day old baby chickens in my bathtub. I couldn’t find any other good, safe place to keep them so the cats wouldn’t eat them. They should only be there for about a week, but in the meantime, using the bathroom is a major adventure at my house.
Thanks, everyone, for playing. I’m planning more giveaways — and they may be Flash Contests like this — so it pays to reader Retro Renovation daily! 😉
Just for fun: A 24-hour flash contest. As in, flash mob (not flasher). On Wednesday night, I finished the first collage in my big fat retro crafty office now-remodeled. It’s a Save The Pink bathrooms collage on a 6″ craft board notched for hanging. The background is vintage wallpaper from a stash that I bought on ebay a few years ago, and the pink poodle is from the fabulous roll of vintage vinyl poodle wallpaper that an amazingly kind reader sent me a few years ago. I cut out poodle Fifi with my cutter bee scissors; I like to cut. The flowers are die cut from altered photographs from my “Grace” collection (long story, which I’ll tell some other time.)
Read on for the contest rules — contest ends 10:30 p.m. Friday night!:
How to enter:
- Leave a Comment that shares some Happiness.
- You must be in the U.S., so sorry the hassle of shipping overseas is too much for me.
- I will close the contest at 10:30 p.m. Eastern on Friday night, choose a winner by random.org random number generator on Saturday morning and email the winner over the weekend. Winner must respond within one week. If they do not, I will choose another winner.
- I will post the name of the winner at the top of this post as soon as they confirm.
Other details:
- I have never tried to hang one of my collages made with vintage wallpaper in a bathroom environment. I make no promises that it won’t curl up and dye. 🙂
- This one is my first… it’s not “perfect”. But it’s my first! If I become president, and they want it for the presidential library, you’ll be a gazillionaire. :0
Jay says
Happiness is recovering from surgery housebound in a small ranch. Greatest happiness is this blog and getting a daily dose of retroness from Pam, the high priestess of all things retro.
Jeni says
Happiness is moving into our new home…finding the original, fabric backed wallpaper in the kitchen and living areas of my 1940’s home between the sheetrock and the original wood walls, finding an original light fixture still in the celing of a room that was partly closed in to house the a/c fan and condenser, finding out that the original at least 65 year old floors are in great condition and we can rip out the carpet and refinish them to their long lost beauty. Happiness is the adventure and joy you can get out of an old house if you are willing to put in a little time, work and love.
Toby Smith says
I love poodles. And I would give anything for a pink bathroom 🙂
MidModBeachGal says
Happiness Is – Ray Conniff Singers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeXhMS3ipio
That’s what happiness is!
Rickie says
Happiness is sitting among all your retro finds with a YorkiePoo in your lap crafting Teacup Ladies and Bottle Cap Men. When that is done you can always find some vintage knick knack that can use some glitterizing. WOOHOO!!
Teresa says
Stumbling across your website has brought me such joy – and saved me much money in locating vintage bathroom tiles and era-appropriate bathroom fixtures!!
Annie B. says
Happiness is having discovered RR five years ago. Coincidentally, Pam’s STPB campaign was in full swing at the time I stumbled into the fun..
Even more happiness is having had my love of the collage art from re-kindled by Pam’s posts on her creative endeavors. And, here is yet another fabulous example thereof.
The very most happiness is being a part of the RR family who loves the crazy world of MCM just as much as I do. Trite words, but oh so true!
Heather Munro says
Pink Bathroom Bathroom Haiku:
Vintage porcelain,
Happy pink cheers, gleams, charms,
Reflecting past joys.
Jone says
In the past year my life has changed so much. Really amazing sweet wonderful happy things have happened. I adopted a 13 yr old senior rescue, a poodle mix named Sophie who brightens each and everyday and I bought my first house! All by myself! A feat in the uber expensive SF Bay area. Best of all, it has a pink bathroom. I love it and am so happy I was able to get the house and save this bathroom! Anyhoo a bit long winded but I love my old poodle and my pink bathroom AND retro renovation! Thanks for creating this fab resource. – jone
Lisa Sanchez says
I love it! I have a poodle bath mat that I bought at the Salvation Army about 15 years ago for one dollar and I adore it! My friends tease me about my poodle, but I just don’t understand how anyone could resist my vintage beauty! 🙂