Broken Promises & Sassy Santas

I promised myself I would not make another trip to the thrift store before Christmas. I made that promise 3 weeks ago. Oops.

I am weak.

But this TOTALLY AWESOME ceramic candy tree platter had been there for FIVE WEEKS. That's long enough to be half price and then full price again and finally half price ($2) one more time and it was OBVIOUSLY invisible to everyone but ME, I mean five weeks? It was meant to be mine, with it's retro olive green and tomato red splotches, probably spattered on personally by Gayline sometime in 1976, while I was most likely at the 18 and under night at the disco. It waited for me to finally realize it had been waiting for me.

The hub found this Little Reindeer (I am capitalizing it because the tag on the bottom assures me it is a hand painted Little Reindeer, from 1978. Again, I was probably at the underage disco still) for $1, but somehow he passed up every. Other. Cool. Thing. Which leads me to fear he may not be the best at choosing thrift gifts for me this year and may need a field guide. And a spotter.

Which is why I broke my promise and hit one ARC on half price day yesterday. The hub knows I have a newly forming thing for sleighs, and there were a ..sleighload at the thrift, and he found every ugly one. But he passed up this one:

Kitschy reindeer!!! What was he thinking? "I showed you so many that you didn't like I just gave up." Psh. He has bad vintage radar. For real. Maybe because he was born in 1971, so to him the 80's are vintage. He finally stopped pointing out every cheap porcelain doll and resin swan and dollar store Hummell figurine after a year, but I just can't get him to remember basic things like "It should be cute."

And shiny gold is a nice touch. (This lil' guy was fifty cents and is only about 3" long. Somewhere there are teeny reindeer looking for it I bet. I WANT THEM.)

Check out this ridiculously happy Santa. Orphan salt shaker.

 And this trio of lovelies, oh it makes me sad that I had to be frugal and put back FOUR more of these *sob* but I kept the sweetest ones. The one on the left is a trinket box.

She and her friend had the magic words on their "bottoms" ~

As did the ones I put back but LET'S NOT GO THERE *sob* I should definitely put this in the field guide.

This April angel is the first one I've found that A) has no chips or broken bits or glued-back-on-after-breaking-wings, and B) was actually reasonably priced at $4. I heart her. Someday I'll have a whole year. :O)

And the gal in blue is someone's hand painted sweetie. Here she is with her choir sisters, adopted from Goodwill and Unique Thrift. Pinkie here has a "copyright Holland mold" on her bottom.

And this elf was from my last thrift trip. You know I love me some demon eyed elfs!

I'm pretty happy with my broken promise. And so is my sassy gay Santa.