Hi all! I still haven't unpacked my biggest and most interesting score from Monday, but here, as a consolation prize, is a cheap plastic item that will probably make you smile:
More interesting still, when I googled "pottery glaze rorschach", Item #3 was this. So what do you think? Did I find the origin of my little pot? It seems like a pretty reasonable guess, at least.
On another note entirely, I picked up a pair of slightly-too-big but very comfortable and seemingly sturdy desert boots while thrifting awhile back, and I've worn them a few times, and quite liked them until today, when the sole of the right boot started just peeling away, like so:
Now, this happened about 3 hours into a 12 hour work day, and as you can see, the sole peeled off quite a bit. In order to make more than 2 steps without tripping, I had to walk like I was either:
A. Igor (or whatever Doctor Frankenstein's assistant was called), or
2. in a Monty Python sketch.
So on the one hand, giant fail of a seemingly good thrift find. On the other hand... opportunity. I can either:
A. throw them out - they're no good to anyone now.
2. look into shoe glue and try to fix them, because they really are very comfy and the materials are really good, even if they apparently weren't stuck together very well, or
C. try something crazy!
You know I can't just do A. I'd have to at least try something else first, or I'd feel guilty. So here's the inspiration for the Something Crazy I'm thinking about. I apologize for the quality of the picture; I basically took a picture with my decent camera of an old snapshot I took years ago that's in a frame under glass that's, quite frankly, not very clean:
So I've had this fascinating image in my mind (and on my tv stand) for ages, and recently, I came across this:
HEY, KOOL-AID!
But wait, there's more! Remember the little pot from my first post? The one with the sort of repeating Rorschach glaze pattern? Well, I just happened to see a seemingly similar glaze style on an ash tray yesterday afternoon in the basement at Retro 101 on Cherokee Street (a very cool shop - any St Louisans with a yen for retro goodness, especially clothing, accessories and "smalls", needs to check it out!). The ash tray in question had a sticker on it that read "Treasure-Craft, Compton, CA". So I came home and googled Treasure Craft, and while I didn't find anything exactly like my pot, here's a Treasure Craft tidbit tray with very similar glaze colors and style:
On another note entirely, I picked up a pair of slightly-too-big but very comfortable and seemingly sturdy desert boots while thrifting awhile back, and I've worn them a few times, and quite liked them until today, when the sole of the right boot started just peeling away, like so:
Thrifted desert boots - luckily I didn't pay much.
Now, this happened about 3 hours into a 12 hour work day, and as you can see, the sole peeled off quite a bit. In order to make more than 2 steps without tripping, I had to walk like I was either:
A. Igor (or whatever Doctor Frankenstein's assistant was called), or
2. in a Monty Python sketch.
So on the one hand, giant fail of a seemingly good thrift find. On the other hand... opportunity. I can either:
A. throw them out - they're no good to anyone now.
2. look into shoe glue and try to fix them, because they really are very comfy and the materials are really good, even if they apparently weren't stuck together very well, or
C. try something crazy!
You know I can't just do A. I'd have to at least try something else first, or I'd feel guilty. So here's the inspiration for the Something Crazy I'm thinking about. I apologize for the quality of the picture; I basically took a picture with my decent camera of an old snapshot I took years ago that's in a frame under glass that's, quite frankly, not very clean:
An old shoe (probably my grandfather's)
on a concrete table under an overgrown arbor.
Now, I'm not sure how other people will react to this. Some folks might think this picture is gross. I think it is fabulous on a number of levels, including:
A. I love the idea of this small physical representation of nature reclaiming it's own.
2. It looks flippin' cool.
C. It's just so ODD!
So I've had this fascinating image in my mind (and on my tv stand) for ages, and recently, I came across this:
where they have a recipe for growing moss wherever you like!
Now, I live in a postwar bungalow in South St Louis city surrounded by zoyzia grass rather than an old English garden or something more suited to this lovely and intriguing art form, but I filed the idea away for "someday", now that I know a recipe exists. So today, when my really very cool (if slightly too big) desert boots decided to fall apart, I have to admit, I'm thinking hard about giving this a try. I'm not sure what I'd do with Moss Boots once I had them, but surely something would come to me... right?
What do you think? Try to repair, or collaborate with Mother Nature on a weird little art project?
So how much are you selling the Koolaid pitcher for? :) Or are you? jk Love it!
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll save it, make it an elegant housewarming gift when you guys come back to the states! ;)
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