Here you will find nonsense about thrifting, vintage, wandering, my adventures in antique mall reselling, and St Louis. And various other nonsense, as my whims take me.
I had Saturday off this weekend and put it to good use. There were a fair little bunch of estate sales near me and I hit up quite a few. I haven't gotten pictures of most of my finds yet, but here are the few that I have done:
An awesomely well-loved old Campfire Girls handbook with hand-made chapter tabs.
Beautiful pink and teal 25th anniversary party invitations from whenever something so gorgeous went for 59 cents (how is it possible that printing has become so much easier and presumably cheaper, but stationary like this is exponentially more expensive?)
As usual my picture doesn't do it justice, but this cheery little jar is full of all manner of colorful beads and patches and whatnot.
A 1960s "As seen on TV" Password party game.
I can't explain how much I love the spinner!
I'm actually sneaking these in - they're really from last Wednesday's half-off sale at Value Village - the two hats I picked up along with my beloved new fez.
A headband/hat/crown/veil-holder thingy? Beautiful little seed pearls and rhinestones.
I love this little crafting bag with all the pockets labelled!
If I were craftier, I'd keep this for myself, but I'm really not - I spend too much time thrifting to learn needlecrafts!
A co-worker told me today about something he's very excited about, and now I'm kind of excited about it my own self! Apparently there are some guys in Finland who make movies on the extra-cheap. These guys crowdsource pretty much the whole thing! Cool!
Co-worker-man says they made a Star Trek parody or homage or something a few years ago. I just looked it up for ya - it's called Star Wreck, if you're into such things:
I'm not sure that having seen the most recent Star Trek movie (cause I love Simon Pegg!) and a handful of episodes of the one with the Reading Rainbow guy quite qualifies me to watch that one, but the new one they're doing sounds pretty awesome, if not as awesome as when martians-stole-santa-claus in the 50s or 60s:
The premise of this new film is that in 1945, Nazis built themselves some cool flying saucers and escaped to the dark side of the moon, where they've been plotting all this time, and now they're ready to come back and conquer the world. How awesome is that? The kitsch factor alone makes me smile, but then the co-worker showed me the trailer, and it's really quite beautiful.
This trailer is from 2008, but as I understand it the movie wasn't finished until some time in 2011 and the world premier is in February at the Berlin film festival (there are a bunch more trailers and clips and whatnot on youtube and at their site). I guess they don't have a distributor or anything at this point, but you can go to their website and if you scroll about halfway down the main page you can "demand" it in your neck of the woods, presumably so they can show potential distributors that it would have an audience. I totally made my demand - needed to make sure St Louis was on their little map, didn't I? I mean, I get a kick out of the whole idea, but what's more, I couldn't help doing my part to promote such a thrifty endeavor (without spending money, of course). So there's that managed - probably 3-5 more people in the world will know about their clever film because of me and my little blog. ;)
