It's been a crazy few weeks for me. I've had to put in many extra hours at work for projects, as well as taking care of cat with a respiratory infection (Harry's doing better, happily) and so many other things, would you believe I didn't realize how many weeks it had been since I posted? (?!)
I hear the brain is the first thing to go.
So the thrifted and fleamarket finds I'll show you today are a collection of a bunch of weeks put together. All the items have found their right spot in my house. This was a Victorian transferware bowl I found at the Goodwill in Irwin a while back.
At the L&L Fleatique on Route 30, I got this marvelous Hull vase with a waterlily on it. I love the soft pastels and matte finish.
I got that at Junk for Joy in Jeannette, PA. Love it! It's quite tall, too, so it makes a nice statement.
At the Fleatique Too in Ligonier, my shopping buddy Scoobie spied these two Wizard of Oz drinking glasses...
I had gotten one from Junk for Joy a while back, of Dorothy, and these belong to one of three different sets put out by Swift Peanut Butter in the 50s and 60s. They look really cute in my kitchen and match the colors of my Fiestaware.
My favorite piece of the past few weeks has been this Roseville console bowl. It was a price I could actually afford because someone had glued a styrofoam flower frog in the center of it to hold their centerpieces...
I had an inkling that antique glue might not be too hard to get off there without damaging the bowl. And with some careful tugging, some very hot soaking water and a little Palmolive, the whole thing came out bit by bit. Suddenly a good buy had turned great!
Lastly, but probably less excitingly, I picked up a whole bunch of file folders and hanging folders in pinks, purples and aquas. This was from the Goodwill Outlet, where tons of them were just tossed in the bins.
Happy hunting!
6 comments:
Pretty stuff and Wizard of OZ is hard to find...good job. I didn't know that you shopped at a GW outlet. Don't you just love those bins???? I went to one in Dayton Ohio and then they have 3 in Indianapolis. I could spend the whole day there, but the Hubs gets that impatient look on his face, so after an hour or so, I say, "okay, we'll go eat". That soothes the savage soul. lol
Pretty stuff and Wizard of OZ is hard to find...good job. I didn't know that you shopped at a GW outlet. Don't you just love those bins???? I went to one in Dayton Ohio and then they have 3 in Indianapolis. I could spend the whole day there, but the Hubs gets that impatient look on his face, so after an hour or so, I say, "okay, we'll go eat". That soothes the savage soul. lol
Those Wizard of Oz glasses remind me of two pieces of my childhood; the grape jelly that used to come in glasses you could keep (I still have one in my cabinet) and the Penn Dairy sour cream that came in both short and tall glasses with daisies printed on the outside, once the sour cream was gone you could wash the glass and discard the plastic lid and add to your juice and tea glass collection.
Andrea- We only have the one Goodwill outlet and it's reasonably new, but we do find really good things there in and among the not-so-good things. It's the only store I know of that changes up completely every few hours and which you could visit multiple times during the day and find entirely different stuff. It's wild!
Shieldmaiden- Yes, they're very much like ones we had as kids that had things like the Looney Toons on them.
That blue, pink & white vase = STUNNING. Wow.
I just love looking at your treasures from the thrift store. I just love a good bargain and these look so nice.
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Cindy
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