Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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.















19 comments:

  1. You might be sitting on a goldmine! I sympathize with the twitch.
    xo

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  2. Haha, what a crazy post, it has left me twitching as well! ;-)

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  3. Deb said just what I was thinking. :-)
    Axxx

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  4. glad to know your junk is worth bundles, mine is worth nothing at all!

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    1. It's worth nothing in real life, just in the altered state of the 'antique' centre!

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  5. Gosh you have so many treasures hiding under your house.
    Some of those prices tho at the antique centre are crazy.
    You lucky thing having a set of the Namatjira prints, i love my one that i op-shopped for $10.
    x

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  6. That's a shame your kitch is waterlogged.
    I was surviving fairly well until the last birdy thing.
    Twitch witch at the kitch.
    Does the Big fella have dark glasses?

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    1. I think he wears a kitsch filter over his eyes. It was part of the marriage contract as I remember!

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  7. Sounds like you need an outing to the underneath of your house! Perhaps with a camera so we can all share the re discoveries. I quite like the birdy kitch gift, so colourful. Surely Big Fella is used to it all by now? Legoman is finding me milk glass these days. ps have you started chemo yet? melx

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  8. Those Barsony lamps are worth quite a bit to collectors these days so take good care of it and hold onto it and it could score you a nice bit of money down the track!

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  9. I love the last piece. Your friend who gave it to you, was the one buying it at the PAC when I was there! The minute I saw it, I knew you'd love it!

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  10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihGCj5mfCk8&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4w1beZg8mM&feature=related

    Two links well worth a look ;]


    Hugs

    Kimmie
    x

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  11. Goodness some of those prices are high! Wonder what treasures I'm sitting on? That last little piece is such fun :D

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  12. Who would have known you'd be so restrained? But at those prices I'm glad you were. I imagine one day I will make the time to rummage, but until then I'll live it all through you. God knows there are none of those treasures at my place - and yet there is so much stuff... major overwhelm at the mo. Love you.

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  13. Even when you feel "off," you are an extraordinary writer. More, please!

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  14. Went back today Annie, and picked up one of those West Germany vases for Mum for Mothers Day. That Tressell table was SOLD. Bugger. I love that place!! Maybe I can just shop under your house?! haha.

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  15. Shudder. I'm with you on Tommy Talker. I don't think I could sleep with him anywhere near my house, either. Creepy.

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  16. Hi Annie! I've been reading your posts via my RSS feed and have to say - wooohoooo you! - what a great attitude and approach you have. So much to take heart from. And your calling chemo keeno makes me laugh - reminds me of Kris Carr from Crazy Sexy Cancer books who referred to cancer as canser - ie. it doesn't deserve to be spelt correctly! Anyhoo, I hope you are doing OK, and that even in the down times you manage to feel the love and kindness that is sent your way. Hugs, Annie x

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  17. I miss that wacky WAC so. I think a sunny yellow mirror sounds fabulous for the bathroom. Ditto what Neen said. x

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