MCM - Mid-Century Modern Goodness!

These past two weeks have been very exciting around here at the Texas Treasure Box!  Tuesday, May 29 heralded the arrival of the long-awaited Morgan Portable Building to house my office and business!

(I nearly had a fit over this)!

We have been really busy installing parquet-look vinyl flooring and starting to move into the building.  I needed a new computer desk.  So on Friday I went over to our local charity thrift store and found this...

An unsold - just waiting for me Mid-Century Modern Desk!

They had it labeled as a sewing cabinet, but they were wrong!  It's a desk!  Of course, I took the pic this morning and the desk is sitting in front of an East facing window...so bright!  Maybe I'll take a pic tonight and add it later...at least you can see the cool MCM lines.

It almost looks like it could be an unmarked Heywood Wakefield because of the inset handles.  It only has a marking of A-601-8  63 for identification...so I'm thinking that the 63 means 1963...pretty neat and what did I pay for this you might be asking...well, how does $15.00 sound?  I'll take it!

Update! Serious Update!

I just found my above image Googled into images for 
Westnofa of Norway furniture!  

Remember my Westnofa Siesta Lounge Chairs I told you about here?

See a couple of Ebay listings here and here!

I'm thinking that the handles are the sameor at least, very similar! 


So maybe I have an unmarked Westnofa desk!  

This could be extremely cool!

I'm so excited...I could just spit!!!

Yes, I believe I'm going to sell it!

I had a bunch of books and a few odds & ends in a basket up at the check-out counter and another basket slung over my arm when I decided to take a last look around and OMG!  Look what I spied!

More Mid Century Modern goodness!  And they match!  Which is weird for me to care since I'm probably just about the most un-matchy person around...but so pretty!  

And now you are probably wanting to know just how much these two babies were marked...Well, get ready for this...$4.00 bucks each!  I've already seen just one of them listed on Etsy for $119.95...ONE!  

Well, I'm not going to sell these...I just like to impress my handsome husband Noel with my stupendous shopping skills!  

This pic is in my dining room in front of another East facing window...hence the brightness also.  One of my goals this year is to improve my photography skills but for now, what I do is what I do!  8-)

Now here is a little something I picked up last week...I just couldn't let this one pass you by...

A vintage silver plated Oneida Champagne bucket!

Priced at $20.00 - it's one of the most expensive items I've bought at this shop...but it was calling my name...I just had to answer!

(Photo taken in my Four Seasons bathroom as it is the only relatively uncluttered white room in my house)

I have emailed photos to Oneida as instructed by Customer Service and they will try to identify the year and pattern for me... 
I'm guessing 1990's sometime...we'll see!

 ~ Breaking News! Just heard back from Oneida with this:

"This is the COUNTESS holloware pattern.   The Countess collection was introduced to the market in 1982 and discounted in the late 90's."

Linking with:

Sophie for Flea Market Finds at Her Library Adventures
Selena for Thrift Share Monday at Apron Thrift Girl
Rhoda for Thrifty Treasures at the Southern Hospitality Blog 

An Atomic Starburst Clock I am Particularly Fondue of ...

Every home needs an Atomic Starburst clock... but you know, they are not always easy to find and so, I resigned myself to a far-off and unknowable future regarding myself as the possessor of such a wondrous thing.

So, this past week, while I was sitting and playing working at the computer in my (crowded with books to list and stuff really fine objects to list) office, I found myself looking up the fondue forks I thought would be hot sellers....
ah, not so...not even as "Mint and in the Box".

I wandered into the kitchen and I thought to myself...
"hmmm, this looks familiar..."

And then I thought, "hmmm, now all I need is a..."

And then, with only a total throw-out of all the former furniture,  

a complete re-arrangement of  what was left... and voila!
  

A cool Mid-Century look with very minimal expense and time!

 

But of course, what you really need is my Secret Weapon...

 

My handsome husband Noel and his handy dandy screw gun!

I think I have actually had an original thought with this Atomic Starburst Clock.
I've Googled it and searched it and don't see one anywhere!  

So, I'm claiming it and Pinning it and if I'm wrong...
please ...don't burst my bubble!

Linking up with Romantic Home - Show and Tell Friday and Chic on a Shoestring - Flaunt it Friday, Selena at Apron Thrift Girl and Sophie at Her Library Adventures

MCM Dresser Love!

On Friday morning,  I moseyed on over to the local Charity Thrift shop which around here is only open two days a week. Those days are Friday and Saturday from 9 to 3.  I got there around 10:30 because...

1. I have a hard time getting anywhere on time and 
2. If I got there at 9, I’d have to join a line that sometimes stretches completely out of the parking lot!  
3. It’s a complete crush when you finally do get inside & I don't really like crowds...

It’s a series of pretty small rooms and they don’t have carts, they have baskets.  There is a rack next to the checkout where you can stash a full basket with a Sold sign on it and then you go get another basket to fill up.  You go through 3 rooms to get to the furniture and books and by the time I get there usually all the good stuff has 
Sold & Paid tags all over them…

Well, this particular Friday was a different story. I strolled in to the shop in my usual late fashion, grabbed basket #1 & made my way back to the furniture & book room to give a quick scan to see what I had missed.  Over to my right I spied a gorgeous Mid-Century Modern dresser and the tag was still on it!  $30.00 it said...Thirty Dollars!

I snatched the tag off and started waving it in the air and turned to my left to see…

Ah, ah, ah…you’ll have to wait for another post to see what I saw next because I’m not finished telling you about this yet!

I called Noel and he brought the van because much as I love my HHR, it just wouldn't handle this...

Here is my handsome husband Noel & my handsome new dresser!

Here is the mirror, kind of hard to see it but you can see DD Julia's hands holding it in place for the pic!

The black bottom has a Pagoda style flair to it,

the pulls are copper and there is a copper strip under the wood handles in the middle 3 drawers...

But wait!  There's more!

Top middle drawer with a moveable & removable tray for tie tacs maybe?

This is the drop leaf door on the right and the mirror folds down to expose...

Look at all those cool storage sections! The middle ones are felt lined.

So Noel and Julia man-handled brought the dresser into the living room (excuse the mess!) and I was eyeballing it from the dining room and I spied something at the back of the bottom right hand drawer...

 

 what is it?

A very old Houston Palais Royal sack with two hand-written receipts!

 

Seven Complete Apparel Stores To Serve You

Main at Rusk - Phone Number CA 8-8211

Sales Tax was 2% - When was that?  Alas, no date on the ticket, just the name Scheffler & they paid a total of $17.85 for two shirts (or skirts) & a dress...those were the days...probably sometime in the '50's.

And after all was said and done, I went to the mailbox and found this...

Forgotten money from 2007!

Happy Early Mother's Day to me!

Linking up with Her Library Adventures