Bopfish, swimmin' in the vintage stream: Overview of my Indiana haul (Status: wrap-up and introducing another cat to the blog)

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Overview of my Indiana haul (Status: wrap-up and introducing another cat to the blog)

Last post about my Indiana/National Road thrifting trip. Just some better looks at the goods PLUS you get to meet anther neighborhood cat, Max.

Max hangs out on my front porch every day since his humans were evicted (okay, I feed him so that probably has something to do with it). Usually when I do these photo shoots he meanders to some less congested spot in the yard but, on this day, he decided to take part in the photo shoot (he probably heard how fun it is to get your picture taken from Bubba).

There he is draped with the cool piece of barkcloth I bought at Domi Style.

Here are some of the smalls. Max napped while I was shooting some of the smalls

The orange fiberglass chair from the Goodwill Outlet, where you pay by the pound, and part of a nice little melamine collection I picked up after it was dark and I was leaving Richmond Indiana.

Here is the Danish style chair and the rest of the Melamine collection. I really dig the square-ish Texasware pieces

I thought about passing on the collection (I have melamine pieces coming out of my...places melamine pieces shouldn't be located) BUT, there was this little robins egg blue Holiday bowl with red speckles by Kenro. I didn't have any specked melamine and now I do- "yea" for collecting!

Here are some better shots of the smalls, starting from the upper left

I picked up this plastic fighter jet at the Goodwill outlet

Here is Max and the paint by numbers. I don't think he liked the winter theme, since he is homeless.

Max gives the tiki glasses a critical look (I think he liked them because they are warm weather items). Funny thing about these glasses; I just ate at the new tiki restaurant in Columbus (the Grass Skirt) and my traditional Mai Tai came in this exact same glass but cost more than 10 times what I paid for one of these (gooooooood Mai Tai, though).

I found this at Domi Style but Mr. Modtomic posted the same desk top lamp/clock/radio about a year back (riding Mr. Mod's coattails)

The clock works (wouldn't it be cool with a flip clock?

As does the radio. The radio and lamp controls. Apparently the whole unit is called the "Slumber Center".

The lamp retracted

The lamp extended like a giraffe.

The ten orange Blendo glasses (I have a number of Blendo bowls and pitchers but very few glasses).

Here is the Noritake Mardi Gras pattern platter. I have a large collection of this pattern, enough to seat twelve I think, but I am not totally sold on the pattern; I think it makes me think of Howard Johnson's.