I have been selling off a lot of my stuff lately.
I posted some photos to Flickr tonight and realized that, HEY! I still have a lot of stuff.
Show and tell time:
I do so like Cathrineholm enamelware.
I often leave the price tags on so I can uh, gloat, about the wee bit I paid for some marvelous mid century goodies.
I am just a bit quirky that way.
I like pretty colored plastic ware from the 70’s too!
Oh, I like ALL kinds of stuff!
More.
Later.
I found a cool 60’s dish from Sweden last night and put it on ebay today.
It took me about 1/2 hour of googling to find out it was called Jie and that indeed, I was correct about it being vintage.
I KNEW it was a cool looking thing. Just was not positive it was not a brand new Ikea mid-century knock off.
Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference.
Older pottery “feels” a little different than newer.
Nice, eh?
Not so nice.
This was so bad – it gave me the heebie-jeebies.
My kid had soccer practice at a school down the road and there was a mural in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
And then Martin got tagged.
Halloween Jack O’ Lantern at a friend’s house.
Nice, eh?
They look so pretty together in a lotus garden sort of way.
OMG – just LOOK at the price tag on that one!
I wanted a Frigidaire Flair stove for the kitchen in my office. The kitchen is quite small and narrow – I mean the house was built in 1875 – when kitchen size was not a priority. I am guessing that builders did not have the anything as mundane as a kitchen as a major feature in the construction of a home.
Anyway, I digress. ( I almost always digress. I am a grand digress-tress – I guess…)
This was on Craigslist for $200 and I was the first to call. Then they sort of flaked out and finally just called me to come and pick it up TODAY – as they were moving out. “Come and get it off the porch for FREE.”
OKEY DOKEY!
If General Motors still made stoves like this – we would not have to give them a gazillion in tax dollars to bail them out.
I think a pink kitchen suits a mid-century stove.
Look at how little depth this stove take up.
Want a cup ‘o tea in the afternoon? Just pull out the stove top and it is tea time in no time at all…
After putting a 21 pound turkey in and out of my home oven yesterday – the arm-level oven height of this vintage design just seems like common sense.
Does common sense say to give a big corporation a bail-out when they cannot run their business in a cost effective manner?
Hmmmmmm…..
Found a cool chair at Goodwill this afternoon. Not certain who designed it. I think it is like 1970’s Danish styling. 
I had a chair that I was tired of and had JUST started thinking of looking for something with a low profile for my room – and low and behold – there it was. It had just been put out today.
I had them write up the tag and then I totally spaced out and went grocery shopping – then stopped at the Goodwill closest to my home and looked a red chair there and then my brain went – “chair…chair…CHAIR!” and I realized — I totally forgot to pay for the Danish Modern chair and pick it up.
So I hightailed it back to the other Goodwill and someone had been going through linens and piled them up on the chair – so nobody else got to it before me. Whew! I bought it and had them put it in the car and now it is happily placed in my living room.
The old chair is headed for Goodwill tomorrow. Nothing like recycling furniture! That is so Green of me!
I think I have packrat DNA in me 
