Hi everyone – this is going to be a shorter post on our latest finds at the thrifts. It’s been very difficult to get the jump on morning blog posts – because we’re in California. All the morning posting and hullaballoo with commenting for the rest of the country really seems to happen around 6am-7am. I know we could write posts the night before, but it sucks to spend Sunday night doing “work” (even though I often do).

Anyhow, this past Friday I went on a thriftrun with an old friend from high school. This was more of a trip to show him around the thrift stores, rather than an acquisition trip. But I still came across a few things:

This fun elephant planter is a good example of a pickup that doesn’t exactly fit in our main shop, but is perfect for the Etsy outlet. We find that a good mix of items for the two shops seems to work better sometimes.

These cute cups and trivet from Berggren are a similar pickup at the thrift – it doesn’t hurt that they were part of a 50% off sale either! Unsure if the motto on the plate means “As You Wish”, “Help Yourself”, or ? Maybe someone who knows Swedish can help out…

I knew immediately that this futuristic looking glass roaster was designed by Lella and Massimo Vignelli for Heller. We’d talked about his designs previously as something to look for at the thrifts. But I’d never come across this line of his glassware before. I believe that Heller produced this particular one, but after awhile Jeanette took up production under the Glasbake name.

Lastly, I know I’ve said that we were trying to cut down on buying ashtrays and smoking related implements. We set a few conditions – they had to be extremely cool, valuable, or made by someone famous. I don’t think that Bennett Welsh is too well known yet, but he was a pretty influential potter from Oregon. So this playful cat ashtray was too tough to pass up. I still think that these types of items can be thought of as display art rather than utilitarian pieces. I guess it all depends on the person though.

OK, I need to start working on the Tuesday Tips post. We might cut down on thrift and new product posts for awhile, but will try to have one at least every two weeks or so.

P.S. Oops, almost forgot to mention – we created another Etsy treasury the other day: Dijon Lady. Have not had a chance to do a full writeup on it like our previous one.

This post is linked up to ATG’s Thrift Share Monday.