some stuff I bought awhile ago, but forgot to tell you about

Like I said the other day, there's a lot of stuff going on around here, and I've got a bit of a backlog of things to post about. I thrifted some stuff a couple of weeks ago and never got around to putting it up here. I really like photographing and posting all my thrift purchases. Its like another level of collecting. Also, its the whole 'show and tell' thing that I've always enjoyed doing. And on a practical level it makes me wash and fold and put everything away, instead of just leaving it in bags in the corner of my studio.   Oh vintage bedsheets, I feel like you never let me down. I realize that for those of you who did not go to art school or don't sew, it seems like a weird thing to buy. But I just love them. I love the never ending variety of them. How I'll think I've seen it all, and then there will be this lovely floral pattern. And really, its such a specific set of items. Bedsheets. From the last 30-40 years. Mostly floral or striped. And yet the possibility of variety in that small subset can be quite amazing. I really like this yellow one. The shot above is of it drying on my line.

And this is a close-up taken inside. I love the way the whiskery black detail around the blue floral centres really takes it up a notch. 

This one is actually a curtain. And it was thrifted for me by a really nice lady who works at my local fabric shop. She knows I'm into this kind of thing because she's seen my sewing, and she volunteers at a small thrift shop, so she picks things up when she thinks they'd be up my alley. And so far, she's totally getting it right. 

Isn't that nice, the mix of floral and faux lace. Reminds me a bit of the Amy Butler, Love collection. 

But this is the one that really blew my mind. Gorgeous. I could look at this for a really, really long time. Sadly it is just one, twin sized fitted sheet, because I would love to make a whole cloth quilt out of it. The pattern is so great I don't even want to cut it. 

This is a not-very-good close-up. But you get the drift. Awesomeness. 

And then, somehow I felt compelled to buy this. You probably know by now that I'm not so into Disney. I have some issues. I hate the over-gendered-ness of everything they do, and the ubiquitous marketing sucks. 

Also, the casual racial stereotyping is not something I'm a big fan of either. Though this is vintage, so hopefully that's not still the attitude. 

But this image really brought me back. The awkward and not-so-slickness of this drawing seems so old fashioned compared to their current stuff. And I did grow up with Disney, and have a few fond memories from before I knew more about marketing and all that stuff. Back when I could look at an image like this and just think "I'd really like a hat like that someday." instead of "curse you giant multinational company who is trying to own a part of my child's mental real estate." 

I don't usually buy records, but they were on sale for a DIME at my local thrift, and I saw a fun pattern recently for making boxes out of the record covers. Anyhow, it was obviously a Disney theme day for me. The Disneyland Boys Choir. Who knew!

Love the quality of this illustration. 

Though how come Germany gets two song selections and Holland gets none? Hmph. That seems like an oversight to me. 

And this is not thrifted, but is left over from my own childhood, as you can see by the proprietary labeling. I'm a little bit torn about sharing this stuff with the Little Dude though. I've really come to resent how Disney tries to get their fingers into every kid's experience of childhood, yet at the same time I have good memories of the songs and movies from when I was a little girl. But once a child sees that yellowy-orange Winnie the Pooh, is the E.H. Shepard version gone forever? Or am I just being a Kid's Lit snob?

This makes me think we really need to thrift ourselves a record player. Because I love Doris Day. 

This is the picture off the back cover, and I love it because its so... odd. What exactly is that expression supposed to convey. That she's annoyed with the guy at the sound board? That someone was trying to direct her, and she was all like "Hey, the album cover is going to say "Doris Day", so let me make my own choices, ok?" Or is she just planning he lunch order from the studio commissary. Either way, I feel like its an odd choice and the kind of thing that would never get printed for a singer today. It'd be much more glamourous and flattering. I like how candid this feels. 

And this is just great as an example from the period. As with many images of couples of the time, the woman looks deliriously happy, and the man looks interchangeable. 

And I had to bring this little guy home. All toys were on sale for half price and he was in a 50 cent bag with a pink bunny. So really, he cost 12 and a half cents. Totally worth it. 

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[Sheila]

My mom actually had the sheets with the yellow flowers!