Hello everyone – hope your new year has been great so far! We’ve had a bit of a slow start as we’ve gotten behind on several things. Most importantly, we’re still working on our store’s Shopping Cart. Just so you know, the store is 100% open while we wrestle with the code-bugs. All items are for sale, please contact us if you’re interested in anything!

With that out of the way – we can get back to the good stuff. We’ve already had a couple of productive thrifting runs for new items to add to the shop. The above mish-mash of thrift goodies picture was all from one day. (Sorry, the photo’s a little small – click on it for a bigger view.)

Starting in the front right – we picked up a couple more bright Vera Neumann scarves to add to our Etsy outlet. These colorful vintage textiles are popular, yet they slip through the thrift radar of a lot of folks. Look for these to be featured in more detail in an upcoming thrift tip post…

To the left of the scarves, we found a nice little candleholder in the shape of a squirrel, and a four color Pottery Craft bud vase. These type of items are usually inexpensive at thrifts, but can be fun to collect because they’re readily available.

To the left of the squirrel is an interesting Swedish glass “souffle” dish and trivet with spoons. The spoons are glass, but the handles are cork! The striped box in the back contains two more pieces from this company – Boda Nova. I immediately thought of Kosta Boda, and it turns out it’s an offshoot. Not too much other info on the company, still need to do some research. But it’s always fun to find Scandinavian goodies in their original boxes.

The large black dark grey platter in the back is another Michael Aram piece in the same pattern as the pitcher that we found earlier. Almost didn’t pick this one up because it’s so wide and weighs a good 5lbs. So I knew it’d be difficult to ship – but the price was reasonable.

To the right of the Boda Nova box is a covered dish and two candleholders made by the California Cleminsons company, probably in the 50s-60s. Unmarked except for the word “Caltempo” – but we’ve had a lot of experience with California Pottery, so we knew what they were right away.

To the right of the Cleminsons items is a Dansk Mesa blue bud vase and two blue Frankoma mugs in the “Lazybones” pattern. Ordinarily, we don’t really pick up Dansk Mesa, and we also have been passing up a lot of Frankoma. But we thought they might provide some variety and a change of pace for the Etsy shop. We’ve been thinking about adding other more “traditional” collectibles to the mix over there.

Finally, one of our favorite finds was this yellow-orange, gooseneck lamp from the 70s or 80s. While it’s probably not as old or valuable as some of the other things we’ve found, it reminded me of my younger years when we used to do homework by the light of similar desk lamps. Probably shouldn’t have bought it, but… a little nostalgia can be a dangerous thing for your wallet. =)

OK, thanks for looking at all of our thrifted goodies. Hopefully, there’ll be a different post on Tuesday that kicks off the “tips” series we’ve been thinking about.

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