village fridays

It is very cold in DC. we are finally getting winter.
scarves, hats and mittens are on and we are ready for snow tomorrow…
this week i have been feeling all day
like how you feel when you just get up…
unfocused & blurry.
i hope this changes or i am going to be in
a lot of trouble research/exam-wise.
but i took my blurry head to value village for my weekly tradition.
i got back just in time to subscribe to the angry chicken mailorder.
i would have been disappointed to miss it…whew!
so without further adieu, here are…

the finds for today:

1. DANSK white tableware

cost: $44.94 (various prices for ea. item)
not sure how old it is… but it is modern, white and stackable…
i couldn’t resist because all we have is kri kri ware and that pains
my architect partner’s modern minimalist sensibilities.

2. DANSK wooden bowl

cost: $6.46
for yarn or salad, who knows?

3. silver turtle necklace

cost: $2.95
hey, it’s a turtle and it doesn’t take up much room
(more than i can say for the dinnerware).

4. glass storage container

cost: $0.80
80 cents, needs no justification.

5. “alex 1973”

cost: $1.61
these are my favorite type of finds… appears to be hand drawn,
could be a print. damn cute.

6. fallen tree photograph

cost: $6.46
photograph of fallen tree… really weird but i was transfixed….
i couldn’t take a decent picture because the frame glass was filthy…

7. Le Cruset kettle

cost: $4.64
couldn’t pass this up… i don’t really need a kettle (i have been converted to the electric kettles) but these are great kettles and sell for $100. it is in excellent condition and i was hoping that one of you tea drinking types out there could use it. let me know. i would love to pass on the good finds.

8. amazing fabric

cost: $2.95
…and a lot of it…
several yards of amazing blue and black marimekko-type flowers.
great find!

i really wanted to get this crazy huge pyrex beaker

it was about 18 inches high… but it was $40
i couldn’t justify spending that kind of money for a decorative item…
four bucks, yes… fourty = out of control.

today is also the opening ceremony of the knitting olympics!
i should be more excited like my fellow Olympic competitors but my Olympic project is to get a project that i have been dreading done…
i think that i will be very excited when it is done!

in other news…

tomorrow i am going to get glasses so that i stop getting headaches- hooray… i have always loved glasses – i have a weakness for nerd-core girls…

and i discovered a new painter through my brother that i really like. check out deborah bell’s work here… she also has her work showing in ballard (Seattle) and at a gallery in Canada (Vancouver?)… it’s even better in person.

i would love to hear your review of my finds… let me know what you liked and what you thought i should have passed up… consider yourself my coach for the value village olympics!