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Post by ashley on Jul 31, 2019 22:01:40 GMT
One of my favorite things is to poke around antique malls and thrift stores. I thought I'd start a thread to post cool finds, weird stuff, or collections anyone is working on. Facebook marketplace, yard sales, and hand-me-downs are cool too!
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Post by ashley on Jul 31, 2019 22:09:20 GMT
One of the collections I'm working on currently is pie dishes. I just LOVE them. I want to collect the ceramic topped ones too, but the only ones I've been finding lately are horribly damaged Also collecting these soup mugs - I was seeing them EVERY WHERE until I decided to start collecting them. Now I find one every few months at Goodwill. Most recently picked up mushroom, still need chicken noodle and oxtail This was a recent 'Christmas in July' sale purchase. I try to look for handmade stuff at thrift stores, especially embroidery and cross stitch. This one HAD to come home with me, but it does need a good cleaning Awful picture because I haven't unbagged them yet, but I also found this bag of little ceramic buildings and Christmas town type things. I'm going to put it away until Christmas. My grandmother used to have a giant Christmas village she added to every year and this totally reminded me of hers! These I did not buy, but how freaking cool are they? Apparently the full sets are pretty rare, there aren't too many around. Found these creepy girls in a thrift store while in Alabama. Did not buy! Same store also had this lace covered duck And these... festive trees?
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Post by ashley on Aug 5, 2019 14:54:21 GMT
Went to a Thrift convention over the weekend, which was hugely disappointing. More than half the booths were MLM's and the rest were mostly arts/crafts type stuff. It really should have been labeled a craft fair, (but imo MLMs shouldn't be allowed into a craft fair either). There were a few vintage booths, mostly with records and vintage t-shirts, etc. There was one small Pyrex booth and I did manage to pick up a couple of early American fridgee's, which is one of my fav patterns because cats! Now I guess I'm looking for lids. Also grabbed this candleholder because my husband liked the color and thinks it will fit in our ashtray-holder thing he uses when he smokes cigars. Also picked these up at a yard sale, $5 for all! The red bowl is a little dishwasher damaged, but it lives in my refrigerator storing limes/lemons though. Plus that glass lid isn't a match but it fits so perfectly I took it along, too. Better shot of the coasters (oops one is upside down). Coasters are something I recently started picking up - we host game nights often and never have enough coasters, so I've started seeking them out to collect. I mentioned in my last post wanting to collect the ceramic pie lids, and then I found this beast! I've never come across a ceramic cake holder before. It was about 12" tall and HEAVY. It didn't come home with me because I just wouldn't have a use for it (really ever?) and would take way too much space to store. Other awesome recent finds include this handmade cat dress Did not buy, but did try on! I'm always on the lookout for Donna's kids wall art and found this set last week. I don't really have a use for sports themed ones though, so they didn't come home with me These are the ones I have now - all bought in different years in different cities at different thrift stores. The "brush your teeth" is the latest addition, added a few months ago from the same thrift shop that had the sports ones! These hang in our hall bathroom. Another 'did not buy' but if I see it again, I might. I love the poem, but the frame was badly damaged and the piece is huge (maybe 2 feet tall?) so it would be difficult to re-frame. It's been at the shop for a while and maybe I could cover the damaged bit with a burlap bow or something? And my best find of the summer - a box of aida cloth in various counts and colors. I picked out about a dozen or so and when I got to the counter I told them I was tempted to take the whole box. The man offered me a deal if I did because he didn't think they would sell many and he could tell I was really excited about finding them. So I brought home 82 pieces of fabric for $8!
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Post by ashley on Aug 7, 2019 16:41:45 GMT
I texted my husband a pic of this as a joke and he responded that I needed to buy it immediately. It's temporarily sitting over our fireplace.
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Post by lana on Aug 8, 2019 8:11:26 GMT
That is gold. Congratulations on your Kramer! I must start going through the paintings/frames at my local..
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Post by bluebananaeater on Aug 8, 2019 12:34:40 GMT
My hyperlocal thrift store is good for old china, silver platters, and some really cool random glassware. I need to find some others nearby that arent a 30 minute drive through the worst of downtown traffic
But I would have loved to snag that Kramer... No idea where we'd put it, but its great
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Post by ashley on Aug 8, 2019 14:21:52 GMT
I'm lucky to have three thrift stores under 5 minutes from my house - in our last city the closest was 30 mins. They are all a little different, Goodwill is alright for artwork/frames and clothes, they have a huge selection of housewares but it's really common stuff. There is a Texas Thrift (which I think is for profit?) that has a HUGE amount of clothes and often really good stuff. They have cool glassware, lots of appliances, and I'm most likely to find random vintage pyrex there. Then there is a tiny new one that opened that's run by a local church. They have lots of furniture and books, plus appliances and craft stuff. That was the one I found the aida fabric in and a few random cross stitch bits since then, so I try to check back once a week.
