Fresh Picked Thrifts, Episode 10

Well just as I promised this is Part II of the MOTHER thrift haul.

Again, as in the last post, I will go through my LIKES and finish off with my DISLIKED purchase.

I will be working diligently to get all this stuff up in the SHOP... I will be a busy bee indeed- 100 items in shop...here I come. 

Emerald Bay Lake Tahoe wood shakers, Glass Colorado shakers with chrome tops, Wooden Lucky Pig shakers, Jonah and the Whale by Enesco- made in Japan shaker, Pink ceramic pig shaker

LIKE-  A mixture of kitsch and mid century vintage souvenir salt and pepper shakers.

This whale is so cute. Unfortunately he is missing Jonah his partner shaker who is supposed to sit inside the red recessed area. Instead, I threw in some cute daisy clip-ons I found- Not sure if the whale likes that or not.

 LIKE-  God Bless our Mortgaged Home Shakers (that statement is sooo true) And handsome little boy holding a top hat- not a shaker, but cute anyway...I'm sure he had a lovely sweetheart, but alas I could not find her.

LIKE- HO HO HO Green Giant.... Got three of these plastic stackable cups with holographic illustrations... check it out the Green Giant is crying tears of joy after reading his Birthday card.

OK here comes the vintage AVON stuff...

LIKE-  Vintage AVON bottles with the lotions and creams still within- kind of yucky- gonna clean them out and sell the awesome bottles. The suitcase behind it all is actually a previous yard sale find from last summer- and was only 2 bucks!

LIKE- Avon has done it again. Nothing is more manly than getting your after shave cologne from, why of course... A Winnebago bottle. Sexy indeed.

LIKE-  A handful of Cracker Jack freebies- Joke books, weather indicators, tattoos, mazes, scratch boards, etc. My daughter asked "What's a Cracker Jack?"  Bad mommy how could I deny her the pleasure of yummy Cracker Jacks- looks like that will be a needed Easter basket treat.


Are ya still with me? We have made it to the
DISLIKED ITEM OF THE WEEK


THE INFAMOUS TROLL DOLL BY RUSS

Never had one as a kid - thought they were too ugly. Still think there too ugly. This one is no exception- she's half naked, has a weird belly button, and TROLL BOOB's!  Confession... the "ugly" is kind of growing on me.

Well that's a wrap, Thanks for looking, thanks for reading. I am always super surprised to find that people read my posts and leave comments.

By the way, can you believe it's April already??!!!

I'll be linking up to Thrift Share Monday, Thrifty Love and Flea Market Finds.

Fresh Picked Thrifts, Episode 9

My revelation for this week of thrifting?
I'm gonna start buying with a love/hate attitude, meaning I'm gonna buy things I "love", as usual, but I'm also gonna buy at least one thing I "hate" (or as I tell my mini me "super dislike" because "hate" is not a good word- sorry can't help it I'm a mommy)

Thinking out of the box:

I buy things I "like" which makes sense right? Why would you buy something you didn't like/love? Well I have decided to try to buy one disliked item amongst all the "liked" items. Why, you say? What's the logic? Well I figure for my SHOP purposes this may open up an entirely different audience to my shop. Who says I have the best taste (besides me of course)?  It's going to give my shop more variety.

With that in mind, these are a few of my LIKES and SUPER LIKES...
The finale will be my SUPER DISLIKE thrifted item of the week.

Get ready, get a cup of tea....this is half of the MOTHER of all hauls.

SUPER LIKE-   I'm a nurse and these 1963-1965 hardcover books just made me giggle and then laugh out loud..."Nurses On Call for Trouble", "Olympic Duty", and "Danger Island"... so funny. I would look like such a goof in those hats.

LIKE-    Vintage Records 45's from the 60's... cute covers, need I say more, instant wall art.

SUPER LIKES-    Isn't this picture just eye candy?  PYREX and Fire King Jadeite holy kitchy kitchen. Ceramic Owl salt and pepper shakers, lucite flower napkin holder, giraffe swizzle sticks and an awesome white planter.  Here are a few close-ups...

Marked Art Nouveau by EDA Formann 1975

OOOH...

AHHH...

Yup there's more.

LIKE-    Don't know exactly what this little wooden guy is for but he was just too quirky to leave behind.

 Don't Judge me-  yes there is more stuff...

SUPER LIKE-   Melted Plastic Popcorn decorations of the little drummer boy times two and 5 awesome gold glitter coated reindeer and sled.

