Yummies: 8o's candy!! Vintage to us!

We love, LOVE, love the candy from the 80's! 

Oh my goodness all the good stuff was around then, and it worked out perfectly for us because we were mere babes at that time and could eat as much candy as we wanted.. Or at least as much as we could sneak past mom. 

Lets start with the HANDS DOWN best candy.. Ok well the worst candy really because the gum tasted like cardboard but who cares when inside were these awesome stickers? 

Garbage Pail kids were like the best thing ever... I still think they are. And if you were smart (like Miss Me) You NEVER used them, but saved them so you still have some of these awesome cards stashed away in a box. 

They make GREAT gifts, if you frame them! 

Now be sure not to drink a coke with these guys, or your stomach will most likely explode. 

No lie! My cousin's best-friends older sister knew this guy, who dated this girl who's aunt's neighbor.... You get the point. 

So did you guys have these on the West Coast? Because in a little town just north of Boston these were all the rage! 

Yummy! They were super sweet and sugary and tasted kind of like burnt maple syrup. Sound good? 

We know that these were ALL over the place, and we know you used to love to chew the wax after you drank them!

Yeah, that's pretty gross. We won't tell. 

In the 80's even the cool bands were singing about wanting candy. 

While looking around the internet... The Things-We-Heart gals discovered we are not the only ones feeling nostalgic for candy of the past. 

We flipped when we saw these amazing little handmade alphabet squares 

using 80's candy! 

Astro pops, candy buttons and a candy necklace, looks like our goodie bags on the way home from the local candy shop when we were kids! 

You can get these T.D.F little pieces of art and lots of other cute ones at Bishop Art

Etsy shop. 

We heart a yummy delicious Charleston Chew! 

If we really want to treat ourselves we will toss one of these in the freezer for a while and then go at it on a hot summer day... HEAVEN. 

Although Miss Me avoided the strawberry flavor for about 20 years due to the "Sasha's pink vomit in ballet class after consuming a strawberry C.C" incident that she witnessed at the very impressionable age of 6. 

Miss Me is happy to report that after years of therapy, she tried a Strawberry chew and they are FANTASTIC! 

You all know how much we heart nerds! 

Well, yeah that kind, but these ones too! 

Open both sides for the mega-flavor mix-up! 

How can such little candies taste SOOO good? 

You got your Sugar Daddies, but what about your Sugar Babies? 

Tasty little treats... But beware, you may never be able to pry your jaws apart. 

Candy from the 80's is just as good as everything else from the 80's,

and by that we mean pretty terrible, but deliciously decadent at the same time. 

Remember these giant jaw-breakers? 

Did we seriously think we would ever finish them? 

They just turned into a big sticky mess! 

You know every time you put on a ring-pop you felt like Richie Rich's mom right?! 

Oh truth be told, they still make us feel really fancy! 

But the best of the best was grabbing a package of Fun Dip, 

Jumping the couch and watching Duck Tales after school! 

And maybe that freedom of having nothing to do and no responsibilities is what makes that candy seem extra sweet. 

Whatever it is, we heart our childhood candy. 

XOXO- Things-We-Heart

Random Hearts: We Heart Geeks!

Revenge Of The Nerds

You all know the type, the shy guy in the back of the room, he either has his nose buried in a book, or he is doodling the "Battle of Yavin" on his notebook cover. The geek, the nerd, the guy who all the popular girls aren't supposed to think is cute, but all the really cool girls secretly do. 

Yes,dear readers today we are giving it up to all the geeks out there.... We love you! We love that you are really smart, but really funny, we love that you are confident enough to stick to your guns in the style department and wait for that look to come back in style.... Oh, guess what it just did! We love that all the guys who beat you up in high school are super jealous of you, now that your in the real world and your brains and originality have given you the pay-off. We salute you and today we celebrate some of the finest stories of geeks gone glorious!.  

First and foremost is the originator of nerd chic, this adorable four-eyed fella made it "Hip to be square", and he sounded good doing it. Mr. Buddy Holly, the musical legend who brought us  

Buddy Holly

classic songs like Peggy-Sue and That'll be the day. He inspired bands like The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones. Plus, Spike Jones directed a kick-ass video to Weezer's song named after Buddy Holly. So yeah Buddy Holly was pretty much running things, not bad for a little fella from Texas. 

Next up, we have the guy who is possibly the pin-up poster boy for the geek community. Because seriously, is there a better example of brains and good looks colliding in perfect harmony on a tropical island?(*Disclaimer: Unless you count Dr. Jack Shepard from Lost, and,Jack is in no way a geek,so he will sit this one out.)Yes,thats right y'all, we are talking about The Professor... not just any old professor, nope we mean THE Professor! 

The Professor

This guy was so sexy and brainy that he had two of televisions most legendary babes after him. Well, not that the guy had much in the way of competition on that little island. 

Now lets take it back to the old school shall we? How about a little Matthew Brodrick in War Games? Super early eighties computer hacking cuteness!

War Games

Come on, this guy was able to get into a top secret military computer and Ally Sheedy's pants all in under 2 hours? GENIUS! 

This next one kind of gets us all a flutter. We heart this more then we can say. This is truly,truly,truly one if not the best show about high school ever made for television. 

Freaks and Geeks 

Seriously,if you missed this the first time around,we beg you to go buy the DVD series set. Sadly this amazing show only lasted 18 episodes before it got sent to the big programing wheel in the sky. But, to those who have seen it, to those who have loved it.... Can you possibly think of a more adorable, loveable, so stinken'cute you could just hug him guy, then the shows lead geek, little Sam Weir?

Sam Weir

Although we never got to see the end of Sam's story, in our imaginations he grew up to be a stunningly wealthy and successful Sci-Fi author who is married to a really sweet and beautiful super model. Take that Cindy Saunders. 

Watch the first 30-40 seconds of this if you want to see what we are talking about.  

  

So, wonderful, wacky and weird kids(and yes,we still count as kids too)out there, be proud of who you are and one day, hopefully, all that thinking and creating and individual awesomeness will come in handy.