We're planning on hanging Kramer in our hallway, where guests would see him that heading towards the bathroom. My step kid is going to have no idea who he is so I'm going to see how long I can get away with calling him "Uncle Kramer".
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Post by ashley on Aug 20, 2019 20:57:10 GMT
I had about 20 minutes to kill today between appointments so I checked out a little charity shop I've driven by a few times. Walked out with these babies to add to the collection, plus they were 50% off
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Post by ashley on Sept 3, 2019 20:49:52 GMT
Texas Thrift was so good to me today! The bowls are adorable. My friend picked me up a chef salad bowl a few weeks back but it's a different style. I love them both, though. I have a few Campbell items, but that's a slippery slope because there are hundreds of collectible pieces. I have a few but I'm trying to pick up only the ones I know I'll use. I LOVE these style mugs though, so this one will fit right in. I saw this mug today which cracked me up because I just resigned at my toxic job and this describes how I feel PERFECTLY Bonus updated pie collection photo! Also, not thrifted or vintage, but my husband rescued this cat tree from the curb last week. It was initially kindof yucky but it was huge and sturdy and he thought maybe I'd be interested in reupholstering it I let it air out in the garage for about a week, then I alternated using a rubber squeegee and a vaccume to remove as much fur as possible from it and removed the worst bits of rope. Then I coated it with a heavy dose of folex and used my carpet shampooer on it, let it air dry and repeated on the really bad parts. When it was completely dry I soaked it down with odoban disinfectant spray. I replaced 164 feet of sisal rope, which wasn't enough to cover the entire thing, but enough for now. Olive approves! Jinkx isn't sure yet, but to be fair she hates everything so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Post by lana on Sept 3, 2019 21:20:26 GMT
Wow, impressive job on the cat tree! Do you think the kitties notice any smells?
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Post by ashley on Sept 3, 2019 21:28:07 GMT
They definitely do! Olive actually scoped it out in the airing out period (they sometimes explore the garage), I caught her sniffing it up and down.
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Post by kirsty on Sept 10, 2019 8:27:43 GMT
I love this thread so much and I love seeing those pie dishes every time I open it. I wish our 'thrift stores' (we call 'em charity shops heh) were this cool!
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Post by ashley on Dec 9, 2019 17:15:32 GMT
Last week my husband and I went to an estate sale and we found the exact pattern of dishes his grandmother had but they had already been sold. We were CRUSHED. I've been wanting to replace our daily dishes (they are ivy pattern and not really my style anymore). I later found the same set on Facebook as a giant lot - in Oklahoma city. We decided to splurge and went for a roadtrip on Saturday to pick them up. We are now the proud owners of a gigantic set of old town blue Corelle For my own nostalgia, I had been looking for an embroidered calendar my grandmother had when I was a child. When she passed, my aunt inherited it. When my aunt passed, her wife sold most of her belongings and it was lost forever. I've been searching ebay on and off for years and finally found it. A rough, badly stapled, unframed calendar. I bought it immediately and repaired the broken velcro. A few numbers are missing (29, 30, 31) but I'm considering stitching on the blanks and creating new blanks, along with some special holiday squares. I posted on a cross stitch group I'm in and learned this was an embroidery kit by better homes and gardens in the 70's called Flower of the Month. I finally found the perfect frame for it and have it hung up I took my pie dishes down for Thanksgiving to take an updated group photo, and it's already out of date! I posted this on reddit and a lovely redditor offered to send me two of her unloved pie dishes to add to my collection. They arrived last week, including an ADORABLE cheesecake dish. I ordered plate hangers to try and get this hung above our cabinets, but haven't tackled actually hanging them yet. Another quick trip to a thrift store on my lunch break I discovered this wall art, with my hometown on it, found in Texas. It was weird and cute so of course I bought it! In the next aisle was this cookie jar I just had to have. I texted my husband a pic of it and he responded with, "It hits all three points for you: Sewing themed, Kitty Themed, Cookies!" He is now living next to my sewing box full of thread spools.
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Post by lishd on Dec 9, 2019 17:24:26 GMT
wait wait is that the EXACT calendar your grandmother had, or one from the same kit?
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Post by ashley on Dec 9, 2019 17:29:30 GMT
ait wait is that the EXACT calendar your grandmother had, or one from the same kit? It's one from the same kit, but since it was unsigned and unframed, there's no way to know for sure. Since there are so few of them floating around I'd like to think there is a CHANCE it could be hers. But I don't think she would have ruined it with staples
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