Ran to my fave thrift yesterday. I was actually looking for a few things for the guest room, but found these goodies instead!Big Bowl o' Buttons, $3.95. These are new, not vintage--oh, there may be few, but for the most part they are modern and they are all in pastels: pale shell pink, seafoam green, butter yellow, pearly white. There were several other similar bags of buttons, all divided up by color but I thought this bag was definitely the prettiest. Wonder who donated all those buttons? Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them.
Vintage printed tablecloth, $2.95. The colors on this one are still very vivid and the grey hasn't disappeared, so this must not have seen much use. This cloth is rectangular which I think is a little more unusual; most of the printed tablecloths I come across are 40" squares. This will fit on my table, and the red will look great in my kitchen. There are some stains so I'll do the Oxyclean trick, but if they don't come out at least I won't feel bad if I spill something on it! One of these days I'm going to get a book on vintage tablecloths so maybe I can identify the makers. Some of them have labels but the majority do not, it seems.
Vintage Vera linen tablecloth, $2.95. This is so cute! From the picture it's hard to get an idea of scale, but each strawberry is about the size of a salad plate. There are some pretty bad yellow stains on this cloth so I'll soak it and then I think I'll hang it in the sun tomorrow and hope for the best. I bought it with the idea of resale but I may just keep it for myself.
Wow, not only a Vera but a rectangular tablecloth to boot. You lucky girl. I have only 1 vintage rectangular tablecloth and probably 15 sqaure ones. That Vera though is a find. I originally bought them to resell, fell in love with her designs and now am keeping them.
ReplyDeleteVera is my all time favorite designer and this strawberry tablecloth is amazing! I have so many tablecloths and I use one every time I got to the park or the beach. It's fun to bring them into the outdoors - they just light up!
ReplyDeleteI will have to borrow my mother's button collection. One of my fave things to do growing up was looking through her crazy button collection. Do you ebay them or just enjoy collecting? I have a glass canister with old spools of thread, so a button jar makes total sense. If I get them I will post pics of the good ones.
ReplyDeleteI haven't sold any buttons on eBay; I don't think I can bear to part with them! I bought a whole bunch at an estate sale earlier this summer and we had so much fun looking through them. There are a lot of old shell buttons and I guess they sell pretty well, but I think I'd rather hold onto mine and use them for crafty purposes. Or just look at how cute they all are in a jar on my desk! LOL
ReplyDeleteOn the Vera tablecloth, I soaked it and left it in the sun this morning but the stains didn't come out. Bummer, but I thought that might be the case. Guess it will be my new picnic tablecloth--thanks for the suggestion!
What great scores! I never seem to find table clothes these days. I'll have to keep my eyes open, I am looking for a stand by picnic cloth. We've been using an old sheet, oy. Send some luck my way!
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The rose one is a Wilendur, in case you were wondering. It is a pretty popular one, although I havent managed to find one that isnt mangled! (Geesh, I must have 50 tablecloths by now, I think I need some sort of therapy group.LOL)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the ID, Sarah! I was wondering. How did you identify it? Do you have a book? I'd like to learn more about the different makers but most of the cloths aren't labeled. I did come across a vintage tablecloth collectors group on the internet somewhere and I'm tempted to pay the yearly dues because I'm sure I can learn a ton from them!
ReplyDeleteOh, and when the Tablecloth Therapy group starts having meetings--let me know and I'll be there! LOL :)
Thanks Rebecca! Good juju, coming your way!
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ReplyDeleteand decided to post a comment. Nice bracelet and really pretty colors! I once found an intricate miracle bracelet for $2.00 at a thrift store. It still had the hang tag attached so it has never been worn. Anyway, I thought you might like to pop on over to my new blog here: Vintage Jewelry Blog. I don't know if blogger accepts HTML for links in posts but I guess I'll find out. Take Care!