Memorial Day vaca

Howdy! I'm finally on my 5 day vacation. It's been such a busy few months at work, so I'm grateful to be able to wind down a little bit. I'm heading up to northern Wisconsin later today with the family. It's supposed to rain most of the time, but it will be nice to get away for a few days. Hopefully I'll find some goodies as well, since St. Germain has their big flea market on Monday! I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! 

Here's a few items I've found over the past couple of weeks. It's been slim pickings at the thrifts. I feel like I keep getting there too late and everything has been picked over. Just on Tuesday I stopped at a Goodwill on the way to work and I saw a lady grab a turquoise Pyrex mixing bowl for $2.99! Gah! I'm so unlucky when it comes to Pyrex. I rarely find the really good pieces, and when I do they are either dishwasher damaged or chipped. I really want to find Pyrex Eyes, Atomic Starburst, Constellations,  and some of the snowflake patterns, but either the black/turquoise colored ones - I have so many of the white pieces with the blue snowflakes. Meh. Maybe I'll find something on vacation. 

Oh, and I'm on Instagram now, so please check that out. :-)

I found this on Facebook Marketplace. It was sold to me by a nice local lady. I've been looking for this for a long time! I collect the Tom & Jerry eggnog bowls, so this Hazel Atlas "Dots" set will fit in just fine! The lady said that she has had it for over 15 years and has only used it once. She had a pretty swanky apartment too - she had one of those mid-century modern bar/cabinets with the glass panel that lights up. Cool!

I can never leave a pony behind. Especially not for .50 cents each! 

It's never too early from some vintage Christmas. The teddy bear has a 'Made in Japan' sticker on the back and it has a really weird longer leg. Yikes.

Shiny Brites and Polish glass ornaments.

 Juice glasses and an old wooden cheese box. They work great for displaying items.

This is an old Ball jar. I liked the cover - cute!

A vintage Halloween noisemaker to add to my collection.

I stopped at an estate sale last weekend. It was a very rainy day and there were no other shoppers there, which was strange. The 3 workers were sitting in the living room eating lunch - that's always a little awkward, right? I checked out the bedroom, which was filled with boxes of jewelry and thought to myself, "I better check to see if they have any Bakelite." I never find any, but I still check. So I see all these bangles in a box at the back corner of the room. I knew immediately that a few of them were Bakelite, but grabbed them all up just to be safe. 

So I make my way back to the living room and ask, "How much for the plastic bracelets?" The guy says, ".10 cents a piece." !!!!!!! I tested all of them with Simichrome, and this stack is all Bakelite. I especially love the orange ones!

These aren't Bakelite, but they are nice, heavy, and clanky.

 I found these at Goodwill. It's a little army of Gurley candles!

I have a thing for vintage kitchen tools with wooden handles. I went to an estate sale where the owner was an ex flea market dealer. She had boxes and boxes of these in the basement, and it was half price day! So .50 cents each!

This had the original label. 

I also found a few boxes of vintage cards there. I love the graphics/boxes.

Same estate sale. The Androck sifter's handle is broken, but I loved the little flower decals. I saw this at an antique mall a few weeks ago for $10.00. I only paid $2.00. :-)

Strainers for days.

There's a sweet woman that goes to the weekly flea market that's close to my house. She told me that she cleans out estates after the major sales take place and saves what she can. And her prices are amazing! I only paid .25 per book. She also has containers of vintage fabrics and tablecloths for dirt cheap too. 

Bambi's Children! 

I bought this on Ebay. I had ordered a similar one from a sale on Instagram, but was super disappointed that it was a reproduction Patty o' Green doll from Rainbow Brite. This one is the real deal, and she is in such excellent condition for something over 35 years old!

I did find one good piece of Pyrex a few weeks ago at Goodwill. It has some dishwasher damage, but I scrubbed it clean and put a little olive oil on it. That did the trick!

 The green Shawnee deer is watching you with his scary red eyeballs.  

