Friday, July 26, 2013

What I Found on Friday~!

Call it foreshadowing...a premonition...an inkling...an educated guess...

Thursday was a great day for finding things that I love, and today was better.  Always on the lookout for vintage barware, the past two days have pretty  much exceeded any expectations (which I didn't really have) and fantasies.  

First off, I found Tiki mugs.  I never gave much thought to Tiki anything until recently.  I have learned just in this past week that Mid-Century Hawaiiana, Surfabilia, Tiki Culture and Polynesia are all really "hot" and "haute" right now.  I was pleased to learn this, since they are also reminiscent of my childhood, when Don Ho, South Pacific and Beach Movies were all the rage.  Fun times...which is why they're so popular.  Fun times, especially those fun times when life was a lot simpler, are luring a lot of people.  Simplicity and fun should go together, right?  I think that a lot of us are always stressing out in the back of our minds, even when we appear to be having fun.  I really get a kick out of watching how the younger set embraces my childhood.  At least they've got good taste. 

Armed with just my phone, which takes awful pictures, I won't even bother.  But the Libbey Tiki mugs were incredibly popular.  They came in a variety of designs and colors:







I had no idea!  I bought a total of 16 of these gigantic and heavy mugs.  Some to keep and some to sell!

I also bought the crazy brass owls that I showed you yesterday.  BTW, "The Brass Owl" sounds like a great name for a shop, now doesn't it?  The estate sale lady was great--she started throwing in little "extras" once I told her that my brother was in a Polka band.  She mentioned that she was going to a Polish parade, and was totally impressed that my brother was in a band AND lives in Iowa.  She's from Iowa, she's Polish...so she just had to give me some extras.  I told her that all this time I'd been thinking that my brother was useless!  Who knew that his weird side gig would come in handy for me?  

So I returned home with a bunch of Tiki mugs, a blue-eyed brass owl, and a couple of amazing chairs retrieved during an impromptu dumpster dive.  Don't judge me!  Wait until you see them!  

I was out house hunting today too and I am happy to report that I didn't fall down any stairs...

It just keeps getting better.



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