Charity store update

I mostly talk about my vintage toy store but I also have a animal charity store and I thought Id do a nice little update about its progress.



Its been open about a year now and for the longest time it hadn't been doing good very upsetting I almost gave up on it..but Im glad I didn't
I decided to give it one more good go and I so I added some really good stuff one thing being a Garfield teapot I had bought some time back and had never used and after some thought I realized the best place for it was Merrills store and in less than 3 minutes of posting it it sold..and I was shocked..a very very sweet lady who is now a friend of mine purchased it.
I had several more sales and made just over 50.00 which I donated to the shelter where I got Sophie :)
Check them out here

https://www.facebook.com/tailwaggers.springs?ref=ts&fref=ts

My cousin Holly helps out with so much there and its through her that I found out about the shelter.


Tailwaggers is great they do so much for the animals
they hold events to raise money for the animals and they walk them and spend time with them and make sure they get loving homes.



I feel much better about my shop now Im not going to give up on it
Ive always wanted to help animals somehow..and this is how or atleast one of the ways.


Ill be adding lots of new stuff over the next couple of weeks

Heres some of it

Check out my shop here https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheWiseOldCat?ref=si_shop

Keep an eye out for more fun stuff nothing better than buying cool stuff that also helps animals.

Gumball Machine Ramblings

Today I woke up and I had a sale in my animal charity shop
That made me feel better and less worried about it not working out.


I sold these vintage dog figurines I think they are made out of celluloid or some other plastic that isnt used anymore.
They were bought by a wonderful lady who is going to put them in her doll house :)

Heres another listing that I have in my animal charity shop
I think its adorable! It seems like he should have a butterfly or something on his tail
Vintage deer figurines are so fun and perfectly kitsch!

Ive been saving bottle caps for awhile now to craft with and I finally decided to make this colorful collage for my very boring white wall.

Next while I was cleaning my craft area I suddenly had an over powering urge to make something  ( it happens all the time no wonder nothing gets done! )so I sat down with my canvas and gumball machine toys and bottle caps and made this
Most of the bottle caps are from water bottles ( our water here at the apartment is very gross ) so we buy all our water the other caps are from sprite and mountain dew and smirnoff apple bite and from nasal spray ..My husband goes through one a week he has a chronic sinus problem.
I used some vintage magnets and some buttons and beads and some gumball machine capsules.

 In this picture you can see a toy ring stuck in a a capsule
These days I dont run into to many gumball machines filled with cheap plastic toys that I just cant say no to..I guess thats good because once I asked a cashier for $30 in quarters and I went nuts.
But the lack of gumball machines makes me a little sad because that was a big part of childhood.
Id go to the store with my mom and then on the way out Id ask for some quarters
I liked the machines that were more random and not the ones filled with plastic football helmets and stickers and candy.
I loved trying to get the toy I wanted most and probably spending $50 before I got it.
For so long I wondered what to do with the capsules..when I was little I put change in them
it seemed like a waste to toss them out.


My husband wants to make him a legend of zelda collage of link
So Ill have to keep on saving my bottle caps.