Finds

I've found a few little pretties in the thrift store over the last couple of months.  This delicate bird perched on a china heart dish was found just before Valentine's Day.

 

A small dessert bowl ... I liked the flower petals shaping the bowl, and the fact that it's periwinkle blue (a colour that will always remind me of my mom "You're my peri-weri winkle ...").  Too bad there was only one ...

 

 

The petals from the bottom ...

 

A 'salt' dish ... table salt? bath salts?  I won't be using it for either.  When my husband saw this and asked 'what's this for' I couldn't answer him, and he rolled his eyes muttering something about 'buying stuff she doesn't even know what it is'.  But I always need a handy dish or bowl around me when I sew and knit to catch the threads, buttons, needles, beads ... you know what I mean, don't you?  I know what I'll use it for, and that's all that matters.

 

 

Which brings me to my next find ... a very delicate leaf dish (another catcher of buttons & threads).  The colours in this dish are what caught my eye, brown and lavender, not your usual combination.  It was made in Germany ...

 

 

The roses were so pretty, and there's an overall slight mother-of-pearl glaze, I couldn't pass it up!

 

 

This next glass bowl was actually picked up by another shopper, but as she stood wondering about it, deciding about it, I hovered ... obviously she put it back (no, I didn't pry it from her!), and as soon as she was out of the aisle I popped it in my cart.  I love old-fashioned glass.  My mother had a couple of glass dishes this same shade of salmon pink (I have them now), which used to be her mother's.  My grandmother actually donated some of this same wear to the local museum.  I don't know if this particular dish is old or a reproduction ... I just liked it.

 

 

I've been admiring how glass domes are used in decorating.  I've been picking up these small domes when I see them to display some of my treasures.  I don't have a glass front china cabinet, so most of my special china etc is hidden away.  So here is my petite thimble collection from my trip last summer ... all under glass :)

 

 

And my Grandmother Violet's 'violet' sugar bowl ... under glass.  When I get more than two I might group them together on top of the china cabinet.

 

I always check out the tin aisle at the thrift store, and the last time I did, I found this cute little tin covered in various local song birds, all busy in their springtime nest building  ... I've put buttons in it.  I've had lots of luck with buttons lately in the thrift store too, but I don't think you want to see a bunch of buttons do you?  And I've been sorting them, which makes my son think I've completely gone round the bend!

 

 

and the lid ...

 

Busy birds take flight with straw, twigs and twine, to build their nests and hatch their chicks so fine.  (Just in case you didn't want to turn your computer upside down to read it)

 

And to satisfy the rustic side of me and my decorating ... a small plaque which I recognized immediately as a copy of petroglyphs.  I haven't seen this particular petroglyph in person (it's on the shores of Lake Superior), but I have seen amazing petroglyph's at Bon Echo Provincial Park just north east of us.  You have to wait for a calm day, paddle over to a sheer rock face, steady your canoe and enjoy the paintings on said sheer rock face.  It's quite an experience ... the day we paddled over was decidedly not calm, and caused a high level of anxiety being so close to the rocks in the rough waves.   Sadly the paintings are slowly washing away with time and waves from the lake ... there's no way to preserve them.

 

 

And lastly, I saw this miniature Windsor chair and scooped it up without even looking at the price tag.  I wish it were full size! 

 

 

I think it needs a handmade doll to sit upon it ... maybe that could be my next sewing project.  I've never made dolls before, but I have made lots of doll clothing!

 

 

I hope you enjoyed thrifting along with me ...

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Wendy