New Post - Drunk Uncle or Cool Surfer Dude & More Finds

New post at the new blog home:
http://www.shopjustvintage.com/blog

My Cat Was Murdered

For those of you still have my BlogSpot address bookmarked, there's a new post here:
http://www.shopjustvintage.com/blog

Wanda

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!