Where Am I?

Just a reminder that this blog has moved to http://www.justvintagehome.com
And if you're here because a comment I left on your blog sent you here, please read the post below. Thank you!

A Hint For Blogspot Bloggers

A friendly reminder.....

Having had a Blogspot blog, this one, but abandoning it for my own hosted blog, I'd like to give a tip on comment settings. You must choose "Anyone can comment" or something to that effect or some of us simply cannot post. People who do not have a Google/Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, LiveJournal, AIM, or that OpenID thing, whatever that is, can't post a comment. If I leave a comment on your blog with my name and blog address typed in, (something I really don't like to do - sounds pushy or something) your settings aren't rest-of-the-world friendly. I see this all the time and most times, it's just because, well, you don't realize it excludes lots of folks. Probably, most of the people out there use one of those services, but there are those who don't. There are a whole lot of people who love to read blogs, but don't blog themselves. Many of them would love to leave a comment, but have none of those accounts.

For someone who doesn't like to sound pushy, that smacked of it, didn't it? Sorry.

Here's how to do it:

Go to "Dashboard"
Next, choose "Settings"
Then "Comments"
Under "Comments" find, "Who can comment?" Choose the first option: Anyone - Including Anonymous Users

Use a spam filter if you feel that will be a problem, but I never had any.

Wanda
Just Vintage Blog - Excuse Me While I Buy This Junk

I'm migrating

This is my last Blogger post. I'm moving to Just Vintage blog. Please, if you have me bookmarked or linked - please, someone have me bookmarked or linked - it needs updating.

The blog doesn't look very good, but that'll have to wait. Maybe you can stand it for the brief minutes you'd be there. 'Course this one never looked all that good, either. ;-)

More stuff

Oh, how dreary and rainy it's been with Fay sitting on top of us these past few days. I'm so thankful for the rain, but it does make me sleepy. I didn't get out this weekend, but am still working through the previous weekend's things.

I believe I mentioned that my web site died? That's consumed me for the past month. I like the computer to do what I need it to do. I don't care much for fixing things. Don't really like building things either, but once it's built, I sure don't want to do it again - much less three more times! Yuck! I'd think it was getting there and something would go wrong and I'd have to start over. I think I lost some pictures in the process, but most are back up. The web site should be fully functioning now. Keeping my fingers crossed. It needs some cosmetic work, but that is not priority. Adding items is. Today I added the blue and pink cup and saucers, a Wedgwood plate, a folk art bird painting and..... something else? Can't remember. All of that was from the recent sales. Here are the rest of the pictures:

Japan fondue forks, gold handle knives and Birmingham centennial hankies.

Can't resist Christmas stuff.

Mostly Italian nativity figures.

I need to put backs on these stockings.

Vera towels and a rooster towel.

Can't you just see these reliefs in a mid century modern kitchen?

A fabulous fireplace had sold in the house with the good, old stuff. They broke all the tiles surrounding it. Now I wish I'd got all the pieces instead of just these few - especially since they were free!

Unstretched painting of a girl.

Unstretched and unfinished.

Another unstretched painting.

Calla lilies print and the folk art bird painting.

Unstretched sunflower painting.

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And this concludes the show. I think that's all I got pictures of, anyway.

Now, I'm working on getting the blog moved over to the web site. I'll let y'all know.

Continuing with pictures from last weeks sales, quickly. It's time to go home!

(These 10', gold cornice pieces, there are only 2, I just took 2 pictures, may go home with me.)

8' pine whatever this thing is.

More to come still!

Old Times Part Deux

Saturday, Erin came up and went to the sales with me. Good girl. I raised her right. She has a good eye. We had so much fun! At one sale, we spent as much time going through the trash on the street as we did inside the house. I won't say what we pulled from the trash and you're not likely to be able to figure it out. Some things look like they might have been, but we actually paid for them. Others look like they'd have been in the house, but were in the garbage.

We hit five estate sales that day and tried for #6, but they'd already closed up. I can't remember what came from which sale, so I'll just share pictures and try to remember as I go.

Sunday she and I went back to the fab estate and got several things half price which was still more than we wanted to pay, but not so bad.

