Monthly Archives: March 2012

Sunday’s Best – Jazz LPs

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I woke up yesterday morning to maple tree buds all over my car.

What a dream, this early early early spring….

An early garage sale here in Michigan is usually at the start of May. But we found several this weekend. We lucked on a big collection of gorgeous mid-century Jazz lps. We have been working our way through them, listening all weekend.

A couple of hard to come by 10 inch lps with famous covers designed by David Stone Martin. We are just now listening to the Charlie Parker and it is pretty clean, maybe a little better when its been dusted properly.

We are huge fans of Miles. This record has scuffs, so not the best find. But it is a good day when we find something not already in my husband’s collection, which is pretty substantial. And I love this cover.

Ouch! What a cover! The original owners of these lps frequented Detroit’s famous Bakers Keyboard Lounge, which is the world’s oldest jazz club, in its mid-century hey dey.

This is some sort of compilation.

Baker's Keyboard Lounge today

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%27s_Keyboard_Lounge

Now it is Spring

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We have been having such amazing warm and sunny weather and now its Spring. I don’t think today was the warmest Vernal Equinox ever, but I believe we tied a record dating back to 1915. The trees and flowers have been fooled into blooming a month early. Everyone I know has Spring fever. I am in the mood for plants and witty planters and I bought some today at an Aunt Sally’s

Also this rather fantastic cotton fabric

What is your opinion of this stool? I think it might have been used for milking, but it is so beautifully designed.. and it fits very nicely in the smallest corners.

We will be selling this soon. Pelota table light, 1970. It is Italian.

This book

has lovely drawings. This is exactly a picture of me.

I especially love this. I know exactly what this feels like

I am watching this.

Printed Items

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This just arrived.

The focus is handmade and vintage.

This is a vintage photo of Heath pottery.

 

 

 

 

 

This also. I really like it.

Higgins glass! We used to visit their shop in Riverside in the 90s when they were still there. It was always such a charming experience and we left with something wrapped in paper. The shop is still being run by friends of theirs http://www.higginsglass.com/

Mid-century paper backs. Artist books from museums.Album art

Very important Robert Johnson album. Gorgeous!

Signed George Clinton.

And this is also amazing in every way!

This is old and hand done on cotton.

Lovely Films

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I have a shop on etsy called BlueFlowerVintage (it's named after a favorite book - I'm a little bookish.) I am having trouble loading photos of it in the sidebar; it is some sort of problem between WordPress and Etsy. So I am loading my banner here, and you should be able to look at my shop.I watched this movie this winter. Such a tender thing!

This film made such an impression on me. Every face struck my heart with sadness. I felt such a kinship with the characters; their plight, their struggles, their carrying on.

Saturday Favorites

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I not only sell on etsy, I love to window shop and favorite things.

This adorable photo is from my son’s girlfriend’s shop, EasterInHarlem. Kate is a bit of an egghead and quite adorable. I love her photos.

I am also enamored of a few other etsy items today.

I know I could not make this because I can only knit the simplest of scarves. But this is an amazing creation for all you lotus ware obsessed collectors who knit. Absolutely gorgeous! This is from byEline

I so love this tea kettle but we have just acquired that Alessi one with the scalloped handle and the train whistle which I really really love, so I have to let someone else have this beautiful blue one. See this at TreasuresBarelyUsed (I cannot believe this hasn't sold!)

I can only say beautiful and amazing! From giardino

I am such a fan of Lucienne Day's textile designs. NeatoKeen is full of special items items like this tea towel.

Birthday Greetings

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My birthday again, yesterday!

Absolutely amazing birthday gift from my husband.

Hand carved and colored ca 1920s 1930s.

And I bought this for myself at the flea on Sunday.

Both from the same very good friend. It is so nice to buy from him because he knows so much about folk art and has a very good eye. He’s done all the work for us, and he gives us a good price. He also sold us these

A New Acquisition

I bought this at the flea also. I think its pretty swell.

Sunday Is Best

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It is my birthday tomorrow and I already got this dog plate (from Anthropologie) as a gift. This series of plates makes me very happy.  The wooden figures are gifts from earlier this year. They are so lovely.

I am selling this.

A description: A small group of Czechoslovakian designers were really inspired by cubism at the time of Braque and Picasso and designed buildings, furniture, ceramics and every sort of thing in triangular cubist shapes. This influence extended to the mass produced pottery factories which produced vases like this one, ca 1920 – 1939, (see a similar shape by Vlastistov Hofman here http://www.modernista.cz/english/cc005.html). These sort of shapes are very hard to find. The pottery is from a mold and the over painting was brushed on by a trained painter.

This book was illustrated by Clement Hurd who illustrated Goodnight Moon for Margaret Brown. The author is his wife Edith Thatcher Hurd.

It looks like this inside.

Very airy and beautiful.

One side on the earth and the other leaning on the sky

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Mrs. Corry placing stars in the sky.

It was wet and dark today, with winds. The street outside our window had turned to mud when I got home.

Dark weather and another sad day. These were a gift I gave my mother when I was a teenager from a trip to New York. I bought them in Chinatown.

They are mine now. (Please forgive the dark photos. There was not much light.)

I brought home some pretty books to share, from that time when all children’s books seemed to be little packages of art.

On this next page a day like today.

This book because in my head I think that winter is over

This is a nice bear

I love Mary Poppins. It is a book full of lovely writing to keep inside your head. Mary was very plain yet she was very pleased with herself when she saw her reflection. I like that about her.

This is my best rather beaten copy. It is an American 1st edition without the dust jacket. A surprise on my birthday one year.

It was a small gift but is still one of my favorites.