A few of this week's new additions to the booth

I've started referring in my mind to the time I spend adding to/arranging/tidying up booth 78 as "fluffing the booth".  I don't know where I got it, but I must have picked it up on someone's blog, because Google tells me it's definitely not a phrase I coined myself.  Anyway, this week's fluffing included the addition of a bunch of great books and booklets to the cute new bookshelf.  I posted this pic of a few of them on the 2ndhand Moon Facebook page earlier:

The Avon Beauty booklet and the "Sewing for Men and Boys" are chock full of 1970's awesomeness, including 'staches and 'fros and leisure suits and giant sunglasses - yay!

Would you look at the size of that bowtie?  Kazam!

I love the little sewing booklet on top there - look at those dresses!  That one comes with a bonus little booklet inside about using zig-zag stitching for home decor items.  The "Drawing Women's Fashions" book in the first picture is from the late 50s and really is a drawing tutorial for fashion, from figures to how to draw various sleeve types and everything.  It has some great illustrations, as you might imagine.

This one is equally cool:

Entertaining in the 60's - from interior decor to recipes and games - fun!

I love looking at the interiors in books like these.  I covet the furniture, the drapes, the architecture.  I wish I'd taken some shots, or even thought to scan several pages of this and of the green "Windows Beautiful" booklet from the same year.  They sure weren't afraid of color and fun shapes back then - gorgeous stuff!

I also kind of reversed my intention and added more articles of clothing to the booth, including a short-sleeved black sheath in a black-on-black embroidered-y fabric with a metal zipper that simply did not photograph well, and these three very different tops:

Sheerish tie-neck blouse in a gorgeous floral - LOVE!

1980s boatneck tiger-print top.

Bright multicolored striped nylon sleeveless top.

And of course there's always more to come, so if you're in the 'Lou, or ever come through (rhymes - yay!), stop in to Kenrick Antique Mall in Shrewsbury, just outside the city limits on Watson Road!  And don't forget to stop by the Facebook page and give it a Like.  

Booth update - no more cockeyed suitcases

It bugged me all last week, those suitcases hanging crookedly like that.  When I did it, I thought it was jaunty, but when I saw the picture it just looked sloppy.  So when I went in on Tuesday, I rectified the situation.  I also found that the gorgeous Jens Quistgaard Dansk pot sold - my biggest-ticket sale ever so far - yay me!

I also learned that the month, in terms of sales, is actually the 25th-25th.  I apparently wasn't very observant last month, because it's written right there on the sheet.  So the pot wasn't on March's sheet.  But enough was on there that I still covered March's $125 rent and the commission and the extra 3% the credit card companies eat up when people pay with plastic, and the amount I paid for the items that sold.  But, like February, I only really made maybe five or six dollars actual profit.  Still, with the pot kicking off April sales, and the bunch of new items I put in the booth last week, and the (awesome) items I added today, I think I've got a good shot at beating that in April.  

So here's what I added to the booth this week:

The Disney Big Golden Books I showed you last week, plus one more (Uncle Remus Stories) and an awesome 1960s Better Homes & Gardens Handyman's Book.

The super cool Needlecrafts tote I also showed you last week, plus the cool orange trivet
hanging behind it.  I'm guessing both are 70s?

You know I had to replace the Dansk pot, and what better way than with a pair of Le Creuset Orange Flame saucepans from the late 50s-early 60s (love the handles) and a similarly orange flamey Dru Holland cocotte.  You may have seen both in this post awhile back.

A sweet little pair of softest leather vintage ecru peep-toe low-heels from Neiman Marcus.

And here's the booth-shot this week:

Kenrick Antique Mall, Shrewsbury, MO, booth #78 - come and get it!

And in appreciation of Springtime and the coming of Easter weekend, I leave you with a picture I took last Sunday that makes me smile:

Pretty fungus!