Monday, March 11, 2013

RECENTLY THRIFTED

1// 2// plastic "milk glass" bowl from thrift store
3// 4// glove hangers from thrift store

The past two weeks have not been the best thrifting weeks. The estate sales were particularly bleak and overpriced and one included police officers busting up in the house threatening to tow all the cars parked in the street...so not worth it. We went to the Portsmouth Flea two weekends ago, which is always fun to look around. I didn't find anything, but Douglas bought a vintage Navy belt buckle that has his rate on it, so he can actually wear it. I would take a picture because it's really neat...but he's on the ship...wearing it. I love that he found something. Sometime last week I took a drive out to my favorite thrift stores for a work break and found these two little gems, one thing that is useful and one thing that is completely useless. 

I loved this little plastic bowl because it looks like milk glass, which is awesome, but it is plastic. And I have been looking for something along these lines to display bow ties for shows, but something glass has a 100% chance of getting broken during a show. So this is perfect. 

And these glove hangers or stretchers or drying racks...I tried to find out something about them online but most of the ones I found were plastic. These are fairly useless to me because I have no gloves I need to display or stretch. I am still trying to think of some use for them, maybe hanging something off of them, but I can't. Any ideas?

11 comments:

  1. Going to the thrift store/flea market and not finding anything is such a cruddy feeling :( But those bows still have me swoonin'!

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  2. those glove hanger are pretty cool!!

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  3. Ah, that's always such a bummer. These two finds are quite lovely though. I love any and all milk glass.

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  4. you could use the hands as a display for your bags that have the little handles on them, maybe? Either way, I'd probably have bought them, too, even without an obvious use :)

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  5. i think those hangers are just fun by themselves! like hang them from the wall as art?

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    1. that's exactly where they are right now - just hanging up. i kind of like it :)

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  6. I have never seen glove hangers- they look pretty cool

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  7. Plastic milk glass - so great bc it won't break! Nice find! The texture is so lovely.

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  8. wow! i didn't know there was such thing as glove hangers... that's really cool ^.^ I went to an antique store today and saw a bucket of zippers and thought of you :)

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    1. haha yes! so sweet. i would have snatched that bucket up.

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  9. I have been Pinterest'ing and blog hopping today and found your blog. I think the hands would be cute with one of your bows on them - sort of like a "need to remember" look if you put it on one of the fingers.

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