February = pink stuff

Hey all. Been awhile. I have been too busy to post pictures, especially with the craziness of the holidays! I'm going to try to make it a habit to post more though. It's been cold here in Wisconsin this past week. The weather keeps jumping from mild to freezing, rain to snow. We're having a strange winter. I'm looking forward to spring time! I miss the garage sales and estate sales. I've still been going to the thrifts pretty regularly, but the shelves are definitely not as packed as the spring and summer months. I've also been to a few decent estate sales here and there. I went to an estate sale yesterday and it was filled to the brim with McCoy and Shawnee pottery. I bought quite a bit, because the prices were great. This was actually the second weekend for this sale - I've been there three times already! I was #1 on the sign up sheet yesterday too, so I was able to grab a few more planters that I didn't get last week. I'll have to make a separate post for the pottery though. Anyway, here's a few pictures of random Valentine's decoration, and some little items that I've recently acquired.

The top of my kitchen corner cabinet. It's definitely pink/red. I bought the Holt Howard kitties at the pottery estate sale. They were priced at $27.00 for the pair, but thankfully it was 1/2 price day! Unfortunately their squeakers are not working, but they are in otherwise excellent condition!

 Some of my vintage Valentines. I just bought the cute pirate one. :-)

A neat German-made wind up wall clock that my Aunt gave to me. The only problem is you have to not be lazy and actually wind it up every other day for it to keep proper time. 

Adorable California pottery Gilner elf cookie jar. It's not marked, but I have a few other Gilner elf pieces, and that it what this looks like to me (the little green acorn hat!). $3.99 at Goodwill. I filled it with cookies the other day, and when I went to eat one last night the cookies were all soft and crumbly! I don't know if it was the cookie brand, or if the seal on the lid isn't good. Well, it's still cute, cookies or no cookies.

My living-room display cabinet. As you can see, a lot of pottery lives there. The pastels are so lovely. I also have a few vintage Valentine's day post cards as well as a random troll doll. I was desperate.. I don't have many Valentine's day decorations!

I do have a few melted popcorn plastic decorations for the occasion though! I also have some hanging in my front window - cupids and hearts. I think I have melted popcorn plastic for every holiday!

 Vintage Royal Beauties birthday cards. .99 cents at Goodwill for the entire box!

 I like old card boxes.

I got this cute kitty tin at an estate sale. I think the woman running the sale actually just gave it to me for free. 

 I liked it because of the graphics running along the side of the tin. 

 

 Bottom of the tin.

Roly Poly made in Japan Santa. I bought him last week at Goodwill for .99. He's too sweet! 

Vintage New Year's napkins. I have a weird thing for paper items - paper tablecloths, napkins, cards, post cards..

And that's it for now. I solemnly promise to post more pictures soon. :)

Happy October!

First day of October! It's finally here! And.. it's been raining for 3 days straight. I do love rainy, fall days, but I really planned on doing some outdoor decorating today! I feel like I'm so behind! Oh well, hopefully tomorrow is better. I did get up extra early for a church rummage, where I only spent $1.25 - unfortunately there was a huge mob of people and they were selling mostly newer stuff. I did manage to score some goodies today at a few picked over estate sales and a rummage sale. 

 Cute cat figurines.

 Floating candles.

 An unopened package of made in Japan Styrofoam Easter chicks. .25 cents!

 One of my favorite things to find: plastic clothespins!

Really adorable recipe box. Now if I could find a matching bread box..

Knickerbocker toys: a pink chick, and a stork rattle.

Some eighties today: a Care Bear Cousin, a chipmunk, Gloworm, cabbage patch kid, and half of a Nerful!

 Some old ornament caps. You never know when you'll need a Shiny Brite cap!

 Libbey frosted ice tea glasses. These are addictive!

Four red and white striped Hazel Atlas drink glasses and a gold drink holder: $3.00!

I saw these in a picture ad for a rummage sale at around 2:00pm. I expected it to be long gone! So happy it wasn't!

Baret Ware tin. I'm always a sucker for Baret Ware. 

I got this at the same rummage as the drink holder/glass cups. Also $3.00. It works great! I needed a "new" kitchen radio.

Dennison paper die cut. The cat is too cute. 

 Another Dennison die cut. I have a smaller version of this too.

My favorite find of the day. A glass JOL lantern. I actually tried to bid on one of these a few months ago on ebay (I lost when the price went over $30.00). I only paid $1.99 for it. It does have a hole in the glass though. Our little secret! ;-)

Bummer. But it displays nicely in my vintage Halloween cabinet - you can't really tell it's cracked from the front, which is a good thing. I tested the light with some fresh batteries, and it doesn't work. I think I need to pick up a new bulb

 A happy pair of JOLs!

Cute little recipe booklet. The colors are what grabbed my attention.

My October kitchen cart set up. Lots of oranges, yellows, and reds. 

You can even see my orange Pyrex nesting bowl. :-)

I also displayed my 2016 Halloween Pyrex. They have them at Target for $5.00 a piece - black cats, sugar skulls, and owls. 

More Halloween on the top of my kitchen display cabinet. The poofy owl cracks me up!

And finally, a picture of Nermal the Cat. His favorite spot to take a late afternoon nap.

Spooky, scary, Halloweenie

Hey all. Sorry for the huge gap between postings. I'll admit it; I've been lazy. I definitely have to put some time aside over the weekend to post some recent finds. Halloween has been on my mind, so that's where my main focus has been at the thrifts. I haven't been to many estate sales or rummages - I'm just not finding things I really want to spend the money on. Hopefully I'll be posting some fun Halloween pictures over the next few weeks, since it is my favorite time of year. :)

My current living-room cabinet display - vintage Halloween is the best!

Hot in the city

It's HOT here in Milwaukee. Today was 92 degrees, and the next two days are going to be even hotter. I don't know if I'll get around to doing any thrifting in the heat; my car's AC is broken, and it's like driving around in a toaster oven. Yuck. I can't wait until Fall gets here. I know it's bad to say, because it's one step closer to another long, cold winter.. but Fall is my favorite time of year. To hell with the heat! Literally.

Here's some goodies I found this week.

 Frosted blue pitcher and drinking glass set. 

More frosted glassware.. I feel like I'm missing a purple glass, but I looked everywhere at the Goodwill where I found these. No dice.

 

Triangular Inland Glass carafe/pitcher. I usually pass up on these because the gold foil is sometimes in bad shape, but this one was in good condition. It's such an interesting shape too!

 Shawnee pink pottery. 

'Shasta Daisy' glass. I looked it up on ebay.com, and it's listed as a Boscul peanut butter glass. 

Fire King white swirl bowls. I'm not usually a fan of the white glass, but the swirl gives it some extra oomph.

John Middleton tobacco tins. .50 cents a piece at Goodwill.

A chalk-ware fruit trio. The apple is now cracked in half, as one of my darling cats decided it would be fun to push it over the side of the kitchen table. I'm just happy it wasn't the cherry one.

Finally, a Strawberry Shortcake tray. It was .50 cents at Habitat for Humanity ReStore.