Tid Bits

The weather here is finally near perfect and we've been enjoying a whole mess of sales.  I haven't been getting that many things that aren't to resell on Etsy, but I do have a few gems to share.

Firstly, when I'm at a sale, I like things to be marked with prices.  I loathe when you have to ask someone how much something is because the skeptic in me thinks that when you admit to your interest in an item by asking the price, said price enevitably gets higher.  I always try to ask a general question like, "So how much is all this stuff, nothing is marked!"  It's almost always met with a "Well tell me what you are looking at and I'll tell you how much it is."  I hate this.  Most of the time I just walk away.  Sometimes you get really, really lucky and you get a set up like the on pictured below.

 

It does not get better than this, folks.  An oversized pad of paper on an easel with color coded pricing.  With notes!

Next on the agenda: An interesting house.  I went to an Estate sale about a month ago.  This house had lots of treasures in it but that isn't what really caught my fancy.  This house was interesting.  The kind of interesting that only comes from being owned by a really interesting person.  And by interesting, I mean super eccentric. 

See what I mean?  Mirrored wallpaper.  Mirrored!  What is this?  A porno flick?  Who has mirrored wallpaper?! And this paper is pristine.  Like it was put up yesterday.  And it's in the dining room, of all places!

Then there is the yellow faux bamboo furniture to match the mirrored plaid wallpaper.  Good god.  Can you imagine trying to eat in this place?

And to top it all off is the vivid green carpeting.  Like new!  Did they ever even step on it?  Amazing matching green love seats to match.  This place felt like a hidden garden, plush grass underfoot.

And who doesn't like making wee-wee in a olive and gold forest of bamboo?

I'm telling you, this place was the tops.  There was a second bedroom with mirrored wallpaper but I didn't take a picture.  It was done up in browns and looked like the lovechild of the 1920's and a James Bond set.  If I ever become an art director of a film I'm recreating these rooms because that shit is memorable.

Next on the random things list is a picture of my lap at Easter.  I love the inside of that purse.  It's just plain white vinyl on the outside with a tiny bow.

Lastly, I'd like to leave you with these guys.  I don't even know what to say about them, really.  They are the epitome of greatness.  They are about 6" tall and made out of flocked styrofoam.  I found them at a yard sale.  They were stuffed into a basket of other, newer, easter grass and plastic eggs.  The entire basket was going for $2.  I asked the lady if she would take $2 just for the pair of chicks.  There was this awkward and monumental moment where the lady looked at me like, "I can't BELIEVE this woman wants to pay me $2 for these hideous chickens!" and I looked at her like, "I can't BELIEVE this woman is going to let me have these adorable vintage chickens for $2!" In all honestly this set is probably worth at least $25.  As they say these days: Thay Shay Cray.

 

So, in summary:

I Spurn Unmarked Items

Don't Decorate Your House While On Drugs

Can't Have Enough Poka Dots

Ain't It J?