Curating Displays While Shopping for Vintage Collectibles

Sometimes when you're out junking, you discover when you get home that you've actually been curating items that work great together.  When I picked up the Pink Sea Shell Trinket Tray, the shopper next to me gasped.  Yep, I scored it first! *Big Smile*

I never imagined I was going to pair it with the adorable Josef Original Rose Garden Series porcelain doll figurine.

I just had everything spread out & they were in close proximity to one another.  I thought how cute would that look sitting on a little girls dresser.  So I looked around a bit more and realized the lotion I just purchased had some pink in as well.  I grabbed the Mariah Carey perfume bottle & the White Dasiy Brooch I already have listed
 & Waa-Lah!  I have a cute little dresser display.

The Black Monarch Tiara Indiana Glass Candlestick Holders

 that I spied at one yard sale, matched up perfectly with this beautiful green glass vase with black trim purchased from a different garage sale.

  Candle holders are made for tapers but it didn't look right with a 3" tall vase.

  I love hunting for vintage collectables.
  It's extra fun when you find out you've curated a couple of little ensembles at the end of your shopping trip!

Do you find yourself doing this unconsciously?  Or is more like we're just drawn to things we like, so the probability is the we'll run across matching decor from time to time?

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I'm so digging these Rustic State Bottle openers!

Like how cute are these?  These would make a great gift.

I'm thinking about getting one for my Dad's Bar for Father's Day.

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Yeah, not as Sexy looking as Texas but then what State is?

Of course you really can't take my opinion on this one, I'm kind of partial to both States.  Native Hoosier & I Adopted Texas as my 2nd home after living there for 10 years.  

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Father's Day is Sunday, June 17th 2018

  Kovel's just reported on Oldest Message in a Bottle Found

How Exciting! The person who discovered it didn't even know until after the sand had dried!  Then they saw this rolled note with a string tied around it - what would it say?  Save me I'm on a deserted Island?  I'm sending this to my One True Love?  I'm washing away all my sins & here they are?  I'd be like so angst ridden to read the long lost secrets & discover some long lost lore.  

So she carefully unrolls this note in anticipation of being the recipient of some heartfelt news. 

And Low Behold... it's from the Germans!  Oh My some Nazi Secrets! NOPE ~ No such luck just a German naval experiment from 1864 to 1933 to study ocean currents!  Dang!  Something truly historic that will be put in the Australian museum, and that is Awesome - since one of these hasn't shown up since 1934!  But Gosh she must have been bummed :(    Weather charting isn't Romantic or Mysterious.  It's not Kevin Costner 1999 Message in a bottle ~ (sigh) 

 or even Jim Croce 1973

I'm thinking she was pretty heatbroke over a Darn Weather Chart ~ "Please fill out the Form & Return the German Naval Academy"!  More than 600 bottles have been returned, the last one in 1934.  So this really is a Big Deal and it still pretty cool.  I don't know if she got any compensation the article doesn't say.  But I think she she should just for her mere heartbreak.  Check out the link at the top for the formal story from Kovels.

Ciao, my Cheeky Thrifters!  May your bottles be filled with more than Weather Charts!

 

Fishers Renaissance Faire

Once Upon a time, during a Chilly cold morning, Nancy & JunkYard Gypsy put on their snugly warm sweatshirts & boots & drove 3 hours to Fishers, IN. to attend the Fishers Renaissance Faire.  It was a nice relaxing drive, down the back roads of Hwy 31 looking at beautiful fall foliage.  After some much needed coffee, chocolate milk & a doughnut, we found ourselves provided us with the stamina to deal with "Matilda", Nancy's new GPS system in her brand new (like less than a week old) Jeep Laredo.  Matilda failed & jammed.  However the "Navigator Gypsy"  in me, managed to maneuver us to the proper location just in time to catch  the Queen & the Green Leaf Man celebrating the only bit of sun that we saw that day. 

We fell in love with his boots.

On the drive home I thought for sure we were headed in the right direction, till we saw the sign for Mexico.  When the nicest police officer pulled us over speeding in Atlanta I knew we were lost.  I never knew there was a Mexico or an Atlanta Indiana, but we found them.  The officer walked over smiling!  When was the last time a police officer approached you all pleasant & happy?  For me it's been, uh? Never!  I asked if I could take his picture, but he said that probably wouldn't be a good idea.  I even explained to him that car's computer said the speed limit here was 45.  He said he understood but he still had to issue us a warning.  Then we found out he was from New Mexico & asked his How & Why he came this Podunk part of Indiana!  He told us I don't remember ~ but it was the best time I ever had getting pulled over by the police!