Antique Store Haul: Great 1/6 Scale Stuff!

  While our girls were away on their trip to Canada and New York to see comedians Dylan Moran and Simon Amstell,we were looking in on Emma's cat, Cowboy. Emma's town is full of antique malls,so while we were up there I took the opportunity to stop in one that usually has a stall that sells a lot of miniatures. I'm doing a trade with a Flickr friend in Finland, and I was hoping to find something for her. She has everything a person could want for their 1/6 scale dollhouse,and it's all great,so I'm having a hard time figuring out what to send her. It all started because she wanted one of the barbecue grills like I got at Target recently,so I know I'm sending her that. It's the 'what else' that's causing me a problem.
  Anyway,I was hoping I'd find something for her, (And I might send her something out of it.),but I ended up finding things I loved myself! Here's most of it.

I just got the stuff on the rug, but I got the rug a few weeks ago at the same antique mall. It's not too thick,so it's nicely in scale.

Here are the goodies with Made To Move girl for size comparison.

 The vase is wooden,and has a three dimensional cabin on the front. The pitcher and the plates are Limoges.

It's hard to see how 3-D it is. 

It's made in Germany. I can't read the other stuff. Anybody?

There were two different blue plates and one green one. I only bought these two,because I was trying not to spent as much. Two blue plates would have looked nice on a mantel or something. I prefer the green plate though.

Ok. First of all, I didn't realize until I looked at these pictures when I was editing them that one of the tiles is sideways! I was in a hurry and not wearing my glasses.
   

My favourite is the top one. It says Limoges on the back,as does the bottom right one of the other four. It's slightly bigger than the other three,as is my favourite.

The other three only say 'France' on the back, except for the bog one that says 'France France'.(??)

My favourite.

The pitcher is really pretty, even though it's very simple.

There were also these little things.

They look like little tiny bowling trophies.

They could use recoating. The gold is very worn.

I'm not sure what they originally were, (Looks like there might be something missing from the one side?), but I think they would make great little bowling trophies, or a set of bookends. I'd need to add something to the side with the groove for the books to lean against. What do you think?

I am so senile. It took these pictures the very next night, and thought there was something missing...There was! My favourite thing!

I love this little pot! The lid really comes off.   

The leaf and grape detail is really pretty.

 

Ivy was offended that I bought something ceramic,since that's her love. She made me these:

I keep trying to talk her into making more miniature things,but she loves to make bowls and cup/mugs. She actually bought herself a potters wheel and a small kiln. I am going to have a go making something tiny myself soon, when we get the stuff set up to use.

I also saw another set like this one I got at a flea market a while back.

The lids really come off too. These have bottoms,so I got them. I turned down some other pieces that didn't have bottoms,like a coffee pot. That kind of made the people selling them laugh, but I do like realism!

 While I'm at it,I also got these that day.
 

The chair is a picture frame with storage under the seat.

 I also got this plant pot recently at Goodwill. It would make a good outdoor plant pot, because it's a bit big. It looks like stone though, so that will work well.

Lori and I haven't been to a flea market for a while. There was one a couple of weeks ago, and we were going to go. But Lori decided it was going to rain and be too hot anyway,so we stayed here in town and just had lunch and went to the movies,(and Dairy Queen!). Ivy and I are thinking of going to a flea market tomorrow. It's about an hour and 40 minutes away, which is putting us off a bit. It's a long drive. Worse than that, it would mean we'd have to leave the house about 7:30 to get there at a decent time when all the good stuff hasn't sold yet. Ivy's out of school until she starts college in August, so she wants to sleep in! I am always tired, so I always want to sleep in! But we'll see. Maybe we'll go and find something fun. She never wants to go do anything with me, so I hate to waste it!

Recent Acquisitions: Some Miscellleneous Goodies and My Very Confused Dollhouse

  As I mentioned the other day, today is World Doll Day . I hoped to find something amazing today while yard saling, and I did, but none of it was dolls. (Although there was some doll related stuff.) I have found some pretty neat things this Spring though. (It's not summer until the 21st of this month, but it sure feels like it here today!)
  Yesterday I got this beautiful embroidered hanky.

Don't have anybody whose name starts with P. Don't care.

   Today I got this cute tin.

Aww!!

 Last week I got this little Marie Osmond Paper Roses doll for a dollar or less.

 And today I got this awesome lobster trap in about 1/6 scale.

When I asked, "How much is the lobster trap?"  the lady selling it said, "Oh. Is that what it is? It has a giraffe in it. I didn't know what it was, so I put a giraffe in it." That makes sense...

  My dolls are all vegetarians, so we won't be trapping any lobsters, but it will look great in with all the 1/6 scale nautical stuff I've been gathering, like this store front.

Nothing comes between a man and his lobster trap. Nothing.

Don't mind him. His pants are in the wash. Got him recently too.The scale looks a bit off in the picture. The trap's not as big as it looks. Although he did need some help holding it up.

A couple of weeks ago I found this cute Cabbage Patch Norma Jean mini doll for a quarter at a yard sale.

She is just hanging out in one of my dollhouses, and having some tea with Chelsea, who has apparently just won the Olympics. The tea set came from a junk store the same weekend.

It was a dollar. When I got home I discovered it was made in occupied Japan.
  At the same yard sale where I got Norma Jean I got these three girls.

They're actually Christmas ornaments I guess, because they have loops sticking out of their heads to hang them by. They were 25 cents each too. And yes, this room is in the same dollhouse as the pictures with Norma Jean. I didn't put in the wall paper and carpet. I bought it with them already in. I only supplied the furnishings and the area rug. This room is usually occupied by a late 1800's lady.

Ken and Ivy commented that it was sort of weird and I said it was like that one room at Collinwood on "Dark Shadows": a whole different timeline was going on in that one room. She even has Quentin's gramophone.

 The kitchen is sort of 1920's/30's.

You might have seen it before when the room looked like this. But Dollhouse Lady got bored.

She decided to make cookies.

Looks like they might be oatmeal cookies.(Except what is the meat grinder for?)

I don't know what you'd call the other two rooms.

There's some heavy duty playing going on here. Girls, make sure you put all those toys away when you're done.

This room just has so much wrong with it. Raggedy Andy and Alice hanging out with a dollhouse lady who has a serious chocolate problem, (There's a box of Whitman chocolates next to her.), and an ex-mermaid who hasn't found anything to wear yet. (But she's waiting in the dollhouse until her wardrobe comes in.)

 'Mixed' I guess. The other three coexist a lot better than the room with the 18th century lady. That room is just sort of out of place.
  Today I found this awesome thing too.

When I asked the lady how much it was I expected some outrageous price, but she said $1! I said 'Having!'

It turns out to be worth a lot of money though, so I may not be 'keeping'! Ken doesn't get paid when he doesn't work and we'll be in England for a couple of weeks.
  Stay tuned for more recent acquisitions coming soon.