Mid-Century Blah Blah

Heather and I went to an estate sale that had a ton of mid-century modern furniture.  Everyone and their dog is going nuts over this type of furniture these days.  I couldn't give a fart less about mid-century modern furniture.  It's not my personal style.  Too plain.  Too doctors-officy.  Not warm or inviting in my opinion.  But, everyone else wants that junk.  So when a sale is advertised like that, people come out in droves.  The place was picked over when we arrived on the second day. But, everything under $50 was half price, which was great.

I did find a few little treats, though.  A home made Christmas corsage done in pinks.  Even the pine cones are dusted in pink metallic paint.  The orange corsage is my favorite, though.  It will look spectacular in my someday tiki bedroom.  The mushrooms are Christmas tree decorations, clip style.  On each clip one mushroom is blown glass and one is plastic.  The plastics are probably replacements for the delicate glass ones that break so easily.  I found some of them back in 2014 and even though those are partially broken I still display them on my tree.  I love the graphic appeal of toadstools in red and white.

Here are a few more tiny things that I found.  I do love the smalls.  A teensy flocked Christmas owl holding an itty bitty sprig of holly, a vintage Hallmark brooch of a Christmas Owl, a candy cane with a stick pin on the back found in a box of candles with a bunch of others like it.  I'm guessing it's to decorate a candle with? (going in my shadowbox) And the coup de gras: A vintage Florida (Disney) Orange Bird keychain.  I love Orange Bird so much!  He's ridiculously adorable.  Disney has brought him back in the past few years and I cannot get enough!  His orange head and his tiny leaf wings!  Gack!

I also hit it big in the vintage bar sector. My first Whistle Stix and they are in the original package!  So cute.  I think the straws have actual metal (copper?) threaded through them.  Love the box for the Party Straws, obviously.  I also found two Old Crow stir sticks with tiny top hatted crows on top! 

A closeup of the straws.

I also got this embroidered leaf picture.  It looks great hanging horizontally or vertically and will look 100% great with my fall decor.

So, In Summary:

2016 has a long way to go in giving back. 

RIP Jareth & Snape.