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    Home » Budget Decor

    One Ringy Dingy

    Published by Pam Kessler | 212 words. · About 2 minutes to read this article. -

    I bought a cute little vintage toy phone at the antique store for $6.00 this weekend.

    (roll mouse over photo to see original photo SOOC)

    From the photos it looks like a full size vintage phone, but it's only 5" long by 3" tall. Very petite for a toy phone, I think.

    It almost looks like the phone I grew up with. Black with rotary dial.

    Please tell me I wasn't the only person that used to get their fingers caught in the holes in the rotary dial. Maybe I just had pudgy fingers?

    I'm shopping for a new cell phone today and the decisions are endless. Am I an iPhone person? Am I am Android person? Do I stay with Blackberry? Who has cooler apps? Which carrier has the better plan? Just buy the darn phone already!

    Back in this phone's time you had one choice. Black. AT&T. Take it or leave it, lady!

    Do you live and die by your cell phone or could you just as easily survive without it?

    For my photo effects, I used Pioneer Woman 's Action Set - Boost at 100% opacity, Kim Klassen's Pumpkin Grunge texture in Soft Light at 100% opacity and her Simplicity texture in Multiply at 40% opacity for all these photos.

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    1. Carol A.Bender

      January 31, 2012 at 3:37 pm

      What a cute find. I've been living without my cell phone because I lost it..oops.

    2. Kathleen

      January 31, 2012 at 3:21 pm

      Great post -- I love your images; you'd never know it wasn't full-sized! We have a reconditioned old phone in my husband's study. They sure are heavy, though (talking on the phone is a good workout.....) I'm curious, is your toy phone heavy, too?

      • Pam

        February 01, 2012 at 9:35 am

        No, it probably only weighs a few ounces. I remember how heavy the real ones were though. You wouldn't want to drop one on your foot.

    3. Moogie

      January 31, 2012 at 2:36 pm

      Super fun way to decorate!!

    4. Mark

      January 31, 2012 at 1:23 pm

      You should try shoving this toy phone in your purse.
      And yes, I didn't think it would happen, but I'm addicted to my phone.
      m.

    5. Heather

      January 31, 2012 at 1:09 pm

      What a cute little phone! I have a cell phone, but I don't like talking on it. I like to text and check my email!

    6. Tricia

      January 31, 2012 at 12:32 pm

      Gosh, how cute is that?! I've been wanting a new cell phone too. I'm not one of those people who is terrible attached to mine, but I want a new phone so that I can text people more easily. My husband has an iPhone and he's messing with it constantly, which I find quite annoying, but I think I might go the iPhone route too.

    7. Gail @ Faithfulness Farm

      January 31, 2012 at 12:18 pm

      What a great find -- I remember my grandparents having a real phone that looked just like that toy 🙂

      Blessings!
      Gail

    8. Debby

      January 31, 2012 at 11:19 am

      I left my phone at the doctors on Friday. It spent the whole week-end there. It wouldn't have been bad except our land line dies after being on the phone only 2 minutes.
      That little phone is adorable. It does remind me of the older phones for sure. Do you remember party lines.....probably not.....you are maybe too young.

    9. A Garden of Threads

      January 31, 2012 at 11:16 am

      I grew up using a phone like this, lol. Age showing...great shots.

    10. JunqueMagnet

      January 31, 2012 at 11:06 am

      This is so cute. Great find!! I had no idea how addicted I would become when I got the iPhone last summer. Absolutely life altering!!

    11. Marigene

      January 31, 2012 at 10:48 am

      That is too cute! I remember the real ones, heavy buggers!

    12. Kim K.

      January 31, 2012 at 10:42 am

      My mother had this exact same toy phone. We used to play with it at my grandparents. My mother is 68. Seeing that phone brings back such lovely memories of playing at my grandparents house.

    13. Denise at PinkPostcard.

      January 31, 2012 at 10:30 am

      LOVE this cutie!! the little cord is adorable too. what a fun piece to decorate with!!
      I am fairly entrenched in the cell phone world b/c my hubby works for one of the major carriers. 😉 I have an android, and I like it, although I do look forward to getting an iPhone. There are just some apps and things that are nicer and easier than with an android. No Instagram photos with Android! 🙁
      My hubby has used extensively his iPhone, Windows phone and Blackberry. He loves the Blackberry every time he goes back to it, but eventually always comes back to the iPhone. (not trying to sell you on it, just tellin our experience.)

      Blackberry is having some extensive business issues- I'd be wary of falling in love with it- it may not be here to last. 🙁 (hard to believe!!)
      hope that helps!

    14. Vickie @ Ranger 911

      January 31, 2012 at 10:11 am

      Those toy phones are right up there with rusty toy trucks for me. Love it! As far as cell phones go, ours sits on top of a cupboard 95% of the time and only comes out for road trips. I'd rather have a simple rotary phone. In fact, our home phones are the repros from Reatoration Hardware. I'll be so sad when we no longer have land-lines. :{

      The photo effects are all Greek to me, but your photos are awesome!

    15. Terrie

      January 31, 2012 at 9:58 am

      That little phone makes a great element in a still life. And the texture addition is just perfect. Great shots!

    16. Anita @ GoingALittleCoastal

      January 31, 2012 at 9:53 am

      That is such a cute phone! I thought it was full size. The textures work well with those shots. They turned out really pretty.
      And yes, we had a phone very much like that growing up too. We were on a party line!

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