Really cool -- but unfortunately out-of-print -- Rements

I like almost every item in Rement's 2004 set, Vintage Home Appliances, but these things command ridiculous prices on Ebay. Look -- the phones, toasters, blenders, sewing machines, etc., all have a design that would be perfectly at home in any living quarters from 1950 to the present. ( Read more... )

All items in the set are charming and useful, but I'm especially enamored of the fan/hair dryer set and the space heater/hot water bottle set. ( Read more... )

From the early French Sundries set, I also like the portable typewriter, which has a movable platen!  ( Read more... )

Horrors from Witch City Consignment and Thrift Store, Salem, MA

We went to Salem, ostensibly to take LHF photos and wander in cemeteries. We ended up capturing thrift horrors in Witch City Consignment and Thrift Store, displayed here for your delectation. ( The sight is seared onto my retinas forever...Oh wait...that's just the afterimage of the lime green blouse. )

That tears it...Absinthe needs a RESIN body.

My shitty temporary one, a 27cm Obitsu with hacked legs, barely fits her old-fashioned bloomers. She looks fine with clothes on, but the poor quality of her plastic body underneath her clothes bothers me.