Hi everyone. I hit up our city's "Garage Sale" last weekend. You may have one of these for your city - a few times a year, they basically let anyone who lives within the city sell junk at the park, or other gathering place. Ours had a good showing this year 70-80 vendors - this kind of sale can be a good place to snag some midcentury and vintage goodies. Or, you can find nothing! That happened to me last time.

This time I got lucky and found an Annemarie Davidson enamel, two Padre Pottery art deco style shakers from the 40s and a lone Franciscan Starburst shaker. Probably the best finds I've ever had at a city Garage Sale.

Later on in the week, I came across a large amount of glass items at a Goodwill that NEVER has anything good. I jokingly call it the Badwill... but for some reason, this time they had: a white Tapio Wirkkala for Iittala "Ovalis" vase, a familiar conical Tamara Aladin for Riihimaki glass vase (we found one of these earlier) and a small Vignelli Heller bakeware ramekin or individual casserole. I actually found three of the latter, and was excited because these weren't listed in the writeup from the New Glass book we'd found earlier.

I also picked up these Taylor & Ng "Primitives" mugs at that same Goodwill. These are older, and have only a circular imprint of "Japan" on the bottom. The cat/fish one is one of my favorite Taylor & Ng pieces so far, even though I know it's been re-made.

These Berggren Trayner large barrel shakers were an estate pickup. I'm never sure of the age on these pieces, but they're fairly popular so I usually grab them if reasonable.

I picked up this white Rorstrand of Sweden vase in the "Pyrola" line at a random tiny thrift store. I haven't been able to find out much about these items, but I know they had several differernt shapes of vases and covered candleholders(?) in white and blue. A few places attributed it to Gunnar Nylund, but I didn't see any hard evidence yet to back that up.

The estate I hit today had a sort of "back to school" theme going. This is a Tensor "Student Lamp" model 7200 which is very similar to one we had sold earlier. Unfortunately, someone had rubbed the metal tag to clean it and the writing started to come off. Erm... that "someone" was actually me, oops.

These two pieces from the same estate completed the back to school theme. I picked up the Boston Ranger 55 pencil sharpener because we actually need one - and of course, because it reminded me of grade school. (Question - do they still use these in schools? I haven't been in a classroom in quite awhile.)

I also finally found one of those mod cork ball pencil holders. This one is spray painted gold - kind of weird, but I just had to pick it up. I haven't decided yet whether to keep it for the office or put it in the shop.

I'm not sure yet, but we may skip a thrift post next week. It depends on the new house (we're almost up to doing interior paint), and if we have time to get out to the thrifts. Hope you have a good thrift week!