My Latest Junque Shop Find

[farmgal67357]

I got this lamp at a place here in my town that is having a hard time because of the economy. It was half price, a whopping $30! It is actual stained glass, not a fake plastic look a like. I put it in my living room over the corner of our sectional where hubs like to read books. I LOVE it!

[mac78]

So pretty. Great find!

[shabbychick]

It's beautiful! Did you have to rewire it to be able to plug it into an outlet, or did it come that way?

[Seattle Cottage Lover]

I've been looking for a vintage milk bottle carrier for awhile. After much searching, I finally found one that I love! It's right outside my front door. I know my friends at C&B are the only ones who can appreciate how excited I am!

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Now I have to find a place for my fairy door!

[Carrie]

Cute! Nice find.

[Gigi]

Farmgal- Yes great find! I love that the little bit of red in the lamp picks up the red color in the curtain...

SCL- Yep! Another great find for you too!!! I know exactly how you feel---once we find something that we'll been looking for- it feels great!

[shabbychick]

Ah, the milk bottle carriers. I remember when we used to take that to the dairy down the road to get new bottles. By the time I was born, the milkman didn't deliver anymore, but we had a real working dairy a few blocks from the house for many years. We used to put the empty bottles in the carrier on the back porch then take it to the dairy each week. I miss the dairy (even the smell, which could be pungent). That's a great find!

[farmgal67357]

I got lucky, someone else had already rewired it!

[Seattle Cottage Lover]

Farmgal, yes, that is a beautiful find! I get a sort of "high" when I get a find a really great buy, I want to tell everyone I know!

I've been buying milk in bottles for a few months now. The supermarket I shop at carries them and I'm looking forward to using a vintage bottle carrier for my milk now. It's going to be a lot easier than cramming the milk between the groceries in my shopping bag.

[ChapterTwo]

As promised yesterday, here is a photo of the sweet vintage girl who happens to be a music box, which plays "Jingle Bells".

The vintage couple was found at last month's flea market. I have quite a collection of old Christmas ornaments, may from when I was little. (That's a scary thought!) :rolleyes: My hope is to get them all together on one shelf.

By the way, the girl cost 75 cents and I paid 50 cents for the pair!

(Please excuse the angels with dirty faces...I didn't even look at them closely enough to see that they need a bath. The photo magnified the smudges! ) :o

[Gigi]

Chapter Two- They are precious finds. I just love the vintage face on the little girl- You were very lucky to find such treasures.

[RoseMary]

They are so sweet! I'm looking forward to seeing your shelf of vintage ornaments--and how neat that you have some from your childhood. I have a few of those, but not many.

Vintage Christmas ornaments always call my name at flea markets--this year I am trying to resist them, but I did buy a few not-very-vintage snowmen last week.

[shabbychick]

Oh, they're darling! Excellent find! I've been buying ornaments, too, but they're new. I occasionally find a vintage ornament in one of my colors. I have several from when we were kids, but most of what I'm using on my pink tree will be new from the last few years.

[vintage girl]

Oh my gosh those are absolutely adorable. I love vintage ornaments and christmas stuff. I have a very old Santa that was given to me by a very dear friend of my mother-in-laws. She had been putting it out for over 40 years. Here is a pic of him on my carousel horse, last year at Christmas.

[RoseMary]

Love the carousel horse and the Santa, Vintagegirl!

[shabbychick]

Cute Santa, VG! He looks like he's wondering what happened to his reindeer!

[jabbrley]

Seattle Cottage Lover: I, too, have a milk bottle collection as well as a carrier...and a couple of old milk cans. I have them arranged in a small vignette, in honor of my father and my grandfather, both of whom worked for a time as a door to door milkman in my early childhood. I was even lucky enough to find a milk bottle from a dairy where my Dad worked! I miss those old 'dairy' days, when the cows were grazing in pastures where there now stand condo buildings. I even miss the smell of manure in the air!
There are certain things that 'carry you back' to the good ol' days. The sound of an antique steam train, the whir of a windmill....some things should never have been replaced. :)