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Sunday’s Best – A Trip to IKEA

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We were after this lovely vase designed by Hella Jongerius, so we went to IKEA. It was very crowded because it was Sunday.

We brought home bed sheets and a throw.

Also a rug.

Saturday was estate sales and garage sales.

I bought pretty bottles for summer and a cake plate to replace the one that’s gone missing at our house.

Also this book

Owned by a romantic soul once I think.

Spring finds

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A new painting for my folk art collection. This is also carved.

Also these embroidered sun bonnet sues by a talented seamstress. I wish she had finished this quilt..

Sometimes embroideries are interesting even unfinished.

I found this lovely book for my paperback collection at an early garage sale.

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Those bird houses were only $3.00.

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.

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.

Mad Men Era Wednesday

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We have become heavily invested in some classic mid-century items recently. So expect some Mad Men type glamor in our store suddenly.

George Nelson for Howard Miller cigar shaped bubble lamp (rah!). I love this designer. He was quite a character and very devoted to his trade (though not very committed to giving credit to the designers on his team.) He credited the design of this line of lamps to not having the $125.00 to buy a silk Scandinavian lamp for his office.

George Nelson Sunburst clock. This was actually designed by Irving Harper, who worked for the George Nelson Design Studio and designed some of the most iconic products of the company.

The big teak wood sculptural ice bucket designed by Jens Quistgaard for Dansk.

Tangle toy sculpture designed by Richard X. Zawitz.

A Copco skillet designed by Michael Lax. I think this is one of the most (if not the most) beautifully designed skillets ever. I especially love the dark chocolate glaze on this one. I would like to do a post on this line in the future because it is just so gorgeous.

This Dansk Kobenstyle pitcher (Quistgaard again) is already for sale in the store now. I just like to look at the aqua with the brown.

Marimekko fabric in the Lokki pattern designed by Maija Isola in 1961. This little quote about this particular design from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maija_Isola:

Lesley Jackson, in the aptly titled chapter Op, Pop, and Psychedelia in her textbook Twentieth Century Pattern Design, writes that “from Finland the exuberant all-conquering Marimekko burst on to the international scene” in the 1960s; she illustrates this with one pattern by Vuokko Nurmesniemi, and three by Isola – Lokki, Melooni, and inevitably Unikko.[12]

Of Lokki, Jackson writes “Isola revolutionized design with her simple, bold, flat patterns, printed on a dramatic scale. The design, whose title means ‘seagull’, evokes the lapping of waves and the flapping of birds’ wings.”[

Some modernist book covers to look at and not for sale.