Thrift Store Mania
About fifteen years ago my friends and I loved to do the whole Flea Market/ thrift shop thing and boy did we find treasures! I’ll never forget the $5 chandelier I found at Salvation Army that I stupidly got rid of when I sold my condo and then re-bought the same thing years later for $75. Oh well, live and learn. Seems since then that the Thrift Stores in Los Angeles went down hill, many of them replaced by Out of the Closet, a great charity but mostly full of bad stuff from the 70′s and early 80′s.
Now having a bigger house in Seattle to furnish and wanting and liking to add some more rustic pieces we set out to discover the Seattle world of Flea, Thrift and Antique. With Gavin as our tour guide, how could we go wrong? Hmmmmm…..
Our fearless leader took us to a great mix of places, high and low including this fantastic antique mall called Pacific Galleries where with the right wallet you could just go berserk!
Someone does a great job at merchandising!
My find a couple days later at a Yard Sale in Ballard and since this table had been” sitting out in the garden for a while” it was selling for the hefty price of $5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Miss Cozy snapped that table up so fast it made people’s heads spin!
And then they hit St. Vincent de Paul with the monthly 50% sale…….(since when do Thrift shops have 50% sales????)
Who cares cuz they do and we made out like bandits!
This vase almost has a Mercury glass type finish…
Pasta bowls from Italy and beautiful little dessert plates too
tall, skinny olive oil bottle
one of my favorites, an old wooden tackle box
sand hued pillows, a mix of old and new
and lots lots more – a couple little wooden tables, lamps, books and a few chairs all equal pure charm and that means Cozy!
