Weekend finds!

Not a great weekend of thrifting but still a fun one!

 

Friday's find at the thrift shop:

 

Great industrial goose neck lamp!  I love the shape of the shade!

 

Went to a flea market today and what a bummer!  Not very many tables set up at all but I did manage to find these:

 

and:

 

That is it for this weekend! 

 

Karen

Mecation - Day two

While the other jurors were stuck in a stuffy court room, I was out having a ball!  Yep, for the first time in the 20 months I've been serving on grand jury duty, I missed a session and to tell the truth, I did it on purpose!  I have a feeling someone will be getting back at me for that, it just might snow tomorrow!  Seriously :(

In order of my purchases, here it goes!

I'm hoping someone can use these.  It's call Candyland Bingo and has the cutest little cardboard figures with it.  

There's over 40 of the figures, maybe they can be used for a children's party?  I'm sure names could be written on them with a Sharpie!

I love these colors!  Two Dymo label makers.

Avocado green storage rack for cups and saucers.

I thought this was cute.  It's a planter but I think writing utensils in the back and a memo pad in the front would work.  Or how about next to a sink for a sponge or scouring pad?  It is marked Fredericksburg Art Pottery U.S.A. and the factory burned down in the 1960's, so that dates it somewhat.

And a really cool industrial type paper punch.  It looks better in person!

Oh, honey, my Goodwill gift card needs to be reloaded!  LOLOL!

My next stop is a small place that has books and furniture.  I got myself 3 more packs of school paper, anyone want some?  I'm going to keep the larger one, I've been using this stuff to print out my Etsy invoices. It's school practice paper!  Remember it?  Learn your A, B, C's on it . . .

Well, my next stop was interesting!  Take a look at what I found!

Oh come on now, what did you expect?

I love the one above, it's so Tom Sawyer looking!

Okay, last paint by number for now.  It looks much nice in person, trust me!

My photos look so washed out, they are supposed to be bright!  This is the cutest Burwood set I've ever seen, just could not resist it!

I've gotten a small collection of old looking rulers!  These were only ten cents a piece.

And one last item from this shop, a Vera Neumann scarf!  It's just fab.  Anyone know how to wash and iron silk?

That's it for thrift shopping, now it's onto antique shops and malls.  I made one stop at an antique mall and did some damage.

I've been wanting one of these since I spied one online.  Found this today and it was on sale, so now it's mine!  It's a 2 1/2 quart casserole, so sunny!  I have 2 pieces in my shop of this pattern so I think I just might have to remove those from the shop and keep them!  It's by Federal Glass but I've never been able to find out what the pattern is called.

Here's another gem!!  I had two pieces of this that I found at a thrift shop and I sold them.  I've regretted it since.  Today, I found a complete set!  Not sure if I'll be able to keep it, I want to but have to see if I have a spot to store them.  Again, these are difficult to find information about.  They are not listed in any Pyrex books or found on the Pyrex Love site.  I've heard it called both Red Cherries and Cherries and Checks.  I'm leaning towards Cherries and Checks.

AND, I was lucky enough to get these on sale, too!

These will look great with my red Bakelite!  

Well, off to the hot tub!

Industrial treasury

Thrifting! Day 1

I just love staying in hotels!  Can turn every single light on, air conditioning/heat as long as you want and do things you wouldn't do in your own home.  Although, I've all ready ironed my T-shirts, which I don't do at home!  LOL!  I check in and immediately unpack, iron and clean the coffee maker.  Yes, clean the coffee maker.  I don't leave home without cleaner and my own coffee.  All that is done, so I decided to take some photos and post them.  Bear with me, I'm using a tiny little netbook (which I love but it's tiny and old and slow) and it's an older version of Windows so I had to figure out how to edit my photos.  They aren't the best but I think you'll get them.

First place I stopped is my all time favorite place.  I found this item in the office supply section.  It's cloth covered and oh, so industrial.

It's a ledger!

Click on photos to enlarge!

Next was this Corelle plate but what the heck is on it?

The Pillsbury Doughboy!!

This was a little bag filled with goodies.  You never know exactly what you'll find inside.

There's a few mini Christmas ornaments which will be perfect for my Norfolk Island Pine tree but what I spotted that I really loved are these:

Aren't they just the cutest?  I know there's a name for these so I have some research to do.  It's a heavy paper material.  They have pipe cleaner arms!

I got two of these cute clown heads for dolls.  I think I'll need to remove them from the bags in order to get decent photos.

It seems it's thin pickings right now.  Maybe people are still having yard sales.  I am earlier than usual.  I went to 3 more thrift shops and only found these.

Metal bookends in a wonderful color and in great condition.

Maybe I'll have better luck tomorrow!

Thrift Finds!

I made a deal with the hubby on Sat.  If he'll take me to one thrift shop of my choice, I'd go to Staples with him! LOL!

So, I picked out a nice thrift shop and off we went.  I left with two items and both of them I love!

I needed a chair for my desk and here is what I found:

An old school chair.  I love the industrial colors on the legs!

Then, there's this:

Sweet!  A Rolodex in that great industrial gray metal!

Now, I have a question for you.  The previous owner taped an index card to the cover with notes on it.  Would you remove that before selling it or let the next owner do it if they want?  I'm torn, I think the note adds character to it and it can be easily removed but I wonder if the note will keep some from buying it.  Thoughts?