LIKE-    Flower and leaf pins from Dubarry Fifth Avenue New York.

Ok ready for my SUPER DIS-LIKED item?

CLOWNS freak me out. They freak out a lot of people and I'm sure for different reasons. I am part of that generation of 30 something year old's who should never have watched Poltergeist. You know, the infamous clown scene... check it out here (WARNING don't let your kid see this)

This is what I thrifted - Brace yourselves

The creepiest thing is actually seeing this thing in action (the darn thing still works!) It's marked 1984. That's right 28 working years of horror. It takes 3 C batteries and .. it spins around with this heinous alarm sound and the kicker  is his head violently slams side to side with his evil green eyes lighting up.

Want to appreciate this more? I took the time to record it in action.

Bozo is being kept in my detached garage  (batteries removed)...this should give me enough time to get my shotgun if he tries to get me. Ya gotta admit he'd be great for creepy decor/haunted house.   He'll be up in my SHOP  sometime near Halloween, that is, if I don't have to blow him to smithereens between now and then- hahaha.

Come back next week I'll show ya the other half of this MOTHER of all hauls... yes this is only half.

I'll be linking this post up with Thrift Share Monday, Flea Market Finds, Would You Buy It Wednesday, Thrifty Love and High on Thrifting Thursday.

Fresh Picked Thrifts, Episode 8

Usually I clean all my stuff before I photograph, but this week I decided to just photograph my freshly picked finds as is.

This week I was all over the place and so were my finds. It was a smorgasbord from larger items all the way down to my usual miniature finds, you know, the ones I can never say no to. I visited estate sales, thrift stores, and Goodwill.

Get ready for lots of pics. My BIG picture plan is to make it to 100 items in my shop, so I've been loading up on merchandise. This can happen if I can prevent myself from keeping some of it.

First I can officially scratch this off my thrift wish list- a vintage typewriter - but not only did I get one I got two!!!  Found these at a privately listed estate sale...how could I say no when he offered both for $15!

The one above I'm gonna keep. It has a cover with carrying handle.  Brother Charger 11 Correction in a dusty/powder blue. My 1st grade daughter was entertained with this typewriter for hours!!! Every household needs an old typewriter for this purpose alone.

This Blue Sears Citation, I will most likely sell in my shop. It works great- I just don't need two typewriters. Actually I might need want more than one if I find some other cool colors, like yellow or red :)   If anyone is interested in the typewriter let me know we can work something out before I list it in my shop.

 Next,  from the same estate, I rescued this lovely pair - OH My... I mean OH Deer! aren't they adorable?!

So sweet, my daughter and I couldn't stop posing them.  They are marked Josef Originals Japan. They were found forgotten in a dark basement corner- they look so much better in sunlight. The fabric in the background is a twin size bedspread- screaming flower power cool in my favorite color- Green.

If you've been following all my fresh picked finds from past weekends I guess you can tell I gravitate to all things cute. These bookends are no exception. The top of each ceramic bookend is open- maybe to put a pencil, little silk flower, or how 'bout a lollipop.

How can you not smile after glancing at a face like that? They are marked IdaRumi- made in Japan.

I stepped out of my comfort zone and bought 2 old man hats... hey fedoras are cool even for girls, and especially when one is a Burberry!!

Does anyone know the best way to wash these? I am still undecided if these are a good thing to thrift. I was sold on the fact they actually looked cute on me and yes the Burberry label made me buy them. One day I may model them for you- when I get over my camera shy self :)

They don't smell funny, but later when I got home I started grossing myself out about the person who sweat in them.And I'm assuming lice won't live in them since there is nothing to feed on... another super gross thought. Yes another item my super clean mom would kill me for buying.

Anyways...here they are on my Twiggy Mannequin Head

This one is labeled Lock and Co Hatters St James Street London. They still sell hats - one like this cost 115pounds!

And this one is the Burberry beauty. Labeled Burberry's Exmoor Made in England.

I think the Twiggy Mannequin Head looks very smart in them. 

Here come my usual small and mini finds, I can never say no to them. Maybe I should think of focusing all my Etsy shop items on vintage miniatures?

These may all end up in Easter eggs! Love the Egg men.

Goodwill bag of Easter goodies for $0.49!

The recipe box below is clearly a future upcycle project. It was a $1.99 find at Goodwill. Not sure what color yet. Any suggestions?

You guessed it....more small things.

I also found some books from the 1950's. Don't know how these sell, but I'm gonna test it out in my shop.