O_O

I bought a purse to match my kitchen table and new Fiestaware pitcher. Ya gotta match!

Bambi... I couldn't leave him behind. He's so soft!

New vintage soda bottles.

 My bathroom towel rack.

Mr. Whale! He squeaks too!

Finally, I'm super into flamingos right now. My bathroom is flamingo central.

Is my face red?

Finally, Spring is here! It was a beautiful weekend! Tons of rummages, flea markets, and church sales! Yippee! I did have a little incident today at Goodwill, which I will talk about at the end of the post. Now onto some of my finds.

This is my soda bottle collection. My newest additions are the Nehi and Bright Spot bottles. Purty!

I changed my kitchen shelf around yesterday to showcase some of my swanky swigs and drinking glasses. I love the graphics and colors. I just got the Anchor Hocking green polka dot glass on Saturday (I got a set of 3 - $2.00!).

Some Pyrex goodness. I found all of these today at Goodwill. The Pink Gooseberry fridgie was .99, and the bowls came to 9.00 total, but I had a $5.00 coupon, so $2.00 a piece. I already have two other sets of the primary mixing bowls, but I can never pass them up! 

 It's so cute!

A few syrup dispensers on display on my kitchen cart. The two in the center are my newest finds. 

I bought this adorable yellow ducky at a community rummage on Saturday. It was only $1.25. The feathers are plastic, and on the duck's back is an indentation with Easter grass in it.

Another duck that I found - a Dakin Dream Pet. He's in pretty rough shape, but the price was right. Only .50 cents.

Three orange juice glasses.

Also .50 cents a piece. I love Hazel Atlas Moderntone Platonite dishes. Especially the child-sized ones!

My first honey whip jar!

This trio of Gurley bird candles were at the antique mall where my booth is located. I just can't leave that place without snooping around and finding something good!

Another pitcher for my collection. It's not really the prettiest, but for $2.00, I'll take it. 

A red Gilner elf and a tiny Holt Howard Santa ornament.

I've been into the Dutch theme lately.. Isn't this tablecloth pretty?

 

I don't think I ever posted pictures of my retro apple green formica/chrome kitchen table! I bought it at an estate sale back in March for $50.00. It was sitting in the basement, covered in spiderwebs. But with the help of my dad, we cleaned it up really nice! I'm in love with it. 

It really makes my vintage tablecloths look even better too!

So, about the Goodwill incident. I stopped really quick at a Goodwill that's close to my parent's house to see if they had put out anything new. I found the red and green Pyrex bowls right away, and nothing else, until I noticed a cart sitting in the middle of an aisle. I ignored it, and walked around looking some more, and about 5 minutes later I saw it again, still sitting unattended in the middle of the same aisle. I went to check it out. It was full of a few cookie jars and random kitchen items. I figured one of the Goodwill staff members was stocking a shelf. I looked through the items a little more and my eyes almost popped out of my face. I see a Hazel Atlas pink elephants cocktail shaker, complete, in perfect condition, for only $3.99!!! Definitely a dream find! So I put it in my basket. No one was around, and again, I thought it was a cart used to stock shelves with new items. I even went back to the cart to double check it again for something that I missed, and still no one was there! The line to check out was super busy, so I'm standing there admiring my new acquisition, when a guy comes up to me and says that I took the cocktail shaker from his cart, and to give it back. I was mortified!! Of course I gave it back, and I apologized. I didn't think anyone was using the cart since it was left unattended for so long. I mean, really, who leaves their cart full of goodies just sitting there for 15 minutes?? I felt so stupid, and really disappointed. Ugh. I couldn't leave that place fast enough. My face still feels red. :(

It was a pink disappointment day. First the elephant shaker, and then I found a pink Pyrex bowl at another thrift that was destroyed by the dishwasher.. then I found a lovely pink Pyrex cake pan, but the person selling it wanted $20.00, so I said no. And THEN I found these pretty striped pink glasses, and of course, the dishwasher also killed them. Phooey!