I found this sweet little sillhouette portrait the other day at one of my thrift shops. I am drawn to anything paper related and silhouettes are just so special. I especially love this young woman because she has glasses. Adorable. Imagine that day in 1937. Surely, getting one’s silhouette done by “Greenberg” on the Ocean […]
Category: thrift stores
arts | chronic illness | family | loss | thrift stores | using pretty stuff
I know I could save myself a lot of time if I stopped worrying about how my house and garden look. When we were getting ready to move last year, I had little paper doll pieces of furniture that I moved around for months on graph paper trying to make sure I got the room […]
Oh, I love a nice vintage tray. I always look for them in my travels. They are useful for so many things! Plus if you put everything on a tray, you can just pick up the tray and dust the table underneath it. I look for mid century Japanese trays in plastic or lacquer, vintage […]
friends | loss | thrift stores
One of the reasons I love old stuff is that it has survived through so much. When I buy a plate from 1943 or a vase from 1900, I think of who bought it, how they used it and what journey did it travel all these decades. I am not as interested in very fine […]
When I was a little girl, I loved Holly Hobbie. My mom has a cassette tape recording of me opening my birthday presents for my 3rd birthday, May 9th, 1978. On the tape I loudly exclaim “HOBBIE HOBBIE!” after opening one of the little doll playsets, clearly my favorite gift that year- (a much bigger […]