Printed Items

Posted on March 13, 2012 by blueflowervintage

This just arrived.

The focus is handmade and vintage.

This is a vintage photo of Heath pottery.

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.

Birthday Greetings

Posted on March 6, 2012 by blueflowervintage

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

Posted on March 4, 2012 by blueflowervintage

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

Posted on March 2, 2012 by blueflowervintage

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.

Mementos, etc.

Posted on February 15, 2012 by blueflowervintage

When people get older time passes more quickly and even stops sometimes I think.

Someone older who saved too much had these. It is practically historic food, ca 1960s. Cool to look at for sure. But this was saved for food. This makes me worry about what they were eating.

I bought this book for real at the flea. It is full of lovely awkward drawings.

I bought this

to hang this

and this

This is a memento that opens your beer. It used to belong to a tall handsome guy who liked to fix things.

Little Hippo

Posted on February 11, 2012 by blueflowervintage

My husband did well yesterday, bringing this home. Kay Bojesen made these : http://www.kaybojesen-denmark.com/The_family.aspx

I think even the hippo looks quite happy about it.

Last night at the thrift store I had some fun! It is terracotta but beautiful.

Maybe some of you like me have small things you want to display. Hearts are appropriate now and at any time. The little carved figure my husband brought home for me awhile ago. She is so sweet.