Penchant for Green......

When I first started thrift shopping I was drawn to green, specifically green glass.  I usually collect things in color phases...about 10 years ago I had a teal phase.  I worked in a bead store at the time so I have an abnormal collection of teal glass beads, mostly Czech pressed glass.  It makes me laugh every time I open the "teal" drawer.  Then I had an orange phase.....  I had a matching orange car and orange phone!

Fortunately for me green was a popular color in the 70's and I'm also drawn to the 70's kitsch housemates, avocado and olive, oh yes!




Part of my thrifted green glass collection

Floriform olive green glass canisters by Oiva Toikka in my Etsy shop Here


Of course I don't limit myself to the 70's.  I don't limit myself to any decade, ha. Except the eighties, can we ignore the 80's please? Yes? Thank you.




The Window Rainbow

 

Found these at a GW in phoenix, picked them up not knowing what the were, about a year later I was researching the florifom green canisters and found out they are Kastehelmi plates, also designed by Oiva Toikka.  I love when that happens!

 

Kastehelmi plates

Kastehelmi plates in my Etsy shop, HERE

 

I also created a pinterest board for my green obsession.   Do you have a penchant for a specific color right now?

Recent Thrifty Finds...

Made the rounds at the thrifts the other day, here's what I picked up.

A stack of vintage 70's and 80's Sesame Street books, with a plastic Big Bird holder! They had them priced individually but marked them down for me because I wanted the whole set.  I'm building quite the collection.

Is that Grover's Mommy on the front of the book?  LOL!

A few random kids books, including some 90's editions of Elsa Beskow children's books, something I have to research more but she was a Swedish children's book author and illustrator in the 1890's through her death in the 1950's.  I'm thinking I'll frame some of the illustrations.

Illustrations from Elsa Beskow's Children of the Forest

Some vintage apple green Tiffin glass cups, a blue rim-line Heath bowl (my second piece of Heath), a couple sugar white Russel Wright Iriquois salad plates...some other little stuff, old jars....and my first Cathrineholm! Very excited about that part!

Black and White Lotus Cathrineholm Sauce Pan

Thanks for looking!
~Owlice

"If You Look, YOU WILL FIND IT!"

You just may not find it in the condition you want it. Lol.  This is a post of the broken things...the things that have some chips or some damage but are just too cool to not take home.

Abraham Palatnik Swan

This is Swaney.  I bought him for $1.99 at the goodwill.  He's only 4" tall and would be worth way more if his beak weren't broken.  But he's still cute.  Abraham Palatnik's Lucite animal figurines from his 60's era are something estate sale goer's will wait in line for at three in the morning.  It's one of the items on my "Holy Grail" list.

The day I was perusing this thrift store there were signs of an MCM household that had been donated, so I kept looking.  Swaney was there waiting for the two blonde ladies interested in the eighties shabby-chic knick-knacks to move out of the way so I could see him.  Just in case I never find another Palatnik figurine I wanted to bring him home.  He's already a valued member of the Damaged Menagerie Friendship Club.

This is a link I found on the history of artist/inventor Abraham Palatnik and his work, it's pretty fascinating and you'll understand why is work is so valued.
http://www.olats.org/pionniers/pp/palatnik/morais_en.php

I'm going to warn you, DO NOT google any more of Swaney's friends.  :)

~Owlice

Things I Collect.....

Vintage lucite botanist paperweights and glass paperweights

Paperweights!  I have this round "heirloom" display table I found at the GW.  Here's a little peek inside.  I like to change out the items displayed inside seasonally, right now it has my growing collection of vintage lucite paperweights along with some butterfly "still life" dried flowers and a few glass paperweights.

The blue one in the back is a millefiori glass paperweight that my Aunt L gave me, she collected them and I must have been ogling them too much so she gave me this one.  Here's where I say it seems like all of my relatives collected stuff and I grew up infatuated with all the pretty things.....so, I blame them for my, um, "obsessions".


Millefiori Glass Paperweight

Most of my collection I've picked up over the last year or so and most of those are vintage lucite with dried flowers, butterflies, and other little buggies.  Remember the little bug family that lived in the planter outside Ernie's window on Sesame Street?  The Twiddlebugs! I thought it was so cool how they could walk around inside the plants and be in their own little jungle!  Totally wanted to be able to do that.

                                        Daffodil, "Hafod Grange Paperweights, Made in Great Britain"


Daisyglass Company, Campbell Calif.

 I have a couple of these types with straw flowers in them, different makers. 

Midton Crafts, LTD, Made in Scotland

More straw flowers, not signed

Cactus, "An Orginal Desert Preserve by McHenry of Tucson"

The first three of the vintage Lucite part of my collection I came across at the Humane Society thrift, apparently somebodies collection, I didn't know anything about them at the time but I knew I liked flowers and I liked paperweights, picked out the ones I liked best, I think it was $7 for the three.

W. Rolfe lucite paperweight

This was one of them.  A few days later I decided they were too cool and went back to pick up the ones I left behind.  Gone, of course. Boo!  Later I ended up seeing one of those at the antique mall down the street (that always happens!) and on the tag they had written the name W. Rolfe.  After some googling and closer inspection I got a little background on the ones I had picked up.


This one, the mother, "Starlight", picked out for me at another antique mall.  It's awesome!!!

Tiger Lily, ferns, queen Anne's lace and a ladybug. Signed W. Rolfe

Apparently W. Rolfe was a botanist who started taking plant specimens and embedding them into lucite making them into permanent studies of the plants he loved and enjoyed. It blows my mind how he managed to pose all these little fragile things together into these awesome artworks. This one has a ladybug at the top.

And I found this one the other day, probs at GW.

Woodland scene lucite paperweight, signed W. Rolfe

Woodland scene complete with lichen covered wood branch, rocks, several types if plants, a butterfly, floating seed pod, and a bug.
Just so cool!

I don't have any paperweights in my Etsy shop  http://www.etsy.com/shop/OwliceandStone but you should check it out anyway! :)  I Just opened it, and will be adding lots of new items over the next couple weeks.


Thanks for reading! 
Owlice