Monday Morning!

It is Monday Morning and the beginning of a new week.

Check out this video of Dan.  It will surely help cheer you up this Monday Morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyzEkQ2rHbw&feature=g-upl&context=G22adee0AUAAAAAAAAAA

Sometimes I wonder why?

I was wondering around our Mall yesterday and I spotted this record player.  I had to take a picture of it and I wondered why?

Why would someone make a Donny and Marie Record Player and how did it end up in our Mall?  It truly is an odd item but I am drawn to it.  

I continued to work and to notice things around me.

Dan had brought in some daffodils.  I love them and their bright cheery yellow color.  They are so refreshing this time of year and bring me hope of spring!

And then Alan tried on this Japanese Mask and was looking goofy.  I had to take a picture of that, too.  Certainly someone wearing a Japanese fighting mask would draw ones attention!

It was a fun day at our Mall.  We worked hard and I decided to put up my little easter bunny's near the front register.  They are cute and remind me that Easter is not that far off.

As I downloaded these pictures off of my phone this morning I had a moment of clarity.  It wasn't that the objects I chose to photograph were unrelated.  What I saw as the pictures appeared on the screen was that I was seeing "yellow."  Even the Japanese Mask has a yellow liner.  It has been so grey around here lately that my eye was being drawn to a warmer color...yellow.  I guess that is why I collect yellow Bauer ware.  It is a bright cheery color that brings me warmth.

Have a great day everybody!

I did a quick "film" yesterday at our Mall.

I hope this link works and that you enjoy my fun project from yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5f4Y-I9dQw

We haven't forgotten our blog!

We will be posting to our blog in the very near future! It has been so stormy, here on the central Oregon Coast, that it has had all of our attention. Spring Breaks are just around the corner. We are getting ready! Talk to you soon.


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A preview of our BACK ROOM SALE!

Dan and I are staging a Store Room SALE this weekend, March 10th and 11th.  We have two storerooms in our Antique Mall and things have accumulated for 13 years.  We are digging them out and staging a Store Room Sale that will be accessed through the Holmes Road side of our business property.  I have taken a few pictures and will post more over the next couple of days, either here, or on our facebook page.  Oh yes, the Sale can be entered at 9AM on Saturday and 11AM on Sunday.  It is going to be crazy, fun and filled with wacky stuff.

This doll scares me.  I don't know where it came from. 

This lantern has been electrified.  It still is cool.  It was hard to let it go.

Our Mall occupies the old hardware store here in Lincoln City.  It's last incarnation was as a True Value.  We found this sign in our conference room upstairs behind a table.

So you are getting a sneak preview.  It is going to be a lot of different things and it is time to let it all GO!  Don't miss it and it is worth the trip over.  Check us out on facebook for updates!

Antique Week 2012 Is Coming!

I need to apologize for not blogging more.  Time gets away from me and then everything else slips. 

Meanwhile the 21st Annual Lincoln City Antique Week is almost upon is.  The dates this year are February 10th thru February 20th, 2012.  Harry Rinker will be returning to Lincoln City on the first weekend of this annual event.  

The theme this year is Japanese Glass Fishing Floats.  We will have more to to write about in the near future about that subject and the sub theme which is Super Heroes.  Stay tuned.

Vintage Christmas Ornaments

We didn't realize, until a couple of years ago, that we collected vintage Christmas along with all the other collections.  We opened up the Holiday closet one day and it was full from top to bottom.  It was at that moment that we realized we had gotten "hooked" on Christmas, too.

It is hard to say what is our favorite but we do enjoying finding World War 2 ornaments with their original hangers.  Since war production had a monopoly on metals Christmas ornaments had to be hung with paper hangers.  This one is unusual.

These were made of light cardboard and painted silver.

You pinched the end of the hanger and slipped it into the ornament.

That was one way to get it on the tree.

We get most excited when we find the ornaments with the cardboard caps with string hangers though.  So many people replaced the hangers with metal ones after the war.  So we always thrilled to find them all together.

Merry Christmas!