Friday Finds

I realize I have lost a day somewhere this week.

If you find it, please return it.

I desperately need it.




And let the merry mania begin on this Friday, er, Saturday.

Saved this pedal tractor from the metal scrapper.

Someone's Christmas present from Santa in 1955.

While my Etsy shop is closed until 2017, I have been downsizing items.

Discovered this box of German bisque dolls from the late 1880's.

They are the original snow babies.

These were rejects on the factory lines.

A piece broken from each doll and tossed in the ditches behind the factories.

It is amazing the "snow" stayed on these tiny pieces of history.




 

An assortment.

I sold several sets - mostly to people in Europe.

Great for mixed media artists and jewelry creators. 

The pixies are my favorites.

I plan to keep a few and sell the rest in my booth with the Frozen Charlottes.

In addition to preparing the booths for this weekend's sales and Thanksgiving (my brother did everything!), it was our thirty-sixth wedding anniversary.

We planned a whole day of doing nothing but watching movies and going out for dinner followed by Sonic milkshakes. 

We bought our second refrigerator ever.

No kidding our refrigerator was purchased in 1982.

The present one no longer will keep ice cream so we had to buy a new one.

However a fridge cannot really be an anniversary present, can it?

So the day before the big day, I spied this rolling in the front door of the mall.

A vintage telephone niche from a department store.





It is beau-tee-ous!

I do know Kris and Rush are going wild over this.

Still has the mirror and the little phone book shelf.

I will clean and wax it.

That's all.

Then hang it in the foyer.

Happy anniversary to me.

When I called home to let Chucks know I had bought us an anniversary present, he said it better be smaller than the truck.

It is.

I also got a huge bouquet of daisies.

My favorite!

One more pic of that perfect-for-under -the-tree tractor.

I think I have my days straight now.



See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

Friday Finds

Been in seclusion for the last two weeks.

Recovering from current events.

Did sneak in a flea market run to Columbia.

Let me show you my treasures.

Tiny graters.

Heart gelatin molds.

Fair prize ribbons.

Rudyard Kipling books.

I live in the land of spindles due to the large number of now defunct cotton mills.

However I have never seen tiny ones like these.

Maybe for industrial sewing machines?

 
Four to five inches high.

A small bag of blocks.

Think these are destined for tiny Christmas trees.

Or vice versa.

A small collection of red-handled utensils.

What's bigger than a red and white bread box?

A wicker basket.

Another veil abandoned.

There must be a whole herd of brides running wild and free somewhere.

A large pediment.

About five feet long.

This is the ornate middle.

Needs a lot of loving to be whole again.


Probably like those missing brides.







A student chair.

A green ginger ale crate.

Sorry, the crate sold the next day.

Needed windows.

Saw stacks of them in a truck driving into the parking lot of the flea market.

I chased him down.

Five diamond pane windows.

A whole pile of six pane windows.

I am so old that I did not realized 1970's readers are now VINTAGE!

BUT, people, I used these to teach reading!

The seller threw in the small Santa to assuage my pain.

Painted enamelware plates.

Three painted enamelware bowls.

Another flea market find was this Victrola cabinet.

In very good condition.

The turntable, crank and speaker have been removed.

Sweetest find of the day.

A pair of Pennsylvania Dutch chair desks.

1950's.

Available in Booth W-10!



See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

Quickies - Going Gray

Quickies going gray this Sunday.

Krylon Chalky Finish Spray paint in Slate.

Easy to apply.

Easy to clean up.



Easy to hand sand.

Easy to apply a spray satin clear coat.

Evidently the only hard thing for me was remembering to take a before pic. 

This is the little atomic age bookshelf from Friday Finds.

Looked sweet when I finished painting, BUT...

You know I HAD to distress the poor thing.

Locker baskets would be perfect for this bookshelf.

I only have the baskets I am keeping.

Have a wonderful Sunday.

We are having a cool spell and can wear jeans and flannel pajamas!





See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

Friday Finds

Time for Friday Finds.

An easel.

Tan suitcase with the original collapsible hangers and keys inside.



A globe in great shape including the how-to booklet - 1974.

Who knew you had to how-to a globe?

A group of bottles.

Measurements down the sides.

Metal seals once on the tops. 

I think I love them.

Old children stuff.

Shoes.

Chairs.

I love old children, don't you?

Rusty angel.

Rusty stars.

A fancy leg off something.

A worn New Testament for my collection.

Four by two and a half inches - tiny.

American Bible Society

National War Work Council of Young Men's Christian Association

New York 1918

Stamped inside the cover.

Two owners - one from Alabama and one from Indiana.

The names no longer legible.

So sweet.

A pile of rackets - all but one with the presses.

Small bookcase with atomic legs.

Birdcage.

Children's books.

Round vanity tray.

Two small oil cans.

Hawaiian cookbook.

Two old atlases.

A worn silver tray.

A flip top green bench/trunk.

Dolch word list flash cards. 

Most important for elementary students to know the basic words of the English language.

And finally a red cash drawer.

Yes, the bell rings when it is opened!

Beautiful wood patina inside the drawer.






I really appreciated all of your comments last week.  I am trying to catch up.  We had a death in the family.

I promise I read every one.


See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED