The fabric pictured above is from an estate sale I went to on Friday with my wonderful pals Natalie and Rachel. We went to three estate sales and these are from the last we went to, a real treat, which was exactly what an estate sale should be in my mind: an adorable house from the sixties filled to the brim with old lady style treasures. Which, unfortunately, also means old lady grandma house smell, but the washing machine and a nice dryer sheet took care of that.
These adorable peeptoe heels are also from estate sales, from our first stop. At $1 per pair I didn't even care that they are far too small for me (a 7 1/2 and an 8) because I can surely find someone who will want them, I imagine. And I just can't stand that something lovely might never find a home, which is generally my problem when buying anything, particularly secondhand, because it means I probably don't actually need whatever I'm purchasing, but rather just find it too charming or pretty or ridiculous for it to go unowned.
This green tablecloth is something that I picked up in Grinnell, at Second Mile, while visiting wonderful friends this summer. Second Mile was just packed with things I found I just wanted so much that everything turned into something I had to have. I also quite like this photo I took of the tablecloth. While estate saling with those girls I was constantly (and probably annoyingly) repeating that I NEED a house, or at least an apartment, somewhere permanent, to fill with all of these fantastic finds. I passed up a mod red armless armchair that I probably could have had for a quarter (they were pushing everything as make-an-offer we-want-it-out-of-our-hair) and so many great linens and china and much more and oh! it was all glorious.
I feel as though this is going to get less and less tasteful and more outrageous as I go on. Accordingly, I present these crazy gold plastic sunglasses with yellow (maybe they were shooting for gold here, too?) lenses. I have a certain person in mind to give these to, as my own everyday glasses make nutso sunglasses a mere dream for me. Another 2nd Mile find.
This is actually something I will either pass on to someone who will make use of it, or hold on to for my own travels (hopefully in about a year, yikes yikes). A vintage travel journal (look inside!). 2nd Mile for this one, as well.
Next up, a beautiful album I had hoped to use for the polaroids we took of all of our visitors last year, but it's made for the slightly smaller photos of the sixties, not for polaroids. I have another album that was first planned for that particular project, before this blue number seemed more ideal, so all is not lost. I'm thinking maybe I'll do an art project in this instead (with art pages displayed in the photo slots, I'm not going to cut the album up or ruin it in any way, don't worry!).
This oval frame is a cheap looks-like-wood plastic, and it was cheap, at Second Mile. I have a bunch of random frames on a wall in my room, this one should fit in nicely. I'm not sure I'll actually have pictures or artwork that will fit in this...perhaps I'll just hang it as is. If I put quite a few various frames on the wall (all of them now are rectangular with art in them) I think it will look just as at-home as any other frame.Sorry, you can see my hand and camera reflected in the glass. Originally you could see me taking the picture, all disheveled and messy, which wasn't quite what I was going for. Though it did make me feel like a real photographer, down and dirty in hopes of the perfect shot. Then I realized I was in my entryway in the suburbs of Minneapolis, not in wild forests of far away lands, so I decided to photograph things while laying on my stomach, to make it at least a little dramatic. Those photos were horrible. I eventually returned to regular ol' me.
I'm questioning this photo collage in hindsight. It doesn't really fit in with any of what I've got, but it might look kind of crazily cute against my light purple walls. We'll see. The inset photos are what I really bought it for, fun fun!
Please pardon the glare, I took this in the afternoon and perhaps there was, dare I say it, too much light?
I also purchased these two vintage scrapbooks at 2nd Mile. Currently the blogger image uploader refuses to work nicely for me, but tomorrow I'll try to fix it. I think they scrapbooks are the greatest looking, but I'm worried about actually using them for anything. I'm pretty positive the paper in them would be horrible because of acidity and whatnot, but I think that maybe I can just buy new filler paper and find a different project for the old pages. What I'll scrapbook about, I have no idea. (Sidenote: I have decided to never ever again photograph items with such bold fabrics as the background. Some of the bloggers I admire do so flawlessly, but my photos just look dark and gross.)
Oh, this estate sale find of mine (the same sale as the shoes) has me really excited. A vintage Kodak camera, it uses 616 film. I don't have any of said film, but I think I might be able to find some (though perhaps it'll be expired, but what an adventure that could be). My only problem might be processing, unless I can find a darkroom savvy soul who would like to undertake this project with me. Nonetheless, this camera is fantastic.
I still have a few fabrics, picture frames, and other already photographed finds to share, but I think this is awfully long as it is. For now I'll finish with a phonograph (I've been trying to fit in as many 'f' sounds as possible here in this last paragraph). This is the second record player I've bought this summer, and I think it will have to belong to someone else. I really like the one I have, and this new one needs speakers, which means more money, which is all rather unnecessary since I already own a record player. You can take a better look at this newest-to-me phonograph here. Tomorrow I think I'll finish with the other already photo-ed pieces, and perhaps some costume jewelry will make an appearance, as well! I've been working on this post for over an hour and a half (not including shoot time--can you totally tell I'm playing pretend while doing that?) and it still looks rather junky, imho (my so-called life!), so I'll additionally try to work on a nicer formatting system of some sort.
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