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Sunday’s Best – Birthday Presents and Easter Bouquets
I bought 4 bouquets of flowers for my mother-in-law this Easter, and then stole one flower from each to shoot pictures in new vases I had bought.
I found these white ones at a garage sale yesterday. The woman considered them a long time before charging me $1.00. The little black one is from my mother-in-law’s collection of amethyst and black glass. I think it is a candy dish. 
The one in the front is my favorite.
It is my son’s Birthday today but we celebrated yesterday.
I am very proud of these packages. They made me feel like I was in Little House on the Prairie; wrapped in vintage fabrics and tied with old calico ribbons.
I do not have the best wrapping skills, but I do have good ideas sometimes.
These are all filled with vintage Stig Lindberg items. Really.
I like this handmade green planter with its pineapple angles and moody green glaze. A different garage sale.
Wanda Gag; a revelation.
Sunday’s Best – Jazz LPs
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
Sunday Is Best
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.
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.
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