Watched all of White heat while hand sewing the blue trim on.
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Tag Archives: vintage
Things
My new espresso pot
Snoopy
1930s store display
Vera soon
Swanky swigs and stripes soon
Slate
Adieu Francis Higgins
Inspiration – Vintage Paintings
on sawn log
unframed nude
antique
I love her tears
haystacks
folk art on wood
Slowing down
Shadows in the living room. Books I am reading
Feedsacks
Folk Art
a lamp – this is so spidery
a flag gate
a portrait
Oh Amelie. Everyone loves her. But nice room, eh?
Oh the vintage life!
My new favorite object. Purchased for 10 cents at a sad little garage sale. It was an estate sale, really, given by out of town daughters who just dragged things out to sell during the clean out. There were just a few lovely items. He was a barber by trade and had clippers exactly like the ones my grandpa had, but I didn’t buy them. We were at his garage sales before. His wife was an artist and I remember he sold her paintings after she died. It was a long line of paintings. I wished I had one.
Bought this penguin too
and this.
My husband was very lucky finding these; 6 in 3 colors. Norman Cherner for Plycraft.
I love these. My mother-in-law painted them.
We had such a nice mother’s day on Sunday. Sunny weather, lunch in a fish restaurant with good beer and Bloody Mary’s and flowers.
And this surprise present from my husband.
These 2 are a pair. The same artist. What a lucky gift!
Les diaboliques, 1955. Watch this gorgeous movie.
Thrifting Thrifting thrifting
I am very excited to have found this carving for my collection. She looks like a girl I know…
Thrift season is in full swing. And we are seriously hounding garage sales (Arabia Finland Crown Band, incomplete setting for 6)
estate sales (Glasbake colorful Lipton Tea mugs)
thrift stores (Dansk Denmark teak wood cheeseboard with knife designed by Jens Quistgaard)
thrift stores (I ran back in for this piece of art pottery and pulled it out of the window)
flea markets (pretty little tiny rug)
and flea markets. (old globe) We are very tired tonight because we shopped and shopped all weekend.
Doesn’t my mother-in-law have good taste though? This is from her collection. (Aubrey Beardsley repro fabric ca 1970s.)
We will be watching this tonight
Sherlock
Vintage Spring Bouquets
I found this lovely planter at a thrift store.
Such a sweet pair.
This is $12.00 worth of spring flowers from my favorite booth at the farmer’s market.
Some possesions
antique pin cushion
painted by my father-in-law
from my mother-in-law
chalkware from a friend
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
Now it is Spring
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.
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