Hi Everyone!
Edna has this Mona Lisa thing going on. Is she or isn't she smiling? Well, I don't think she is smiling or at least not enough. We want to see a big smile on Edna. Now, a wide smile while spitting out her coffee and peeing her pants...well that's what we'd really like to see!!! Join us in the Sisterhood of
Snarky Stampers Challenge #31 ~ J is for Just Kidding (Make a Funny Card). Will you be able to add one of those smiles to Edna's face? We hope you will, for if you can you could be our Queen of Snark and that is phenomenally spectacular!
I went a little retro with my card. There are so many cool retro ads online. I looked at those for the 50's or 60's refrigerators. This one caught my eye. The refrigerator was made in 1952 by International Harvester.
"1952 International Harvester, an agricultural
machinery company, releases a line of fabric-covered refrigerators with
patterns to match custom window curtains." Curtains to match your refrigerator! HA! Can you imagine dirty fingerprints on a fabric-covered door? I found this fun info in a article called
"Defrosting the History of the Frig"
The sentiment stamp is
In the Freezer from Crackerbox Palace Rubber Stamp. I just had to have it! I rounded the top corners of the card to mimic the refrigerators of the fifties.
I have to show you a picture of the type of refrigerator we had while I was growing up.
It was the best refrigerator ever! You just wanted to play in it forever and ever! We loved the three bottom shelves! More fun than a Lazy Susan. You didn't lose your food in the back of the refrigerator, which is why I wish I had one now! Unlike the photo below, ours was white...you never wanted to pay extra for the color...right, dad. It finally gave up the ghost in 1972...my dad was not happy.
1954 GE releases a revolving shelf similar to a lazy
Susan. Condiment jars fly out of the fridge as bored kids repeatedly
push the button that rotates the shelves. A few years later the shelves
are modified to fan out like a deck of cards when the door is opened.
Although my brother, sister, and I were in high school, (my mom had the three of us in three years...we're each a year and a half apart) we still missed the revolving shelves. :-( I don't know how my mom did it. It's probably because her oldest was such a wonderful, helpful, brilliant, quiet child who never bothered her...Yup, that was me.
We didn't keep food in the frig for very long. My brother, we could call him Mark, liked to raid the refrigerator, and ate almost anything at all! He had to eat everything cold because there weren't microwaves. If Mark had tried to heat it up in a pan, not only would my mom smell it, he'd have to wash the pan too! He found what to him looked like some leftover hash in a can. Mark took a big bite and promptly realized it was dog food, but didn't spit it out. Gross! He complained to my mom, but she just said it served him right!
Well, I hope you enjoyed my little explanations of two refrigerators of the 1950's.
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Im entering this card in the following challenge:
Color Throwdown Challenge # 336. http://colorthrowdown.blogspot.com. 4/6
Thanks for stopping by,
Karen
