Close Encounters of the W.A.C.ky kind.

A benevolent friend took me for a drive to the Woolangabba Antique Centre on Monday. There we encountered many tempting and not so much tempting bits of the good, the bad and the crappola but thought you might enjoy a sweet peruse of the old stuff.
I had a pair of red 50's shoes once like this and don't know what became of them. There was quite a bit of stuff that was strangely familiar in the W.A.C.. Indeed I was feeling a bit 'wack' myself after the last lot of rather over- priced drugs the lovely Doctor J prescribed me. Imagine, if you will, spooky carnival music as you view the goodies. I fancied a typewriter key pendant with 'floating SHIFT' on it that seemed to underscore the feeling of limbo I am experiencing with this delayed treatment at the moment. Tempting...

                                         

There was the usual selection of old doors and enamel and glass, oh my!

Some people I know would be very enamoured of the Nefertiti dinnerware and other bits and bobs.

This little Betsy Ross meets Jasper Johns cushion would sit very nicely in Mr Urban Cottage's home and I did covet it but knew it would never survive the Vegemite and Milo urban warfare on our couch.

 I started getting the uncanny feeling that I had seen some of this stuff before. There was an unpainted mirror the same as this one in my bathroom that would benefit from a similar lick of yellow.

Now I KNOW my sister has this very lamp in her daughter's room! Look at the price, BB! $495!!

I also know that I gave this very print in a cream mother of pearl frame to my brother as we vied to outdo each other in ugly gifts back in the 90's. We dubbed her Lovely Leilani and here she is, worth (apparently) $270! What an investment! Get her out of the shed and onto e-bay, Mick! She should be languishing above a velvet bar not your tumble drier!

It gets spookier. These exact little Namatjira repros are stacked under my laundry sink waiting for me to clean them up. I bought them years ago at Ron and Brian's. The 50's frames and Namatjira prints appealed to me but they now have water damage. I may have left the plug in when soaking some football socks one or ten times. Here they were $45 each! Dang!

About this stage of the 'trip' I started wondering if the garage sale fairies had been under my house in the black hole. It was all a bit deja vu really! There is definitely one of these old school maps, much bigger and of the whole world- just with different, no longer existing countries.

Seriously! $220! I'm going downstairs for a rummage- later.

These guys are not under my house but their clubs might well be. I did spot some cobwebby ones down there recently. I wonder if I could move them onto a better home at the W.A.C.?

 Always up for a bit of tiny shadow box filler but not for $18!

Cue the Twilight Zone music... NOW! This beasty boy can stay right there up on the big, high, cupboard- ready to pounce and chew on somebody's ear at midnight if you ask me! Just saying.... (Creepy!) There is NOT one of these anywhere near my house. If there was one in the black hole it would be living on possum meat and cackling madly with its head spinning around (not unlike myself at the moment).

This exact bird vase has turned up at the W.A.C. and the Paddo equivalent with MMMC. I got mine for $2 at the always interesting Kawana Lifeline when I was pretending to buy bread on holidays. Can't help myself.

Oddly, I didn't buy or photograph the orange Bitossi at $30 or show the tiny things I did buy. Having restrained myself admirably, I returned home to find an old friend had dropped this little bit of birdy loveliness in anyway. I say it's op shop karma kitscherama. The Big Fella says nothing but is getting a twitch in his left eye.