Arrowhead Brookpark Melmac Galore

Look at this huge Arrowhead Brookpark Dish Set on Etsy!

If you are thinking this looks just like Brookpark's Modern Design, you are right. Pieces are marked marked Ever Wear Arrowhead Pattern Brook Park Modern Design. Joan Luntz of International Molding was the designer making Brookpark's Modern Design line, and the budget line called  Arrowhead EverWare . As you can see  most are mix and match with colors and square styles! This set is being offered by CraftySara for $68.  There's a lot of melmac here.  What a cool deal.

Free Melamine Melmac Giveaway Strawberry 16 Pc Picnic Set for New Years

I think it's time to have a giveaway! This wonderful never used in the box 16 pc melamine strawberry set is up for grabs. It's newer, made a few years back, but supposed to remind you of yesteryear. There are lovely and strawberries with vines. You get: 4 handled mugs, 4 salad bowls, 4 salad plates, and 4 dinner plates. Great for picnics, light lunches, or springtime entertaining. Hand wash only, no microwaving...Value $29.99!

Giveaway Rules:

• Worldwide residents may apply, not just US residents. 
• Contest Open until Christmas 2012.
• Item will ship January 2012, after the holidays and winner will be notified with tracking info!
• One random winner will be drawn from entries below, learn how to obtain entries by reading the "how to enter" section.

How to Enter: 

Enter below by leaving a comment with your contact information. The comment gives you one entry.

You can share this blog (or my Vintage Chalet blog) on Facebook, and comment that you've done so. That gives you an extra entry per blog shared. So, if you share them both, you can get two entries.  Comment below that you've done so.

You can share this blog (or my Vintage Chalet blog) on twitter, and comment below that you've done so, that gives you another entry.  If you do one each, you have two entries.

You can go to Etsy and favorite my Retro Chalet shop, and comment below that you've done so, that gives you another entry.

You can write a blog post about my Etsy shop, or this blog, or my Vintage Chalet blog. For each blog post you write, you get FIVE ENTRIES.  In essence, if you write three little blurbs one on each topic, you get FIFTEEN ENTRIES.  Goodness. That's a lot of entries!!!  Make sure to comment below so I know you've done so.

Good luck entering the contest, hope you win! Entries will be placed in a melmac bowl and hand drawn by the hubby!  Winner will be announced after Christmas!

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Please tell your friends about this contest! I can't wait to spread the melmac loveeeeeeeeee.

Rubbermaid Coasters Kar Mat Miniatures and History of Rubbermaid

Hello, what are these?  Available at Primitive White House on Etsy.

Check out these strange rubber finds.  Supposedly these are miniature kar-mats replicas that were being made as coasters.  Now I don't know if this was a joke or a factory sample or what.

From Primitive White House on Etsy. 

The actual kar-mats by Rubbermaid I scoured old books, and I first found them in print in 1949.  Mention of them being made by the The Wooster Rubber Company located on F. Bowman St., in Wooster, Ohio just as they are marked.  However, one edition called them  "Rubbermaid Kar-Rugs." (Ironically mispelled as Kar-Rues.)

Rubbermaid was started by a few men in Wooster, Ohio. It wasn't actually called Rubbermaid at it's launch in 1920.  They made toy balloons and other rubbery articles.  Later, a dustpan in a department store was discovered by one of the owners, Mr. Errett Grable. It had been made by James Caldwell.  Mr. Grable contacted Mr. Caldwell and this is how Wooster and Rubbermaid products came to be.  Soon, Wooster was making Rubbermaid,  and thanks to one dustpan, this saved Wooster Rubber from financial ruin.  

 This early picture of Wooster Rubber Company can be found in the Rubbermaid Archives.

Older articles from the mid 1930's to the early 1950's examples will have the Wooster Rubber name and the name Rubbermaid, such as the coasters above.  In 1957 Wooster Rubber officially changed the name to Rubbermaid, so articles made during or after this date probably won't have the Wooster Rubber logo.  In 1999, Rubbermaid was bought out by Newell and now still making housewares and Rubbermaid products, but the conglomerate is called NewellRubbermaid.

You May Like: 

Rubbermaid home Page.

History of Rubbermaid as told by Rubbermaid.

Total Quality in Marketing Page on Rubbermaid.