Chairs

I finally found a place for my Eames.

Exciting huh? It looked weird at the dining table with no match AND people kept sitting on it! Can you imagine? The nerve!

It's not that it isn't sturdy. It is. I'm just protective of it. As much as I loathe things that are for looking only and not for using, I wasn't using it. So I shuffled the front entrance around and now the chair is there to greet me and hold my purse. One day I'll relent and let some butts on it. Today is not that day.

Here's another story:

Months ago I drove out to the valley and bought a chair for $20. A sweet little wire and wood mid-century  number. I refinished the wood arms and put it out on our porch and thought maybe I'd sit out there and watch a sunset or two. Not one sunset did I watch, not one sit did I have in that chair. 

Since we moved here (a year ago now, can you believe that?) I have rotated every chair in the house in front of our desk. It's a real life goldilocks. When I moved the above mentioned Eames I thought about the chair outside and wondered if it would work with the desk.

But "Wait!" you say. "What about the wire? Isn't it uncomfortable?" you ask. Shhhh, shhhhh...nothing that a sheepskin and a kilim pillow can't fix. Observe:

Look at all the usefulness going on up in here. Things going on, stuff happening.

guh?

The Rose Bowl flea was this weekend. It was another beautiful Sunday in SoCal. The mister, the neighbor and I all headed to Pasadena in hopes of finding cool stuff and we did!

I found something I didn't know existed. A plastic Cathrineholm bowl:

It turns out it's not actually from Cathrineholm. It's a knockoff from a company called Deka plastics. If you ever had a Star Wars, Rainbow Brite, Star Trek etc. cup and bowl set it was made by Deka. 

The bowl is large. 11 inches in diameter and they copied the lotus design spot on. I paid $12 and it looks like that's about what they sell for on etsy and ebay.  I think it'll be great for using outside without worrying  about damaging since the real deal can get a little pricey.

(To see more of the plastic version check out this flickr picture)

Sale!

On January 12th my Etsy shop Lolabags will be four years old. I'm pretty proud of this. For four years I've been making things that people actually want. To celebrate this I've put the entire store on sale. Everything is half of. Yep, HALF off. Go on and get yourself some goodies.

I'm 51 sales away from 500. If I could reach that by the end of the month, well that'd just be all sorts of awesome.

First Flea of 2012

Over the holidays the mister and I held a few dinners with our neighbors. We are all Thanksgiving/Christmas orphans with our families spread out over the country. It's nice because we all have so much in common. The boys love talking about their record collections and both of us ladies love to cook and talk about vintage-y things.

The first flea market of the new year was this weekend. The neighbors and I headed to the PCC flea (my boy was laid out with a bad back).  I have never seen so much Kobenstyle in the wild. Both my neighbor and I collect it and were astonished how much we saw. Of course none of it was in our colors and if it was, it was way overpriced. I came home with a light load (sadly no Kobenstyle). 

Picture time!

Two Pyrex lids and a cute lightbulb jar. The top screws off and I'm going to throw spare change in there. I spent under $20 and came home happy.

California knows how to party.

The Mister and I took a long weekend and headed up to Carmel. We took our time and headed up the coast and checked out the small towns along the way. Neither of us had been on the Pacific Coast Highway since we were kids so we relished it. California is truly the most beautiful state in the country. The only one where you can ski and surf in the same day. If you ever get a chance to drive this route, do it!

Here are my gratuitous nature shots:

See, I told you. I don't lie: Best state ever. It was a nice way to kick off the holidays. We visited with friends and had a nice mini road trip.

On a totally unrelated note Elizabeth Taylor's jewels sold at auction. You can see what they sold for here and my original post about them here.