I’ve been thrifting over the last few weeks and randomly picking up a few odds and ends here and there. On Monday I went with my friend to Palm Springs to pick over the thrift stores and drool at a few Mid Century antique shops…if only I had oodles of money – Palm Springs would be my dream place to have a spending spree.

Hemet Hospice, $4 for the McCoy teapot, and $3 for the planter.

Salvation Army, $3.55 – this thing is huge and ribbed for your pleasure.

Angel View – $3 – big ‘ol ashtray. For when you and 20 of your closet friends need to smoke.

Angel View, Palm Springs – $9, I paid more than I normally would have at a thrift store for a bowl – but I paid for the name. This is my first Bauer bowl, #18 mixing bowl in fact. I love the pink.

Angel View, Palm Springs – $5 – I LOVE this yellow faux bamboo ceramic lamp. I cannibalized another lamp I had sitting around for the shade and the little black do-hickey that turns the bulb on and off. Totally worth it.

Angel View, Palm Springs – $20 & $3. When I bought the nude painting the sales lady asked if that was me in the painting. WOW – I guess I look like a naked cave woman…anyways who goes around buying nude paintings of themselves at thrift stores?

Goodwill – $4.99. I love this little poodle painting. She looks like someone misplaced a David Humphrey’s painting. I put her in the kitchen, safely guarded by the twin ceramic German Shepard’s with flaming red devil eyes.

Garage sale – $7, an old slat bench. I’m not sure what to do with it….

Salvation Army, $10 – on sale from $30! This is a really nice Lane side table. No real damage – which is weird for a thrift store piece, and it has the cutest little black painted feet.

111 Antiques, Palm Springs – OK this was a splurge item – my limit for buying vintage furniture is always $100.
I’ve ALWAYS wanted one of these fiberglass pool loungers. I see them rarely and they are always priced out of my $100 range. This one has some damage and was on sale for $125, so I bargained it down to $100 and took it home. I love it and can’t wait to set up the lounge area in the side yard…maybe one day we will install a small pool…a girl can dream.

So…I have some exciting news – well its exciting for me – if you live in the Los Angeles area and like mid century stuff please come by the Long Beach Outdoor Market, Sunday August 17th. The Brick House is getting full of stuff (especially the guest bedroom & garage) that I’ve been collecting over the years and now under an ultimatum from the Boy to clear some shizzz out I am vending at my first ever flea market. This will be my first time so please be gentle.

I’ll post my booth location and maybe a few samples of the wares. Please feel free to come by and haggle with me – but not too much – I need a few hundred bucks to buy an entry set for the front door.