kluless: good junk

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Fun At Nina and Joe's

It has been at least a couple of weeks [gasp!] since I have visited my new favorite honey hole, Nina and Joe's Division Street Antiques. Oh my, those two know their junk! I looked at every single thing. Twice. And touched most of it. 8+)

As usual, Nina had some buttons set aside for me to look at. You can't see a lot of them in these photos but you know I will share when I have them cleaned and sorted. A nice batch of MOP buttons came in that pink jewelry box like they were just sitting there waiting for me to find them. How cool are the graphics on that 1902 story book in the back plus a neat old candy box over there on the right.

There are quite a few rhinestone buttons in this sparky pile of vintage goodness. I can't wait to poke through it!

I know you aren't supposed to take any wooden nickles and I didn't, I paid for them. Who could pass on a gallon bag of them, I ask you? Okay, I am off now to run my fingers through those rhinestones!

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

A Few Recent Finds

That week-long hiatus I took while I blog hopped through Where Bloggers Create was not entirely junkless. I did gather just a few treasures from estates,VOA and The Bins.

Instead of taking a picture of the pig-pile, I took the time for some close-ups this time. A new aluminum "basket" for my collection plus buttons - yay!

I will try to limit the comments so I don't inflict another overly long post on you so soon!

More buttons and a sweet little crochet pincushion. I should have taken a picture of that box the buttons are in. It has the sweetest little pictures of babies floating on the clouds.

If only that little bank book could talk. Bess started out with $1 on December 19,1925 then slowly amassed her forture of $7.23 which she emptied out in it's entirety on February 3, 1932. I wonder if she bought a bicycle, or maybe a prom dress...