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.
I do like to shop.
I like the hunting part of thrift store shopping and over the years I have bought my fair share of stuff.
It was close to 20 years ago that I learned that I could actually part with some stuff and make money!
A little antique store in our town was turning into a “mall” – a new idea at the time, and friend and I decided to share a space for about $35 each(that was a big scary investment) and we had a place to sell things.
Oh, and sell we did. It was great.
Selling has been my hobby for years.
Now that the economy has my travel agency biz circling the drain- selling has now become a priority.
I did not know if I would like selling more full time – I thought it might take the fun out of it – but it has not.
To top it off – an antique pal and I are are going to have a big BIG sale in my building in October.
Check it out: www.goodsalegirls.com – we have been busy amassing our stuff and pricing it and soon getting it set out for sale.
Piles and piles of stuff. Good stuff, mind you….
It will be great fun to decorate the place with all the gathered items!
I always wanted to build a website and it was pretty easy on my new(ish) mac computer. I have an idea or two or three for more websites.
I want to learn how to host my own blog.
That can’t be too difficult.
I just got Photoshop Elements and it has sucked away some of my evening hours.
This is a whirly-gig made from tin cans.
My hotel in Seattle is less than a mile from a Goodwill store. How could I not scoot over there at the first opportunity?
That opportunity was today.
There is not a parking lot at this Goodwill store and we found a spot a few blocks away.
Upon leaving the car, we were bombarded by loud obscenities from across the street. An irate irritated F-bombing local character. Wow. We ain’t in Kansas anymore.
The Goodwill store was mostly clothes – no furniture and “hip” young and friendly employees.
I found an old picture from Missoula Montana with a nice frame for $3.99 and then this woodblock print.
I know what you are thinking when you see this print.
I know that your first thought is – “Hey, that is a skunk cabbage!”
Or maybe, “Hey, that is on phallic lookin’ skunk cabbage!”
Either way, it is a vintage 1972 print by Dale De Armond. I googled her and her stuff is rather nice.
This is an early piece by her.
I guess if you have seen one skunk cabbage, you have seen them all.
If you have smelled a skunk cabbage, you know how aptly it is named.
I was pleased to be out of my regular Goodwill store range and still find a good thing.
Yay.
I found some great vintage plastic Heller plates on Saturday at Goodwill.
They had them in stacks of three with rubber bands around them.
I really like this stuff.
I think I have enough of this for now that I can sell what I found this week.
I was washing these plates, so I could take pretty pictures of them and I found a post-it note -in between a couple of plates.
I don’t know if the post-it note was there and the Goodwill workers just did not see it – or did a worker in the back room put that note there?
ONE LOVE
What on earth does this mean?
Is it a Universal Truth, or a simple longing?
One is the loneliest number.
Love is all you need.
Goodwill Philosophy or???
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 think I have packrat DNA in me 