Gone off my Dutch rocker

Today, Sunday, my daughter and I went back to an estate sale I had shopped last Friday. The estate was of a deceased, single woman who spent her life working for the Foreign Service. She must have spent some time in the Netherlands. On Friday, I picked up the Sinterklaas cookie mold and decided I could have some Delft Blue on Sunday when it would be half off. So back we went today!

A 3 X 4" watercolor of a canal in Amsterdam. $4. The original price sticker of 55 guilders was still on the back!

The other two cookie molds that I saw on Friday and that were still there today: $3 for the pair.

Ha ha ha. Some bonafide Dutch kitsch: a Delft Blue windmill musical box that plays: "Tulips from Amsterdam!" At one time, the wings used to rotate while the music played, but they don't anymore.

And, yes, I DO have a plan for future use of all the Delft Blue I have accumulated so far. To be continued...

Scandinavian design?

My trip to the Netherlands was great. The weather was unusually mild for the time of year, and I even got to go for long walks on the beach without a coat. Great to see family and friends. Nice to be back. I missed my garage sales and was ready to go last Friday! Here are the highlights of my finds.

Not Scandinavian but German. A men's choir with village church, houses and trees. I believe it's Erzgebirge. $4

We paid $15 each. Would love to know more about where they are from. They look Scandinavian to me.

Not Scandinavian but Dutch! A Sinterklaas (yes, Santaclaus) wooden cookie mold. $3

From Denmark: a Rosendahl corkscrew. $1

Ordered at Amazon. Happy with the Design and Chairs one. Not too impressed with the tools for living.

A bear's head of unknown heritage. First I though Skjode, but it has no marks. 

It cannot sit by itself, unless you put it on its side. It has no evidence of ever having been attached to something.

This is how it sits if it's not supported. Someone help me out! What IS it? $1

On my last day in Holland, I found this sugar bowl and creamer by Mosa (Maastricht, the Netherlands), at an antiques barn. It belongs to my mom's dinnerware set that I have and grew up with. Terrific find. 7.5 Euros.

The last of this season's sales.

 The harvest of Friday's and Saturday's garage sales in my neighborhood. A grand total of about $32. My favorite purchases are the double walled, stainless steel French press by Frieling (It came without the plunger, unfortunately) $10, the German jug $5, and the abalone brooch $1.

 The jug obviously cannot be any younger than 1989. I wish it had the manufacturer's mark. Anybody know?

After passing up a perfectly good set of Pyrex nesting bowls (3 for $3) in a darker red with wheat pattern, I did buy this blue divided dish, measuring cup and glass bowls. I love Williams Sonoma, so these four cook books came home with me. Two of them I might actually use.

The view from my living room. These are ash trees. 

I'm saying goodbye for now to Oregon's seventy-nine degree Fall weather and will trade it in, tomorrow, for Dutch rain and temperatures of fifty-nine degrees, if I'm lucky. But my mom's house is always warm and inviting, so it won't bother me a bit.

 And, I'll be back in time for Halloween.

I already know what I'll be wearing. 

Bye!