Loops & Labels

I bought most of my finds last week from a fancy-schmancy hospital thrift store. You can tell that they have rich donors and consignors by the bag that they gave me for my purchases:

 

I had the kids with me when I went to that store, which is always a challenge. Luckily, they were both in a happy mood. While Finn quietly played with the toys, Maeve followed me through the store singing "Sixteen going on Seventeen" from The Sound of Music. My petite three-year-old turned a few heads when she clearly belted out the lines:

I am sixteen going on seventeen
Innocent as a rose
Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies
What do I know of those?

She'd better damn well know nothing of them ever.

Now, on to my finds for this week:

• FiberCo LaundriPak box. This was used to ship your dirty clothes home to mom. It originally had a strap that would be wrapped around the box.
• Black floral biscuit tin. This is the third one that I've bought with this pattern.
• Baby quilt with circus animals
• Wooden chair/booster seat
• Photograph album
• Green Bingo cards
• Two Watt Pottery covered dishes

Yes, I bought more Bingo cards. I had the itch after I found the white cards last week, so I bought these from eBay. There were nine different designs included in the lot of 128 cards.

I never realized that Bingo players suffer from triskaidekaphobia. This bingo company doesn't make cards that start with the number 13:

I was so excited when I saw the two Watt pottery bowls at the uppity thrift store. I collect the Loops pattern in the pumpkin color, but this is my first set of covered dishes. I paid twenty for the two of them.

Here's part of my Watt collection, along with a McCoy fish pitcher (c. 1935) in the same pumpkin color:

The vintage white shelf is on the kitchen wall that is closest to my mandarin-colored family room. You can see four newly-framed apple crate labels in the background (and one in an antique frame under the shelf). My in-laws have given us so many of these vintage labels, and I have been waiting for the walls to be painted before I hung them up. They are all from Yakima, Washington, which is Chris' hometown. I bought these four black 11"x14" frames at Wal-Mart for five bucks each. 

I have five other labels hanging in different rooms in my house, and I have about 12 more labels that are sitting in an envelope.  I love the colors and the images. And the fact that they bring a little bit of Yakima into our house. I'm just worried that my house is going to look like an apple crate label museum if I hang them all up. I might have to start charging admission.

Comments

[Lisa B.]

Great finds! And I love the labels!!

[Mama Brook]

Love the Watts pottery collection!
I must say that mandarin room looks great next to the green one. Lovely color choice.

[laurie]

You absolutely, hands down have the best luck at thrift stores/garage/estate sales. I think you must live in some twilight zone like area...the thrift stores near me NEVER have the great stuff you find! Your little girl singing would have brought a huge smile to my face...too cute. Great BINGO cards too!

[Heather Grilliot]

Adorable! Love your wall colors!!!

[Chris@Cats on my Quilts]

It's a good thing you and I don't shop together because I love the same things you do. I have 2 biscuit tins exactly the same-an oval one with handles and a round one without handles-and I have a covered dish like your Watt one in the same loops pattern. Great finds.

[flutterby girls]

When i was in high school i worked at stadelman fruit (not in the antique label era!) here in Yakima and grew up in an apple orchard.
I'm also aquainted with Marie and have met your in-laws several times.
I can't remember how i found your blog but i think you're a hoot. Keep up your great posts! Kim

[Kari]

Your pottery pieces are such a beautiful color, I really love them. They look great in your space. Cool bingo cards, too.

[erinberry]

The quilt is adorable!

[Rosemary]

You always crack me up!!
Love all of your great stuff!!
Pretty color on the Bingo cards.
Rosemary

[Jane]

I have a few of those labels and I love them to bits, but I too was feeling pretty theme-y in our small apartment. So, I rotate them seasonally I have a cupid one that I display in February and a Santa from Santa Ana that comes out at Christmas.

[terri]

I love the Floral Biscuit Tin, I have an ever growing collection of them. The bingo cards are too cool... I want to go shopping with you.. Next time you're in NY let me know I will show you some of my haunts.:0)

Terri

[Wanda]

Bingo cards. Pant, pant. LOL I love things like that, but unlike so many others, I'd never do anything with them. I'd intend to, but would never get around to it.

Your kids have great names, by the way.

[Amanda Browning]

Hi OMG I am just so envious of your finds! I am just so pleased that I have discovered your blog and will add you to my favourite blog lists immediately!
Amanda from OZ

[lace]

My 3 year old niece loves the sound of music and walks around singing those songs as well. "I have confidence", "the lonely goatherd" and the title track are her favorite songs.

Great finds.

[jan]

Love the labels. Little pieces of art work.

[jodi]

Almost purchased those frames from Walmart - how do they stand up, frame-wise? Are they durable? Did you have good luck with them?

[samantha]

...just wondering if it was the bryn mawr hospital thrift shop? i grew up right near there and always loved browsing their goods!

[jan connell]

I bought a laundripak suitcase today from a neighbor...good condition.
paid 1.00.
Has a white belt around it.
Are these worth anything?
Jan

[CHARLES PROTHRO]

I HAVE A LAUNDRIPAK THAT I USED WHILE AWAY FROM HOME, AT SCHOOL, IN 1948. MY MOTHER KEPT THE PAK FOR STORING SNAP SHOTS. MY PAK STILL HAS THE ORIGINAL STRAP AND IS STILL FULL OF OLD PICTURES OF PEOPLE THAT I DO NOT REMEMBER.
CHARLES