I bought the two books below mainly for the wonderful pics within... The yellow book is entitiled, "What to Do When there is Nothing to Do" by the staff from The Boston Children's Medical Center copyright 1968.
Scroll down to see some of the darling pics within.

Here is a pic from the 1950's Frosty book.

And here are pics from the book, "What to Do When there is Nothing to Do"

Oh No! this mom is frazzled because her kids have nothing to do!! She must be calling her therapist. What she needs is a vintage typewriter for the kids and a glass of wine for herself.

Here are some  ideas... rip up paper and make a mess of the cold cream, or how bout getting all the canned goods and cereal boxes and pile them up to make a fort on top of your sister- hahaha.

Oh the final thing I found was a box of fun and yummy plastic Christmas garland- It was hard to buy in very rare Chicago 75 degree weather, but I know next Christmas I'd be wishing I did or maybe not... meanwhile they will be stored away til the season arrives.

Well that's my huge haul of freshly picked thrifts- let's just hope this stuff sells or it's off to hoarder's anonymous.

I'll be linking this post to Thrift Share Monday , Flea Market Finds. , and ThriftyLove
and High on Thrifting Thursday

Welcome to Thrift Utopia

Unexpected thrifting leading to lucrative thrift finds and an awesome job prospect all in 35min- impossible?

 Apparently Audrey Hepburn was right when she said,
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”    source  (what an awesome quote!)

source

Ok, so how did this all happen in 35min flat?...here's the story.

No car. Hubby at job fair, so I prepared myself for a day off NO thrifting. But true to form, like any other junky, I found a way to get my fix.... "Mom can you pick me up?"   (one of my many enablers)

Awesome, got to my mom's house and squeezed my thrift addicted butt out the front door and walked to the neighborhood thrift store. I've been trying to get to this store, but every time I've tried to go, it's wasn't open (don't ya hate that).

I entered and holy smokes it was packed from floor to ceiling. It was like the place never had customers- Yes, I had entered my thrift utopia and I was the only customer who existed-all alone, just the way I like it.

I'm the shopper who works on the notion that if its gonna be a good shopping trip, it's gonna happen in the first 30min. I did my usual eye scanning and- voila- first find-    HORNSEA   no freakin way...

I just read about these pieces because I just happened to buy an awesome Hornsea mug with pigs on it from ETSY.

Hornsea was a company located in the seaside town of Hornsea in England. They were in business from 1949-2000. I think this one is from the 70's.  I read somewhere these are very difficult to find in America, but I guess anything is possible in my thrift utopia.

Does anyone know if this Marilyn Monroe mug is collectible/vintage, I just liked it. Can I tell you though, I need another mug like I need a hole in my head.

Can't go wrong with anything Owl  right?
as Paris Hilton once said, way too many times... "thats hot, thats hot"

Fun invitations. I love the guy- perfect image of beer gut enthusiasm- hahaha.

Then way in the back, behind the register I spy flocked animals. Didn't know much about them but they are labeled with "Handwork Kunstlerschutz West Germany". Go here to read more about it. Based on my reading I think these were made between 1966-1983. The nice guy behind the register handed me only the lion and I said "Oh no, I'll take the entire jungle"  (wow, what a dorky thing to say).  By the way, in this thrift utopia, items behind the register are still cheap.

I of course picked a few things for my mini me's Easter basket. When you push the little wagon, the little bunnies, that remind me of Peeps, bob up and down.

And lastly for my final impulse purchase (isn't thrifting all about impulse purchases)... a most darling miniature metal cradle crib. Check out the detail.

But here's the real icing on the cake.
I spoke to the nice girl stocking the store... we got into a conversation about how much inventory she had to do...and how they were gonna have a big sale that was coming soon. Apparently the entire store is volunteer run and she said they were short on help with sorting and pricing.... she said they were expecting a large drop off in the near future...well then I started salivating...  why? because I'm clearly sick in the head. And BOOOM......my eager mouth said "Sign me up!".  Hence I now have an application and am crossing my fingers that I will most likely be doing inventory and pricing (yes pricing) on Sundays mwahahhhaha.  FIRST DIBS. Did I mention I get 50% off too?!

Holy schmoly I hit a possible future ongoing thrifting jackpot!!! And I  may have a new job heeehee... I'll be keepin you posted.

I'll be linking this post up to Flea Market Finds and Thrift Share Monday.

thanks,

messyMerci

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