Thrift Scores!

Thrift Scores!

Here are a few more scores from my recent trip to London, Ontario. I posted earlier this week a picture of my Moon Deco Pyrex & I believe Heckel & Jeckel salt & pepper shakers - both unbelievably cool finds. Here are the remainder of the finds that London had to offer!

London Pyrex

Colonial Mist isn`t a favourite pattern of mine, hell, I can barely stand to look at it. I do like Bake Serve & Stores & I do like making money. This particular piece of Pyrex will be added to the inventory that will eventually be my booth or store. I`m lucky enough to barely see Colonial Mist in my area, is it frequent in yours? Anyways, I`ve wrapped this in extra paper & tucked it deeply away in the inventory closet. At the same shop, they had Butterfly Gold casserole, 2.5 quart, for $4.99 in mint condition.. I was going to buy it for the inventory, but my friend showed interest, so I let her have it.. she tried to coax me into buying it for about 5 minutes though. 

Just so happy to have this 474 lid, though it deserved a picture. :) 

My third old-style Delphite (Made in Canada - whoop!) Pyrex fridgie. This was from the antique market, $8. There is a flea bite or 2, but that`s OK. I haven`t seen one of these in a long time. 

The Others.   

I think one of my favourite finds recently has to be this set of salt & pepper shakers. Too the regular thrifter, outside of Essex Country & the Metro Detroit area & possibly surrounding areas, they might just be cute set of salt & pepper shakers, but to the majority of us who lived or are still living in those areas, they are perfect childhood nostalgia. Boblo Island was an island amusement park that you had to take a ferry to. It opened in 1898 & closed September 30th, 1993. Wikipedia doesn`t provide much information on it, but I had a blast there during my childhood. The most notable rides that are mentioned on Wiki were some of my favourite - The Nightmare (an indoor rollercoaster in the dark), Falling Star. I can still remember when my father took me on the Pirate Ship & the bar never locked properly, I thought I was gonna die! The Boblo Island Detroit Dock Building still stands today on The Detroit River in Detroit. (image are of Wiki)

1980s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pencils? Yes please. A cute, vintage postcard Happy Birthday puzzle, never used, still in the packaging? Certainly.
Has anyone sold one of these puzzles? I think I`m going to list this bugger on eBay... 

Another neat set of set of salt & pepper shakers.
What do you suppose they are? I am fairly certain that they are flying saucers, my fiance says that they are serving platters & the woman who was selling them said they were clowns (???).. what do you think?

Joining up with The Thrifty Groove for Thrifty Things Friday! & Cap Creations Thrifty Love.

Vintage Amazingness!

Vintage Amazingness!

This past weekend I took the 2 hour trek to visit one of my oldest friends & his girlfriend in their house in London, Ontario! They fed us corn, chips, Dr. Pepper, sausages & salad & of course, we did some thrifting! We didn't dabble to far into the London thriftiness, can always save that for another time, but did visit both Value Villages that they have & made purchases at both locations... although all those purchases sit in plastic bags on the thrifting dumping ground which is my credenza! I'll present you with one of my favourite purchases from their antique mall.

Moon Deco.
I've drooled over this vintage Pyrex piece for quite some time online, seeing people who pick it up at thrifts for just a couple bucks! Mine was quite a bit more than that, but not nearly as expensive as some priced at BIN on eBay. I'm displaying it with pride with some of my favourite pieces. The seller described it as being from 1940s, lol. 

These salt & pepper shakers are classic! At first glance I thought they were the crows from Dumbo, but when I got a good look at them, they were just damn good looking crows. 

Sir Thrift-A-Lot tidbit: I grew up in Essex, Ontario. At the time a town of 6,600, but has since merged with other location towns increasing the population. Essex has a strange amount of crows, they used to set off canons to scare the crows out of town, but it didn't seem to work as I hear the crows are still thriving (we're talking 100's of crows). According to Wikipedia it's speculated the town was founded adjacent to a massive crow rookery & oddly enough the crows are tightly tied to the bounderies of the town.

More vintage finds to come!
I have a few auctions going on for...
Guinness Bar Towels, Silver Canadian Coins & Vintage Nintendo Greeting Cards:
check them out HERE!