These two pieces were from the good stuff sale. Erin found the dresser or desk tray on the right. It's marked made in Italy. I bought the thing on the left, I don't know what you call it. It was dirty and I was afraid the dirt was permanent stains, but washing it revealed a lovely piece. I did note there was a hairline crack in the lid. As I was shaking the water off the bowl, a handle hit the faucet and broke clean off. Uh, oh. Too bad. Guess it's mine now.
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Also from the good stuff sale. That's an early spongeware bowl. Quite old. The pitcher was described as "early". I'm not sure "early" what.
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Erin found the brown transferware at another sale, but the alabaster tumbler and little dish was from the good stuff sale. Those initials are mother of pearl. The other side has an inlaid design.
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All from the good stuff sale. Sugar shaker, milk glass dresser box (unwashed in the picture - cleaned up nicely) and silver shaker with cobalt insert.
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That plate is Brougham and Mayer? I think? Something like that. It is going to try to find a place at my house. The colors are right for a couple of rooms. The ironstone pitcher was from another sale.
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I know nothing about those two vases. They sure look Art Deco, don't they? All three of these things came from the sale with the trash. No they were not free.
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Curtain tiebacks. Great color, don't cha think?
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Erin's find of frame corners, wood things and glass things.
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More to come tomorrow.

I still haven't had the courage to take the web site down to fix it. It just seems like it's going to be so much trouble. What a headache!

Just Like Old Times

What a weekend! If I've seemed a little less than gung ho lately, it's probably because the summer has been so blah. The sales have been few and far between and when there was one, the things to be had were not so exciting. I think you all know one of my favorite things to do is find treasures. The hunt is exhilarating, but if I don't bag a kill fairly often, my spirits get a little down. This weekend was the way it's supposed to be.

Friday, I lit out alone. Lena bowed out for the weekend. Friday seems so far away now, I can't remember it all, but I'll give it a try.

(The images might be down for a time. My shopping cart isn't working and I need to take the whole site down and reinstall. These images are stored there. Hopefully they won't be missing in action very long.)

Let's see. I was running a little late Friday morning and the first estate sale I went to had been going on an hour or so. As always, I started in the basement. I had piles of stuff, but darned if I know what I got that took three trips to the car! What in the world did I do with it? Here's what I remember:

After tons have people had already been there and I'd even been there for awhile working the perimeter of the room, I found a large, untouched lidded, cardboard, storage box underneath a table. I opened it and found all this silver! Some are real silver, sterling, not silver plate.

These were, I think, the best pieces in the box. A large, Gorham, golf "trophy" from the 1950s and a pair of Wallace Sterling Rose Point candlesticks. (Sorry 'bout the fuzzy picture.)

The price was quite right on all the silver. Better than I'd even hoped for.

There was some fabric and, oh yes! Vintage Ray Ban sunglasses!

These Christmas candlesticks:

Some more stuff that got in pictures with other things.

Next on the list was a fabulous sounding sale. The estate sale company's web site had four pages of pictures and the stuff looked incredible! I knew there was no way I'd be able to buy anything, but I had to see it anyway. That house, which was a regular looking house, was full to the brim with honest to goodness, swear to God, hope to die - and to die for - antiques. It was like stepping into a spread of Colonial Homes magazine in the 1980s. If you've seen that magazine from that time period, think of the best home with the best stuff and you'll know what I saw at this house. It was what I aspired for my home then and knew it wasn't obtainable with me being a stay at home mom with two kids, living in "Podunk", Alabama with no money. This house was like being in a museum. I just can't say how wonderful the antiques were. Did I buy anything? Sure! A 1980s telephone, a decoupage memory jar and an automobile vase. LOL I think I bought the three cheapest things there. No, that's not true. While I was tempted, I did not buy a grungy little $3.00, tin match holder.

The hula girl came from the first sale and the owl was bought on Saturday.

Apparently, the sellers didn't know this was an automobile vase or it would have been much higher. Of course, I could be mistaken and it's just an epergn horn.

There are so many pictures, this will be continued tomorrow............