Wednesday, December 22, 2010

~SUDSY PINK STOCKING STUFFERS





Rose & Robin Adornments is head over heels for anything vintage (including ephemera, or paper collectibles) and for anything pink.  Inspired by the bar of rose-pink Dove which is sitting prettily in a dish in my powder room, I decided to pull out my vintage advertisement for the soap...hope you "get the picture." 

Dove soap is a classic in the world of bath and beauty.  For whatever reason, I hadn't thought much about it's petal-scented pink cousin in quite a while--out of sight, out of mind?  It isn't carried in just about every drugstore and supermarket, as is the original white bar.  One day, I happened into a local Food Lion store, and as I was perusing the beauty aisle, lo and behold, there on the shelf sat a stack of Pink Dove boxes!  I was caught quite off-guard, as Food Lion was the last chain store at which I would have expected to find a specialty soap that can be scarce.  Have I ever seen it at Harris Teeter? Nope.  Eckerd Drug? Nope.  Kerr Drug? Nope.  WalMart? Nope.  Target? Nope.  You get the picture!





As it turns out, I just happen to have a vintage pink rotary dial telephone, which it appears the lovely lady in the ad might be using.  Perhaps this is another gift idea--these old phones are sturdy and reliable, though the ringer on mine can be a tad startling to the ear if I'm sitting really close by when it brrrrrrings!  A telephone might not exactly fit into a stocking, but again, I think you get the picture!

As Laura Ingalls Wilder once said, "It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."  So instead of getting in a lather, drop a few of these pink treats into your own stocking and into your loved ones' stockings, take a warm bubble bath while you phone them to say hello, and perhaps even paint your nails pink--sounds like a surefire way to get tickled pink!

And let it never be said of you what Dame Elizabeth Taylor has admitted to:
"I fell off my pink cloud with a thud."

mErRy ChRiStMaS!!!

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Here is a link to those perfectly lovely bars of perfumed pink goodness on drugstore.com.

And while you're at it, check out the Pink-Headed Fruit Dove, which I discovered while googling "Pink Dove!"

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