50% off Thriftin'

Goodwill had a 50% off sale, and here's what I hauled in.

Wine glasses in two of my favourite colours and two vintage glasses

"Veterans Club 1973" tumbler

I love the gold

Bowling glass. There is faint writing on the other side that says "OK Koffee Klub at Northgate Bowl"

And of course I went overboard on buying cheap vintage books

The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, 1964. I love this story about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for infinite knowledge. 

This book has some amazing illustrations inside

illustration in Doctor Faustus

Another neat illustration in Doctor Faustus

Dracula's Guest, Bram Stoker, 1974. This is a book of "nine tales of horror and suspense - fashioned from the macabre imagination that created 'Dracula'". I actually didn't know that Stoker wrote short stories so I look forward to getting into this one. This will go nicely with the rest of my vampire collection. 

Pond Life: A Guide to Common Plants and Animals of North American Ponds and Lakes, George K. Reid, Ph.D., 1967

Each page is full of the greatest illustrations

Seriously, every page is a work of art. Gorgeous!

Experiments in Laboratory Chemistry, 1959

Front page of Experiments in Laboratory Cemistry

Ok, so admittedly, I have no idea what this book is talking about, but it as some very excellent diagrams. Although I don't understand them, I love vintage science books. 

Creative Dramatics: An Art for Children, Geraldine Brain Siks, 1958. Ah, drama, something more in my field of knowledge. I love, love, love the cover of this. Very 50s.

The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs, Adrian J. Desmond, 1976. Great font on the word "Dinosaurs".

Roar

I really enjoy how the illustrations and the type are all a dark brown instead of the traditional black.

Stories from Hans Christian Andersen. Annoyingly, there's no date on this, but on the front page there is a child's inscription dated 1971. Since going to Copenhagen in the spring, I've grown more appreciative of the works of Hans Christian Andersen, so thought I'd pick this one up. His stories are actually pretty macabre.

Illustration from "The Little Mermaid"

This is the best; Andersen telling his tales to the wee ones!

First Aid

This is one of the best thrift store finds I've ever come across. St. John Ambulance First Aid book from the early 60s. Ya gotta love the fellas in suits doing first aid. The colour scheme and illustrations are supreme. Handy book to have around - you never know when you'll have to turn a lady's eyelid inside out. The best part was when I was about to buy this, the guy who worked at Goodwill said "you know this is out of date, right?".

Thriftin

Stuart and I love to go thrifting. Here are the latest treasures we found at the Value Village in Barrie.

A purse in excellent condition, perfect for carrying things like books and my lunch to work. Cute plaid shirt. A gold peacock earring holder. A pair of purple earrings. A little tray that has a neat tree graphic on it. I forgot to get a close up picture of the tray, but it's got gold detailing on it and I'm quite pleased I came across it.



Vintage Torino peacock earring holder. I've seen other Torino earring holders around the internet, but I think I stumbled across one of the cooler designs. I used to have a unicorn one when i was a kid though, and that was pretty stellar.



Vintage purple flower earrings; my guess is circa early 1960s. They are screw back have pretty little flowers encapsulated in an acrylic hexagon.



These are what Stuart found. An 80's windbreaker (a hobo probably died in it). A sweet polaroid camera (now just to harness the power of the time machine so that we can get some film for a not ridiculous price - Doc Brown, where are you when we need you most?). A light meter. And some strange plastic plate that has a retro Toronto office on it.


A Polaroid One Step camera. One of the cooler versions of a Polaroid I've seen.


Solar powered Sekonic 21b light meter, with leather case. I think it's from the 60s?


Office Space circa 1980. Awesome.