Friends, I am pooped. If you ask me, the holidays are all about overeating, undersleeping, and travel overload. My wee little brain needs a chance to recover from a dangerous sugar megadose, which is why I am pumping up today’s post with less talk but more pictures. Obviously, it will taste great and be less filling.
On Sunday afternoon, Karly, the very fabulous Jennifer Perkins of Naughty Secretary Club fame, and I kicked it frugal style at Austin’s bimonthlyish Citywide Garage Sale. There were some definite steals and deals, and also just some weird crap. Check it, yo.
Karly bought this awesome Black Beauty tapestry for $3. Every girl needs a stallion in the bedroom, no?
Cubism and gnomes! They go together like rama lama lama ke ding a de dinga a dong.
She’s awfully haughty for a baldie, dontcha think?
This, also, is unfortunate.
I hate to spoil it for you, but this was the best picture I took all day. Sadly, it’s all downhill from here.
The dude that ran this booth sold killer vintage backdrops. If you live in Austin, some of them are at Uncommon Objects. He also runs Webb Gallery in Waxahatchie.
Texas = Armadillos
More dead stuff.
This was Alonzo Huxley, beloved security guard of San Antonio. Apparently Alonzo’s nephew sold his uncle’s 40 pound bronze head to the proprietor of this booth. Note to self: nephews are unsentimental bastards.
Peppers, popes and ponies. What more could you ask for?
Perhaps a phenomenal Peter Max piece…?
Here stands a groovy little screenprint.
Calling all anachronists and lovers of obsolete technologies. Hipsters, come in. There is now an alternative to buying your tech goods at Urban Outfitters. Over and out.
If you pray hard enough, maybe you can get this vintage nativity set for free. Ask and ye shall receive, right?
In case you didn’t already know, vintage dresses are freakishly tiny. That fills me with rage.
Cool it now with some shell chair love and capiz on top.
Sunny swagadelic lamp action always makes me happy.
I have a paint by numbers problem. It’s inexplicable and stubbornly incurable.
I almost bought this lamp, but didn’t. I may live to regret that decision, or the sugar withdrawals may kill me first.
That’s it for my Citywide Roundup. All you people who keep threatening to visit and/or move to Austin will surely be dragged by force to the Convention Center to check out the aisles of cheap goodies being offloaded by desperate proprietors. Times is hard, y’all. All the better to buy vintage.
Ohh looks like my kind of place to be – happy shopping!
You know, I’m glad you didn’t get that lamp. That dude was lame. You know what the best reason not to buy something is? Spite.
Karly has cute boots.
That yellow pendant lamp is the best. The brass light-up palms, not my fave.
I wish my mother had saved her clothing through the decades. She’s 6 feet tall and that shit would be worth a mint!
I was beginning to think that every person prior to 1965 was 5 foot tall and a size 00. I am not a big person and if those teensy clothes won’t fit me, who will they fit???
Your mom was 6′? The Pea is going to be one tall lady. I am so envious!
I did like the brass lamp, but I am sooooo over it now. I need to reign in my unadulterated lust for brass.
I too had an unexplainable and incurable love of paint by number paintings. But I CURED it! I bought my own miniature paint by number kit. The paintings are very very tiny and after what is now probably 10-12 hours of trying to paint this godforsaken paintings I feel I am finally over paint by numbers. I actually get a dull throbbing headache whenever I see one. Oh… painting those tiny ones was such torture.
Garage sales are always so wacky. The yellow lamp is awesome though
Juxtapose: the great thing about city wide garage sale is that it’s not really a garage sale at all, it’s mostly antique and vintage vendors that set up at the convention center every once in a while. There’s lots of crap and wacky stuff, for sure, but there are lots of gems, too.
Thanks for the boot compliments, Raina!!! When I saw that picture I realized I should have held the tapestry higher for full effect!
Jesse, I can only imagine the agony involved in actually painting one of those scenes. Not for impatient me!
And Juxtapose, if I had known how popular the yellow lamp would be, I would have snagged it.
I love that armadillo!
I was in Austin once and found it glorious, but didn’t get to go to any of these great sales!
Hi Dawn! Well, if you ever come back through, let us know and we will personally escort you to one. I bet there will even be another armadillo for you to take home as a souvenir.
Man, I wish I could have tagged along.
I was all thinking about how to plot to go to Austin for next year’s Thanksgiving to go to this sale but it happens more than just this time, whoo! I’m a bit afraid of clowns but I do like the style of that banner…
Plot away! Come on down!!!